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About this place
Some diners look forward to Maruni Cafe’s peach shaved ice every year. Choosing whether to add vanilla ice cream to the peach milk can change the experience. Visitors drawn by the peach have praised the combination of fruit-flesh sauce and condensed milk, and the pronounced peach flavour. Those who added ice cream found it made the dessert creamier; others enjoyed it without the topping in a different year. The listed menu includes Peach Milk for 2,000 yen, with vanilla ice cream available for an additional 200 yen. Being able to add or skip the topping lets you tailor the bowl to your taste.
For something other than peach, Uji Kintoki Milk, with matcha and red beans, and brown sugar kinako milk are each 1,500 yen. Strawberry milk and mango milk with shiratama rice dumplings are 1,300 yen, offering an extra chewy texture. Whether you’re after the flavour of peach or prefer matcha, kinako or rice dumplings, the shaved-ice menu gives you several ways to find your favourite combination.
There are also options for days when you want lunch rather than shaved ice. The weekday-only daily lunch costs 950 yen; the curry of the day comes with salad and soup for 1,200 yen, and the egg-and-cheese toast sandwich is served with salad for 1,000 yen. Drip coffee, tea or hojicha can be added to lunch for 300 yen each. One lunch regular also recalled taking an anko-and-butter scone to go. They warmed it and ate it with the butter melted alongside the sweet red bean paste. It does not appear on the listed menu, so this is a sweet treat mentioned in a review that you might keep an eye out for if you visit.
One review mentions using the sign-up sheet at the entrance to reserve a table; another reports a 50-minute time limit during the shaved-ice season. Reservation procedures and business details can change, so check ahead if you’re visiting for the shaved ice. You can also settle in over coffee, tea or hot hojicha.
