We asked the owner of a local Wagashi shop to let us film the process of making some traditional Japanese sweets. English and Japanese subtitles are available, so make sure to turn on the captions on YouTube. Hope you enjoy watching the video.

Kashiya Hikoichi (菓子や彦一)
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0:00 Intro
0:35 Making mochi for Ichigo Daifuku (strawberryfilled mochi) 5:14 AM~
12:03 Boiling beans for Mame Daifuku (beanfilled mochi), steaming sticky rice, preparing strawberry anko (sweet bean paste) 6:05 AM~
22:12 Making anko balls for Mame Daifuku, pounding sticky rice with a machine to make mochi, starting to wrap Ichigo Daifuku with mochi 7:02 AM~
31:13 Wrapping sakura mochi with sakura leaves, making more Ichigo Daifuku and packaging them, talking strawberry varieties, making Mame Daifuku 8:00 AM~
37:17 Making Mame Daifuku (beanfilled mochi)
44:01 Finishing wrapping Mame Daifuku, loading wagashi products onto a cart and moving them 9:05 AM
45:54 Placing the shop sign, displaying freshly made Mame Daifuku and Ichigo Daifuku in the store, starting to make dorayaki batter 10:00 AM~
53:30 Making dorayaki batter, strawberries being delivered to the shop, talking the dorayaki recipe, assisting the first customer, steaming chestnuts in a steamer 11:05 AM~
1:02:32 Straining the dorayaki batter, chestnuts finishing steaming, assisting the second customer, baking dorayaki and filling them with sweet bean paste and chestnuts, displaying dorayaki in the store 12:08 AM~
1:14:40 Interview with the shop owner, directions from the back alley to the shop's sales area

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