Shopping Spots in Yamagata Area

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Yamagata
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Category

Shopping

Yamadaya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Yamagata Yamagata-shi Honcho 1-7-30

This patisserie is on national route 112, in Honcho 1-Chome, Yamagata City. They're famous for their Shiratsuyu Fuuki Mame candied beans. They use green Hokkaido-grown peas for a mildly sweet, elegant treat with enduring popularity.
Eigyokudo

Gourmet / Alcohol

Yamagata Yamagata-shi Hatagomachi 2-1-45

This sweet shop and patisserie on national route 112 in Hatago-machi 2-Chome, Yamagata City. Their famous dorayaki buns are made with coarse sweet bean jam of adzuki beans from Tokachi, Hokkaido, in a variety of flavors like whipped cream and camembert. In additional to seasonal sweets, they offer up desserts like anmitsu and zenzai sweet bean soup.
Hirata Bokujo Main Store

Shopping

Yamagata Sakata-shi Matsubara Minami 5-7

This raw and processed meat shop is in Matsubaraminami, Sakata City. As the flagship shop for Hirata Farms, it sells brand meats like Hirata Farms Kinkaton and Sangenton pork. They also sell processed items like Kinkaton and Sangenton pork sausage, ham, and bacon, as well as deli dishes and bento boxes.
Local Sake Shop Kigawaya

Shopping

Yamagata Sakata-shi Shinbashi 4-5-15

This liquor shop is in Shinbashi 4-Chome, Sakata City. Their product range focuses on Yamagata prefecture local sake, as well as wines from Yamagata, Italy, and France. They pride themselves on their humidity control, and they sell their luxury goods without any markup. Their house-made doburoku unpressed sake is quite popular.
Sakata Seafood Market Intermediate Wholesaler Store

Shopping

Yamagata Sakata-shi Funabacho 2-2-36

Located inside the fish market in Funaba-cho 2-Chome, Sakata City, this shop is also accessible for non-professional customers. It's in Sakata Kaisen Market, which in addition to selling seafood brought in fresh from the port, visitors can visit the adjacent restaurant.
Hiranoya Candles

Travel / Tourism

Yamagata Sakata-shi Hamada 1-11-23

This candle shop is in Hamada 1-Chome, Sakata City. Founded in 1696, this venerable shop carries on the Shonai traditional craft of painting pictures on candles, or e-rosoku, and still paints them by hand. In addition to e-rosoku, they also have items like round flower candles that float in water. They also offer classes on painting your own candles (reservations required).
Farmer’s Market Tawawa

Shopping

Yamagata Sakata-shi Horenji Chigaya Harigaya

This farm direct sales shop is on national route 344 in Chibariyaji Horenji, Sakata City. It offers farm produce like locally sourced fresh vegetables and fruit, dairy goods produced on the Chokai Highland, and products made from local specialties. They also have a variety of seasonal events like their Founding Festival and Mountain Vegetable Festival in spring, or Thanksgiving Festival in November.
Shinjo Higashiyama Yaki Yahei-Gama Kiln

Shopping

Yamagata Shinjo-shi Kanezawa 1441

This pottery specialist is in Kanazawa, Shinjo City. The kiln goes back seven generations, to the late Edo period, and still makes and sells pottery for tea, flowers, dining, sake and more in the Higashiyamayaki style, which is marked by a clean, pale blue glazing. They also have a full program of pottery activities including hand-shaping, painting, electric potter's wheels, and more to try (reservations required).
Mayu no Sato

Shopping

Yamagata Shinjo-shi Tokamachi 6000-1

This farm direct shop is inside Shinjo City Ecology Garden Gensan no Mori, in Toka-machi, Shinjo City. They offer a selection of morning-fresh fruits, vegetables, flowers and other produce, as well as eggs, chicken, pickles, and deli items. They also sell hand-made processed foods, local crafts, and more. They also hold various seasonal events, like “Saturday Soba Noodle Day” which they serve hand-made soba by experts every Saturday from December through March.
Japanese-Western Style Confectionery Maruya

Shopping

Yamagata Nishiokitama-gun Ogunimachi Sakaemachi 21

This Japanese style patisserie is in Sakae-machi, Oguni Town, Nishiokitama County. Their popular Akebiyaki, made with white sweet bean paste wrapped in dorayaki dough won an award at the 26th annual Japanese Sweet Awards in Hiroshima. They also make and sell treats from Oguni specialties, like Yubeshi and Monaka.
Anchin-do

Gourmet / Alcohol

Yamagata Nishiokitama-gun Shiratakamachi Juo 2464-2

This Japanese confectioner is on national route 348 in Juo, Shirataka Town, Nishiokitama County. They're famous for their Dekakintsuba, made with flame-roasted Hokkaido-grown adzuki beans kept almost whole. There are popular flavors like chestnut, white bean paste, and matcha, as well. In addition, they have dorayaki buns, marble cake, and other Japanese treats.
Doriimu Farm

Shopping

Yamagata Nishiokitama-gun Shiratakamachi Kurofuji 9053-30

This farm direct shop is on national route 287 in Kurofuji, Shirataka Town, Nishiokitama County. They offer fresh fruits and vegetables from growers in Shirataka, as well as fresh flowers, handmade pickles, soft-serve ice cream and more. They also offer a rice sales and polishing shop where you can buy organic rice grown using green manure and duck pest control. They also have a strawberry tourist garden from March through May.
Bunkyo no Mori

