Groceries Spots in Takayama Area

  • Miyagawa Morning Market
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    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Shimosannomachi
    "This market is held every morning on the roadside in Shimo-sanno-machi, Takayama City, along the Miya River. The market evolved out of a rice market, mulberry leaf market and flower market held in the area in the Edo period (1603-1868); by the middle part of the Meiji period (1868-1912), it had evolved into a ""Morning Market"" in which vegetables were laid out for sale. Today, a range of local specialty products-including vegetables such as Hida spring onions and waxy corn, which are traditional foods in the Hida region, as well as Mitarashi Dango rice-dumplings, which are marinated in soy sauce repeatedly before cooking, and which, unlike most Dango, are not sweet-can be found together crowded together. The Miyagawa Morning Market is ranked as one of the top three best morning markets in Japan, and has become one of Takayama City's major tourist attractions."
  • Fukuji Onsen Morning Market
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    4.0
    16 Reviews
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    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Okuhidaonsengoufukudi 110
    A morning market which operates inside the Mukashibanashi no Sato tourism destination in the Okuhida Onsen hot spring district situated along National Route 158 traveling from the Matsumoto Interchange on the Nagano Expressway. Here you’ll find an array of local specialty products and seasonal foods harvested at the foot of the Hida Mountains (Northern Alps). An array of local flavors is sold in the market throughout the year, including fresh-picked vegetables in summer and wild mushrooms and fruit in fall. Visitors can also enjoy hunting for and select amongst an abundant selection of local dishes such as hoba miso (miso and Welsh onions grilled on a magnolia leaf, a local breakfast standard); as well as Hida sansho Japanese pepper and tomato juice, local specialty products. The market’s shop’s carry all manner of products, including many folk crafts and unique Okuhida souvenirs.

    Souvenir shop. There are many kinds of local goods and foods. We bought two cushions woven from corn stems. Shop staffs are friendly.

  • Takumiya (Yasugawa Branch)
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    4.0
    79 Reviews
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    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Shimoninomachi 2
    Takumiya is a combination premium butcher's shop and restaurant located in the Yasugawa shopping district in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture. The butcher's shop on the first floor sells superior Hida beef, while the restaurant on the second floor serves Yakiniku (grilled beef) and steak, also made from high-quality Hida beef. Hida Beef Mabushi is another popular menu option here; this is a three-course meal that involves first eating the beef plain, then with a herbal sauce, and finally with a special stock.

    This is where to go to try the famous Hida beef. We ordered two dishes from the set menu - steak slices and boiled beef on rice. Absolutely sublime. The beef was beautifully seasoned and melted in...

  • Alps-no-Panya-san
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    Gifu Takayama-shi Okuhida Onsenkyo Shinhodaka Onsen
    A bakery at the Shinhotaka Ropeway with its incredible seasonal alpine scenery. Some of their fresh-baked items include plain croissants, chocolate croissants, croissants with bean jam, and maple pecan and spinach feta cheese baked goods. Many people buy highland produced milk to go with their popular crispy croissants and enjoy them while soaking in the footbath in front of the station.
  • Hida Kogen Ham and Hida Cheese Factory
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    Gifu Takayama-shi Kokufucho Sangawa 1654
    A meat atelier that has been handmaking fine roast ham in Kokufu-cho for over 30 years. While they focus on processed meats like sausage, bacon, and ham, they also make dairy products like cheese mousse, and yogurt. Their renowned roast ham is seasoned in a marinade for a month and then smoked for 30 to 40 hours. Only a minimum of additives is used in order to protect the inherent flavors of the meat, finishing the hams one-by-one with meticulous attention. The resulting flavor is so superb it's been featured on television many times.
  • Kobishiya
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    4.5
    9 Reviews
    Shopping
    Gifu Takayama-shi Hatsudamachi 1-64
    This deli is a five-minute walk from Takayama Station on the Kokubunji-dori shopping street. They specialize in handmade onigiri rice balls, and also sell sushi, fried foods, salads, stewed items, and more. They've been in business for over 60 years and are very well known locally. Their onigiri include everything from standards like ume plum and salmon to creative ones like soy-boiled clam and eel with sauce mixed in with the rice. Using neither machines nor artificial seasonings, their rice balls resemble sushi in that they aren't too compressed, and taste delicious even when chilled.

