Shopping Spots in Utsunomiya Area

  • Kanuma City Kaboku Center
    Shopping
    Tochigi Kanuma-shi Moro 2086-1
    "This large gardening shop complex is located on 400,000 meters of hilly land known by locals as ""Moroyama."" Its shop offers flowering plants, as well as garden trees, and landscaping and gardening supplies, with a particular focus on satsuki azalea. Some of its many facilities include a plum grove, the Wild Bird Forest, a tourist strawberry farm, and a hilltop barbequing space. It is a great place to enjoy spending a day surrounded by flowers and trees."
  • Fukubedou
    Travel / Tourism
    Tochigi Pref. Utsunomiyashi Odori 2-4-8
    A souvenir shop in Utsunomiya City that sells traditional crafts of Tochigi prefecture called Fukube Handiworks. Fukube Handiworks include their famous masks to ward off evil spirits, daruma, and accessory cases, as well as gourd, Pellet drums, and Kibuna folk toys. There are also handiworks making classes offered for children.
  • Shimazaki Shuzo
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    Shopping
    Tochigi Nasukarasuyama-shi Chuo 1-11-18
    This sake brewery was established in 1849 by its founder Shimazaki Hikobe. It works hard every day with a single goal of making great sake. The brewery offers tours of its sake cave, which was originally an underground tank factory built at the end of the World War II. It also offers sake-making experiences. Each program requires a reservation. Some of the brewery's popular sakes include Azumarikishi, Uroko, and Kiwamishizuku.

