Groceries Spots in Niigata / Aga Area

Area

Niigata
- Japan
- Hokkaido / Tohoku
  
  Hokkaido
  
  Aomori
  
  Iwate
  
  Miyagi
  
  Akita
  
  Yamagata
  
  Fukushima
- Kanto
  
  Ibaraki
  
  Tochigi
  
  Gunma
  
  Saitama
  
  Chiba
  
  Tokyo
  
  Kanagawa
- Koshinetsu / Hokuriku
  
  Niigata
  
  Toyama
  
  Ishikawa
  
  Fukui
  
  Yamanashi
  
  Nagano
- Tokai
  
  Gifu
  
  Shizuoka
  
  Aichi
  
  Mie
- Kinki
  
  Shiga
  
  Kyoto
  
  Osaka
  
  Hyogo
  
  Nara
  
  Wakayama
- Chugoku
  
  Tottori
  
  Shimane
  
  Okayama
  
  Hiroshima
  
  Yamaguchi
- Shikoku
  
  Tokushima
  
  Kagawa
  
  Ehime
  
  Kochi
- Kyushu / Okinawa
  
  Fukuoka
  
  Saga
  
  Nagasaki
  
  Kumamoto
  
  Oita
  
  Miyazaki
  
  Kagoshima
  
  Okinawa

Niigata / Aga

Category

Shopping

Groceries

Y&Y GARDEN

Shopping

Nigata Pref. Aganoshi Yasuda 733-1

This store is directly managed by the Yasuda Yoghurt factory, and sells all of Yasuda Yoghurt's products, including yoghurts, sweets, bread and original goods. There is also an in-store cafe that has various menu items such as a morning plate and various lunch plate with yoghurt salad, waffles and toasted sandwiches.
Gosen Periodic Market

Shopping

Niigata Gosen-shi Ota 1

The market has continued for more than 300 years since its opening in 1645, and is still held on the days of the 2nd and 7th of the month. On most days, the market is lined with nearly 100 stalls.
Local Sake Miyakoya

Shopping

Niigata Niigata-shi Chuo-ku Oyamatsu 2-3

A liquor store which stocks over 300 varieties of sake from Niigata. Dedicated to utilizing, enhancing the value of, and presenting the necessity of sake, the store has long enchanted sake fans as an establishment which has concluded special provision contracts with sake makers. In addition to such well-known Niigata sake brewers as Asahi-Shuzo, Kirinzan Brewery, and Hakkaisan Brewery, because of its special contract status, the shop also stocks a wide variety of limited-run sakes. Resembling a traditional Japanese kura storehouse on the outside and sporting a Japanese modern decor on the inside, here you can have fun searching for your favorite sakes.
Sasagawa Mochiya

4.0

2 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Niigata-shi Chuo-ku Nishiborimaedori 4-739

This Japanese confectionary shop, established in 1883, was the inventor of Niigata’s famous bamboo leafdumplings. The shop’s fifth and sixth generation heads continue to make these dumplings according to the same recipe but also seek to make new and innovative products. The bamboo leaf dumplings are the shop’s signature product, and for these tasty treats, it’s all about the ingredients. Using ingredients produced in the prefecture as much as possible, the shop still makes them the old-fashioned way. Japanese mugwort is stocked from specially contracted farms growing them on embankments in the prefecture, and the bamboo leaves used to wrap the confections comes from kumai bamboo leavesgrowing amidst the mountains of Asahi and Ide. The dough is made using an original flour stone milled from Niigata-raised Koshihikari rice.

