Bread / Dessert / Other Food Shop Spots in Yamagata Area

  • Senbon Dango
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    4.5
    44 Reviews
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    Yamagata Pref. Kitamurayamagunoishidamachi Oishida Otsu 76
    This dango dumpling shop is on Prefectural Route 30 in Otsu Oishida, Oishida Town. They sell dumplings made without additives like sugar and enzymes and their catchphrase Hard Dumplings Tomorrow speaks to the high quality. The name Senbon Dango comes from having sold 1,000 dango skewers in a single day. They also sell hidendaizu tofu made with Yamagata Prefecture grown hiden soybeans and natural nigari bittern.

    I dont have much experience in the world of Dango, but I can safely say that nothing Ive encountered comes close to the quality of the Dango here. I stopped by after a trip to Kaneyama and...

  • Yamagata Kanko Bussan Kaikan, Gutto Yamagata
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    Yamagata Pref. Yamagatashi Omotezaou 68
    Located just off the Yamagata Kaminoyama Interchange on the Tohoku Chuo Expressway, Yamagata Kanko Bussan Kaikan “Gutto Yamagata” is a tourist destination with many attractive features. Special attractions include The Street of 100-Year-Old Shops and the sections where Yamagata saké and other famous food ingredients and products from Yamagata Prefecture. Just inside the entrance is an event plaza, where local governments, businesses, and others in the prefecture hold events daily as efforts to promote Yamagata.
  • Ninosaka Chaya
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    4.5
    25 Reviews
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    Yamagata Pref. Tsuruokashi Haguromachitouge Haguroyama
    A 30-minute walk from Hagurosan Zuishinmon Gate, this popular tea house is located on Ninosaka hill on the approach to Mt. Haguro. Ninosaka is the longest and steepest of all the approach paths to Mt. Haguro. On the left side going up is “Ninosaka Chaya.” Pestle-ground daily, the recommended “chikara mochi” is strong mochi with soy flour and red bean paste, coupled with matcha tea. The pestle–ground strong texture is popular with temple visitors. Also, you can see all of Shonai plains from the tea house, and on a clear day, you get the gorgeous sight of the Sea of Japan all the way out to Tobishima.

    Located halfway up Hagurosan this restaurant/tea house provides welcome respite from the climb. We had a refreshing cup of matcha, took in the view and caught our breath for the rest of the walk...

  • Koshikakean
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    4.5
    57 Reviews
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    Yamagata Pref. Tendoushi Kitame 1-6-11
    Koshikakean is a Japanese-style confectionery store run from a more than 100 year old building in Tendo City. The shop sells Japanese confectionery like their jouman, or sake bun. The bun itself is made with ginjoushu sake and sake lees and is stuffed with fine-grained sweet bean paste. Other sweets include their light and fluffy warabi mochi. Koshikakean was also famous for its kakigori, or shaved ice, which was so popular there were always too many customers in the shop which forced it to stop selling the ice cones. They have however begun to sell kakigori again at a sister store, available only in the summer time, and it is still as popular with customers now as it ever was.

    An unassuming domestic dwelling tucked into a small alley - housed this traditional dessert shop with a long heritage - which took us a while to find it. A block away from Dewazakura Museum, it...

  • Ai to Pan
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    4.0
    8 Reviews
    Shopping
    Yamagata Pref. Yonezawashi Matsugasaki 1-1-14
    The orange facade of this bakery in Matsugasaki, Yonezawa City makes it easy to find. They sell freshly baked bread made with homemade natural yeast and no additives. Their sandwiches made with pesticide-free vegetables they've grown themselves make it popular for healthy food for kids. They also offer original baked goods in the shape of frogs and snails break the bakers' mold.

    小さいパン屋の割に、パンの種類が色々ありました。人気のウサギパンも残っていて、購入できました。マイバック持参で10円安くなりました。

  • Shoseido, Yamadera Shop
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    Yamagata Pref. Yamagatashi Yamadera 4437
    This is a Japanese confectionery shop in Yamadera, Yamagata City. Their signature item, Morokoshi sweet, is filled with azuki beans and is branded with the Yamadera name. The historic Morokoshi, a pleasant smelling mildly sweet bean cake, won an award at the 19th National Confectionery Exposition, and is said to be popular even with people who are not fond of sweets. The well-known Yamadera cakes and kintsuba are also sold here.
  • Kimuraya Main Store
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    Yamagata Pref. Tsuruokashi Sannoumachi 9-25
    This is a Japanese and western confectionary shop in Sanno-machi, Tsuruoka City. Founded in 1887, this shop was Yamagata's first bakery. The original Kimuraya Bakery Store in Tokyo graciously shared its name with the first-generation bakery at that time. In addition to their signature item sakedane anpan, a sake yeast sweet adzuki-bean pastry, they sell a series of dadaccha soybean confections including dadacchamame uemon, and kokyo, a beanpaste and jellied sweet, as well as anniversary cake.
  • Holland Sembei Factory
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    4.0
    16 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Yamagata Pref. Sakatashi Ryouchou 2-24
    This is the main factory of Sakata Beika, the maker of rice crackers since 1951 located in Ryou-cho, Sakata City. Here, the trademark Holland sembei crackers are made, as well as the kagami sembei and usuyaki-shokunin chibisuke crackers. A 395 meter section is dedicated to the Holland sembei Factory, out of the 545-meter-long factory. Visitors can observe, shop, enjoy the cafe, or even try their hand at making the crackers.

