KIYOKAWAYA

Assalamualaykum,
Brothers and sisters,
If you want to visit one of Yamagata's most famous souvenir shops, you should go to KIYOKAWAYA. The shop was founded in 1666, more than 300 years ago. Here you can find Yamagata's original specialty. There are many products that are actually Muslims friendly in this shop, like Yamagata Zunda Pie, lemon cake, cute animal cookies and various kinds of Yamagata's original juices.

Enjoy and keep it Halal

Sakuranbo Kirara

“Sakuranbo Kirara” is a perfect souvenir for you to take home when you visit the Cherryland in Yamagata. Basically, it's jelly with a cherry inside. You'll be surprised how delicious of a combination these are. For your information, it's the No. 1 seller among souvenirs at the Cherryland, so don't forget to grab one of these when you pay a visit there!

Ringo Jam (りんごジャム)

Assalamualikum and hello brothers and sisters.
The Ringo Jam (りんごジャム) is one of the apple products available at the souvenior shop in Hirosaki City Apple Park, Aomori. For your information, Aomori is a famous prefecture for apple production in Japan. Upon the review of ingredients use, isyaAllah, it halal to consume. The sweet and sour taste of this jam makes it perfect and ideal combination to eat with bread, plain yogurt or biscuit. It also can be used as a filling for cookies as well as add on flavor for Swiss roll cake and other pastry dishes.
The taste of Aomori apple jam is different from others. You will feel the taste of apple after you try it. Do enjoy this delicious and, importantly, halal apple jam from Hirosaki, the City of Apple, Aomori. Please have a try…You will enjoy it,InsyaAllah

Hello Kitty senbei or rice cracker

Senbei hello kitty

Assalamualaikum everyone,

I'd like to introduce this crab flavoured Hello Kitty senbei or rice cracker. As you all know, Hello Kitty is a popular character, and rice cracker in Japan comes with various types. And this particular senbei is thin and round in shape. By looking at the ingredients, this senbei is InsyaAllah halal to be consumed by Muslims. It tastes good and is crunchy too. This senbei is a limited product of Sado, Niigata.

Souvenier shop in Appi hotel

Assalamualaikum
Souvenier shop in Appi hotel. Variety of souveniers you c

an buy from here..

Cream Dango from Iwate prefecture

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
We really like Japanese sweets. Each region has its special sweets, which often include the region's special ingredients.
Today we introduce Cream Dango from Iwate prefecture. A sweet cream is hidden inside a rice flour (mochiko) dumpling. When you bite it, its like a stream of sweet river flow in to your mouth.

This Cream Dango comes in several flavours. On the shop that we visit, we found strawberry, green tea and goma (sesame seed) flavoured cream dango. The strawberrry and green tea flavoured use emulsifier, but we confirmed to the seller that it is not meat-based. So, Alhamdulillah we can savely eat them.
You can directly see and order the products on www.shoeidoh.co.jp
It looks like there is some more flavours offered.

Akiu and the Hot spring

Assalamualaykum,
Hello everyone, in today's post I would like to share my experience in Akiu and the Hot spring (Japanese people call Onsen) there with my friends and family.
As we know, Akiu is one of Japan's most famous Onsen (Akiu has more than 1000 years of history) and we are lucky that it's in Tohoku region (Miyagi).

Initially, I was in a doubt that Muslims could try the Onsen in Japan, because we have the etiquette to cover (as we know, onsen in Japan is very "open").
However, one place called “Iwanumaya” in Akiu is more than happy to welcome Muslims to try their private Onsen (Separated with public onsen), and you can reserve it just for you!
The private Onsen is large; the water was quiet hot for me and actually was 45 degrees!! You need to do a lot of preparation before enter.
Although it was quite interesting experienced for us, we were so lucky to be able to try Onsen in Japan (without the need to break the rule). Alhamdullilah, we can enjoy Onsen at peace insyaALLAH.
So, if you consider trying Onsen, please don’t hesitate to call or visit Iwanumaya.