Mihashi Ueno Honten

What a cute dessert parlor!
Located in Ueno approximately several blocks from the train station, the shop faces a busy street.
I came here already knowing exactly what I wanted… the Green Tea Ice with RICE BALLS! Yes! Big, fluffy, chewy riceballs! Each bite of the dessert was perfectly sweet when paired with the red bean paste, green tea ice cream, and cubes of konjac jelly. It was one of the few times dessert seemed healthy… we also ordered a soft serve on a cone and it was just your typical soft serve… nothing special.
They give you complimentary ocha to pair with your dessert which is perfect for rinsing your palate afterwards.
At approximately 600 yen per dessert, the prices are decent. When you are done, make sure you walk off the calories in the back shopping alley… in the daytime theres also a zoo nearby!

It’s a cute little Japanese dessert place. The décor is very straightforward with a lot of wood and bamboo, it kinda has a sushi restaurant feel. The desserts are mostly ice cream, fruit and mochi based. It’s also really close to the Keisei Ueno train station. Pricing isn’t too bad with desserts being around the 600 yen mark and like with any Japanese food establishments, there are displays of food out front to see what tickles your fancy.
The food:
杏クリームあんみつ– In Japanese, it’s called Anmitsu It’s a dessert with a bunch of stuff in it, is the best way to describe it. It has vanilla ice cream, chunks of adzuki bean, adzuki bean paste, dried apricots, Mandarin slices, mochi and agar jelly. This really felt like a Mister Softee took a detour through Japan. The soft serve ice cream was great, the adzuki bean pieces were nice and soft, the adzuki bean paste was good but a tad on the grainy side and it was a tad sweet. The apricots were really sour, like face puckeringly sour and then the agar jelly added a nice texture. They also give a nice hot green tea to wash down the dessert. Overall, a cute lite Japanese café to grab some after dinner sweets.

Anmitsu and Zenzai are traditional Japanese desert. It is best place to rest your foot while walking around Ueno park, museum and zoo.

Fatigué? Besoin d’un repos? Vous êtes gourmandise?
Alors, je vous conseille d’essayer le“Annmitsu” chez Mihashi.
C’est une maison mère qui est super connue pour sa confiserie avec la pâte des haricos rouges sucrés (on dit «anko» en japonais).
Située à côté de la gare de Keisei, elle donne sur une avenue d’Uéno.
Fondée il y a plus de 60 ans, elle est toujours au même endroit et surtout pendnat le weekend il y a même la queue.
Quand mes amis étrangers étaient à Tokyo pendant les vacances d’été, je les ai amenés ici pour faire goûter la sucrerie traditionnelle du Japon.
Anmitsu consiste en plusiers éléments. Principalement la pâte des haricos sucré, on la mange avec qeulques agrumes, mochi, cubes trasparents de l’algue (il n’y a pas de goût, mais ils sont croquants) et avec la sauce du sucre noire.
Pour mes amis, tout était pour la première fois, mais finalement ils étiaent tout contents en plus c’est vrai que c’est très bon!