This year, the Kita family has started selling young sweetfish, a summer tradition.
I got it!!

Kitaya's seasonal sweets are made with carefully selected ingredients.
Soft and fragrant baked castella-style dough
It is sandwiched between chewy mochi rice cakes and has a sweetfish branded on it.
The dough is carefully hand-baked by craftsmen one by one.
The gyuhi filling inside is specially made for this sweet.
Something well-crafted.
It has a firm thickness and a gentle sweetness.
You can enjoy the satisfying taste.

Young sweetfish... 1 piece... 259 yen (tax included)
　
They start appearing just before the sweetfish fishing season opens in June.
It is a familiar summer sight all over Japan.
Japanese sweets "Young Ayu".
A Japanese sweet made of mochi wrapped in castella dough.
A Japanese sweet shaped like a sweetfish, it is a famous confectionery from Gifu and Kyoto prefectures.
It is known as a thin, oval-shaped castella cake.
The mochi filling is wrapped and shaped to resemble the face and tail fin of a sweetfish.
Similar Japanese sweets are made in various places.
In Kyoto and Gifu prefectures, only gyuhi is used.
In the Kanto region, gyuhi is often wrapped in red bean paste.

It's also delicious eaten chilled.
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