Founded in 1624, Fukusaya is Nagasaki's original castella maker, tracing its recipe back to techniques learned from an early Portuguese visitor. The Nagasaki Main Store is a standalone shop with a calm, unhurried atmosphere near Shianbashi, marked by the company's traditional bat emblem, an auspicious symbol adopted generations ago. Each castella is still hand-mixed by a single experienced baker from egg, sugar, syrup and flour, prized for the crunchy "zarame" sugar crystals left at the base of every slice. Alongside classic castella, the shop offers Hollander cocoa-and-walnut cake, the refined Gosan-yaki castella, handmade monaka wafers, and seasonal Fukusaya Cube gift boxes.
