Address: 908, Kinosakicho Yushima, Toyooka-shi, Hyogo-ken
Website: n/a
Style: Japanese
Price: $$
I thought that walking around the small hot springs tourist town of Kinosakionsen would be enough to find any bakeries. After all, one would assume it would be located along the main shopping street along the canal or at least along the street leading down to the train station. Yes, there was a cheese tart stand, but it took only one cheese tart for me to know I'm never having another one again, and other pastry shops typical of those that line temple or castle streets, the ones with pre-packed gift boxes filled with cookies, crackers, mochi.
However, there is a bakery in Kinosakionsen, but it's located on a predominantly industrial road featuring car mechanics and a gas station. It's definitely not the most picturesque of walks in an otherwise picturesque town, and perhaps the spacious bakery is just paradoxical. Green is, after all, a pretty bakery. There's plenty of room for cakes behind the display cases and two walls dedicated to sweet and savoury baked goods along with some seating, but there's this distinct feeling that it's seen better days. For one, absolutely no staff was to be seen upon entering and only when I had been waiting at the counter to pay did someone poke their head and then yell for someone to come to the cash, which they did almost reluctantly.
Anyways, a few cakes were located behind the counter, most looking like variations on cream cake with fruit on top, and the trays of baked goods didn't have much selection. Lots of empty room and lots of repeated items (hot dog buns, namely) stuffed here and there to give the illusion of it being less empty than it really was.
Rating: ***
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