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
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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.
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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.
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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.
Chugoku
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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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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!
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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.
Kyushu・Okinawa
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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.
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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.
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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
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The store assorts more than 350 items of Edokiriko (Japanese traditional Glass). You can get the Tokyo Skytree pattern only here [1st photo].
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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.
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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
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Tsukudani is a traditional food boiled down in sweetened soy sauce. It's excellent with rice and sake.
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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!
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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
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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!
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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!
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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.
