Pastries Spots in Nara Area

  • Mahoroba Daibutsu Purin Honpo (Todai-ji Temple Yume-Kaze Plaza Shop)
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    4.0
    23 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nara Pref. Narashi Kasuganochou 16 Todaiji Temple Maemae Yumeizaka Hiroba Monza Market
    This confectionary makes each and every one of their puddings by hand using generous amounts of ingredients sourced locally from Nara. The puddings, which come in glass jars, are popular for the cute designs of their lids. Their various seasonal puddings, such as mahoroba (splendid place) Daibutsu pudding rolls, and their soft-serve ice cream made with Daibutsu pudding are also quite popular.

    今回テレビで特集されていたのを見て訪れました。多くのお客さんで賑わっており、確かな人気度を感じました。手作りのプリンは格別でした。

  • Mahoroba Purin no Mori Main Shop and Cafe
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    3.5
    11 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nara Nara-shi Narazakacho 1073
    This pudding shop is situated on Narayama-odori Street in Narazaka-cho, Nara City. The shop's signature Mahoroba Daibutsu Pudding is made with simple ingredients: an abundance of high-quality fresh cream, milk, eggs, sugar, and vanilla beans. In addition to standard custard flavor, the shop also sells a variety of other flavors, including Yamato tea, a local Nara specialty product; cheesecake; chocolate; and Harushika, a local Nara sake. Other products include the Shiroi Shika no Purin pudding, and the Daibutsu-sama no Hohoemi Cookie.

    可愛いお店で、ひっきりなしにお客様がいらっしゃいます。 プリンの森にふさわしく、楽しい仕掛けが沢山あるお店ですが、店内は撮影禁止です。 奈良なので大仏がかわいいイラストの大仏プリンは、お土産に良さそうですが、味は普通。接客はあまり良くありません。

  • Tengyokudo Nara-Honten
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    4.5
    92 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nara Pref. Narashi Oshiagechou 1-6
    A kudzu jelly specialty restaurant founded in 1870 housed inside a black-painted building standing on the former site of the Todaiji temple’s west gate. Here you can taste the unique dishes and sweets of a long-standing restaurant which uses pure Yoshino-honkuzu powder, a Nara specialty product. The restaurant’s jiggling, chewy kuzu-mochi and kuzu-kiri jelly cakes are lovingly prepared to order. The restaurant also offers a full menu of savory dishes made with delicious Yoshino-honkuzu powder, including kudzu udon noodles and kudzu rice porridge. Popular with tourists seeking lunch or a place to take a break, inside, the restaurant is quiet, and its windows look out over seasonal scenery. Closest station: Kintetsu-Nara Station.

    We was looking for some local food and found this kudzu eatery. There was 2 floors, and we chose the upper. There was English menu. We decided to ordered 1 set and ala carte to share among us. There...

  • Kuuki Cake
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    4.0
    26 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nara Pref. Narashi Takabatakechou 738-2
    A sweets café located in Nara City, Nara Prefecture which sells Western-style confections, fluffy and filled with the natural air found at the foot of Mt. Kasuga. The café’s showcases are filled with cakes made with an abundance of local Nara ingredients and seasonal fruits. The shop’s signature Kuuki cake is a fluffy and light sponge cake sandwiching a mousse filling and has a delicate flavor. Seven varieties are on offer, including plain milk mousse, matcha green tea, and orange. You can enjoy your cake in the shop’s eat-in space or terrace seating area.

    雰囲気は確かにオシャレっぽいです。味はまぁまぁ美味しいですが、都会に行けば美味しいケーキ屋さんはたくさんあるので、旅の思い出として一度行けば十分に感じました。イートインで食べ終わって会計を済ませたくても、持ち帰りのお客さんもたくさんいるため、なかなかお店を出ることができません。店内は狭く、レジ前がひどく混雑します。

  • Archaique
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    3.5
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nara Pref. Narashi Fukuchinchou 44-1
    "This store is located in Fukuchiin Town, Nara City, Nara Prefecture, specializing in baked sweets. The appearance of the store is designed with the image of a small pastry shop in Paris, which tickles a girl's fancy. The most popular item is the famous ""Nara no ShikaMuffin"", a Japanese-style muffin topped with a deer-shaped icing cookie. They also carry many other baked goods such as cakes that make great souvenirs and gifts. The store also sells lovely handmade goods by craftspeople."

    駐車場がないので、ホテルから歩いて行きました。お目当てのコンベルサシオン?がなかったので、焼きチーズケーキとクルミキャラメルスコーンを買いました。お菓子を包んでもらっている間、そんなに待ったわけではないですがご試食にどうぞとチョコレートケーキをいただきました。しっとり濃厚で美味しかったです。チーズケーキ、クルミキャラメルコーン両方ともとても美味しかったので、もっと他の種類のお菓子も試してみたいので...

  • Gateau Des Bois Main Store
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nara Pref. Narashi Saidaijiminamimachi 1-19-101
    This pastry shop is located approximately two minutes on foot from Yamato-Saidaiji Station, Saidaiji Minamimachi Town. The owner and chef, Masahiko Hayashi, was the first Japanese person to win the La Coupe du Monde de la Patisserie contest, an international confectionary contest held in Lyon, France, once every two years. In addition to baked confectionaries and chocolate, there are also Japanese unbaked sweets, which are one of the chef’s specialties. The seasonal baked and unbaked confectionaries change on a monthly basis, according to the seasonal ingredients available.
  • Shikano
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    3.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nara Pref. Narashi Aburasakajikatachou 5
    This is a baumkuchen specialty shop along Sanjyo-dori Street around a four-minute walk from Nara Station. Their specialty is Deer Antler Baumkuchen baked based on the shape of Nara Park deer antlers, made with pure honey and fresh eggs produced in Nara that are less than 36 hours old. In addition they sell baumkuchen using famous Nara products including Asuka ruby strawberries, Yamato tea, and black rice.

