Eating tour of exquisite sweets at Japan’s longest shopping arcade without interruption

Do you know Sasebo city has the longest shopping arcade without interruption in Japan? This spot with 960m long consists of 3 shopping arcades with different atmospheres and charms, Sankacho, Kyocho and Yonkacho and has about 200 shops such as eateries, bars and stores selling household goods. This time, we focus on “Yonkacho Shopping Arcade (四ヶ町商店街)” where eateries suitable for breaking a time while shopping are more than the others, and select 3 recommended restaurant, baked sweets shop and cafe offering exquisite sweets.

Yonkacho Shopping Arcade is 10 minutes’ walk toward Sasebochuo Station from Sasebo Station.

The restaurant “Hakujuji Parlor Porto Main Shop” surprising customers with big parfait full of fruits & Sasebo’s famous confection

“Hakujuji Parlor Porto Main Shop (白十字パーラー ぽると総本舗)” is famous as the origin of Sasebo’s famous confection ‘Porto’ -yuzu-flavored Japanese jelly is sandwiched with biscuits. In 1951, this shop was opened as a cafe serving authentic coffee and baked confection. Its exterior made with bricks makes you feel as if it’s frozen in time. Stepping into here, let’s head to a restaurant on the 2nd floor and order “Challenge Parfait”! A large beer mug is filled with lots of fruits. As you continue to eat it, crumbled Porto will appear and change sweetness exploding in your mouth into refreshing taste by the yuzu flavor. By the way, you can get Porto on the 1st floor.

Opening Hours	10:30AM – 6:00PM 1st Floor Open all year round／2nd Floor Closed on Tuesday
Address	4-19 Motoshima-cho, Sasebo City, Nagasaki Prefecture
Access	A 15-minute walk from Sasebo Washington Hotel
URL	https://yonkacho.com/tamatebako69/

The baked sweets shop “Shookobo Gansekiya” allowing you to customize cream puffs by choosing your favorite doughs and cream flavors

Following the sweet and toasty smell trail in Yonkacho Shopping Arcade, you can find “Shookobo Gansekiya (シュー工房 岩石屋).” There are various baked sweets from cream puffs to puddings and cakes in the shop. In particular, cream puffs are drawn the best attention of us because we can customize them as we like by choosing dough types and flavors of cream. Well, combine 3 types of doughs with different textures and flavors, smooth custard cream using eggs from Nagasaki and cream tarta from France and seasonal cream such as strawberry and chestnut flavors! If you can’t make up your mind which one to choose, we recommend the combination of ‘Sekiganshoo’ dough and custard cream, which won the gold prize in the sweets category of ‘Sasebo Local Specialties Contest.’ Its doughs with a rugged appearance like a rock and crispy texture are packed with much cream.

Opening Hours	11:00AM – 7:00PM　Irregular Holiday ※There is eating space on the 2nd floor.
Address	6-19 Kamikyo-cho, Sasebo City, Nagasaki Prefecture
Access	A 13-minute walk from Sasebo Washington Hotel
URL	https://yonkacho.com/tamatebako36/

The stylish cafe “Café UMINO” producing an elegant time with coffee brewed with a siphon coffee maker and fruit sandwich

Opened by Nagasaki prefecture’s long-established cafe ‘Umino’ with over 60 years of history, “Café UMINO” is a cafe with a calm ambiance. In the store whose chic brick-style walls are illuminated by gentle light, an elegant aroma of coffee is wafting in the air. Umino’s traditional coffee is brewed with a siphon coffee maker one by one after getting your order. Its smell and bitter flavor are stronger than drip coffee, and rich flavor bursts in your mouth. Don’t forget to order “Fruit Sandwich” with coffee! The sweetness of whipping cream and sourness of fruits bring out coffee’s flavor. In addition, they sometimes offer fruit sandwiches using only Hakata Amaou Strawberry (limited amount). We recommend that you should enjoy them while drinking coffee without sugar and milk at first.

Opening Hours	9:00AM – 10:00PM　Irregular Holiday
Address	4-22 Honshima-cho, Sasebo City, Nagasaki Prefecture
Access	A 14-minute walk from Sasebo Washington Hotel
URL	https://yonkacho.com/tamatebako64/