Nishio Yatsuhashi from Kyoto, Japan

Do like every Japanese going to Kyoto and buy Yatsuhashi sweets as your gifts to bring home to everyone you know.
Yatsuhashi is a sweet make by rice flour, sugar and cinnamon. This sweet is filled with everything from traditional bean paste to cherry blossoms to chocolate. The store of Nishio at the entrance to the temple Kyomizudera in the hills of Kyoto serves you free green tea and you can walk around and try all the different kinds of Yatsuhashi before you make your purchases. Nishio started to make Yatsuhashi 1687!
There are many other good producers of Yatsuhashi and are to be find all over Kyoto and even at Tokyo and Osaka Kansai Airport. Enyoy!