Nara produces the best quantity and quality of Kaki – persimmons in Japan. The weather of Nara is suitable to grow large sweet persimmons. There are many ways to preserve the fruits and you can enjoy them in variety of sweets all year around.

Ishii is specialised in making sweets with persimmons. The variety is impressive. There are baked, dried, chilled, pickled mashed and so on. The easiest one to try is Kaki Cake. It is a loaf of fruit cake and dried Kaki is used. Kaki Monaka is mashed Kaki wrapped with thin crispy wafers and this is good to try as well. You can get Jam in jar, jelly or just frozen Kaki frozen just after picked in best season.

You can even get Kaki tea, made with the leaves of Kaki trees. The latest product is Kaki Butter. It comes in jar and you might get muddled up. It is a mixture of jam and butter. It smells so nice when you open the jar. Perfect as a gift.