Japanese
Bakery

A store that offers housemade hand-wrapped thin-skinned daifuku/mochi with many kinds of daifuku/mochi with fruit, peanut butter, and more. All ingredients are vegan. Open Mon-Sun 10:00am-8:00pm.


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40 Reviews

First Review by AlanaBanana

lewald

Points +28

Vegan
09 Oct 2025

Great cold sweet treat

Happened to come across this place, and so glad I did! I love the twists on the classic mochi and daifuku. Hard to pick a favorite flavor! The persimmon and musk melon were especially nice on a hot, early autumn day.

Pros: Good service, sweet staff, Fresh local fruits, All vegan!

Sara2CB

Points +131

Vegan
15 Sep 2025

Perfect little treat

Many types available and they have their staff persona favourite too.

I chose peach and it was very nice

Updated from previous review on 2025-09-15

vyan

Points +228

Vegan
28 Aug 2025

Fresh Fruit Vegan Mochi

Clearly labelled vegan mochi with fresh fruit inside, instead of a paste or ice cream. The fruit is perfectly ripe and gives a very different experience. They also have other flavours. Definitely worth a try, even if a bit on the pricey side.

goldieB

Points +333

Vegan
23 Aug 2025

Refreshing!

Super fresh snacks to eat there or to go, the 2 workers nicely pointed us to the ingredients to make sure they were vegan

rayanT

Points +251

Vegan
11 Aug 2025

WOW!

So refreshing, so tasty!

martint

Points +9674

Vegan
22 Jun 2025

Vegan daifuku

This place is a must. They have a variety of vegan daifuku/mochis. As an European I do not recommend the fruit ones, since they are on the pricey side, but the peanut / toasted soy / coffee mochis are must. Their flavour was just stunning!

emsher

Points +837

Vegan
08 Jun 2025

Vegan Daifuku

The fruit ones are a little on the expensive side compared to other daifukus we had while we japan, but everything is delicious! We loved the peanut and sesame one.

AlexandrineG

Points +174

Vegan
16 May 2025

Amazing mochis

The peanut butter one with black sesame was incredible !! The best I had in Japan !

LucieFrançois

Points +86

Vegan
05 May 2025

Peanut mochi 🤩

J'ai pris le peanut mochi avec graines de sésame, c'est vraiment le meilleur mochi que j'ai jamais mangé ! Et pourtant j'en ai mangé vraiment beaucoup 😂

Pros: Peanut mochi, Personnel très aimable, Possible de prendre 1 ou 5 mochis

Purposely_Vegan

Points +2345

Vegan
23 Apr 2025

Magical Mochi!

We had the crown melon mochi and strawberry mochi and both had probably the tastiest fruit we had ever had.

ndamato

Points +58

Vegan
10 Apr 2025

Refreshing

We tried the sweet orange mochi and it was the perfect snack for our introduction to Nara.

g00lumer

Points +108

Mostly Veg
06 Apr 2025

Nice

They sell mochis containing fruits. The fruits were very delicious, however, my wife didn’t like the mochi itself. It didn’t have any taste.

Jennidaca

Points +1607

Vegan
30 Mar 2025

Best strawberries we've ever tried

The Mochis were delicious, especially the strawberry and coffee ones.

easyvegani

Points +88

Vegan
23 Mar 2025

Sehr lecker, aber auch teuer

Wir haben uns dort einen Strawberry Mochi geholt und fanden den sehr sehr lecker. Allerdings ist es für so ein kleines Mochi doch sehr viel Geld was man ausgibt.

Pros: Sehr lecker

Cons: Ziemlich teuer

MinervaG

Points +1889

Vegan
18 Mar 2025

Mmmm so good

We tried the strawberry, mango, kiwi and orange flavors. Really good. Strawberry was my favorite.

Pros: All vegan

VeggiLulu

Points +4077

Herbivore
20 Feb 2025

Delicious sesame mochi

The black-sesame mochi are very soft, filled with peanut butter (?) and covered with roasted sesame.
Really creamy, nutty and just slightly sweetened.
It was really good!
1 piece 230¥

Pros: Tasty, Just slightly sweetened, Very nice texture

vheegan2

Points +810

Vegan
01 Jan 2025

Great snack

Perfect spot for a quick snack while sightseeing in Nara. I tried the kiwi option which was delicious

MariaSpb

Points +281

Vegan
18 Nov 2024

Best mochi ever

A mochi shop with very tasty fruits inside, perhaps one of the most delicious dishes that I have tasted in Japan. There are quite a lot of flavors, they can be cut into pieces if you need to share them, or they will pack them with you in a beautiful package. The girl at the checkout is very nice, credit cards are accepted.

Lsimd

Points +1468

Vegan
10 Sep 2024

Delicious fruit mochi, but expensive

Fruit filled mochi. The dough is very thin, but the fruits are very tasty and fresh.
A bit expensive though, which makes sense considering how expensive fruits are in Japan.

Updated from previous review on 2024-09-10

Heike.St

Points +1688

Vegan
26 Aug 2024

Super good fruit mochi

After free kiwi-samples, we got the kiwi one (which was massive; 600 yen) and a watermelon one (which was not as big; 500 yen). Both good and refreshing.
We recommend the kiwi one for sure!
But they have many more fruit mochi.

They cut the mochi for you on request, which makes it even more convenient to snack.

Just a little food stall on the corner of the street. But they do have a couple chairs out front.

Pros: All vegan, Great snack, Free samples

mxijyx

Points +518

Vegan
24 Aug 2024

daifuku

nothing more and noting less just an amazing fruit daifuku

vannyy.o

Points +1943

Vegan
29 Jul 2024

Traditional Mochi Shop

Cute, traditional Shop with many different Mochi Desserts. A lot of different fruity ones and two with pb & sesame and matcha & sesame. Would recommend everything, also very friendly women who is the owner of the store.

tgardner1453

Points +690

Vegan
26 Jul 2024

Not sure what to think

Honestly, not the biggest fan but it might be I just don’t like machI, first time having it. A bit pricey but I liked you could do a bundle to try a couple for 12 USD. Super nice and helpful staff though

MLittl11

Points +670

Vegetarian
19 Jul 2024

Wonderfully fresh

Great flavours, free sample. We had the pineapple which was perfect. The owner cut into pieces and we enjoyed outside.

Pros: Options, Vegan, Fresh

enjoythehummus

Points +130

Vegan
03 Jun 2024

Delicious but expensive for what it is

Got to have a taster of the golden kiwi mochi was good, then decided to get a Japanese orange mochi and black sesame peanut butter one.

The peanut butter one was incredible and about a third of the price of the orange mochi, which was also great, but not sure if I could justify the price of more

Pros: Selection, Freshness of the fruit

Cons: Mochi Price

12munchies

Points +3849

Vegan
19 May 2024

fully vegan / delicious pastries

They offered a free trial of the mochis so i tried the kiwi one.
I decided for mango and a few of these other pastries.
I liked the mochi and it was a new experience for me because esp far I only new the frozen icecream mochis. I preferred the other two pastries though as they were super delicious peanut buttery and sesame-ish and were only a third of the price of a mochi.

Pros: Pastries with sesame and peanut butter (i guess), Mango mochi , free sample

Lelu

Points +958

Vegan
22 Apr 2024

Mochi!

Small shop for take away.
Large selection of different mochi varieties. Tastes good, because there was not as much dough on the fruit as is well known but expensive.




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