    Oranda Senbei is the name of the factory that makes the famous Sakata rice crackers sold in New Zealand and Australia, and they have an excellent factory tour where you can even bake your own rice...

  • Tanno Konnyaku Konnyaku Bansho
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    Yamagata Pref. Kaminoyamashi Minazawa Suwa 608-1
    Tanno Konnyaku specializes in the Asian vegetable known as konnyaku and is located along the Ushu Highway in Minazawa Suwamae in the city of Kaminoyama. It serves multicourse traditional meals centered on konnyaku, especially the round konnyaku that Yamagata Prefecture is famous for. In its retail shop, customers can buy prepared treats, such konnyaku glazed with miso and grilled, konnyaku basted with a sweet soy sauce and grilled on a stick, and a chewy treat called Mochikon.
  • Sweets & Cafe Bon coeur
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    Yamagata Sagae-shi Seisukeshinden 72-9
    This western confectionery store is located along National Route 379 in Seisuke Shinden, Sagae City. It uses seasonal ingredients (fruit and vegetables, etc.) and produces and sells Western sweets such as seasonal cakes and a chiffon cake that changes each month. You can enjoy a variety of different cakes each season.
  • Parlor Shiraitonotaki
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    Yamagata Mogami-gun Tozawamura Furukuchi Tsuchiyu 1495-1
    This parlor established beside the Shiraito no Taki Drive-in is located along National Route 47 in Furukuchi Tsuchiyu, TozawaVillage, Mogami County. It faces the Mogami River, and offers visitors a lunch menu as well as dessert in a shop with a view on Shiraito Falls, which has been selected as one of the Japan's Top 100 Waterfalls. Visitors can enjoy pork fried with ginger and fillet burgers made with Komenokobuta, the branded pork from Yamagata, as well as Neapolitan pasta with seafood and special beef curry.
  • Chanomi-dokoro IWABUCHI
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    Yamagata Yamagata-shi Nanukamachi 2-7-6
    This cafe is on national route 112 in Nanuka-machi 2-Chome, Yamagata City. It's attached to teashop Iwabuchi, which was founded in the Meiji period. You can enjoy different teas like sencha, gyokuro, and matcha along with Japanese style confections, and they also offer treats made with tea, like anmitsu dessert and soft-serve ice cream.
  • Noshiume Honpo Satoya
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    4.5
    4 Reviews
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    Yamagata Yamagata-shi Tokamachi 3-10-36
    This Japanese confectionery is on national route 112 in Toka-machi 3-Chome, Yamagata City. It carries on the traditional of flavor and skill passed down for about 190 years, since the late Edo Period. They make and sell Japanese treats, including Noshiume, made only with ripe ume plums, sugar, kanten jelly, and mizuame syrup. It also boasts of a long history as a Western style confectioner, selling treats like cookies and jellies.

    soranomukou というビューティなお菓子をいただきにけり マイクロバブリーがええ感じにはいって まふ ぁらあげをつぃって いただきにけり ぶちうまやったんやよ 美味しくいただきましたーーo(`^´*)

  • Rikyu
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    4.5
    4 Reviews
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    Yamagata Yamagata-shi Zao Onsen 34
    This Minshuku hotel is in Yamagata city's Zao Onsen area. It's within a minute's walk of all three public baths in Zao Onsen town. They offer meals including hand-made soba and ramen, and overnight guests can try Zao Onsen's famous Genghis Khan Mongolian mutton barbecue at dinner.

    山口餅屋界隈は食事処と民宿を営む店がひしめき合っていた。全体的に古い地区ではあるが、心温まる接客と家庭的な雰囲気が売りである。利休でもジンギスカン推しであった。山形はジンギスカン発祥地であるからだ

  • Yamadaya
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    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
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    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.
  • Yutorian
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    3.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Yamagata Shinjo-shi Otemachi 5-51
    This sweets shop is in Otemachi, Shinjo City. This venerable shop, run by a sweet bean paste maker, offers up delicious treats made with additive-free bean paste to enjoy in the heat of their open hearth. Their popular Nodoyake Dango dish, featuring eight dumplings with one loaded up with wasabi, is based on a local folk tale, “Nodoyake Dangoyama.”

    甘いお豆さん、福豆、黒豆、スーパーで売ってるような、真空パックのお豆さんが400円代、たしかにチョット、高いですね。でも、おいしいですから。そして、その豆を使った。水ようかん等の和菓子、これまた、おいしいですから。本物はおいしいですって。

  • Anchin-do
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    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.
  • Juichiya
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    3.0
    1 Reviews
    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.

    鶴岡市藤島にある街道沿いの老舗和洋菓子店。「藤島まんじゅう」の味噌味(醤油だそうだが)はやみつきになるほど美味い。しかし、ほかの菓子は粉のまとまりやしっとり感が今一で、甘さもそっけない感じ。

  • Fruit Shop Aomoriya
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    4.0
    36 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.

    This fruit shop has a coffee shop upstairs serving fruit tarts and drinks. The modern white interior on three levels lend the cafe a bright atmosphere, even on a grey day. The fruit tarts are very...

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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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