In front of Ishiyama Temple in Shiga Prefecture, Otsu City’s first pudding specialty store “Ishiyama Temple Pudding Honpo”!

2020.08.07

In Ishiyama, Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture, we opened Oyama’s first local specialty pudding shop, Ishiyamaji Pudding Honpo, on July 23, 2020.
Aiming to become a new specialty of Otsu and Ishiyama-dera, we will hand-produce all the puddings that are particular to local Shiga specialty products such as tea from Shigaku’s Asamiya and Moriya mamelon in our shop.

"Ishiyamaji Pudding Honpo" that opens in front of Ishiyamaji Temple

Since ancient times, worshipers and sweets have never been cut. In Monzen towns around Japan, there are famous sweets made for worshipers. Ishiyamadera Pudding Honpo will deliver puddings in front of the mountain gate of Ishiyamaji Temple as a sweets in front of Reiwa. Each pudding is made by hand, carefully selected from Shiga prefecture’s largest natural lakes and the mountains surrounding it. We will make sweets suitable for the coming era, which is loved by everyone for a long time, like Ishiyama-dera, which has been a long-standing belief since the Nara era. It is a pudding that will be appreciated in a variety of situations, from souvenirs for sightseeing in Ishiyama-dera to small souvenirs.

The logo of Ishiyama-dera Pudding Honpo was designed based on the idea that the moon seen from Ishiyama-dera is one of the three most famous moons in Japan, and we designed rabbits and moons. The bottle used is a round bottle with the image of the full moon, and souffle pudding reminiscent of the full moon will also appear from now on. We offer you two flavors of fluffy souffle and melting pudding.
We will make everyone smile with pudding that is full of the charm of Ishiyama Temple and Shiga Prefecture.

Pudding that is particular about local Shiga ingredients

The pudding of Ishiyamaji Pudding Honpo is a new type of pudding that is characterized by its thick, smooth and fluffy, sweet vanilla scent. There is a secret in the original manufacturing method that uses plenty of fresh cream as a raw material, and since we want to deliver safe and secure products, we make all preservatives, coloring agents, fragrances and emulsifiers without adding additives in our shop. ..

In addition, we are particular about local Shiga ingredients, we use 100% milk from Takagi Farm in Ehachiman City for milk, Shigaraki Asamiya tea leaves for strong tea and houjicha pudding, and Moriya mamelon for melon pudding. I am using each.
Each is finished in a gentle pudding that is made to fit the mouths of many people, from small children to the elderly.

Product line-up

* Ishiyamadera Pudding Smooth 390 yen (tax included)
The scent of egg richness and vanilla beans spreads over your mouth when you eat.
When you put it in your mouth, it feels smooth and smooth. Eggs, milk, fresh cream, and sugar are all domestically produced. And, using the finest vanilla beans from Madagascar, the taste, aroma, and texture that can be obtained by making each one by hand.
With no preservatives, colorings, or emulsifiers added, this pudding can be safely used by children and the elderly.

○ Ishiyamadera Pudding Hojicha 430 yen (tax included)
Hojicha The pudding used for pudding is Asamiya tea from Shigaraki, Shiga prefecture. The tea leaves produced in the mountainous region, which is rich in nature, with a large difference in temperature between day and night, has a unique aroma and flavor. The roasted green tea was boiled so that the flavor was not impaired, and the taste and aroma were carefully extracted. A pudding with black beans added as an accent to enjoy the fragrant and rich flavor unique to Hojicha.

Ishiyama Temple Pudding Hojicha 430 yen (tax included)

○ Ishizanji pudding, strong tea, 450 yen
Like Hojicha, a rich tea sauce with plenty of Shigaraki’s Asamiya high-quality green tea is sprinkled on a smooth pudding. It’s a pudding like never before, in which the rich tea flavor, astringency and smooth pudding flavor are exquisitely entwined.

Ishiyama-dera pudding strong tea 450 yen (tax included)

○ Ishiyamadera Pudding Moriyama Melon (summer only) 450 yen (tax included)
The Moriya mamelon pudding, which is only available in the summer, uses moria mamelons cultivated in Moriyama City, Shiga Prefecture. You can enjoy the fresh sweet melon jelly on a smooth pudding, and enjoy the refreshing sweetness and melon-specific flavor. The bright yellow-green color of the melon is a fresh and beautiful pudding.

Ishiyama-dera pudding Moriya mamelon (summer only) 450 yen (tax included)

○ Pudding software 400 yen (tax included)
The soft taste of the pudding of Ishiyamadera Pudding Honpo, such as the richness of the pudding, the sweetness of caramel sauce, and the scent of vanilla, has been turned into soft ice cream. The thick-rolled form, which is still rare in the prefecture, is cute, and there is no doubt that it will look great on Instagram! It is perfect for eating and walking.

Pudding software 400 yen (tax included)

○ Hojicha software 400 yen (tax included)
The soft ice cream that uses tea leaves from Shigaraki Asamiya, which is the same as Hojicha pudding, spreads the fragrant flavor of Hojicha into your mouth the moment you eat it. You can enjoy the scent of real roasted green tea even more by adding the roasted green tea powder from the top. An original soft ice cream with a rich aftertaste.

Hojicha software 400 yen (tax included)

Ishiyama Temple Pudding Honpo 7 treasures

1. Sweets that create a new history in front of the mountain gate of Ishiyama Temple
2. 100% milk from Takagi Farm in Omihachiman City, Shiga Prefecture! Pudding with local ingredients
3. A fluffy pudding with plenty of fresh cream
4. A rabbit welcoming you with the famous moon of Ishiyama-dera as a motif
5. A safe and secure pudding with no preservatives.
6. Handmade one by one in the shop in the store
7. As one of the new attractions of Ishiyama-dera as a new specialty of Shiga and Otsu

Ishiyama Temple Pudding Honpo

Address: 3-1-7 Ishiyamaji, Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture, 520-0861
*Approximately 1 minute walk from Ishiyama Temple
Phone number: 077-548-6300

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