Best Local Specialty Shops In Japan

Here're best Local Specialty Shops in Japan. We released a ranking of reviews about Local Specialty Shops posted by travel influencers who have actually been to Japan.

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Kansai

Ajyarimochi

1 Reviews

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.

kitano Meister Garden

1 Reviews

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.

Sannenzaka Marun

1 Reviews

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.

Chugoku

Nishikido Main Shop

1 Reviews

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.

Cake House Miniyon

1 Reviews

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.

Ken-chan no Iriko-ya

1 Reviews

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.

Shikoku

Yoshino Vingar

2 Reviews

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.

Kutsuwado Main-Store

3 Reviews

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!

Saisaikite-ya

1 Reviews

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.

Kyushu・Okinawa

Salt Shop (Masu-ya)

1 Reviews

Mixed Salt (Awase-jio) is made up for each food. A salt adviser live at a salt specialty shop. It'll be good for you to talk with them and taste your favorite one. Then, get some for your souvenirs.

Nangoku Zakka Tida

1 Reviews

Tida's general goods make us stop walking involuntarily. Earthenware accessories and original goods of Miyakojima. Cute accessories and candles are well sold, and you must take them in your hands.

Koimari Sake Brewing

1 Reviews

A sake brewing, Koimari's nomanne is in cups of colorful Arita ware such as a traditional arabesque pattern and flower pattern like peony. Its sake tastes refreshing and it's easy to drink without quirkiness.

Kanto

Sumida Edokiriko-kan

1 Reviews

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

Daimonya

1 Reviews

Takasaki is famous as a mecca of daruma dolls. They says that daruma made by craftsman here have been delivered to Princess Diana and the White House! You can see how the craftsman making darumas closely.

Sukanagosso (JA Yokosuka Hayama, Direct Sales Store Of The Crops)

1 Reviews

Miura Vegetables can play the leading part on plates at restaurants in other prefectures. The sweetness, textures and high nutritional value that are grown in warm peninsula climate under much of the sunshine, are guaranteed by a vegetable sommelier. At this direct sales store, you may be surprised at the amount you can buy for only 1000yen.

Tokai

Meihan Seki Rest Area

1 Reviews

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

Miyagawa Morning Fair

2 Reviews

At Miyagawa morning fair, the line catches our eyes here. Hida Takayama Pudding, that has won MONDE SELECTION, is offered as 'hot pudding' in only cold season. Warmed in hot water, it becomes melting, rich custard and caramel becomes savory… you must eat it even if you have to wait!

TORAYA Gotemba

1 Reviews

Only TORAYA's Gotemba branch limited yokan (sweet jellied bean), 'Shiki no Fuji' describes Mt.Fuji in four seasons by different colors, and it's exactly an art work shining like a crystal! 'Spring Mt.Fuji' I ate at the side café, had a little sweetness of Domyoji (grained glutinous rice) that was excellent with cold green tea. Mt.Fuji and cherry blossoms, may bring many lucks.

Hokuriku

Nakagawa

1 Reviews

Without any preservatives, bleaching agents or food colorings. They draw clear water for only necessary amount from well every morning, and spend time and effort to make these Mitsugashi (sweetened food). The vegetable flavors are embraced as they are in sugar, I feel like to eat vegetables rather than sweets!

Ama-natto Kawamura

1 Reviews

They pick the water for boil beans, and the sugar made from mushrooms or seaweeds. And more, they adjust the time for boil beans and the amount of sugar depending on its kinds, hardness and size. They explode the usual images, that is to say the ultimate Ama-natto!

Shiba Sushi

1 Reviews

They sell as many as 2 million pieces in a month. Superb sasa-zushi is made from specially selected foodstuffs by their own hands. Best seller 'Kanazawa Sasa-zushi' is sometimes sold out before noon, so it'll be good for you to make a reservation.

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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.

Name

Yoshino Vingar

Address

49 Otsu Bussyozan-cho, Takamatsu-shi, KagawaGoogle Map

Tel

087-889-0405

Hours

8:00-17:00

Closed

Sat・Sun・Holidays

How to get there

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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.