創業１００年以上の老舗、笹川餅屋です。歴史ある外観です。笹団子、笹田舎まんじゅう、枝豆まんじゅう、水ようかんを購入。笹団子は間違いない美味しさ。個人的には枝豆まんじゅうが気に入りました。水ようかんも上品な甘さで美味しく頂きました。
Niigata Ishiyama

Shopping

Niigata Niigata-shi Chuo-ku Honchodori 6-1118

This seafood products shop is located in Ninjo Yokocho in the Honmachi Central Market, the pantry of Niigata City. Since it was opened in 1952, the shop has carried a variety of high class seafood products and seafoods, including salmon, salted salmon roe, immature salted salmon roe, and cod roe. The shop’s signature salted salmon is carefully prepared one at a time using just salt and salmon meat. The salmon hanging out to dry in front of the shop each year from November has become a seasonal tradition in Ninjo Yokocho. This shop was also one of the first in Niigata to carry tokishirazu, rare summer salmon caught using stationary nets once known only to the residents of Hokkaido and a few well-traveled foodies.
Yoshidaya

Shopping

Niigata Higashikanbara-gun Aga Machi Tsugawa 3742

The Tsugawa area was once prospered as a key point connecting Niigata and Aizu. This Japanese pickles shop stands in an atmospheric old part of the town where stone-paved streets and gangi wooden snow eaves dating to this time still remain largely intact. The shop has been pickling edible wild plants in homemade miso since it first opened in 1960. The shop’s choice, homemade Miyama-zuke miso pickles, once sold in bamboo cylinders in the Showa period as souvenirs, are made using the abundant edible wild plants and vegetables grown in the region’s semi-mountainous areas. Almost all of the pickles contained within, including the bracken, Japanese ginger, and chives were stocked from local farms in Aga Town. Even if you’re trying the shop’s pickles for the very first time, they have a somehow familiar and nostalgic flavor, and today remained loved by many.
Cafe Konditorei Hiro Kranz

4.0

4 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Nishiohatachou 615-17

Prominent with its green awning is Cafe Konditorei Hiro Kranz, a confectionery shop in Chuo Ward, Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture. The shop mainly sells a selection of authentic Viennese cakes made by the shop owner who mastered his craft in Austria and Germany. The cake shop is particularly well known for its classic Viennese cake, sachertorte. Also popular are the maronen, a Viennese style Mont Blanc, and the Dopperi saka blätter (literally “Dopperi slope leaf pie”), chosen as a Niigata City specialty cake. There is also an area where you can sit down and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee with your cake.

スイーツの種類はそれなりに多く、店内もこじんまりとしていて落ち着いていました。ベリー系がたくさん乗っているタルトを食べましたが甘酸っぱくておいしかったです。
Chocolatei (Lake Hyoko Store)

4.0

6 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nigata Pref. Aganoshi Tojouchou 15-22

This specialty chocolate shop is located on the bank of Lake Hyoko, in Agano City, Niigata Prefecture, which is famous for the swans that migrate here. The building has an old-fashioned tiled roof, and from the windows, customers can enjoy the view of the lake as it changes with the seasons. The chocolate and sweets lining the shop-front showcase are made with the concept of a fusion of Japanese and western confectionery. The interior of the shop has a calm atmosphere, with an eat-in space where customers can enjoy Japanese food and sweets. Its specialty food is its Lake Hyoko Giant Kitsune Udon.

瓢湖を眺めながらゆったりとお食事ができます。レジでケーキを注文すると奥の喫茶スペースに案内されて、後から持ってきくれます。おうどんも食べられます。
Foot of Mount Gozu, Urara Forest

Shopping

Nigata Pref. Aganoshi Murasugi 3946-163

This sightseeing facility is located in Murasugi, Agano City, Niigata Prefecture. It has shops, restaurants and experience opportunities, all with food and agriculture as their theme. The market, filled with seasonal vegetables grown with Mount Gozu’s clean water and the Antenna Shop, with its specialty products made by local artists, are both popular with tourists looking for souvenirs. Customers can also enjoy meals such as ramen and rice bowls in the snack corner. Customers can also easily participate in the experience workshops, which offer a variety of courses, such as tofu-making, soba-making and pottery classes.
Yasuda Yogurt Shop

4.5

55 Reviews

Shopping

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Hanazono 1-1-21 Niigata Station Building CoCoLo South Building 3F

