Shopping Spots in Yamagata Area

  • Okuyama Seifujo
    Shopping
    Yamagata Higashine-shi Rokuta 2-5-24
    Founded in 1919, Okuyama Wheat Gluten Plant has continued to produce traditional Rokuta wheat gluten, a food that has been manufactured in the Rokuta District, Higashine City, since the Edo Period (1615-1868). It is located about a five-minute drive south of JR Sakuranbo Higashine Station along Prefectural Route 120. Made with high-quality wheat and the famous water of the Satake Well. Okuyama wheat gluten is firm like chewing gum and has an al dente texture. In addition to the famous local toasted gluten, the shop sells rusks, Manju (steamed buns), and other confections made with wheat gluten. Since the shop also serves free samples with tea to visitors, it is an easily accessible and relaxing rest stop on a road trip.
  • Takahata Chisankan Shop
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    4.0
    1 Reviews
    Shopping
    Yamagata Higashiokitama-gun Takahatamachi Fukuzawa 7-1072
    Takahata Chisankan is a local products retail facility located in Takahata Roadside Station along National Route 13. Visitors can buy cherries and okahijiki “land seaweed” grown in Yamagata Prefecture, Yamagata branded rice Tsuya-Hime, wine and other local organic agricultural products and processed foods made by local farmers. Some of the products are sold by weight, so that customers can buy as much or as little as they want. Takahata Chisankan prides itself on maintaining shops that sell “select foods” that cannot be found in other farmers’ markets or supermarkets.

    「たかはた地産館」は、地元、有機農業の里「たかはた」をはじめ近隣の川西・飯豊・南陽の農産物・加工食品などを集めています。無添加の調味料、手作りの無添加漬物、無添加ソーセージ、オーガニックジャム、こだわりの美味しい商品を多数取り揃え、他の直売所、スーパーには無い「食のセレクトショップ」を目指しているそうです。

  • Jindan Honpo Oe, Akayu branch
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Yamagata Nanyo-shi Mima Dori 37-5
    Jindan Honpo Oe selling traditional confections is located just a ten-minute walk from JR Akayu Station. “Jindan” is the name in the local Okitama dialect for a paste made from mashed green soybeans and sugar. The same sweet is called “Nuta” in Yamagata City and “Zunda” in Miyagi Prefecture. To make the sweet paste, two varieties of soybeans from Yamagata Prefecture are used, but the only additives are sugar and salt. The shop's flagship product is Ganso Jindan Manju (original Jindan bun), a generous portion of Jindan encased in a thin “skin” of rice dough.
  • Matsukawa Bento Shop
    Shopping
    Yamagata Yonezawa-shi Arcadia 1-808-20
    Just a five-minute drive from the JR Yonezawa Station, this Historic store has been making eki-bento box lunches for travelers since the Ou Line first opened up in 1899, and has grown along with the train station. Their specialty is the gyuniku dojo box lunch, made with beef marinated in their secret sauce topped over fresh fluffy rice with beef crumbs. The Yonezawagyu Sumibiyaki Special Calbi Bento is recommended for its high grade sparerib beef grilled over an open flame. Their box lunches are not only sold at the Yonezawa station store, but inside Tokyo station, and have also been entered in national Ekibento competitions. These box lunches can also be ordered for catering events.
  • Toge no Chikara Mochi (Yonezawa Store)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Yamagata Yonezawa-shi Ekimae 3-4-9
    Just a three-minute walk from the JR Yonezawa Station, this Japanese confectionery store is a franchise of the main store, well-known for vending at the Touge-eki station on the JR Ou Line. Their specialty, Tougeno-chikaramochi envelopes sweet bean paste with freshly kneaded mochi, and is a popular item sold in the Yamagata bullet train. They also sell a type of daifuku sweet, anbin, awamochi with bean paste, and dango-mochi with four different types of sauce, like miso dengaku. The shop only uses sticky mochi rice, himenomochi, produced in Yamagata prefecture. To preserve the soft texture, it is recommended that the confections be eaten on the same day.
  • Yonezawa Kinokuniya
    Shopping
    Yamagata Yonezawa-shi Marunouchi 1-6-2
    This is a Yonezawagyu beef specialty store situated in front of the north entrance way to the Uesugi Jinja Shrine. Although there is an abundant variety of processed beef products, custom cuts and orders of Yonezawagyu beef are welcome too. One of its specialties that make a good gift, pickled Yonezawagyu shoyu kojizuke, marinates the beef in soy sauce and rice malt which enhances the beef flavor. The soft salami made with Yonezawagyu is a distinctively delectable spicy black peppered beef. It also makes an excellent gift item because it keeps at ambient temperatures for days.
  • Shinkineya
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    4.5
    38 Reviews
    Shopping
    Yamagata Yonezawa-shi Higashi 3-1-1
    This ekiben box lunch vendor, located in front of the JR Yonezawa Station, is directly operated by the historic original ekiben shop known for the gyuniku domannaka beef bowl, a Yonezawa specialty. In addition to the standard sweet and spicy soy flavored gyuniku domannaka beef bowl topped with plenty of beef crumbles and marinated beef, the salt-flavored, the miso-flavored versions, and the combination 3-flavored version, sanmi-gyuniku domannaka, are also recommended. The long-selling kurimeshi bento rice bowl topped with chestnuts and shiitake is also popular. The shop also sells local specialty foods, cherries, Yonezawagyu and tsukemono pickles for souvenir gifts.

