Groceries Spots in Mito / Kasama Area

  • Factory of Confections and Dreams
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Pref. Mitoshi Migawachou 2139-5
    "An all-weather amusement facility adjoining the head office of Kamejirushi, a long-standing confection company. Here visitors can tour the company's factory and see how popular Mito-born confections like ""Mito no Ume"" and ""Yoshiwara Denchu"" are made. Confections fresh from the factory are also delivered to the facility and made available for sale to the public. In addition, various events are held here throughout the year such as live demonstrations of kintsuba flour dough sweet bean cakes being made by a seasoned pro. Lastly, the facility has free parking able to accommodate 250 vehicles and can be used as a rest area for visitors exploring the area by car."
  • 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
    Shopping
    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.
  • Mori no Ishigama Panya-san
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    4.0
    17 Reviews
    Shopping
    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
    Shopping
    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。

  • Suganami Fujiya (Omitama Ogawa Shop and Cigogne Bakery)
    Shopping
    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.
  • KAMEJIRUSHI HONPO (Mito Excel Minami Shop)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    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。

  • Tengu Natto Sasanuma Goro Shoten
    Shopping
    Ibaraki Mito-shi Sannomaru 3-4-30
    This specialist natto store is located along Sakumachi Joto-dori, in 3-chome, Sannomaru, Mito City. It is directly managed by a long-established natto producer, founded in the Meiji period, and sells various types of natto, including the traditional waratsuto natto, as well as processed goods and confectionery which are made using natto. In addition to an exhibition hall where visitors can learn about the history of Mito natto, there is also the adjacent natto factory, which is open to visitors.
  • Cafe Patisserie Miloro
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Mito-shi Chuo 1-8-8
    A Western sweet shop in Chuo1-Chome, Mito City. They make and sell cakes, pies, pastries, etc. while taking great care with the flavors of the ingredients. Their popular Nama Pie features plenty of cream in a crispy crust. The cafe has a cake buffet available with a reservation.
  • Kimuraya (Main Store)
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    4.5
    4 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Mito-shi Minamimachi 1-2-21
    A confectionery with both Japanese and Western sweets on National Route 50 in Minami-machi1- Chome, Mito City. They make their sweets with local ingredients like fruit grown in the prefecture. Their fresh cake is made with carefully selected local strawberries, and their Kotei Daifuku bean jam-stuffed sweets are made with an ancient variety of mochi rice. They also have pastries, mochi rice cakes wrapped in bamboo leaves, and more. The shop's atmosphere is a fusion of Japan and the West as well.

    水戸市内観光で水戸駅に車を止めて周辺部を歩きましたら、老舗らしい佇まいの和菓子屋を発見しました。何か吸い寄せられるようにお客さんが入っていきます。これは入ってみなければと思い、「水戸の梅」に目が止まりました。普段、土産物店で並んでいるものと違う!小さなサイズの試食ができました。味も違う!これが本物かと思いました。これも試食できた「わらび餅」と購入決定です。よく見ればお客さんは地元に人の方が多いみた...

  • Daruma Shokuhin
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    4.0
    1 Reviews
    Shopping
    Ibaraki Mito-shi Yanagimachi 1-7-8
    A natto fermented bean specialty store located in Yanagi-machi 1-Chome, Mito City. It's adjacent to the Daruma Foods factory. Daruma Foods is a natto producer that takes pride in using locally produced soybeans. The shop sells the brand's natto, offering a full line of the company's products, including natto in packs, cups, and traditional rice straw packaging, as well as prepared products such as natto cheese dip, and snacks such as dry natto.

    店のすぐ奥が工場なので、店に入ると納豆の良い匂いがします。納豆好きにはたまりません。 工場見学はできませんが、「わざわざ来てくださるお客様に」ということで、直売所価格で売ってくれます。 水戸納豆は小粒のものが多いそうですが、あえてオススメの『大粒納豆』(3個で500円)を買いました。 水戸滞在中、いろんな納豆を食べましたが、私はこれが一番美味しかったです。 お店の方も、色々丁寧に説明してくださいま...

  • JA Mito Katsura Agricultural Processing Plant and Shop
    Shopping
    Ibaraki Higashiibaraki-gun Shirosatomachi Awayama 653-1
    An agricultural processing plant in Awayama, Shirosato Town, Higashiibaraki County. It manufactures and sells prepared products made with local produce. These include strawberry and blueberry jam, gelato made from milk produced in the prefecture, and miso made from premium koshihikari rice. They also have prepared items made from local ume plums such as juice, dried plums, and jam.
  • Mori no Chevrekan
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    3.5
    4 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Pref. Mitoshi Matagumachou 1454 Mito City Forest Park
    Mori no Chevrekan is a homemade cheese studio and makes goat cheese and cow cheese by hand. In the studio, you can enjoy an assorted platter with four types of homemade cheese (Saturdays, Sundays and holidays only), limited seasonal cheese sandwiches and cheese pizza as well as sweets. A no-bake cheese tart using fromage soufflé and soft serve ice cream with goat’s milk from summer to fall are popular.

    ソフトクリームやチーズが売っています 6月?になると放牧されいるヤギの乳でつくったチーズが販売されるらしいです。 カチョカバッロを購入したのですが、お味はいまいち・・・ (まぁ国産ので美味しかったためしが無いのですが)

  • Confectionery Store Fuku
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    3.5
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Kasama-shi Kasama 1351-1

    店員の対応が悪くとても残念な思いをしました。。 家族3人でシュークリームを食べに初めて来店した時のことです。皆で選んでいると「きなこ黒豆はあと1つですよ」と店員の方が教えてくれたので、きなこ黒豆と他2つを注文しました。ドリンクも勧められたので選んで注文・会計の時に「きなこ黒豆は売り切れました」と言われ???。どうやらドリンクメニューを見ている間に後から来店した方にきなこ黒豆を売ってしまったとの事...

  • Mito Drive-in Hitachi no Sato
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Mito-shi Kakuraicho 415
  • Kuri no Ie
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Kasama Haji 1285-2
  • Chateraise Mito
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Mito-shi Motoyoshidacho 1325-1
  • Chateraise Mito Himego
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Mito-shi Himego 769-4
  • Hotto Motto Shimoichi
    Shopping
    Ibaraki Mito-shi Higashi Dai1-6-24

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