Shopping Spots in Ibaraki Area

  • Numataya
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    4.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Tsukuba-shi Numata 1400-2
    A Japanese confectionery located on Prefectural Route 42 in Numata, Tsukuba City. Their Karinto Manju Buns are a local favorite made by wrapping koshi-an bean paste in dough containing brown sugar. Their Shiroku-no-Manju buns are inspired by Gama-no-Aburauri traditional street performances, a Mt. Tsukuba specialty.

    筑波山からの帰り道沿いにあった和菓子屋さん。かりんとう饅頭を買いました。黒糖饅頭を揚げたもので、やや大きめのカリントウの形をしています。熱々で美味しかったです。

  • Tea & Sweets Hanamizuki
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    4.0
    10 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Tsukuba-shi Ninomiya 4-14-4
    This specialty tea store is located in 4-chome, Ninomiya, Tsukuba City. In addition to customers being able to smell the fragrances and choose from a variety of teas including classic tea and flavored teas, the store also sells Baumkuchen, which are handmade in the store's own kitchen. The second floor of the store is a British-style salon, where customers can taste all of the different teas sold by the store from a teapot, along with sweets such as Baumkuchen.

    緑に囲まれた落ち着いた雰囲気のお店です。迷うほど多くの種類の紅茶があります。夏はアイスティーもおいしいです。

  • GRUYERES
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    4.5
    17 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Kasama-shi Shimoichige 285
    A Western sweet shop in front of Kasama Station in Shimoichige, Kasama City. They make Western-style Kasama confectionery with local ingredients, including the area's famous chestnuts. Besides their chestnut-packed Kasama Hagi-no-Hime pound cake, they also sell Gokoku Roll Cake and Kasama-no-Kuri Hiroi roll cake. There's also a cafe area on-site.

    五穀ロールが有名な洋菓子店。今回はホールのシンプルないちごケーキを購入しました。スポンジがふわふわ、生クリームもあっさり。甘さ控えめで一人で半分くらい食べられそうです。お誕生日ケーキにもおすすめです。

  • Futatsugi Walnut Inari-zushi
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    Ibaraki Kasama-shi Kasama 1343
    An inari-zushi (deep-fried tofu pockets filled with rice) shop on Monzen-dori Streetin Kasama, Kasama City. The veteran store has been in business for over 100 years. Its famous Kurumi Inari-zushi with walnuts is a local favorite. It was inspired by the name of a local shrine, Kurumigashita Inari.
  • Glass Gallery SUMITO
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    Ibaraki Kasama-shi Kasama 2192-35
    A gallery on Gallery Road in Kasama, Kasama City. It regularly displays and sells glass work including tableware, vases, object art, and interior decor from about 130 glass artists. In addition to space for holding regular solo exhibits and planned exhibits, there's a second-floor hands on experience space that offers glass painting and glass etching programs (reservations required).
  • Mori no Ishigama Panya-san
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    4.0
    17 Reviews
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    Ibaraki Kasama-shi Kasama 2286-1
    This bakery is located along Gallery Road, in Kasama, Kasama City. The bread is made using homemade natural yeast from Kasama strawberries, and baked in a Spanish stone kiln. In addition to selling Kasama natural yeast bread, filled with a generous helping of fresh cream, French bread, sweet bread, cooking bread and sandwiches, the bakery also has an eat-in space on the second floor.

    売り切れになること多いとの噂をきいて心配したが、無事パンを買えました。ウインナーパンのウインナーは上質。カレーパンのまわりは油っこくなくサクサク。ほうれん草パンはふわふわ。どれも美味しかった。価格は都心よりも2割くらい安い。次々焼きたてパンが並べられ、並べるそばから売れていく。建物もオシャレ。近くに行ったら是非!

  • Sashirosan no Tofu-ya
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    4.0
    18 Reviews
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    Ibaraki Kasama-shi Kasama 2810
    A tofu shop in Kasama, Kasama City. They sell handmade tofu using natural brine and two kinds of locally grown soybeans: Fukuyutaka and Tachinagaha. In addition, they use Tanokuro bean, a rare Ibaraki variety for their Ibaraki Zairai Tofu, fresh yuba, sweet natto, and inaka miso.

