Shiroi Koibito Park

This guide to Shiroi Koibito Park in Sapporo opens on an evening in 1976, when a young Ishiya confectioner watched snow drift over a ski slope and said four words that would name a cookie. It follows how that phrase turned into a butter wafer wrapped around white chocolate, built to match the exact color of a Hokkaido winter, and the mock-Tudor building, clock tower and rose garden that grew up around the factory that makes it. Stand at the observation window near the entrance to watch the cookies take shape on the line.