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Miyajima Omotesando Street

The street that leads up to the shrine is lined with shops selling local delicacies like broiled conger eel over rice, local pottery and other souvenirs of Miyajima. Try the momiji manju: sweet bean-paste filled buns made in the shape of maple leaves. The 20 bakeries that make them have come up with many variations: using other fillings like cream cheese or chocolate, deep-frying the cakes, and so on. The Miyajimayaki or Osunayaki pottery uses sand from around the shrine mixed in with the clay, and that's one reason why pilgrims have treasured this pottery for centuries.

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