    お豆腐が、とってもおいしい。やはり冷奴でいただくのが最高。がんもどきは さっと焼いても、甘辛く煮てもおいしいです。豆乳ソフトは、甘さ控えめで さっぱりしています。笠間に行ったときは必ず立ち寄ります。

  • Okukuji-shamo Local Chicken Shop
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    Ibaraki Kuji-gun Daigomachi Fukuroda 3721
    A store selling chicken on National Route 118 in Fukuroda, Daigo City, Kuji County. They sell the local Okukuji Shamo variety, which is raised over a period three times longer than usual. It’s low in fat, has firm flesh, and receives high praise for its quality. It was ranked first among local chicken varieties in competition.
  • Bakery Paneton
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    4.5
    6 Reviews
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    Ibaraki Ushiku-shi Chuo 2-26-11
    This bakery is located in Chuuoo2-chome, Ushiku City. It sells freshly baked bread made using natural yeast and flour produced in Hokkaido and Ushiku. Customers can enjoy the natural flavor of the natural yeast which can only be attained by ageing it for a long time. Also, in addition to the white bread, Danish pastries, sweet bread, cooking bread and sandwiches, the store also has a new, original bread that appears every month.

    品揃えがいい(ハードから惣菜系まで) 素材も国産小麦 サービスも(コーヒー無料) 駐車場も広め 外でも食べられる 人気がある理由がわかります。 パン屋激戦区の牛久市のやなでも万人ウケされるお店ですね

  • Akiba Koji Miso Brewery
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    Ibaraki Yuki-shi Yuki 174
    A miso brewery on Ekimae Kura-dori Street in Yuki, Yuki City. Established in 1832, they still sell koji miso starter and miso they make with a devotion to natural fermentation through traditional methods. Their additive-free fermented rice beverage is also popular. The Misegura building and shop was built in the Taisho era and is registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property.
  • Suzukien
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    Ibaraki Koga-shi Chuocho 1-1-6
    A tea shop located on Edomachi-dori Street in Chuo-cho 1-Chome, Koga City. A long-established store founded in 1872, they sell tea leaves they prepare with a deep-steaming method that makes it easy to absorb the green tea's components. There are a variety of teas available, such as hojicha, genmaicha, and tokumushicha that has been steamed for more than twice the normal time.
  • Gochisobansho Komegin Sakana-machi Main Shop
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    Ibaraki Koga-shi Chuocho 3-1-43
    A bento boxed lunch shop and Japanese deli on Sakanamachi-dori Street in Chuo-cho3-Chome, Koga City. It's also a long-established rice shop that has operated for 190 years. They're particular about all of the ingredients in their bento boxes and deli items, including the vegetables, meat, salt, etc.
  • Taishokan
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    Ibaraki Koga-shi Honcho 2-2-6
    An antique shop in Hon-machi2-Chome, Koga City. Run out of a 70-year-old traditional wooden minka house, they sell a variety of antiques and antique art that give a feel for the good old days. Items include antique ceramics, mingu folk tools, dressers, glass items, lacquerware, lamps, phonographs, paintings, etc.
  • Hananuki Bussan Center Riyo Kumiai
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    Ibaraki Takahagi Ono 1100-2
    A farmer's market on National Route 461 in Michishita Ono, Takahagi City. In addition to freshly harvested local vegetables and wild vegetables, they sell local specialty products and prepared foods such as sashimi konjac gelatin made at the processing place on-site. There is also a restaurant serving light meals.
  • Saint Amour Confectionery Store
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    4.0
    30 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Moriya-shi Kubogaoka 2-17-1
    This patisserie is located in 2-chome, Kubogaoka, Moriya City. It sells a variety of western-style confectionery, such as tenshi no tamago, which is a popular Madeleine, baked with fresh eggs and fermented butter, as well as various baked and soft-baked confectionery, over 30 types of petite gateau and whole cakes. Customers can enjoy freshly baked pies and Baumkuchen, and there is also a cafe space with free drinks.

