Souvenirs Spots in Toyama Area

  • Risaburo Metal Casting Workshop
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    4.5
    5 Reviews
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    Toyama Takaoka-shi Kanayamachi 8-11
    This metal casting shop has over a hundred years of history, since its founder Risaburo began green sand casting processes here near the beginning of the Meiji period. They continue making each piece one by one by hand, preserving traditional techniques while adding new ideas. They make a wide variety of popular items, including tea ceremony items, wine buckets, flower vases, door handles, trinkets and more. You can also try metal casting yourself, and make things like windchimes, paper weights, chopstick rests, magnets and so on.

    Very small shop. Ornaments,vases, jewelry, kettles, such. I couldnt afford to buy the item I really want, may be next time. Owner was very nice, she offered us hot tea and sweets. I would like to...

  • Totoyama
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    4.0
    3 Reviews
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    Toyama Pref. Toyamashi Shintomichou 1-2-3 CiC Bldg 1F
    This shop on the first floor of the CiC Building near JR Toyama Station specializes in local products and souvenirs. Some of its most popular products include slowly-grilled Shiroebi Juwari Senbei (broad velvet shrimp rice crackers) and Shiroebi Kakiage (broad velvet shrimp tempura). The shop carries a selection of Toyama souvenirs such as Kit Kats made with the famous Toyama sake Masuizumi, as well as Hangontan, a famous confection made to look like an Etchu-Toyama kusudama (decorative paper ball). It also offers marine products such as wild-caught Japanese amberjack and firefly squid, curry made with Himi-gyu beef, local Etchu Toyama sake, Unazuki beer, and more. The shop also holds periodic events such as farmer's markets offering locally-grown vegetables, bread sales, and so on.

    東急ホテル富山とも直結しているお土産屋さんです。駅ほどではありませんが主要な手土産はこちらで購入できます。

  • Kunimoto Lacquer
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    4.0
    1 Reviews
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    Toyama Takaoka-shi Konmadashimachi 64
    This shop specializes in traditional Takaoka lacquerware and other crafts. The shop is popular for their wide range of daily use goods like tableware and trays, vitamin cases, iPhone covers, business card cases, accessories, and more. Their rings and earrings (which can transform into clip-ons), made with three dimensional structures of mother of pearl, are adorable accessories made with Takaoka's traditional lacquering techniques. Their lacquered sake cups and trays are also beautiful.

    漆器の町、高岡らしいお店です。 お店がある高岡市中央町という地名は電車通りに面した、大福院通りを下りたところ辺りに数軒あるだけの小さな町の地名です。 坂下町と片原町の間といったら地元の人ならばすぐにわかるのですが中央町と聞いても、そんな町あったっけ?といわれます。 「くにもと」とお店の名前を言うだけの方がよほど地元ではどこのお店かと通じます。 漆器ですから伝統的な物で目新しさはありません。 でもそ...

  • Takaoka Regional Local Industry Center
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    2.0
    1 Reviews
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    Toyama Takaoka-shi Kaihotsuhonmachi 1-1
    This local craft and industry center was founded in 1983. It has permanent exhibits of copperware, lacquerware, and other handicrafts, as well as displays of famous foods for sale. There is also a 1/3 size model of a Takaoka Mikurumayama float, which are nationally Registered Important Cultural Asset & Intangible Folk Cultural Properties, on display. There is also an area introducing the history of local industry and craftspeople and artists of note, focusing on six crafts of the prefecture. It's well worth seeing!

    40年ほど前にできた高岡銅器など地場産業の品を紹介する展示施設です。 でもここはもう観光地といえるようなものではありません。 誰もおらずただ開いているだけです。 国道8号線沿いで一番みすぼらしい建物になっています。 もっと地場産業発展のためには考えた施設が必要です。 高岡地域地場産業センターは完全にその役目を終えています。 もっと斬新な再利用計画が必要です。

