Morihachi Main Store

Founded in 1625, Morihachi has served as the official confectioner to the Maeda lords of the Kaga domain and has kept its shop curtain flying for 400 years—making it one of the oldest sweets houses in Japan. Its signature confection is Choseiden, a delicate pressed-sugar rakugan counted among Japan's three great confections, created by order of the third Kaga lord Maeda Toshitsune and named by the tea master Kobori Enshu. On the second floor, the Kanazawa Wooden Sweets Mold Museum displays more than a thousand carved wooden molds used since the Edo period—cranes, sea bream, seasonal flowers—alongside Kutani porcelain sweets dishes, laying out the depth of Kanazawa's confectionery culture in a single room. The main store also offers a daily hands-on rakugan-making workshop (reservation required, about one hour, with matcha and museum admission included), and the in-store Morihachi Saryo tearoom serves sweets with a view over the garden of the neighboring Terashima samurai residence. Standing in Hashibacho between the Higashi Chaya district and Kenrokuen, Morihachi is where Kanazawa's sweets culture can be seen, made, and tasted in one visit.