INFORMATION

• addressTakeuchi Building 1F, 1-5-16, Chiyoda-Fujimi, Tokyo
• tel03-6272-8113
• business_hourWeekdays: 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
  Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–6:00
  Sundays/Holidays 10:00
• access5-minute walk from JR/Subway Iidabashi Sta.
  5-minute walk from Subway Kudanshita Sta.

You can taste grilled dango by hand! Ariorihaberiimasokari, a Japanese café on the approach of Tokyo Daijingu.

The owner of Ariorihaberiimasokari got acquainted with a Buddhist monk of Mr. Koya and visiting shrines and temples all over Japan. He carried out various ascetic trainings and learned the right way to offer prayers over ten years. During his journey, what impressed him was a culture called "Osagari (offering withdrawn)", at Mt. Koya, Wakayama. It is a custom that visitors' offerings are treated to new visitors as Osagari.

The owner opened Ariorihaberiimasokari on the approach of Tokyo Daijingu in 2021, hoping to spread a new insight he gained during the ascetic training and the culture of Osagari.

The recommended dish is "Enmusubi Dango set", which you charbroil Dango on Shichirin (clay charcoal stove). This set includes two Dango skewers with two kinds of bean paste, soybean powder with Japanese tea or Hoji-cha and some rice crackers. For Dango, you can order after choosing two kinds out of several kinds. They prepare "whole sweet beans", "sweet bean paste", "purple sweet potato", "zunda, green soybeans", "strawberry" or "Shizuoka matcha." They change paste according the season. You can change your drink to amazake or coffee.

DANGO Three Brothers Set consists of Mitarashi dango, Soy Sauce Isobe dango and Yomogi dango. For dango, they use secret soy sauce used in a Sembei shop "Kagurazaka Jizoya", which is a parent shop of Ariorihaberiimasokari. Other than that, they have "Three kinds of Mochi taste comparison set" consisting of Kinako mochi, Bean paste mochi and Isobeyaki mochi, with a drink and some rice crackers. Also, they serve "Oshiruko set" consisting of Oshiruko with whole sweet beans and drink. They can see different kinds of Japanese sweets sets. At lunchtime, they serve "Lunch set of a sweet shop" consisting of Naruto Kintoki fried and candied sweet potatoes, chestnuts stewed in soy sauce and sugar, Yomogi dango, anmitsu with agar and a drink and some rice crackers.

The souvenir section at the shop, they sell "HAKUTAKA", only sacred sake offered to Kami at Ise Jingu every day. "HAKUTAKA (180ml)" is frequently offered to Tokyo Daijingu when people visit the place, and very precious "Raw unprocessed sake" produced only once a year. Among them, you can find "HAKUTAKA top quality Umeshu (plum wine)." The Umeshu was made with Ariorihaberiimasokari and "HAKUTAKA" collaborated. You can see some different kinds of "HAKUTAKA" that you can hardly find in Kanto area.

Inside the shop, there is a fortune-telling and artwork exhibition sections. They hold a marriage-hunting event. After gathering at Ariorihaberiimasokari, they complete missions going around sacred power places in Tokyo such as Tokyo Daijingu. They post event announcements on their official Instagram so check it frequently.