  • TOYAMARCHE
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    Toyama Pref. Toyamashi Meirinchou 1-220
    TOYAMARCHE is a shopping mall located within Toyama Station. There are stores selling famous Toyama confectionery products and handicrafts, along with local specialty foods such as masu (sea trout) zushi, and a variety of restaurants, which include a sushi-go-round restaurant serving sushi made from fresh fish and seafood caught in Toyama Bay, a restaurant serving Toyama Black Ramen noodles, a restaurant serving white prawn cuisine, and more. The 15th day of each month is “TOYAMARCHE Day,” on which various special products and exclusive goods are available.
  • Unazuki Station Souvenir Shop
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    Toyama Pref. Kurobeshi Kurobekyoukokuguchi 11 within Unazuki station premises
    This souvenir shop inside Kurobe Gorge Railway Main Line Unazuki Station offers a great selection of local specialties and original Kurobe Gorge-related merchandise. We especially recommend the Kurobe Gorge baked cheesecake, an Unazuki Station exclusive, and the Toyama Train Train cream sandwich cookies, which are popular with kids. The miniature die-cast trolley cars are also popular. It also Kurobe brands like Unazuki Beer and Kurobe rice.
  • Hietsu Fureai Bussan Center Rinrin (Roadside Station Hosoiri)
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    Toyama Pref. Toyamashi Katakake 3-5
    This shop located in side Roadside Station Hosoiri is a 30-minute drive from Hokuriku Expressway Toyama Interchange. It offers a broad range of special products from Etchu and Hida including rakkyozuke (pickled Japanese leek), Hagiya Keichan (a brand of precooked flavored chicken), Toyama Black ramen, and more. The food court serves many different local delicacies, such as shiroebi kakiage (broad velvet shrimp tempura) udon noodles, Hosoiri vegetable soba noodles, and Hida beef croquettes. One of the shop's most popular exclusives is their soft-serve ice-cream topped with honey raised from Japanese horse-chestnut flowers. Behind the shop there is an Astroturf slope for enjoying sledding even when the snow has melted, an athletic playground, and more. Each of these facilities is free to use.
  • Daikanbo Station Shop
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    Toyama Nakaniikawa-gun Tateyamamachi Ashikuraji Bunazaka Tono 11 Kokuyurin Daikanbo Sta. Konai
    A souvenir shop on the second floor of Daikanbo Station on the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route. Particularly popular is the Nigorizake Maboroshi no Sake Daikanbo, a raw sake created by finely breaking up the steamed rice in the moromi (fermenting mash) and koji (malted rice) and filtering this through coarse cloth. Another popular product is the Konnyaku Teppozuke Daikanbo, burdock pickled in kon'nyaku (devil's tongue jelly).
  • Kurobedaira Station Shop
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    Toyama Nakaniikawa-gun Tateyamamachi Ashikuraji Bunazaka Tono 11 Kokuyurin Kurobe
    We recommend the Kurobe plain original Karami Kojizuke, which brings out the natural richness of koji mold, or the Kurobedaira Station-only Hotaruika no suboshi dried firefly squid. The white station building's location, on a plateau 1,828 meters high, is perfect to enjoy the majestic scenery, and outside you'll find the Kurobedaira Park.
  • Tateyama Station Shop
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    Toyama Nakaniikawa-gun Tateyamamachi Ashikuraji Senjugahara 2 Tateyama Sta. 2F
    The Tateyama Kurobe Alpen Route starts on the Toyama side, and ends at Tateyama Station in Nagano. There is a shop on the second floor of that sells Tateyama Yuki (mizumanju buns), which can only be bought at Tateyama Station and Bijodaira Station. These gently sweet dumplings use a cool jellylike wrapped around a ball of sweet bean paste. These popular products are excellent memories of Tateyama's history.
  • Shogawa Wood Plaza
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    2.5
    3 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Toyama Tonami-shi Shogawamachi Kanaya 1058
    This market, located inside Shogawa Aqua Memorial Park, offers a variety of Shogawa and Tonami souvenirs and local specialties. Look for the massive water wheel. The cafe corner has Shogawa's famous Yuzu soft-serve ice cream, Oyaki dumplings, and more dishes. The wooden deck outside has a free foot bath using Shogawa Shimizu hot spring water to enjoy. They have a variety of events attracting big crowds, as well. It's equipped also the prefecture's first racing cycle relay points, CS1.

    巨大な水車が目印です。特産のゆず製品や伝統工芸のろくろ製品などの砺波・庄川の特産品を販売しています。お勧めはゆずソフト(350円)です。喫茶コーナーでは軽食も用意されています。