    山形駅、新幹線ホームにあるニューディズで買いました。味付けは3種類あって、今回はみそ味を購入。ちょっと甘い味付けでお肉も柔らかくて美味しかったです。ご飯の量もちょうど良かったです。 この次は違う味にチャレンジしたいです。

  • Yonezawa Textile Direct Sales Store Origin
    Shopping
    Yamagata Yonezawa-shi Montomachi 1-1-87
    About 10 minutes from the Yonezawa Chuo Interchange off the Tohoku Chuo Expressway via National Route 121, this Yonezawa textiles shop is on the first floor of the Yonezawa Textiles History Museum, annexed to the Yoneori Kaikan hall. Yonezawa-ori weave, a simple yet warm hand-woven fabric, declared by Uesugi Yozan, as that which rebuilt the economy of the Uesugi dynasty. One can purchase obi ties, fabric, bags, fans, and other sundries such as business card cases at the museum shop. The iridescent neko-jacquard shawl, designed with a cat-pattern that changes colors depending on its angle, was even featured on television and was selected as a thank you-gift item for hometown tax payers.
  • Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Experience Center Sanyu
    Shopping
    Yamagata Akumi-gun Yuzamachi Yoshide Kanemata 239-5
    About 20 minutes by car from the Sakata Minato Interchange off the Nihonkai Tohoku Expressway, at this center one can buy locally grown produce and products here at the foot of Mt. Chokai. On the premises is a water supply area where one can refill and take home spring water, Chokai Sanshin-no-Mizu, from Chokai. At the eatery, one can enjoy handmade soba noodles made from Kanamata buckwheat. (Open only on Saturdays and Sundays). One can join a soba-making or sasamaki-making workshops that are offered as well (by reservation). At the small from farm direct-to-market sales corner visitors can purchase soba flour, vegetables and local products, luffa moisturizing lotions, soaps and other useful bamboo charcoal items. Portions of the property can also be rented for those who want to experience growing crops.
  • COSTCOWHOLESALE Kaminoyama Warehouse
    Shopping
    Yamagata Kaminoyama-shi Miharashi no Oka 21
  • AEON MALL Tendo
    Shopping
    Yamagata Tendo-shi Haga Town Kita 4-1-1
  • Kiyokawa Ya Sakata Eki
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    3.5
    17 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Yamagata Sakata Saiwaicho 1-1-1

    酒田駅併設の山形の地酒やお菓子などを売るお土産店。中にイートインスペースがあり、地ビールや玉こんにゃく、アイスクリームなどが食べられます。列車やバスの待ち時間に利用するとよいと思います。

  • AEON MALL Yamagata Minami
    Shopping
    Yamagata Yamagata Wakamiya 3-7-8
  • Yamako Building
    Life / Living / Hospital
    Yamagata Yamagata-shi Kasumicho 3-2-1
  • AEON MALL Mikawa
    Shopping
    Yamagata Higashitagawa-gun Mikawamachi Inoko 128-1
  • AEON Yonezawa
    Shopping
    Yamagata Yonezawa-shi Kasuga 2-13-4
  • AEON Higashine
    Shopping
    Yamagata Higashine-shi Sakuranbo Ekimae 3-7-15
  • Farm Fresh Mikawa
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    3.0
    3 Reviews
    Shopping
    Yamagata Higashitagawa-gun Mikawamachi Inoko Ozeki Bata 314-3

    小腹が空き立ち寄りました。産直内に有る食堂で、産直内レジで前金、厨房にオーダーカード渡す感じ。かけそは¥260円お新香付き。トッピングで天かすは別盛り可能。麺が乱切りで歯応えが有り、超コスパ美味しく頂きました。

  • AEON Mikawa
    Shopping
    Yamagata Higashitagawa-gun Mikawamachi Inoko 128-1
  • Tokyo interior Yamagata
    Shopping
    Yamagata Yamagata-shi Hamazaki 100

Yamagata Areas

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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.

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