Historic San Francisco Japantown Mochi Shop Benkyodo Closing After More Than 115 Years

By CBS San Francisco Staff:

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — A San Francisco business that’s been around for more than a century is saying goodbye, as the landscape in Japantown is changing.

Benkyodo has been around for 116 years.

For generations, the Okamuras have been doing it the “old school” way, hand-crafting their heavily sought after traditional Japanese rice cakes called mochi.

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