[Yamaguchi/Shimonoseki City] Limited to 5 groups per day, reserved! Elegantly make Japanese sweets at a teahouse produced by Shokindo, a long-established Japanese confectionery shop founded 156 years ago (with matcha and sweets)

At "Sabo Fuwari", which opened in October 2022 by the long-established Japanese confectionery shop "Shokindo", which was founded in 2015 and has been in business for 156 years, you can rent out an elegant Japanese sweets making experience in a stylish store based on white. You can enjoy delicious matcha and original sweets. First, choose your favorite theme from the fresh sweets that change with the season, and enjoy the "Nerikiri experience". Even if it's your first time to touch namagashi, the staff will kindly and carefully give you a lecture, so you can enjoy making Japanese sweets without being nervous. After the Nerikiri experience, enjoy your handcrafted sweets with delicious matcha. Eating Japanese sweets with authentic Urasenke-style matcha will be the best luxury time together with making yourself. Lastly, enjoy cold tea and original sweets made only for the participants of the experience, “Otome no Yukigoromo”, which is made by wrapping Shokindo’s representative product “Awayuki” in baked sweets baked on the spot! If you ask questions about the etiquette of matcha tea, the history and culture of Shimonoseki and Shokindo, etc., Mr. Nishihara will teach you various things in a friendly and fun way. While feeling the history of a long-established local Japanese confectionery shop, enjoy freshly made Japanese sweets in a private space... Please enjoy such a luxurious hour.

“Sabo Fuwari” is located right next to Shokindo. The white-based interior is inspired by Shokindo's representative product, Awayuki, and is a wonderful space where you can forget about everyday life. "Awayuki" is a famous Shimonoseki confectionery that Hirobumi Ito loved and praised as "the feeling that disappears in the mouth reminds me of a light snowfall in spring, and is the crowning among confectionery." Of course, you can buy it as a souvenir after the experience because it is handled at the Shokindo store in the annex.

The theme of wagashi changes with the seasons, so you'll definitely want to experience it again and again. The original sweets "Otome no Yukigoromo", which are only offered to those who participate in the matcha and experience, are freshly made on the spot. Surprisingly, the expiration date of the original sweets "Otome no Yukigoromo" is 30 seconds. Be sure to try the sweets that you make yourself and the “Otome no Yukigoromo” that you can only eat at the shop! The plates on which Japanese sweets are placed and the matcha bowls are made from Hagi-yaki, a famous product from Yamaguchi Prefecture. We offer a luxurious and calm extraordinary time that you can enjoy with your eyes, tongue and hands.

You can choose from two different designs for the Nerikiri you will be making. You can also choose your favorite bean paste from white bean paste, smooth bean paste, whole bean paste, or egg yolk bean paste! You can enjoy making your own original Nerikiri, which is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that you can only find there.