Other Food Spots in Osaka Area

  • Hana-no-Mori
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    4.5
    20 Reviews
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    Osaka Izumishi Onochou 973-3
    This is a store specializing in agricultural and forest products offering safe and inexpensive agricultural products in Izumi City, Osaka Prefecture, approximately ten minutes from Kishiwada-Izumi Interchange. A variety of fresh fruits and vegetables including Naniwa traditional vegetables that are rare to find in normal supermarkets, processed goods and original crafts are available in the shop. There is a vast variety of produce and products and visitors can enjoy shopping here. In addition, the locally grown brown rice available in the store can be polished to make freshly cleaned white rice at any time by using the rice mill in the store. There is also an udon noodle restaurant and okonomiyaki pancake restaurant outside the shop where visitors can enjoy food to eat in or to go.

    地産地消で何よりも生産者が元気で、朝取れの新鮮な良い品々をこぞって出してくれる。 地元の人で賑わう市場!美味しいものを求めて多くの人が買い求めにやって来る。駐車場がいつも満杯だが、交通整理も手際よく、たまに代表が声を上げ指揮を取る姿も。 とにかく活気に溢れ、楽しい!ここで人気のみよちゃんの天ぷらは有名。どれだけ揚げても飛ぶように売れていく。一度買うとまた必ず求めに来る美味しさ。 葉菜の森では、気取...

  • Jizohama Minato Marche
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    Osaka Kishiwada-shi Jizohamacho 7-1
    A market which is open every Sunday in Jizohama-cho, Kishiwada City. Here you can purchase vegetables from local farms, fresh seafood straight from the port, and local specialty products. There are also food stalls serving a variety of local dishes, and a barbecue corner where you can grill up ingredients purchased in the market on the spot. A flea market is also regularly held as part of the market.
  • Hokkyoku Ice
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    Osaka Osakashi Chuou-ku Namba 3-8-22
    This old popsicle specialist shop was established in 1945 in Chuo Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. Initially set up after the war to provide foodstuffs to women and children in a time of scarcity, the popsicle has remained a much-loved famous Osaka food to this day. Each popsicle is made carefully by hand—with a strict process in terms of ingredients, production and even the stick—for that classic taste. In winter they also sell a penguin-marked kaiten-yaki (a round-shaped cake containing red bean paste).
  • Amidaike DAIKOKU Main Store
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    3.5
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    Osaka Osakashi Nishi-ku Kitahorie 3-11-26
    Amidaike DAIKOKU is the main store of a well-known and long-established cake maker famous for the Osaka specialty okoshi (rice cake), located in Kitahorie, Nishi Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. Okoshi first appeared in the second year of Bunka in the Edo period (1805) when the first generation started using surplus rice to make the rice cakes. The store sells a wide variety of products including their characteristically hard iwa-okoshi and Osaka-okoshi, as well as new Western-style rice cakes. The cakes are naturally great souvenirs to take home from Osaka and also serve well as presents.

