Kashikoto Monokaya is located in Kanazawa city, and it is a new Japanese confectionary shop where you can eat-in. An old Japanese confectioner ?Shibafune-Koide? is standing almost 100 years, and[...]

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Kashikoto Monokaya is located in Kanazawa city, and it is a new Japanese confectionary shop where you can eat-in. An old Japanese confectioner ?Shibafune-Koide? is standing almost 100 years, and they decided to start new style of the confectionary eat-in beside of their main shop and old factory.
In ordinary Japanese sweets shops, you can choose different kind of sweets from several option, but for this shop we focus on only the very basic Japanese sweets call MONAKA, which has red-beams paste inside of rice cracker. With Tokyo based graphic designer Masaaki Hiromura as a Director of this project, we dived into the red-beams world, and find out 4 of best Japanese ones for this shop. In the shop, you can choose one of 4 different red-beams paste, and grill the rice cracker in front of you, and put it in the red-beams paste to the cracker.  The architects decided to use the old factory space where is no-more active (Shibafune-koide has new factory in other place), so we made new facade on the old factory wall, and putted in new box inside of the factory space. When you enter the shop from outside, space has both side dining set, and you will see the wooden facade that has, right front is a kitchen, left front is a casher.
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