    三条通のバームクーヘンの専門店。一番人気の鹿の角は、形が鹿の角のような感じだから。砂糖のコーティングが甘さのアクセントですが、基本のしっとり感もグッドです。 同行者一人旅

  • Okashi Tojo
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    4.5
    4 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nara Pref. Narashi Chuinchou 20
    This cake shop is located in the former urban district of Nara City, Naramachi, Chuin Town. The shop bakes and sells seasonal cakes and baked confectionaries, made with fruits from the prefecture. The shop’s most popular product is its cheesecake, made with Nara’s locally produced Harushika sake’s lees.

    家の近くにあるので、仕事帰りに訪れます。いつも買うのは「ブルーチーズを使ったチーズケーキ」で、「おつまみチーズケーキ」と名付けられていました。ブルーチーズの香りがほのかにして、赤ワインと食べるとよく合うんです^^

  • Petit Marche & Puchimaru Cafe
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nara Pref. Narashi Higashiterabayashichou 22
    The specialty of this confection shop and cafe located in Higashi-Terabayashi-cho, Nara City are its kofun cakes, which are made to look like keyhole-shaped burial mounds. It also offers a range of other western-style confections including cookies shaped like deer, kofun mounds, and magatama beads, as well as turtle lemon cakes shaped like turtle shells. Guests who chose to eat-in can enjoy the cafe's sweet of the day or their summer-only shaved ice.
  • Barmans Chocolate Nara Mochiidono Kobo
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    4.5
    4 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nara Pref. Narashi Mochidonochou 42-1 OK Building 2F
    Barmans Chocolate is chocolate for adults, made by an experienced chocolatier and former bartender, who combines carefully selected Western liquors with cacao. The company's brick-and-mortar store is the Mochiidono Workshop in the city of Nara. In addition to vintage Armagnac (aged 40 years) chocolate, the shop also sells ice cream, the shop sells unbelievably good ganache made with a chocolatier's expert knowhow and techniques. Packages containing nine varieties of Barmans Chocolate, one piece each, are a popular souvenir.

    以前お土産でこちらのチョコレートを貰い、美味しかったので訪問しました。 商店街の中にあるビル二階にあり、少しお店は分かりにくいです。 工房でチョコレートを作ってるとのことで、入店するとベルがなり店員さんが出て来てくれます。 チョコレートは美味しいのでオススメです。

  • SOURIRE d'ANGE
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    4.5
    6 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nara Ikoma-shi Higashi-matsugaoka 16-11
    This patisserie makes and sells shortcakes and birthday cakes as well as chocolates, ice cream, and baked confections based on traditional French recipes but arranged according to the owner's unique sensibilities. The shop's delicious cakes, incorporating an abundance of intriguing ideas and making full use of the flavors of the season, delight people of all ages. The shop also has a cafe area.

    生駒警察署と生駒郵便局の間にある 生駒で人気のケーキ屋さん。 和栗と洋風の2種類のモンブランやマカロン、美味しくて美しい 今度は店内でコーヒーとケーキを堪能しますね。

  • La Pause
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    5.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nara Nara-shi Shibatsujicho 2-11-6
    This Western confectionary shop is located inside Hotel Halftime in front of Shin-Omiya Station in 2-Chome Shibatsuji-cho, Nara City. The shop makes and sells Western-style confections which are a marriage of French confectionary techniques and aesthetics, and the Japanese soul of Nara. Here you can enjoy petit gateau mini cakes made with figs, grapes, and other seasonal ingredients shipped direct from farms in Nara Prefecture. The shop is adjoined by its sister establishment, the Cafe la Pause Mori, which serves French pancakes.

    [法華寺]から近鉄・新大宮駅への帰路 偶然見つけ 立ち寄りましたが 奈良のスイーツ店(洋菓子)のレヘルの高さにヒックリです。 関西方面旅行時 神戸や大阪のスイーツ店(洋菓子)に訪れたりしていましたが 奈良では[吉野本葛 天極堂本店]や[吉野本葛...

  • Miyake Former Konoike Tei Omote Ya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nara Nara-shi Torimicho 1-5-1
  • Chateraise Kashihara
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nara Kashihara-shi Daigocho 522-1
  • Chateraise Sakurai
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nara Sakurai-shi Kaminosho 721-3
  • Chateraise Tsukiyama Nango
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nara Yamatotakada-shi Otani 758-80
  • Chateraise Tenri
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    3.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nara Tenri-shi Magatacho 31-13

    シャトレーゼなので、洋菓子が中心です。ケーキやお菓子の持ち帰りもありますし、ちょっと休憩のコーヒーも飲めます。幹線道路沿いなので、車では入りやすいです。

  • Chateraise Nara Haibara
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nara Uda-shi
  • Chateraise Nara Oshikuma
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nara Nara-shi Nakayamacho 1640-1
  • Chateraise Nara Minami
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nara Nara-shi Minamikyobatecho 1-chome 161-1

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With a reputation almost as stellar as that of Kyoto, Nara is a must-visit for those searching for the remains of "traditional Japan." The largely green Nara city holds the majority of the prefecture’s treasures, such as the iconic Todai-ji Temple, in which a 15-meter tall Great Buddha sits, and Nara Park, where deer flock to befriend passersby. While mountains are by no means hard to come by in this area, for hiking with a reward, head to the Kii Mountains’ Yoshino district in spring, when the hillsides put on an impressive display of white and pink cherry blossoms.

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