This is the direct sales store for dairy product maker Yasuda Yogurt. It is located in the southern wing of the commercial facility CoCoLo Niigata, directly accessible from JR Niigata Station. You’ll find yogurt made with fresh cream, exclusive sweets, bread, freshly baked Japanese sweets, and more for sale. There’s also a takeout menu with items such as rich, tasty ice cream and yogurt smoothies. The “original set” offers a bundle of popular products, making the perfect Niigata souvenir.

u have to walk to the 2nd floor if comin from Bandai side n over onto the other side of the station to find them. a nicer newer side wit lots of shops, a BIC, etc. small shop but good quality...
Kashimaya Main Store

Shopping

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Higashiborimaedori 8-1367

This store mainly manufactures and sells processed seafood made using local ingredients. It is located in Chuo Ward, Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture. Its most famous product, Salmon Chazuke, is made with carefully broiled fatty King Salmon, refined into an exquisite dish. It is popular not only for ochazuke, but also as ingredients of homemade rice balls, and eating with rice. The pickling ingredients, such as salmon, sablefish and sujiko are also popular. On the second floor, there is a dining area, where customers can enjoy dishes made with king salmon, flounder and other seafood.
Kirinzan Brewery

Shopping

Nigata Pref. Higashikambaragunagamachi Tsugawa 46

Kirinzan Brewery located in Aga Town, Higashikambara County, Niigata Prefecture is famous for Kirinzan, the well-known liquor of Echigo Tsugawa. The well-established shop is said to have started brewing sake in 1843, and produces and sells its exclusive sake prepared with local Okuaga rice and pure underground water. It has stuck to its dry taste even when people were fond of a sweet taste, and the rich and sharp flavor is also popular among sake connoisseurs. There is a range of popular items for souvenirs and gifts, including sake named after the Tsugawa Fox Wedding Parade and a sake wrapped in a traditional Japanese hand towel made by a well-established shop.
Lutécia

4.5

23 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Kamioumi 3-3-19

This Western-style confectioner is located in 3 Chome Kamiomi, Chuo District, Niigata City. Using carefully selected ingredients, they make and sell primarily baked sweets, like cakes, macarons, madeleines and croissant rusks. They also can print your digital images on a cake for a special occasion.

ただただ高いそれなりに美味しいと感じれればよいのだがフルーツロールケーキは甘さ控えめで美味しかった普通のケーキ類もどれも美味しい出来立てフィナンシェはバターがこれでもかというほど使われている私はリピーターだが不満は値段だけ笑笑
Gelateria Regalo

4.5

11 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Nishikan-ku Hashimoto 240-7

Located along Prefectural Route 2 in Hashimoto, Nishikan District, Niigata City, this shop specializes in gelatos. They sell gelatos that use in-season organic fruits and vegetables and Fujita Farm pasteurized milk. 15 of the 100 varieties are available at any time. The gelatos do not use preservatives or artificial starch adhesive, and the recipes take into account natural conditions like temperature.

乳牛を育てている農家さん直営！なので、ミルク系のジェラートがとても美味しいです。岩室温泉や弥彦神社参拝のついでにぜひ訪れてみてほしい一軒です。敷地内に駐車場も多数あり。
Sawayama

4.5

12 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Yueichou 4513

Sawayama located in Yuei Town, Chuo Ward, Niigata City is a traditional Japanese sweet shop. It produces and sells sasadango (a sweet dumpling wrapped in bamboo strip), kusa mochi (a mugwort dumpling) as well as Original Soramame Yokan (sweet bean jelly). Particularly the daifuku rice cake coating plenty of sweet bean paste in a thin layer has many devotees and has become a popular product which is often sold out before noon.