  • Kokiriko Mingei
    Travel / Tourism
    Toyama Nanto-shi Kaminashi 741
    This folk craft workshop looks like a private house from the outside. Inside they make folk crafts like Sasara, music instruments, and wood carvings. Sarara are items used when singing and dancing the traditional folksong Kokiriko, and are made of 108 cypress wood plates in a woven together. You can also learn about the song here.
  • Mansaku Souvenirs
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    Toyama Nanto-shi Nishiakaomachi
    This souvenir shop is in Roadside Station Sasarakan, and holds a variety of souvenirs and local goods with pure Gokayama flavor, from the southern tip of Toyama prefecture. We recommend the fuki butterbur stem miso, filled with the stem's habit forming bitterness, and Gokayama Soba which you can enjoy easily at home, and Akakabu no tsukemono pickled garden radishes, as well as fresh ones in season.
  • Maidohaya (Toyama Airport Terminal Shop)
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    Toyama Toyama-shi Akigashima 30
    This souvenir shop is inside Toyama Airport Terminal, in Akigashima, Toyama City. In addition to local Toyama specialty Masuzushi, pressed trout sushi, they serve dried fish, shiokara salt preserved innards, kamaboko fish cake, and other marine products, as well as Toyama pastries, local sake, specialty products, and much more.
  • Sushi-kama Honpo Kawachiya (Uozu Main Shop)
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    4.5
    3 Reviews
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    Toyama Uozu-shi Ekimaeshinmachi 9-12
    This venerable kamaboko shop is one of Hokuriku's representative. In business since 1947, the owner came up with the idea of Sushikama, a kamaboko fish cake while he was eating sushi with his family at a sushi restaurant. They're a specialist, and regularly has invented new products. They have six varieties, varying in flavor, fineness, and special packaging, as well as steamed, grilled, boiled, and fried, for a huge variety of flavors and styles.

    創業70有余年続く老舗の蒲鉾専門店です。店構えも立派です。結婚式の引き出物に使われる細工蒲鉾が有名です。個人的には鮨蒲鉾が好きで特に穴子鮨蒲鉾が大好物です。金沢でも買い求めることが出来ますが、折角なので鮨蒲鉾をセットで買い求めました。

  • Omiyage-dokoro Takaoka
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    Toyama Takaoka-shi Shimokuroda 1793-2
    This souvenir shop is adjacent to JR Shin-Takaoka Station. It's always busy, with its perfect location and wide selection of Toyama and Takaoka local specialties. In addition to famous sweets like Tokonatsu, Ede-no-Tsuki, and Kanokomochi, they also offer a variety of items like local sakes, handicrafts, delicacies, trinkets, and more. They also have a wide range of Doraemon goods, as the creator Fujko F. Fujio is a native of Takaoka City, Toyama Prefecture.
  • Otera Kohachiro Shop & Teahouse Gallery Otera
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    4.5
    8 Reviews
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    Toyama Takaoka-shi Kanayamachi 6-9
    This Takaoka Copperware shop was founded in 1860. It originated as a metal-casting workshop, and now not only makes items, but has a shop, cafe, and gallery. It's a perfect spot to feel the vitality of local artists and craftspeople. They also offer classes to let you try making tin accessories, nameplates, and reliefs, without need for advance reservations. Please call to confirm the details of the sessions.

    すずの箸置きをお土産で購入した時に、喫茶店の事を尋ねると中を見学させていただいた。以前大人の休日倶楽部のCMでこのお店が撮影で使われたようで、吉永小百合さんが座った縁側のイスもありました。

  • Odakou Douki Copperware
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    Toyama Takaoka-shi Kanayahonmachi 3-34
    This copperware shop was founded in 1925. They protect traditional techniques to make and sell interior and exterior use items. Its particular charm is the huge variety of items they've developed, ranging from traditional Takaoka copperware, engraving, handicrafts, artistic goods, metal crafts, special orders, gifts, and more. The main building's first through third floors are open to the public, and the permanent exhibits of arts and crafts, and gift sales, are a huge draw.
  • Takaoka Mikuruma-yama Museum Gallery Shop
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    Toyama Takaoka-shi Moriyamamachi 47-1
    This luxurious spot offers a year-round chance to enjoy the atmosphere of a Takaoka Mikurumayama float. These floats are based on the noble carriage used in 1588 by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to welcome the Emperor Go-Yozei to Jurakudai, which was later given to the people around the castle by the Second Maeda Toshinaga in 1609. This hall displays the various stages of construction of a Heisei era Mikurumayama, steeped in the ancient traditions including the lacquering and gold enameling, as well as a complete one that is a nationally Registered Tangible Folk Culture Asset.
  • Sasarakanchimpindo
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    4.0
    5 Reviews
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    Toyama Pref. Nantoshi Nishiakaomachi 470

    バスツアーで五箇山見学のあとに立ち寄ったお土産のお店です。充実した 品揃えで、甘酒をいただきました。 駐車場も広いのでバスツアーでは立ち寄るのでしょう。

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Toyama is one of the three prefectures that house the Japanese Alps, with its southern and eastern borders comprising one long stretch of mountains, out of which the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route is forged. While traditional crafts fill the northern coastal cities of Toyama and Takaoka, thatched roof houses offer unrivalled views against a backdrop of fantastic scenery at Gokayama in the mountainous area in the south of the prefecture.

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