    息が長いんですね、このお店。自餅に根付いたお店です。この日、買ったのは(価格は税込)「えび天むす 190円」「飛騨牛天むす 190円」「ねぎみそ 150円」。ここの名物は言わずと知れた、飛騨牛天むすです。こびしやでこれを買わずして何を買うのか、と言って過言なし。ねぎみそも美味しかったな-。高山でおにぎりといったら、こびしやさんです♡

  • Oita Sake Brewery (Kami-sannomachi Shop)
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    Gifu Takayama-shi Kamisannomachi 67
    A shop run by the Oita Sake Brewery, which makes the dry tasting Onikoroshi (Ogre Killer) sake. It's located in Kamisannocho, an Important National Preservation District for Groups of Historic Buildings. They sell sake and various kinds of shochu Japanese liquor delivered fresh from the brewery every day, as well as and the work of local artists. They hold seasonal sake tastings too. Their tasting counter lets you compare various brews and try sake cocktails, sake and coke, cloudy sake with soda, and more.
  • Toraya Roho
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    4.0
    12 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Kamininomachi 75
    An old-school Japanese sweet shop located a 13-minute walk from Takayama Station that was founded in 1830. They sell a range of items including steamed mugwort manju buns, mugwort rice cakes, cherry petal daifuku rice cakes, dorayaki pancake with various flavored cream fillings, and yokan red bean jelly. Their popular mugwort manju buns feature tsubuan red bean jam wrapped in a soft dark green crust. They sell them individually at a reasonable price. There is a bench in front of the store where customers are welcome to sit and eat their purchases.

    高山街上的房屋和店舖都很有歷史,這家店也不例外,店裡空間不大,和菓子色彩和風味都很傳統,在老街屹立不搖多年,饅頭口感也很不錯。

  • Fujimiya Honmachi Store
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Honmachi 2-25
    This dumpling shop is located on Takayama Honmachi 2-chome shopping street, which was once the central shopping location in Takayama. For over 60 years since its establishment, their mitarashi dango (rice dough dumplings with sweet-salty sauce) using original dumpling dough and soy sauce ordered directly from a soy sauce brewery were famous. Takayama's mitarashi dango are different from everyday sweet and salty dumplings, and are characterized by their unsweet taste from being made with the fragrance of the soy sauce-based sauce. These small dumplings are perfect for eating while walking around Takayama. The shop sells zenzai (red bean soup), which warms up the body, freshly-ground coffee and gohei-mochi rice cakes (grilled rice cakes skewered and basted in sweet walnut miso) with a sesame aroma, and you can also the inside tables.
  • Fujimiya Kajibashi Store
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    4.0
    21 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Honmachi 3-1
    This dumpling shop is located a ten-minute walk from Takayama Station at the foot of Kajiyabashi Bridge. It sells salty mitarashi dumplings (rice dough dumplings with sweet-salty sauce) that are fragrantly made with an original soy sauce-based sauce instead of the usual sweet dumplings. Their sauce has a traditional flavor that has been used since its establishment. It is a special sauce made by blending three types of soy sauce. The shop also sells Hida's local dish of gohei-mochi rice cakes (grilled rice cakes skewered and basted in sweet walnut miso) that are also not sweet, so you can experience the slight sweetness of the glutinous rice.

