Shopping Spots in Shinsaibashi / Namba Area

  • Amidaike DAIKOKU Main Store
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    3.5
    4 Reviews
    Shopping
    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。

  • CAFE LE PINEAU
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osaka-shi Nishi-ku Kitahorie 2-4-14
    This is a specialist Western style confectionery shop with an adjoining cafe space which is located approximately five minutes away from Osaka Municipal Subway, Nishiohashi Station. The shop has a chic exterior glass frontage and a relaxing atmosphere. The shop’s bright interior which is filled with natural light has highly multicolored reasonably priced cakes and baked sweets lined up. In regard to the baked sweets, there are also individually named items such as the “akan potato” (lit. useless potato) and the “Oshiteruya” (lit. pushing). In addition to the western style confectioneries in the cafe space, you can also taste certain cafe limited dessert dishes.
  • NMB48 Official shop
    Shopping
    Osaka Osakashi Chuou-ku Nambasennichimae 3-15
    This is the official shop of NMB48 who bases their activities in Osaka, located adjacent to Namba Grand Kagetsu. It has a landmark leopard skin print signboard. You can purchase such items as official goods, real photographs and limited promotion debut goods. There are also such as limited products which are only available in the shop and costume displays for members in disguise. In addition, there are also the signatures in the store of NMB members who have visited the store, so you can also enjoy searching through them while you are shopping. As the NMB48 theater is also located one minute away by foot, a lot of fans also visit before or after a performance.
  • CASCADE Namba Marui Store
    Shopping
    Osaka Osakashi Chuou-ku Namba 3-8-9 Namba Marui B1
    With bread of German origin, this is the bakery & cafe of the popular bread store “CASCADE” which has continued to be loved in Kobe since it was established in 1961. It is located in the first-floor basement of “Namba Marui” department store in Namba, Chuo Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. They sell about 440 of their signature products a day, “Malt Walnut Bread” and their exquisite irresistibly salty, “Salted Butter Pan”. In addition to selling about 75 kinds of bread, they also have an abundant selection of sandwiches and drinks. It is possible to eat in at the adjoining cafe.
  • Oguraya Osaka Ebisubashisuji
    Shopping
    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.
  • R&M
    Shopping
    Osaka Osakashi Chuou-ku Nambasennichimae 13-17
    Located in the “Sennichimae Doguyasuji Shotengai” shopping street in Chuo Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, this shop features plastic food models. Look for the tuna sign on the second floor. The food models are nearly indistinguishable from the real thing, and you can even try creating your own tempura, potato salad, parfait, or sundae model, among others. This shop is especially popular among students on field trips and foreign tourists.
  • Flannagan
    Shopping
    Osaka Osakashi Chuou-ku Minamisemba 3-2-6 Osaka Norinchuku Kaikan 4F
    Located on the fourth floor of the historic “Osaka Norin Kaikan” in Minamisenba of Chuo Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, this boutique specializes in foreign books and imported stationery. Many of the books have to do with interior design, architecture, and graphic design. There are also fountain pens and regular pens, notebooks, and other stationery that is both functional and stylish. The shop is famous for being a place where you can discover that one item that suits you perfectly and that you end up using all the time.
  • Amidaike Daikoku (Namba Walk Store)
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    5.0
    2 Reviews
    Shopping
    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。

  • Totti Candy Factory (Americamura Store)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Chuou-ku Nishishinsaibashi 2-11-9RE11104
    This branch of the popular candy store from Harajuku is located in Americamura. They added pop colors such as pink, yellow, blue and purple to traditionally all-white cotton candy to sell rainbow-colored cotton candy, and the photogenic design became popular on social media. It is often covered by the media for plans to feature stores in the area. At the Americamura store, they sell limited edition colors of cotton candy, chocolates with cute animal faces, and other colorful candy.
  • Nuts DOM (Namba Parks Store)
    Shopping
    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.
  • The brick
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Osaka Osaka-shi Chuo-ku Nishishinsaibashi 2-9-32
    A gallery and diner on the basement level of the Arrow Hotel in Osaka's America-mura. For lunch they offer hamburg steaks with homemade Neapolitan sauce, and chicken nanban with tartar sauce. For dinner try their pomodoro tomato spaghetti, pork rice bowls made with Mt. Kirishimasan Pork from Kagoshima, or their omelet rice. They also offer maple French toast and fruits tarts for desserts, along with organic coffee. You can also enjoy special events and displays of unique artists' works.
  • Ganso Purinya Mattari-Purin (Dotombori Branch)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Chuou-ku Doutombori 1-9-17
    Located a one-minute walk from Exit 14 of the Osaka Metro Midosuji Line's Namba Station, this pudding shop is in the Dotonbori district. It has manufactured and sold at Purin Hitosuji since it was founded in 2003. It has only one kind of mattari pudding. The pudding, made with eggs, milk and sugar that have been especially chosen by the owner, are bite-sized and said to be unforgettably delicious, which has been affirmed by many media postings. Its defining feature is the lack of caramel with their pudding.
  • Food Samples R&M
    Shopping
    Osaka Osaka-shi Chuo-ku Nanbasennichimae 13-2
  • LE PINEAU
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    4.5
    20 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osaka-shi Nishi-ku Kitahorie 2-4-12

