Right after passing the gate, you'll see a huge pine tree. This Himalayan Cedar was called "Grant-Matsu (Pine)" since this was planted by General Ulysses S. Grant, the eighteenth President of the United States when he visited Zojoji Temple as a national guest in 1879.
鮎の姿をカステラ地に焼き、中に求肥と北海道産小豆のこし餡を包んだお菓子。
Dorayaki is a Japanese cake usually made with two slightly raised round castella cakes (or small pancakes) with azuki bean paste in the middle. In the Kinki region many Japanese cake shops sell this kind of product under the name Mikasa (said to be named after Mt. Mikasa in Nara Prefecture) and Dorayaki are commonly called "Mikasa Manju" (Mikasa bean cakes).
