Best Local Specialty Shops In Japan
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
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

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

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