    岩おこしを頂きました。 しょうがの入った岩おこし、黒砂糖を引き立てます。 名前の由来は独特の堅さだそうです。

  • Umeda Mix Juice
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    Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Umeda 3-1-1 Hanshin Umeda Station B2 Before East Ticket Bank
    A small juice stand founded in 1969 and located right outside the underground east ticket gate at Hanshin Umeda Station. Of all the juice stands now seen around the place this is one of the first, and loved by many as an oasis for those commuting to work or school. Their most popular juice is the mixed juice which combines oranges, peaches and bananas with milk in a blender. They also have plenty more juices which use fruit and vegetables making it an easy way to get your nutrition fix at a great price.
  • Manjiro Kura
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    Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Sugaharachou 9-5
    This long-established store founded in 1883 specializes in sesame manufacturing, offering more than 100 sesame items. The shop sells sesame of all kinds such as domestic sesame purchased from more than 400 contract farmers, organic sesame, as well as sesame from overseas. Processed foods such as fragrantly pressed sesame oil, sesame paste and dressing are also popular. The store next to the main company “Manjiro Kura” is a refurbished historic building of 210 years old with earthen walls that was once a warehouse. In addition to tasting and purchasing products, it also holds cooking classes and other events. The nearest station is Minamimorimachi Station.
  • Oguraya Osaka Ebisubashisuji
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    Osaka Osakashi Chuou-ku Namba 1-6-12
    This is a long-established store founded in 1848 selling kelp products in the “Ebisubashi-Suji Shopping Street” in Chuo Ward, Osaka City. The store uses the finest kelp from places such as Osatsube-hama in Hokkaido. The salted kelp is made using an old-fashioned method and boiling thoroughly and has long been popular as a product where traditional techniques create a true taste. Many of the products sold are pleasing not only for home use but also as gifts, such as “shiofuki” which received an award from the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry and “matsutake mushroom kelp” using a lavish amount of matsutake mushrooms.
  • Shimaya Main Store
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    Osaka Osakashi Abeno-ku Abenosuji 2-4-37
    This is a specialty store selling potato sweets located in Abeno Ward, Osaka City. It is a long-established store dealing only in sweet potato since the end of the World War II. The shop is famous for its queues of many fans visiting from afar to taste the sweet potato covered in special nectar called “Abeno potato”. The potatoes used are of high quality, carefully grown on the stores own farm or by contracted farmers in the tropics. The entire product manufacturing process is completed by hand, making for a wonderful product. In addition, the store also sells “Mishima Yaki” which is steamed and grilled in secret seasonings and “Kuri kinton” (sweet chestnut paste) which is limited to the end of the year.
  • CHARKHA
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    Osaka Osakashi Chuou-ku Kawarayamachi 1-5-23
    This general goods store is near “Karahori Shopping Street” in Chuo Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture and offers a wide variety of Eastern European antique items, with a focus on the Czech Republic and Hungary. The interior looks like a remodeled garage, and the white walls exude the warmth of wood to provide a retro atmosphere. The display shelves and drawers are stocked with various accessories, linens, traditional Eastern European thread buttons, lace, and other items procured by the store owner himself. There are also original notebooks, letter sets, and other products made in collaboration with artisans and local factories.
  • Chocolat Boutique du ROYAL L é’clat
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    4.5
    4 Reviews
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    Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Nakanoshima 5-3-68 RIHGA Royal Hotel 1F
    This chocolate specialty shop is located on the first floor of the “Rihga Royal Hotel” Osaka. The display cases are filled with chocolates that shine like jewels and live up to the shop’s name (L é’clat, “shimmer”). The knowledgeable staff will help you choose the item that best fits your preferences and the intended use. The “Planet Chocolates,” which are based on the eight planets of the solar system, are the main attraction. Their exquisite multicolored designs aligned inside the box make them a popular Valentine’s Day gift.

    見た目に華やかでインスタ映えするという意味では最高のチョコレートです。味はといえば・・・で、見た目重視ならお勧めです。

  • Amidaike Daikoku (Namba Walk Store)
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    5.0
    2 Reviews
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    Osaka Osakashi Chuou-ku Namba 2-1-13 Namba Walk 1 street south street
    This candy shop directly operated by Amidaike Daikoku boasts an over 200-year history since its founding during the Edo period (1603–1868). Various sweets from traditional Japanese to Western sweets are available, such as “okoshi” (candied millet puffs), popular as a classic Osaka souvenir, Osaka Chiyoko (crunch chocolate) and “melange chocolat,” a Western-style “okoshi.”

