Local Secret · Mukojima

Chomeiji Sakuramochi Yamamotoya 長命寺桜もち 山本や

The shop that invented sakuramochi in 1717, pale rice-flour crepes filled with smooth red bean, each wrapped in three salted cherry leaves, eaten at a simple tearoom by the Sumida riverbank.

About

Around 1717 Yamamoto Shinroku, gatekeeper at Chomeiji temple, began salting the leaves that fell from the Sumida embankment's cherry trees and wrapping them around bean-filled cakes for passing pilgrims. That was the birth of the Kanto-style sakuramochi, and the same family business still makes them, in exactly one style, a few steps from the temple. The cakes are thin, chewy pancakes folded around koshian, swaddled in three or so fragrant salted Oshima cherry leaves, whether you eat the leaves is a long-running debate (the shop suggests removing them). Order at the counter, sit in the small tearoom with a cup of sencha, and watch locals pick up boxes as gifts. It is a living piece of Edo food history, sold year-round.

Highlights

• Birthplace of Kanto-style sakuramochi (since c.1717)
• Only one product, made the same way for three centuries
• Each cake wrapped in about three salted Oshima cherry leaves
• Small eat-in tearoom with sencha
• A few minutes from Sumida Park's riverside cherry trees

Tips

• Eat-in set (one cake plus green tea) is the classic way; boxes of five upward make great gifts.
• During cherry-blossom season it can be takeaway-only and sell out, come early.
• Closed Mondays (and some Tuesdays), call ahead if travelling far.
• Combine with Mimeguri and Ushijima shrines and the Sumida Park cherry walk.

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