Okage Yokocho (Ise Jingu)

The street that crosses over the entrance of the Ise Jingu Shrine is called as Okage Yokocho.
You may like to check the blog on Ise Jingu Shrine in the below link.
http://japanindiacart.blogspot.in/2014/04/ise-jingu.html

http://www.okageyokocho.co.jp/
Here, a lot of souvenir that will remind you of Japan, and delicious foods of Ise special product are available.

There are lot of tourists visiting here at the same time of visiting the Ise Jingu shrine for worship.

The food items that I would like you to have is Akafuku and it can be purchased at HONTEN.

Kindly buy one box of Akafuku first as a take-home item.
However, you have to eat it before the next day because the “best if eaten by this date” is only until the next day.

You can eat the Akafuku at the shop, but there are some Akafuku that can be eaten only at the shop. It is the “Zenzai” and the warm seasonal “Akafuku Kouri”. Please try these two without fail.

Akafuku kept inside the ice is very delicious.

Akafuku in ice

Then, it is Ise Udon.

Ise Udon

There are lot of Ise Udon shops, and you can try it in any shop.

Ise Udon is a type of noodle in which the black and dense broth added to the stock of the fish and the seaweed in soy sauce, is mixed with the thick noodles and eaten.
The Ise Udon is only available at Ise, and hence when you visit here try this without fail.

You can eat the food that has a history of being consumed by the shrine visitors from the Edo period (AD 1603–1867). I think it is the suitable menu to serve the crowd customers visiting Ise.

This is the innermost entrance of Okage Yokocho to Ise Jingu.