    このお店の近所の住宅街にお住まい方から頂いた焼菓子が美味しかったので、行ってみました。20台程度の駐車場がありますが、次々と車が入れ替わる人気のケーキ屋でした。残念ながら、喫茶部門は休業中だったので、焼菓子だけでなく、列に並んでケーキを買って帰りました。ケーキの種類は多く、味は焼菓子同様に期待通りの味で遠方から行った甲斐がありました。

  • Suganami Fujiya (Omitama Ogawa Shop and Cigogne Bakery)
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    Ibaraki Omitama-shi Nakanobe 556-1
    A Western confectionery shop on Prefectural Route 59 in Nakanobe, Omitama City. In addition to manufacturing and selling cakes, pastries, and roll cakes made with milk and eggs from Omitama, the store also has a bread shop and cafe. Their Omitama custard made with locally produced non-homogenized milk and free-range eggs is also popular.
  • Yonebishi Shuyu (Soy Sauce)
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    Ibaraki Hitachiota-shi Uchiboricho 2365
    This soy sauce producer is located in Uchibori-cho, Hitachiota City. It is a long-established store, founded in 1800, and produces soy sauce using a double preparation method, which allows the locally sourced soy beans and wheat to ferment for over a year, before being made into soy sauce. In addition to factory tours, there is also a tour facility, where visitors can experience taste-testing and making miso paste.
  • PLUM MITO
    Travel / Tourism
    Ibaraki Mito-shi Miyamachi 1-1-1
    A souvenir shop on the second floor of Excel Plum Street in Mito Station's Excel Station Building, Miya-machi1-Chome, Mito City. They sell Ibaraki specialty products and famous sweets, including Sweet Ume from the veteran dried plum dealer Yoshidaya and Mito-chan Natto fermented beans from Daruma Foods.
  • KAMEJIRUSHI HONPO (Mito Excel Minami Shop)
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    Ibaraki Mito-shi Miyamachi 1-7-31 Mito Excel Minami 3F
    A Japanese sweet shop located on the third floor of Excel Minami in Mito Station's Excel Station Building, Miyamachi1-Chome, Mito City. The veteran store was founded in 1852 and even served Mito's feudal lord. They sell famous Mito sweets like Mito-no-Ume (white bean paste and gyuhi rice cake wrapped in red shiso leaves soaked in the special syrup using Fukuyui Mito-born plum), as well as Miyabi no Ume (syrup-soaked aoume plums covered in white bean paste and wrapped in gyuhi rice cake).
  • Torobisen Honpo Miwa Store
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    4.0
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Mito-shi Miwa 1-311-3
    This Japanese confectionery store is located along Prefectural Route 30, in 1-chome, Miwa, Mito City. It sells confectionery mostly centering on okaki mochi and rice crackers. The store's most popular items include Mito-man, which are fried dough cookies filled with the finest koshian bean paste, as well as freshly baked dango dumplings, made with mochi made every morning, and raisin cream cookie sandwiches. There is also a cafe room in the store, which displays and sells Kasama-yaki pottery.

    値段がリーズナブルで美味しいおせんべいが沢山あります。 また、買い物したお客様は奥でコーヒーや緑茶がいただけます。 驚いたのは甘いお菓子が美味しいこと。 生菓子(レーズンサンドなど)は151円ですがケーキ屋さんのもののような美味しさ。フロランタン(129円)も美味しくて、奥でコーヒーとともにいただきました。 すごく得した気分になるお煎餅やさんです。

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Just a stone’s throw from Tokyo, Ibaraki is a coastal prefecture that has mastered juxtapositions, where old shrines meet new scientific discoveries and traditional gardens are frequented by the inventors of some of the newest technology. Head to Mito City's Kairakuen - one of Japan's Three Great Gardens - in spring to experience the cellestial blooming of fantastic cherry blossoms at the annual sakura festival.

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