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  • Kirara
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tochigi Pref. Kanumashi Suehirochou 1916
    A small Western confectionery shop located in a back alley surrounded by row tenements near the front gate of the Seirin-ji Temple. The shop specializes in simple, handmade treats crafts one at a time using healthy ingredients and without additives. The shop’s cakes, scones, pound cake, cookies, and numerous other delights are all highly evaluated by customers. Kirara also sells limited time confections and breads made with seasonal ingredients. The shop closes when stock runs out, so be sure to stop by early.
  • Cafe&Gelateria HoneyB
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tochigi Kanuma-shi Muraimachi 291-5
  • Onsen Bread Kitsuregawa
    Shopping
    Tochigi Sakura-shi Sotome 95-6
    "Located along Route 293 in Saotome, Sakura City, this bakery is famous for its ""original hot spring bread,"" which was originally school lunch bread and has a fluffy, firm texture somewhere between a loaf of bread and French bread. The company also sells bread with fried foods and other delicacies."
  • GrindelBerg Saseikai-kita Store
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tochigi Utsunomiya-shi Iwazomachi 743-1
    "Located along Iwaso-naka-dori Avenue in Iwaso-cho, Utsunomiya City, this confectionery sells fresh cakes and puddings made with fresh fruits, baked sweets, decorated cakes, etc. In addition to maple and green tea flavored baumkuchen, strawberry flavor using ""Tochiotome"" and ""okome A café is also located inside the store, offering cake sets and other items."
  • Azemichi Farm Stand Ekihigashi Store
    Shopping
    Tochigi Utsunomiya-shi Naka-imaizumi 2-10-23
    Located in Naka-Imaizumi 2-chome, Utsunomiya City, this farmers' market sells fresh vegetables, rice, and other farm products harvested by farmers in the prefecture, as well as meat, and also offers popular handmade side dishes using seasonal ingredients, including vegetables directly from the farm.
  • Gallery Hanna
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Tochigi Utsunomiya-shi Matsugamine 2-7-17
    The gallery is located in Matsugamine, Utsunomiya City, and is housed in an 80-year-old Japanese-style house at the end of an alley.
  • Tamaki
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tochigi Utsunomiya-shi Minamiodori 4-7-20
    This Japanese confectionary shop and gallery is a 10-minute walk from Utsunomiya Station. Established as a seasonal tableware and craft shop in 1976, the shop sells monaka wafer cakes modeled after the traditional local paper mache yellow kibune carp toys from Utsunomiya whose history stretches back to the Edo period. These cute wafer cakes are created using an original mold ordered from a famous and skilled mold maker who carved the model for it by hand using a single tool. Each set of five wafer cakes comes with one Kibunakko cake colored yellow with a pigment created after much trial and effort using cape jasmine.
  • Harukiya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tochigi Utsunomiya-shi Baba Dori 2-3-10
    "This Japanese confectionary shop was opened in 1948. The shop continues to make traditional daifuku rice cakes using domestic glutinous rice pounded with a stone mortar. The shop's signature super-jumbo daifuku, around 30 centimeters in diameter, are dubbed ""the largest daifuku in Japan."" Customers rave they are great for wedding after parties and other parties, as well as a stand-in for a birthday cake for people who don't like whipped cream. The adjoining Akaitori Japanese-style sweets cafe has gained much attention for its creative desserts made with the shop's Japanese confections, such as a kintsuba flour dough sweet bean cake mille-feuille, and cappuccino daifuku."
  • TOCKEY SQUARE
    Shopping
    Tochigi Utsunomiya-shi Baba Dori 4-2-19
    This sports merchandise store a 15-minute walk from Utsunomiya Station can be identified by its bright yellow exterior. The official store of the Tochigi Soccer Club based in Utsunomiya City, the store sells T-shirts, tote bags, sports towels, and other merchandise. Designed to resemble a stadium in the middle of town, the store's exterior is adorned with the green of lush Tochigi; the blue of the blue-and-white-flycatcher, the prefectural bird; and a brilliant yellow to bring hope and dreams to the residents of Tochigi Prefecture. In addition to original merchandise and game tickets, the store sells its own original branded products and takes applications for season passports.
  • Oideyo Tochigikan
    Shopping
    Tochigi Utsunomiya-shi Honcho 3-9 Honcho Godo Building 1F
    This local specialty products shop is located in the Tochigi Honcho Godo Building. The shop carries a wide selection of specialty products, traditional crafts, and local liquors from Tochigi Prefecture. The shop also provides tourist information. The shop's tourist information and gathering spaces are filled with a variety of pamphlets on gyoza pot sticker restaurants in the city and sightseeing destinations in the prefecture, making this a great base for Tochigi Prefecture tourist activities. The shop sells a variety of products difficult to get without going out into the suburbs, such as yuba tofu skin, famous local confections, honey, and Japanese tsukemono pickles, and customers rave that even just coming here to look around is a fun time.
  • Kishuya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tochigi Kanuma-shi Imamiyacho 1619
    "This longstanding Japanese confectionary shop was established in 1899. Located near Kanuma City Hall, the shop is adorned with a sign which states ""Yaki Kinton"" (Baked Sweet Buns) in Japanese and continues to make confections extolled as some of the most delicious in Kanuma. The shop's signature yaki kinton buns are made with choice, organically-grown azuki beans from Hokkaido, have been certified as a Kanuma Brand product. The buns are made with lightly sweet mashed sweet potatoes enwrapped in gyuhi soft rice cake which is then lightly baked, and they make perfect small gifts. Cool them first in a refrigerator in summer to make them even more delicious."
  • Wamiya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tochigi Nasu-gun Nakagawamachi Bato 91-10
    This Japanese and Western confectionary shop adjoins the Nakagawa Town General Gymnasium. The white and brown shop makes traditional Japanese confections and seasonal Western confections. The shop's whipped cream daifuku rice cakes, an exquisite balance of smooth bean paste and whipped cream, are particularly popular and many fans come from far and wide just to buy them. The shop's strawberry daifuku rice cakes are also highly regarded and consist of a deliciously tart Tochiotome strawberry wrapped in soft and chewy mochi rice cake. The shop's dorayaki pancake sandwiches, consisting of bean jam and butter sandwiched between two pancakes covered in stripes from the cooking process, make delightful little gifts.
  • Shopping Mall Bell Mall
    Shopping
    Tochigi Utsunomiya-shi Yoto 6-2-1
  • The Daiso Bell Mall Utsunomiya
    Shopping
    Tochigi Utsunomiya-shi Yoto 6-2-1 Bell Mall Utsunomiya 2F
  • Fukudaya Shopping Plaza Utsunomiya
    Shopping
    Tochigi Utsunomiya-shi Imaizumi Cho 237
  • Tokyo interior Inter Park
    Shopping
    Tochigi Utsunomiya-shi Inter Park 5-1-11

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Most visits to Tochigi revolve around Nikko, a small city home to the spectacular, lavishly decorated Toshogu Shrine and Nikko National Park with its mountains, lakes, waterfalls, onsen, and wild monkeys. Neighboring Oku-Nikko is an extension of the fantastic scenery famous for its autumn leaves, while Tochigi’s capital, Utsunomiya, is the only place in the world where you can find oya stone beautifully exhibited in temples and the Oya History Museum.

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