Name

Ajyarimochi

Address

Imadegawa Noboru Marikouji Dori Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, KyotoGoogle Map

Tel

075-791-4121

Hours

9:00-18:00

Closed

Wed

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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.

Name

kitano Meister Garden

Address

3-17-1 Nakayamatedori Chuo-ku, Kobe-shi, HyogoGoogle Map

Tel

078-221-6868

Hours

9:30-18:00

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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!

Name

Kutsuwado Main-Store

Address

1-2 Katahara-machi, Takamatsu-shi, KagawaGoogle Map

Tel

0120-11-9280

Hours

8:00-19:00

How to get there

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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.

Name

Saisaikite-ya

Address

279-1 Nakadera, Imabari-shi, EhimeGoogle Map

Tel

0898-33-3131

Hours

9:00-18:30

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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.

Name

Hakueido Yanagimachi-Main-Store

Address

1125-7 Ko Kanonji-cho, Kanonji-shi, KagawaGoogle Map

Tel

0875-25-3888

Hours

9:00-18:00

Closed

Thu

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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.

Name

Sannenzaka Marun

Address

3-317-1 Kiyomizu Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto-shi, KyotoGoogle Map

Tel

075-533-2005

Hours

10:00-18:00

Closed

Wed

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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.

Name

Taneya

Address

Himure Village Miyauchi-cho, Omihachiman-shi, ShigaGoogle Map

Tel

 0748-33-4444

Hours

9:00-18:00

How to get there

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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'.

Name

Fujiya

Address

1129 Miyajima-cho, Hatsukaichi-shi, HiroshimaGoogle Map

Tel

0829ー44ー2221

Hours

8:30-18:00

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

Name

Meihan Seki Rest Area

Address

39 Hagiwara Seki-cho, Kameyama-shi, MieGoogle Map

Tel

0595-96-1414

Hours

8:00-19:00

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

Name

Sanuki Winery Shop

Address

2671-13 Oda, Sanuki-shi, KagawaGoogle Map

Tel

087-895-1133

Hours

9:00-17:00

Closed

Tue

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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.

Name

Mochikuraya

Address

118-2 Tanezaki, Kochi-shi, KochiGoogle Map

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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.

Name

ImabariaTowel Main Store

Address

5-14-3 Higashimon-cho, Imabari-shi, EhimeGoogle Map

Tel

0898-34-3486

Hours

9:00-18:00

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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.

Name

Sunday Market

Address

1 Otesugi, Kochi-shi, KochiGoogle Map

Hours

[Sun]5:00-18:00

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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.

Name

Gojyunimangoku Jyosuian

Address

1-24-10 Hakata-ku, Fukuoka-shi, FukuokaGoogle Map

Tel

0120-39-0052

Hours

9:00-19:00 [Sat・Sun・Holidays]9:30-18:00

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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.

Name

RGG Gallery

Address

2-2-17 Matsufuku-cho, Takamatsu-shi, KagawaGoogle Map

Tel

090-4782-4681

Hours

[Mon・Sat・Sun・Holidays]15:00-19:00

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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.

Name

Echigo no Sake Museum Ponshukan Niigata

Address

1-96-47 Niigata Station 3F Hanazono Chuo-ku Niigata Station 3F, Niigata-shi, NiigataGoogle Map

Tel

025-240-7090

Hours

9:00-21:00

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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.

Name

Nishikido Main Shop

Address

1-13-23 Hikari-machi Higashi-ku, Hiroshima-shi, HiroshimaGoogle Map

Tel

082-262-3131

Hours

8:00-20:00

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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.

Name

Cake House Miniyon

Address

1-13-23 Hikari-machi Higashi-ku, Hiroshima-shi, HiroshimaGoogle Map

Tel

082-263-8282

Hours

10:00-20:00

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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.

Name

Nakata Yohojyo Apiary

Address

105-6 Nakayama-cho, Takamatsu-shi, KagawaGoogle Map

Tel

087-881-3457

Hours

9:00-18:00

Closed

1st Sun

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