About 17 minutes by car from Naha Airport. It is a long-established confectionery store located in Yogi, Naha City. The nostalgic, retro appearance of the shop evokes a sense of nostalgia. The fact that it has been in business for many years means that it must have some kind of strong personality. Many fixed fans have been coming to buy from the old days.
Point 1: Surprisingly accessible? What is the location of “Toe Confectionary Shop”?
Toe Confectionery” is a long-established confectionery store that has been in business since 1969, when Okinawa was still under American rule. Its specialty is “marble cake,” but it also sells a variety of other sweets, including cheesecake. It is so famous locally that some call it Okinawa’s soul sweet and has many fans.
It is only 17 minutes from Naha Airport via Routes 331 and 330.
For buses, it may seem like a difficult place to reach, but if you take the No. 83 Ryukyu Bus from the airport and get off at “Yogi Elementary School Mae,” you can reach the store in 3 minutes on foot without having to change trains, so access is surprisingly easy.
The red and beige striped eaves and the red and yellow sign in a retro font give you a good feeling.
Point 2: What is “marble cake,” the specialty of the classic “Toe Confectionery Shop”?
The most famous item at Toe Confectionery since its establishment has been the “Marble Cake”. The wrapping paper is also very retro!
The cake is made of a fluffy sponge with buttercream between the sponge and a generous amount of chocolate on top, and it has a long shape so that you can enjoy it by slicing it little by little.
Even if you eat five centimeters at a time, you can enjoy it four times, and the large one costs a reasonable 2,000 yen! (In 2022, it was 1,600 yen, but the price seems to have gone up.) A small size is also available, so travelers can buy this and share it.
This marble cake is full of Showa-era flavor, and the first bite will satisfy your nostalgia, but the richness of the buttercream will linger, forcing you to go on to the second bite.
It is because it is a delicious cake that it has been sold ever since its establishment.
Point 3: What is another specialty, cheesecake from Toe Pastry Shop?
The cheesecake at Toe Confectionary Shop is fluffy and soft, 90% soufflé, and the base is cookie dough.
The whole cake is priced at 2,240 yen for a size 7. The cake used to be sold only as a whole, but now it is also sold by the slice for 160 yen!
Many locals say that their childhood dream was to hold a whole piece of this cheesecake and eat it with a fork, and it is assumed that there are so many fixed fans that it is split in popularity between the marble cake and the marble cake.
As an aside, as the author who was awakened to German cake in Okinawa, I would also like to recommend this store’s very inexpensive, yet delicious, German cake.
Toe Confectionery, a long-established confectionery store in Yogi, Naha City, is famous for its German cakes, which are sold only by the piece, but its Furu Furu cheesecakes, which are also sold by the piece, are also popular. Please visit “Toe Confectionery” and enjoy both retro nostalgia and deliciousness.