    なんばウォ-ク内にあるおこし専門店、あみだ池大黒。いろいろな種類のおこしがあり、たまに利用しています。一口サイズのおこしは食べやすいです。

  • pon pon x Chris.P (LUCUA 1100 Store)
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    Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Umeda 3-1-3 Lukuaele 2F
    This is a concept shop of Amidaike Daikoku, a long-established candy shop with an over 200-year history since its founding during the Edo period (1603–1868). A variety of sweets are offered centered on “pon pon Ja pon,” a grain-size sweets with a unique texture, and “Matthew & Chris.P,” soft “okoshi” (candied millet puffs) that reimagine sweets made in American homes.
  • Nuts DOM (Namba Parks Store)
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    Osaka Osakashi Naniwa-ku Nambanaka 2-10-70 Namba Parks 5th Floor
    This traditional Japanese bean store has been making bean-based snacks for over 100 years. Over 80 varieties of beans and nut-based snacks, made from almonds to peanuts, soy beans to broad beans, are all on display like a traditional candy store. They also sell 100% peanut butter made with Chiba peanuts and no additives.
  • Far East Bazaar (Eki Marche Osaka Store)
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    Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Umeda 3-1-1 Exmouth Osaka
    This store selling carefully selected organic foodstuffs from all over the world is based in the Eki Marche Osaka in JR Osaka Station. You can purchase dried fruits, nuts, salts, etc., by weight, and they pride themselves on their products quality and long shelf life with no loss of value. You can also enjoy their Arabian Gelato and smoothies made with palm flower nectar and sweetened with fruit, as well as their other seasonal desserts.
  • Otsukemono-dokoro Takano
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    Osaka Osakashi Tennouji-ku Daidou 1-2-1
    A long-established shop founded in 1932, They use traditional vegetables from Naniwa to ingenuously produce and sell pickles such as nuka-zuke (pickles fermented in rice bran), kasu-zuke (pickles fermented in sake lees) and kombu-zuke (lightly pickled seaweed) that allow you to enjoy various seasonal flavors. Their signature product is Senshu Mizu-nasu Maru-zuke (pickled uncut eggplant). The uncut eggplants have a mellow taste, and you can enjoy their unique crispness. In addition, their kombu seaweed-seasoned turnips, eggplants pickled in rice bran and pickled fruits and vegetables are also recommended.
  • Kotsumi No no Sato Sunday Morning Market
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    Osaka Kaizuka-shi Kotsumi 4571
    This morning market is held on Sundays at the Kotsumi No no Sato office on the former National Route 170 in Kotsumi, Kaizuka City. Locally harvested fruits, vegetables, rice, and other fresh agricultural products plus processed foods, flowers, and trees are sold at the market. Around April, you'll also find bamboo shoots just dug up that very morning.
  • Suminoe Miso Ikedaya Honpo
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    Osaka Osaka-shi Sumiyoshi-ku Sumiyoshi 1-9-22
    This miso brewery is located in 1-Chome Sumiyoshi, Sumiyoshi Ward, Osaka City. The longstanding company was established in the Edo period in 1531. The brewery originally created alcoholic beverages but began making miso in the Meiji period. The company's signature product is its Suminoe Miso, a miso combined with sugar and sesame which goes great on rice.
  • Iseya Honten
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    Osaka Osaka-shi Chuo-ku Nipponbashi 2-3-4
    This Japanese pickles shop opened in 1987 is located in the Kuromon Market, the veritable pantry of Osaka. Specializing in temaezuke and tsukemono pickles, here you can enjoy traditional flavors which are a product of extensive study of the ingredients and nukadoko salted rice bran pickling beds used. The shop's nukadoko, made using quality kombu kelp and natural fermenting agents, draws out the flavor and body of the pickles. This nukadoko serves as natural seasoning and pickles the superb vegetables the shop uses without harming their innate flavors, resulting in pickles that are highly popular. The shop's asazuke light pickles, which delight with the vivid colors of the vegetables used, are also recommended.
  • Shitennoji Nishimura Main Shop
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    Osaka Osaka-shi Tennoji-ku Shitennoji 1-12-10
    This shop sells Japanese pickles made using traditional Osaka vegetables. The shop's Naniwa-zuke (Osaka-style pickles), diligently crafted according to a distinctive method using fresh vegetables picked that very morning, delight with their rich, fermented deliciousness and the innate flavors of the vegetables themselves. The shop is filled with an abundant variety of pickles, such as fukazuke deeply pickled cucumber (requires removal of excess salt) made with a traditional variety of cucumber cultivated in the Kema area of what is now Miyakojima Ward in Osaka City since ancient times; and shiozuke salt pickled turnips made with ultra-rare Tennoji turnips which were brought back from the brink of extinction with just a single seed.
  • Kabushiki Gaisha Toyoda Shoten
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    14 Reviews
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    Osaka Osaka-shi Ikuno-ku Tsuruhashi 2-2-11
    This authentic kimchee shop made with fastidious attention to detail starting with the ingredients. The shop's thick chanja salted cod entrails, made only with fatty Pacific cod raised in the stormy seas of the Bering Strait, is the shop's most popular product. Prepared entirely by hand except for the cutting, this chanja goes great on rice as well as a snack to enjoy with an alcoholic beverage. In addition to all kinds of kimchee, the shop also carries various other delicacies, nori seaweed sheets, dried fish, and seasonings.

    大阪鶴橋は焼き肉屋さん始め、大阪最大の韓国街ですね。お店の有る一帯は、ガード下の怪しい雰囲気出て居てワクワク感有ります。キムチ等が有名お店ですが、私はまだ食べて事有りませんが、まかない明太子お勧めです。230gで1000円とお手頃です。

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While Osaka prefecture is the country's second smallest prefecture, its capital, Osaka City, is the country’s third-largest and arguably one of the most popular in the Kansai region thanks to its vibrant nightlife, the Osaka people’s openness, and its much-loved cuisine, which has earned it the nickname "the nation’s kitchen."

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