Shopping Spots in Iga / Ueno Area

  • Kogetsudo
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Mie Pref. Igashi Uenonakamachi 3028
    Kogetsudo, located five minutes’ walk from Uenoshi Station on the Iga Railway Line, is a well-established Japanese sweet shop selling decchiyokan (sweet bean cakes using inexpensive ingredients). In a tiny shop with a traditional and retro exterior, there is a range of nostalgic sweets including Iga local sweets. Decchiyokan, the hallmark product, is like a soft sweet bean jelly, and this famous traditional confectionery has long been loved in the Iga region. Decchiyokan, which is moist and smooth with soft texture, is lightly sweetened as it uses traditional ingredients such as agar strip and honkuzu (100% arrowroot) from the Yoshino region. The owner makes them himself every morning.
  • Kikyoya-Orii
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    3.5
    11 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Mie Pref. Igashi Uenohigashimachi 2949
    This long-established Japanese sweets shop has been in operation for 400 years since the Keicho period (1596-1615). It used to be the purveyor of sweets for the Todo clan that ruled Iga Province. It is characterized by the Japanese confectionery made by craftsmen following age-old traditional techniques. They produce many sweets with links to local castles, such as their Shiro no Ishizumi agar-agar sweet made with the stone wall of Iga Ueno Castle in mind, their Iga Kuroman Fukuro no Shiro black manju imagining Ryotaro Shiba's Fukuro no Shiro (Owl's Castle) that was about Iga clan ninjas, and their Noborigama sweet potato depicting an Iga-yaki ware oven.

    伊賀に寄った記念に、和菓子を何種類か買い求めたのですが、どれも美味しい!と話題になりました。 控えめな甘さで、どれも誰からも美味しいと言われそうなお味でした。 オンラインでの販売もしているようなので、他のお菓子も食べてみたいと思います。

  • Kagi-ya Mochi Shop
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    3.5
    3 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Mie Pref. Igashi Uenokodamachou 3082-1
    Kagi-ya is a mochi shop that sells both inexpensive candies and Japanese-style sweets in a corner of the Shichifuku Shopping District, which runs through the center of Iga-Ueno, the so-called Ninja Village. Its most famous product is Ninja Dango, supposedly inspired by the ninja warriors: sweet rice paste dumplings served two-by-two on skewers, with a white head and a blue-green body. This shop is said to have been in existence for over 350 years, and the Ninja Dango, a long-time favorite of local residents, were available long before ninja became a famous part of Japanese popular culture. Inspired by Shirimochi-zaka Slope on the Yamato Road, mentioned in the works of the haiku poet Basho, Shirimochi is another well-known product. In the summer, the shop sells shaved ice, and unlike most such vendors, it still uses an electrically powered ice shaving machine, whose sound gives the process a nostalgic feeling.

    レトロな和菓子屋さんでした。お餅や他にお菓子などいろいろ揃っていて駄菓子屋みたいな感じで楽しかったです。

  • Domi
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    5.0
    1 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Iga-shi Ueno Marunouchi 117 Uenokoen Uchi
    This Iga ware shop is located in Ueno Park, a bustling center of tourism in Iga City's Ueno district. Since it opened in 1958, the shop has continued to display and sell tea utensils, flower vases, jars, and other traditional Iga ware pieces. The shop's products, created by local husband and wife potters Akira and Akemi Tanimoto, fit the hand nicely and customers rave their wares can not only be used in the tea ceremony but also blend in perfectly when used as everyday tableware. The shop has a modern atmosphere and also holds seasonal donabe earthenware pot exhibition and special exhibition sales.

    伊賀上野城のすぐ近くにお店があります。伊賀焼の作家の作品が高級品から普段用まで入手できます。落ち着いた店内でゆっくり買い物できました。

  • Yokanzuke Miyazakiya
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    4.0
    3 Reviews
    Shopping
    Mie Iga-shi Uenonakamachi 3017
    "This shop specializes in yokan-zuke, a type of pickled food and local specialty product which is made by coring an Iga melon cucumber, stuffing it with minced shiso leaves and ginger, and pickling it in tamari soy sauce. Opened in 1865, the shop continues to make yokan-zuke which takes an entire two years before it is ready to be sold. With an advance reservation, you can tour the shop's storehouse filled with huge pickling barrels which have been in use since the early Meiji period. ""Yokan-zuke"" literally means ""courage-cultivating pickles"" and alludes to the fact that Todo Takatora, once the ruler of the local domain, always kept this pickled food on hand at his battle encampments, and they were said to foster the courage of samurai warriors. It is also said yokan-zuke were used as travel food by ninjas."

    有名な漬物屋さんです。月一でベーグルの販売があります。養肝漬とクリームチーズが入ったベーグルで、塩味がよく効いていました。漬物の他にたまりしょうゆアイスやビスコッティ、キャンディもあって、お土産にいいですね。

  • MEGA Don Quijote UNY Nabari
    Shopping
    Mie Nabari-shi Shimohinachi Kuroda 3100-banchi no 1
  • Familymart Meihan Kami Tsuge Interchange
    Shopping
    Mie Iga-shi Tsugemachi 9862-banchi no 1
  • Apita Iga Ueno
    Shopping
    Mie Iga-shi Hattoricho 1788
  • SUPERCENTERPLANT Iga
    Shopping
    Mie Iga-shi Yumegaoka 1-1-1
  • AEON Nabari
    Shopping
    Mie Nabari-shi Motomachi 376
  • Familymart Nakase Interchange
    Shopping
    Mie Iga-shi Saimyoji Tenno 940-ban 1
  • Super Viva Home Nabari
    Shopping
    Mie Nabari-shi Sekoguchi 350 Nabari Garden Plaza
  • Mini Stop Ueno Nakase Interchange
    Shopping
    Mie Iga-shi Araki 537-1
  • Familymart Iga Shimotsuge Interchange
    Shopping
    Mie Iga-shi Shimotsuge Baba 4995-banchi
  • LAMU Iga Ueno
    Shopping
    Mie Iga-shi Otacho 698-1
  • Okuwa Nabari Nishihara
    Shopping
    Mie Nabari-shi Nishiwaracho 2441
  • Miharashi Tei
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    2.5
    2 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie Nabari-shi Akamecho Nagasaka 671-2

    赤目四十八滝のバスの終点、降りてすぐ。 店頭で草餅を焼いていて、それをいただきました。お餅は草餅でしっかりした香り。餡子も飾ることのない素朴な味わいです。

  • Hard Off Iga Ueno
    Shopping
    Mie Iga-shi Hirano Shozu 645-2
  • Mini Stop Ueno Hirano
    Shopping
    Mie Iga-shi Hiranonishimachi 53
  • Mini Stop Ueno Nagata
    Shopping
    Mie Iga-shi Nagata 896-1

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Spread across the eastern side of the Kii Peninsula, Mie prefecture boasts hundreds of kilometers of pretty coastline comprising the oyster-rich Toba city and Shima National Park all the way down to Kumano, a city that marks the beginning of part of the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage, which runs into neighboring Wakayama prefecture. However, Mie is best known for the Ise Jingu Shinto shrine inland, one of the oldest and largest shrines in the country.

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