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Matsumoto Shave Ice
A 75-year, three-generation family shave ice business with a founding date, founders' names and family origin documented by the business itself — the single longest, most specific lineage of any candidate found for this city.
What we know
- Established as M. Matsumoto Grocery Store on February 13, 1951 by Mamoru and Helen Momoyo Matsumoto, whose full family origins (Hiroshima-ken and Yamaguchi-ken) are documented on the shop's own site
- Grocery store expanded into shave ice with homemade syrup once the North Shore location proved a draw (the shop's own About page)
- Multi-generational family ownership continuing from the founders (business's own site)
- Address 66-111 Kamehameha Hwy Suite #605, Hale‘iwa — on O‘ahu's North Shore, inside the City and County of Honolulu boundary
- Status
- open
- Address
- 66-111 Kamehameha Hwy Suite #605, Hale‘iwa, HI 96712
- Maker
- Founded by Mamoru Matsumoto (1908–1994) and Helen Momoyo (Ogi) Matsumoto (1911–1989); multi-generational family operation since
- Opened
- 1951
- Website
- matsumotoshaveice.com/
- Last checked
- 2026-08-21
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