    高山の定番、鍛冶橋のたもとで頂いたみたらしだんご90円。世間でいう甘辛のタレで頂くそれではなくお醤油のタレをつけてこんがり焼き上げるタイプ。これが高山流みたらしだそうです。こまお店、何度訪れたか分かりません。 見慣れた鍛冶橋店のおばちゃん、相変わらず頑張ってるようですが…この日のおばちゃん、無愛想&不機嫌でした。

  • Otowaya Main Store
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Uramachi 22
    "This long-established sweets shop was established with the name ""Hida Dagashi,"" and has been loved since long age in Hida. It uses bounty from the land and sea such as roasted soy beans, dried chestnuts, walnuts and rice as ingredients, and manufactures and sells traditional handmade Japanese sweets for children. The half-baked confectionery called ""Hida no Kataribe"" made using kinako (soy bean flour) and kosen (roasted barley flour) is the shop's signature item. It is a wonderful treat that comes in a refined box and has the aesthetic sentiment of Hida Takayama, and has won the Japan Confectionery Award at the All Japan Sweets Exhibition."
  • Train Bleu
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    4.0
    77 Reviews
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    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Nishinoisshikimachi 1-73-5
    The Train Bleu bakery, which attaches great importance to ensuring that ordinary bread is made as delicious as possible every day, is very popular with local residents. On weekends and public holidays, Train Bleu can get so crowded that it has to issue numbered tickets to customers. Besides basic, everyday breads, Train Bleu also sells first-class Viennoiserie (pastries); one especially popular product features seasonal fruit with cream on a delicate croissant base. The bakery closes when it is sold out for the day, so it’s best to get there early. Train Bleu is located around 20-minute drive from the Takayama Interchange of the Chubu Jukan Expressway.

    SO GOOD! We waited outside for 15 minutes to get in but worth the wait! So flaky and delicious. Everything is about 300 yen or more. Make sure to get the strawberry tart with fresh cream!

  • Tohoen
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    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Asahimachi 2
    This Japanese confectionery is a nine-minute walk from JR Takayama Station. Their popular Neko Manju are delicious and fun to look at. They offer five varieties modeled on the alley cats that gather in the lane behind the shop: tiger, Russian blue, black, white, and tortoise-shell patterned. The dough and bean paste vary with the cat, so it's fun to try them and compare. They also have what's said to be the ultimate Takayama autumn confection, kuri yose, made with chestnuts. Naturally sweet, they don't get heavy however many you eat. If you like sweets, you may find yourself eating the whole thing before you know it.
  • Senbeidou
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    4.0
    9 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Kamisannomachi 85
    This rice cracker shop is located in the Sanmachi Preservation Districts for Groups of Traditional Buildings. With a dedication to fine ingredients, they select domestic rice every year, and have special rice cracker soy sauce made for them by a long-standing soy sauce maker. They toast the rice crackers over binchotan charcoal, and you can eat them as is fresh from the shop. They even have a huge face-sized rice cracker. Since it comes with a piece of nori seaweed to hold it with, your hands stay clean, and it’s perfect for eating while walking around. They also sell a variety of other items like nurekari mochi and hoba senbei, so you can pick your favorite depending on the thickness and flavor. They’re also recommended for souvenirs.

    高山の街を歩いていると醤油のいい香りが伝わってくるせんべい屋が多い。 ホテルの売店にもいろいろと置いている。 ここのせんべいは原料は銘柄米、醤油も特注品だそうだ。 大きいせんべいが200円近い。 高いけれども、うまいのに納得。

  • Tanimatsu (Main Shop)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Kamichinomachi 53
    This shop on Hida Takayama's Bunnemonzaka Shopping Street specializes in the local Takayama sweet known as kokusen. They've maintained the handcrafted tradition of their flagship item since they opened in 1892. These sweets with a single twist are made with charcoal fire roasted sesame seeds held together with mizuame syrup, then stretched and cut into bit-sized pieces. Being handmade, they have just the right texture, with an exquisite sweetness and the fine flavor of their carefully selected ingredients. Kids like the shop's soft genkotsu sweets made with a blend of kinako soy flour and brown sugar.
  • Ganso Umajirushi Mishima Mame Hompo
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    5.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Kamichinomachi 103
    Founded in 1868, this bean sweet shop is in the town area northwest of the Takayama Castle Ruins. Their “Mishimamame is a local favorite and is said to be the oldest bean sweet in Japan. It’s made of roasted soybeans coated with high-quality sugar and green laver, and mixed with salty ryokuto beans, making it the perfect sake snack. Their popular Nishiki-gaya featuring Japanese nutmeg is only available from late November to April. Many of their products have been featured on TV and in magazines, and Emperors have received them as gifts on many occasions.

