Best Local Specialty Shops

The Chewy Dough And Bean Jam In Good Balanced SweetnessAjyarimochi

For the bean jam, they use Tamba Dainagon (quality azuki bean). The maker Mangetsu makes only four kinds of Japanese sweets, and they have much particularity for each of them.

Must Be Addicted Once You Taste. Kanzaki-ya's Secret SauceYoshino Vingar

Can I tell the texture like jelly by a picture? The sauce made from vegetables, spices and own vinegar. By the way, you can't use anything else once you taste this sauce.

A Big Rice Cracker! A Long Established Confectionery Shop Bake One By OneKutsuwado Main-Store

Kawara (a roofing tile) senbei in several sizes. They use Sanuki specialty shiroshita sugar and wheat flour. It's crisp and hard cracker that make you addicted!

Shopping Souvenirs Of Kobe All At Oncekitano Meister Garden

If you want to buy confectioneries for souvenirs, you can taste and compare them here! It's under the slope, it'll be better to drop by after walking Kitano at the brow of the slope.

A Wide Variety Of Imabari's FoodstuffsSaisaikite-ya

They keep a wide variety of food harvested in Imabari. You can buy the tastes of the local foodstuffs such as a famous tangerine and so on.

Sweet And Soft Kanonji Manju With A Coin MarkHakueido Yanagimachi-Main-Store

There're many fans in and out of the city, and it's liked by all generations. White bean jam in the spongy cake. It's an excellent pastry Japanese and Western style are mixed in.

Green Tea Shortbread 'Aka-kabuto' Sold In A Limited AreaTaneya

A great general in Oumi area, Naosuke Ii loved green tea, and sold in only area where is famous in connection with him. Delicious thick green tea taste! The elderly people will like it for its no sweetness. Making a kabuto(Japanese old helmet) from a box, children was pleased with it.

Looks Cute, Tastes New, AwasetsukaFujiya

Tastes crisp, fluffy, and smooth. I thought the looks was cute and decided to buy as a souvenir for my company, especially ladies liked it. It was also delicious after make it cold. The letters 淡雪花　means 'light snow flower'.

Kyoto Kawaii ☆Pretty Gifts Of KyotoSannenzaka Marun

All of them look pretty and have a kind of Kyoto mood. Japanese alcohol sake, sweets and variety goods you can completely buy gifts for women. I also want for myself.

Scallops Tsukudani Of Long Established Shop 'Fukuya' In IseMeihan Seki Rest Area

Tsukudani is a traditional food boiled down in sweetened soy sauce. It's excellent with rice and sake.

A Seaweed Shop Makes 'Mochikuraya ・Rare Warabi-mochi'Mochikuraya

It's cakes made of bracken-root starch. They don't have fixed shop but appear at any events, so they're said to be rare. Mild Taste of the foodstuff and really soft. Kinako (soy bean powder) is not so sweet, I think that is because they are proud of warabi-mochi itself.

Sanuki Wine Shop Opened By A Wine Factory Only One In ShikokuSanuki Winery Shop

They sell many kinds of Sanuki Wine and you could enjoy tasing.

The Largest Store of Traditional High Quality Imabari Towel in JapanImabariaTowel Main Store

The traditional Imabari towel is comfortable for use and good for skin. It's made in Imabari and a representative towel of Japan. The store sells about 25000 items of it.

A Pleasant Smelling of Kinako(Soybean Powder) Spreading in My MouthGojyunimangoku Jyosuian

It won a gold prize of Monde Selection! The refined Japanese sweets telling a giver's feeling very well. Elegant sweetness spreads in my mouth and I think I can eat many.

Open-Air Market Running the Length of 1.3km. The Specialties of Kochi Line UpSunday Market

This open-air market is held on every Sunday. The local vegetables, gourmet and general goods are carried, and you can buy them at reasonable prices. It is held in the central of the city, so the parking lots are enough.

A Superb Honey Made by Warm Climate in Setouch and Affection of FamersNakata Yohojyo Apiary

There are few stores specializing in honey. A little big grain has refined sweetness and cannot forget once you eat. Some famous hotel use this and the locals are proud of this superb honey.

The Glass Interiors Using Aji Stone which the Color Likes Blue of the Insular Setouchi SeaRGG Gallery

If express Kagawa area by color, it is blue called as 'Setouchi Blue' because the insular and beautiful blue Setouchi sea is in Kagawa. So, these beautiful glass interiors using expensive Aji stone in Kagawa is Setouchi Blue Color. And the store sells them and is also galley.

Soy Sauce Tasting For FreeEchigo no Sake Museum Ponshukan Niigata

I wrote about sake tasting before, besides you can taste say sauce for free. They have a kind of Italian say sauce, I could enjoy them very much.

The Setouchi Lemon Cake that the Sour-Sweet Taste Spreads in Your MouthCake House Miniyon

The cake uses lemons grown in Setouchi area. It is sour-sweet lemon chocolate over butter cake with a pleasant mouth-feel. I recommend it as souvenirs because the store stands near the Hiroshima station and Hiroshima is the top producer of lemon.

Hiroshima's New Sweets Born From the Traditional Well Knowen, Gluey 'Nama-Momiji'Nishikido Main Shop

It's different from the ordinary Momiji-manjyu uses sponge cake, 'Nama-momiji' uses gluey rice and has sticky texture. Someday this new one will exceed the original.

Various Denim Items Made in KojimaKurashiki Denim St.

Kojima is the birth place of Japanese denim. There are stores selling denim items made in Kojima on this street. So, denim fans should not miss.

So Cute Masking Tapes Made in Kurashiki that People All Over the World Pay AttentionTANE×612 FACTORY

The store assorts the most masking tapes made in Kurashiki in Bikan area and also sells custom-made iron furniture. It is too difficult to choose because all of them are very cute.

Original Edokiriko from Old Style to Modern in the StoreSumida Edokiriko-kan

The store assorts more than 350 items of Edokiriko (Japanese traditional Glass). You can get the Tokyo Skytree pattern only here [1st photo].

The Dried Fish Grown in Setouchi Sea that are Sold Out Until the EveningKen-chan no Iriko-ya

You can buy additive‐free dried fish grown in Setouchi sea that are sold out by the evening. I recommend the dried squid 'ChiiChii Ika' specially.

A Rare Local Sake 'Kitano-katsu Shiboritate' Sold Once In A Year And Sold Out In A Few MinutesUsui Katsusaburo Shoten

Easternmost in Hokkaido, Nemuro City, a sake brewer 'Usui Katsusaburo Store' forwards this sake once in a year. To buy the rare sake, people make a line at the stores, and phones don't stop ringing for order. If you can't buy it, you may find it at the local bars.