Wasanbon sugarPhoto: 夢の散歩 / CC BY-SA 4.0
Checked against official sources · updated · Takumi Yamada
A fine-grained sugar made from local sugarcane by a hand-kneading process that takes days, pressed into small moulded sweets shaped as flowers and leaves. It dissolves instantly, keeps for months and packs completely flat.
- Short enough to be certain of: 1 hr door to door, so even a tender day works.
- No single published ride covers this one. Budget for a taxi both ways, or fold it into a guided day.
Why Wasanbon sugar is famous
Wasanbon is sugar made by hand in Kagawa and Tokushima from a thin local cane, kneaded and pressed repeatedly over days until the crystals are fine enough to dissolve on contact. It has been made this way since the late 18th century and is pressed into small moulded sweets that are eaten with tea.
Routes that already include it
Each one is a finished day timed from the official timetables, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.
What to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
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3 hr for bothHonetsuki-dori
A whole chicken leg roasted hard with garlic and black pepper, eaten with your hands and mopped with cabbage.
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