Izutsu Yatsuhashi Honpo — Gion Main Shop (井筒八ッ橋本舗 祇園本店)
History
The business began in Gion in 1805 under its founder, Sahee Tsuda. It has sold yatsuhashi associated with the musician Yatsuhashi Kengyo. The present Gion main shop is on Kitaza's ground floor and has different hours from the restaurants upstairs.
Yatsuhashi (井筒八ッ橋) is a baked sweet, while nama yatsuhashi (生八ッ橋) is its soft, unbaked counterpart. Yugiri (夕霧) is a filled soft yatsuhashi sweet sold here too.
Street View images may be out of date.
Shop information
- Opening hours
- 10:30–18:30.
- Closed
- Open daily.
- Visiting
- Buy sweets at the ground-floor main shop. Upstairs tea shops and restaurants have separate hours and closing days.
- Shop
- Izutsu Yatsuhashi Honpo — Gion Main Shop (井筒八ッ橋本舗 祇園本店)
- Address
- Kitaza, 1st floor, Kawabata-dori north of Shijo-dori, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto (京都市東山区川端通四条上ル 北座1階)
- Nearest stations
- Keihan Gion-Shijo (京阪電鉄 祇園四条駅)
- Directions
- About 2 minutes on foot from Gion-Shijo Station. Walk north from Shijo along Kawabata-dori.