Leisure / Hobbies

Yamagata Nagai-shi Tokamachi 1-11-7

This multi-purpose facility is in Toka-machi 1-Chome, Nagai City. It encompasses the buildings of the prefectural Important Cultural Asset Marudai Ogiya, with 350 years of merchant family history, and the cultural facility Kozakurakan in the former Nishiokitama County Hall. There are also exhibits of work by woodcarver Naganuma Kozo, third son of family leader Naganuma Kozo, as well as his collection of folk and farm implements in the Naganuma Kozo Gallery.
Hand-made Soba Shigean

Shopping

Yamagata Tsuruoka-shi Barashinden Sen Baai 1-4

This soba shop is on Prefectural route 44 in Kurose, Haguro Town, Tsuruoka City. They use domestic soba to hand-make their nihachi-soba(80% buckwheat flour) noodles, Inaka-soba (country-style soba) noodles, and Dattan-soba (Tartary buckwheat flour) noodles, as well as offering udon noodles and other dishes. Their noodles are kneaded with a low water content, resulting in firmer texture, and are offered up with seasonal tempura toppings for a taste treat. They're famous for their visually stunning kakiage tempura fritter.
Atsumi Onsen Morning Market

2.5

8 Reviews

Shopping

Yamagata Tsuruoka-shi Yuatsumi

This Asa-ichi (morning market) is held at Atsumi Onsen Asa-ichi Hiroba in Atsumi, Tsuruoka City. From April through November, it runs every morning from 5:30 to 8:30. This morning market has a history going back to the Edo period, and it's filled with goods like local crafts, fresh local produce like the Yakibatake Atsumi Turnip, marine products, and more. The Hiru-ichi(afternoon market) event is also held every fourth Saturday of the month during that period.

朝５時３０分から８時３０分までの朝市。訪問時は雨交じりの天気だったこともあるのか、７時３０分頃訪問しましたが閑散としていました。地元の新鮮な野菜や魚などの品ぞろえがあったりするともっと活気づくのかと思いました。
Atsumi Onsen Hibiki Liquor

Shopping

Yamagata Tsuruoka-shi Yuatsumi Ko 261

This liquor shop is in Yuatsumi-ko, Tsuruoka City. They sell a selection of sake, including local brands, shochu, wine, beer and more. Among their selection are the two Atsumi-onsen only sakes Maya-san and Maya-hime, each made with rice grown with Goshimizu spring water from the foot of Mt. Maya.
Juichiya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Yamagata Tsuruoka-shi Fujinami 1-83-1

This Japanese confectionery is on national route 345 in Fujinami 1 Chome, Tsuruoka City. In business over 100 years, this venerable shop has preserved the traditional flavor of its famous Fujishima Manju buns since the Taisho period. They also offer up Junnama Roll cakes filled with whipped cream, as well as yokan bean jelly, yubeshi, cookies, and other treats.
Fruit Shop Aomoriya

4.0

39 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Yamagata Tsuruoka-shi Suehiromachi 7-24

The fruit shop sells fruit, sweets made with lots of fruit, fruit juice, tart, confiture, and dried fruit. The shop has a cafe space where customers can eat their sweets. Their most popular item is their tarts, which are made with lots of seasonal fruit. Other popular items include their Russian tea, which is served with their juicy and sweet confiture, as well as their fresh juice.

鶴岡駅前にある果物屋さん。マリカから見ると、ラーメン屋さんのような看板が目に入ります。店頭に、タルト販売部門があります。ブースに入って陳列棚を覗いていたら、「順番に聞くので後ろで待ってて」と言われてしまい、意気消沈。ルールだから仕方ないか。タルトが評判のようでふが、ケーキ屋さんではないし、今回は、フルーツゼリーが美味しそうだったので、そちらにしました。タルトより安いし、よかったです。
Cybele Tendo Shop

Gourmet / Alcohol

Yamagata Tendo-shi Kuwanomachi 1-3-18

This Tendo location of the Cybele chain of confectionary shops, which has several shops in Yamagata and Miyagi prefectures, sells rusks, baked sweets, fresh cakes, and other items. Its specialty is its Yamagata Imoni Rusk, a Japanese-style rusk inspired by imoni, a local potato stew of Yamagata. This sweet won the Grand Prize at the FY2018 Yamagata Furusato Food Contest. The Tendo branch features a bakery as well as an Italian cafe that serves pizzas straight out of its brick oven.
Farmers Market Tomato Tendo Store

Shopping

Yamagata Tendo-shi Kita

This consignment-style farmer’s market sells a wide variety of produce with a focus on vegetables harvested that day by local farmers in Tendo City. It also sells rice, flowers, edible wild plants, handmade sides, and farming supplies such as fertilizer, pesticides, and greenhouse materials. There is also a vendor outside of the market where customers can buy treats such as shaved ice and soft-serve ice cream.

Yamagata

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Yamagata Areas

Although often overlooked, Yamagata prefecture by no means lacks appeal: the Yamadera temple trail through the mountains, deliciously tender Yonezawa wagyu, and over 100 steaming hot springs, most notably Zao Onsen, await visitors. When winter comes, the snowcapped peaks become dotted with skiers by day and onsen-goers by night, while summer brings the celebration of juicy Yamagata cherries.