ここを知らない和菓子好き新潟市民はいないのではないでしょうか?10個1600円の笹団子を購入、とても美味しくいただきました。
Hakusan Morning Market

Shopping

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Hakusanura 2-180-3

Hakusan Morning Market is held in 2 Chome, Hakusanura, Chuo Ward, Niigata City, about five minutes’ walk from Hakusan Station. It opens from five o’clock in the morning, and sells fresh agricultural products such as vegetables, fruit, flowers and pickles as well as processed products from local farms. It closes every Tuesday except holidays.
Yamazaki Koujiya

Shopping

Nigata Pref. Higashikambaragunagamachi Tsugawa 452

Yamazaki Koujiya is a specialist Koji (malted rice) store located on the Wakamatsu Highway in Tsugawa, Aga Town, Higashikanbara County, Niigata Prefecture. The store uses rice and soybeans purchased from local farmers to produce malted rice and miso for sale, with great attention to detail (including the use of a special technique for cooking soybeans over firewood). Yamazaki Koujiya’s Namaki Koji, which is made using the fresh rice Koshi Ibuki and a special variety of Koji fungus (Aspergillus oryzae), is characterized by a high level of fermentative activity and a wonderful fragrance; it is also highly resistant to heat.
Osaka-ya (Furumachi Main Branch)

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Furumachidori 7 - Town 1006 - 1

Founded in 1858, Osaka-ya is a Japanese confectionery store located in Niigata in Japan’s Snow Country. One especially popular product is the “Mandai Taiko” (“Eternal Drum”), a Niigata specialty, which has cream added to a soft cookie base to create a “tree growth rings” effect; this has been a very popular souvenir gift for people visiting Niigata to buy for 45 years. Osaka-ya also offers a wide range of seasonal confectionery; purchasers can experience a marvelous combination of the rich traditions of a long-established confectionery maker and original new flavors. The nearest railway station is JR Niigata Station.
Ichikawaya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Higashiboridori 5-429

Access this traditional confectionary store from Niigata Station via a two-minute walk from the Honcho bus stop, a two-minute walk from the Furumachi bus stop, or a five minute drive from Niigata Station. Founded in 1847 this mochi-gashi (rice cakes) shop has continued for seven generations. Their signboard products, the famous Niigata Sasa Dango (bamboo leaf dumplings) are made with local rice grounded with a stone mill and pounded into rice cake with Iwafune mugwort and then steamed with Aomori cedar leaves, giving it a great fragrance. Mail order is also available; however you can only purchase the an-dango full of 100% Hokkaido adzuki-red beans and their long established soy sauce dango in-store.
Russian Chocolates - Matsuya

3.5

3 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Saiwainishi 1-2-6

This is a specialty Russian chocolate store, which is a rarity in Japan. It is located on Prefectural Route 1, west of the JR Niigata Station. Russian chocolate incorporates Russian-style cream Pomadka, nuts and Russian-style jelly, among other ingredients. The chocolate is packed in a Matryoshka-design container, which is not only perfect as a souvenir, but also as a gift for the Obon Lantern Festival. The chocolate sold here is made with a recipe passed down from the previous owner, Kiyoshi Matsumura, who learned it from a Russian chocolatier in 1930. The chocolate has been made in the same way ever since.

ロシアチョコレートという名前を聞けば、「そういったジャンルがあったのか」と、誰もが驚くはずです。そのチョコレートは手作りで個包装、センターにはクリーム・ナッツなどが入り、種類は12種類とのことで、味も手作りの良さがでていました。店頭のお姐さん曰く、「ロシアで実際に作られているものと必ずしも同じではない」とのことでしたが、このような雰囲気のものなのでしょうね。開港五港のうち、ウラジオストックから最も...

Niigata Niigata / Aga

Shopping Groceries

Bread Meat / Fresh Fish Liquor Store Pastries Japanese Confectionery Vegetables / Fruit Sides Dishes / Lunch Boxes / Ekiben Station Lunch Boxes Market Other Food

Niigata Areas

Found along the northwestern coast of Japan, Niigata prefecture is celebrated for its high-quality rice and breathtaking nature, most notably its spectacular mountains, whose white peaks draw in snow sports lovers from far and wide over the winter months. Hit the slopes at Yuzawa, pick out your favourite modern artist at Echigo Tsumari, or take a ferry over to Sado Island for an extra adventure.