confectionery shop; sweet shop; candy store
Refers to a shop selling sweets, confectionery, or traditional Japanese sweets; in modern shop names, 店 may sound slightly more formal or businesslike than 屋.
There is a small sweet shop in front of the station.
I bought manju at the confectionery shop in front of the station.
That sweet shop is known for its seasonal Japanese sweets.
I bought some candy at the confectionery shop.
駄菓子屋 refers to a cheap, often old-fashioned candy shop for children, whereas 菓子屋 is the neutral general word for a confectionery shop.
菓子屋 is the same shop without the polite お prefix, sounding slightly plainer or more written than お菓子屋.
A transparent compound of 菓子, meaning sweets or confectionery, and 屋, meaning shop or seller.