Enjoy seasonal additive-free gelato in the countryside. Iwate AZUMANESOKO

Individually run specialty shops are booming all over Japan. Locally-sourced ingredients directly contribute to the unique character of the ice cream. The backgrounds of the makers are as diverse as the ice creams themselves. Why do they make each type of ice cream? Here are the stories of the people who make them.

photo: Takugo Miwa / text: Ayako Kumagai / edit: Mutsumi Hidaka

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Seasonal additive-free gelato in the countryside

This truss-structured shop appears as you walk along a mountain road. In early summer, they serve gelato made with fresh combinations of seasonal ingredients, such as honey-soaked Nanko plums and haskap berries, and in midsummer, watermelon and chili peppers. The shop's signature products are three types of milk gelato, made in small batches to maintain freshness. You can enjoy the unique characteristics of each milk from three dairy farms in the prefecture.

Chef Kuwahara Koji has a background in French cuisine. He moved from Tokyo and discovered the producers and ingredients he encountered for the first time in this region, where the temperature difference is large and agriculture is thriving. He couldn't stop talking about how fascinating they were. You can sample each flavor, so it's a great idea to try them out and choose.

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Walnut and Milk Double 650 yen. The homemade corn is made with fruit wheat from Tamura Seed Farm in Morioka, a producer of native Iwate seeds.

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