    サクッとした味が人気の三嶋豆です。 お店の人によると、小学館のサラニという雑誌に取り上げられ、日本で1番歴史の古い豆菓子であることが判明したとか。 また、お店から見える中庭が、素晴らしいと、外国人の方が庭の写真をよく撮られていきます。

  • Open-Air Morning Market held before Jinya
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    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Hachikenmachi 1-5
    A morning market counted as one of the three largest in Japan which is held each morning in a plaza before the Takayama Jinya former regional administrative headquarters a 10 minute walk from JR Takayama Station. The market was started in the Edo period as a mulberry market; from the mid- Meiji period, local farmers began selling their produce here, ultimately resulting in the market as it exists today. A variety of tented stalls large and small operate in the market, selling fresh, seasonal vegetables and fruits; flowers; and folk crafts. Visitors can enjoy shopping while listen to the sounds of the regional Takayama dialect as customers and sellers interact. The folk crafts sold here such as sarubobo, traditional protective amulets native to the Hida region, are all handmade and unique.
  • Hida Komachi
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    3.0
    6 Reviews
    Shopping
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Kamisannomachi 47
    This shop offers souvenirs and food takeout, and is located in Kami-sannomachi, a castle town area from old Hida Province where the old townscape remains. They sell various food products perfect for eating while walking such as steamed Hida beef buns that overflow with savoriness the more you chew, Hida beef croquette, Hida peach, and soft-serve ice cream made using milk from Hida cows. Popular souvenirs include original dressing using Hida-grown vegetables, jam made from small cranberries, raspberry and Chinese lanterns, tempura salt and lemon salt.

    飛騨牛のコロッケをいただきました。アツアツでおいしかったです。 散策途中で小腹が空いた時にちょうどいい。

  • Patisserie Chez Gou
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    4.5
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Kamiokamotomachi 4-439-1
    A takeout only patisserie notable for its stylish and cute light green exterior located in Kamiokamoto-machi, Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture. The shop’s showcases are filled with Parisian-style cakes, cookies, madeleines, and other baked sweets actively incorporating local ingredients. The Mont Blanc is particularly popular—instead of being topped with chestnut cream or strings of chestnut paste, this shop’s delicious Mont Blanc are filled with flavorful chestnut cream and topped with elegant whipped cream.

    fantastic service and delicious chocolate cake - we ordered a birthday cake in the afternoon and they managed to get it done by the morning of the next day. truly a great cake shop in takayama! also...

  • Furukawaya Jinya Tofu (Honmachi Shop)
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    4.0
    7 Reviews
    Shopping
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Honmachi 1-32
    This veteran tofu shop handcrafts their product the old-fashioned way, cherishing the Hida Takayama style that's been handed down through the generations. Their hallmark product is a local specialty known as “agezuke. Made of hand-fried special tofu skin and completed with their own secret sauce, it's even been featured on television. The lightly fried outside is crispy, with a soft center. They sell other traditional food from the Hida region too, like flavorful komotofu with its spongy texture.

    訪問したのが、夕方で 当然ながら「あげづけ」は売り切れでしたが 待てるのであれば… との事で急遽作っていただけました。 作りたてを店の中でいただきましたが、 とっても美味しかったです。

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Tucked away in the very center of Japan, Gifu prefecture houses mountains, old towns, and one of Japan’s greatest hot springs, Gero Onsen. A tour of the prefecture’s traditional architecture will take you from the mountain-enveloped wooden streets of Takayama to the mountain village of Shirakawago, where visitors can explore 250-year-old thatched roofed houses known as gassho-zukuri.

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