    カフェ併設店のようでしたが、持ち帰りに便利な商品が並んでいました。今回はバラマキ用にも便利なクッキーを頂戴したのですが、個別包装は当然ながら、色々な種類が包装の外からでも確認出来、好みの物を手に取る事が出来ました。 因みにデザイン上の事でしょうが[KI3ZI]と記されていました。

  • fait en bonbons
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osaka-shi Nishi-ku Shinmachi 1-8-201F
    This Western confectionary shop is located in 1-Chome Shin-machi, Nishi Ward, Osaka City. The shop sells baked confections and other Western desserts, and is filled with cute cupcakes, caneles, brownies, tarts, and more. The shop also accepts orders for custom whole cakes and cupcakes.
  • Fukujudo Hidenobu Souemon-cho Shop
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osaka-shi Chuo-ku Soemoncho 3-14
    This Japanese confectionary shop stands on Souemon-cho Street in Souemon-cho, Chuo Ward, Osaka City. The shop sells Japanese confections crafted with homemade sweet bean fillings cooked from scratch daily using Tanba dainagon azuki beans and Hokkaido Tokachi azuki beans. The shop is filled with renowned sweets, including Konoaji-tsuki consisting of castella cake wrapped around sweet tsubuan chunky bean paste; Souemon, a cylindrical confection made by rolling bean paste in a thin dough and steaming it; and Hidemaru, a monaka wafer cake filled with gyuhi soft rice cake.
  • magnets
    Style / Fashion
    Osaka Osaka-shi Chuo-ku Nishishinsaibashi 2-12-22 Asahi Plaza Shinsaibashi 103-go
    This vintage shop has been in business for over 22 years and is aimed at adults. The shop imports and sells high quality items almost never seen in Japan, such as antique knickknacks, accessories, furniture, and vintage clothing discovered in little-known spots across America.
  • ANTIQUEMIKE America-mura Store
    Shopping
    Osaka Osaka-shi Chuo-ku Nishishinsaibashi 2-18-16
    This huge store carries American knickknacks and toys. The spacious establishment is packed with toys and vintage items gathered from the United States and other locations around the world. In addition, it is the flagship store operated by the Mike International company and accordingly serves up the latest trends. The company has also concluded a licensing deal for the Lee Jeans mascot Buddy Lee and makes its own original regular and hooded sweatshirts and other clothing featuring the character.
  • Nikusho Okamoto
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osaka-shi Chuo-ku Nishishinsaibashi 2-7-9
    This yakiniku Japanese-style grill-it-yourself barbecue restaurant buys A5 rank Tokachi Wagyu cow beef by the dressed head and half-head. The owner personally divides up dressed carcasses carefully chosen by visiting the actual refrigeration facilities of distributors, and the restaurant serves a variety of cuts of first-rate Japanese Wagyu beef (for example, the restaurant divides the leg meat alone into 13 different subdivisions, and the selection changes daily). Here you can savor the rich flavor of authentic Japanese Wagyu beef.
  • Omiyagedokoro Ichibirian Nanba
    Travel / Tourism
    Osaka Osaka-shi Chuo-ku Sennichimae 2-11-10
    "The Namba store is based on the concept of a ""paradise"" where you can feel the Osaka of the Taisho and Meiji eras, and offers souvenirs recommended for both tourists and locals. The second floor café ""chasen caf?"" is also located close to the NGK and NMB48 theater, making it the perfect place to take a break or meet up with friends."

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