Shopping Spots in Fukushima Area

  • Kinomoto Lacquerwares and Crafts
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    4.0
    1 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Fukushima Kitakata-shi Tenmanmae 8859
    This folk craft shop is about a three-minute drive from Kitakata Station. They display and sell a variety of local Aizu Kitakata craft arts, including the exquisite makie lacquerware sprinkled with gold and silver, as well as glass art and kirinoko dolls made from paulownia sawdust. Their Makie Glass Crafts, which feature glass decorated using makie techniques from lacquerware, feature modern designs that fit well with current decorations. The clear, cool aura and cute designs of their beaded cellphone straps are popular with all kinds of customers. The second floor holds a display of kirinoko dolls, all individually hand-made from paulownia sawdust kneaded into ramen flour dough.

    離喜多方車站距離不遠, 走路約5到10分鐘的, 1樓有很多漆器物品賣, 2樓則類似展覽館, 有很多貓的漆器, 表現出各種不同的景, 如祭典之類的等等, 十分可愛, 來拜訪喜多方市的話, 是可以買伴手禮裝飾品送禮的好地方

  • Waingura
    Shopping
    Fukushima Kitakata-shi Kitamachi 2905
    This sake shop is in a remodeled warehouse from the early Meiji period. The warehouse uses a rare wooden interior, and it stands across from the Kitakata City Museum of Art. It is equipped with a wine cellar, and leaves the warehouses original stepper floor to help divide product types. The massive warehouse walls are excellent at helping control temperature and humidity, making them perfect for wine storage. The Multi Vita Vino fruit wine, made from 10 different fruits, has a lovely label and is perfect for gifting. The shop also has a full lineup of local sake and western spirits.
  • Kannoya Main Shop Bunsuke
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    4.5
    7 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukushima Koriyama-shi Nishitamachi Ota Miyaki Ta 39
    This is the main shop of confectionery Kannoya, a chain with locations all over the prefecture, centered around Koriyama. Located about a five-minute drive from Miharu Station, they offer up traditional Fukushima treats and seasonal Japanese sweets. Kaden Yubeshi are Kannoya's flagship treat, which are thinly rolled yubeshi mochi sheets with a dollop of sweet bean paste in the middle, that are then folded into ornate trifleur shapes, representing a crane in flight. They have a gentle hint of soy sauce to bring out the natural richness of the sweet bean paste aftertaste. The unique shape is inspired by legends saying that Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, ancestor of Miharu lord Tamura Yoshiaki, was raised by two red-crowned cranes.

    こちらのお店と郡山駅の中のお土産屋さん限定の生づつみゆべしを後者の店で買いました。 生地が柔らかく、美味しかったです。

  • Kaisei Kashiwaya
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    4.5
    7 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukushima Koriyama-shi Asahi 1-13-5
    This shop is managed by venerable confectionery Kashiwaya, which dates back to 1852. Located to the northeast of Kaiseizan park, a famous cherry blossom spot, they offer traditional sweets and seasonal fresh treats. The gently sweet Usukawa Manju buns are counted among the three best manju in Japan. They have two versions, one with smooth, creamy koshian bean paste, and another with coarsely crushed tsubuan bean paste. Both are available individually or in sets. Their Seiro Usukawa set is packed in a towering wooden steamer box, making for a delightful gift. They also offer Usukawa Manju Making activities, where you can spend around 40 minutes learning to make the treats yourself (reservations required).

    柏屋は、郡山銘菓薄皮饅頭が有名な店です。郡山駅ナカにあるエスパルの中でも購入できますが、こちらはお茶をいただいたり、店の雰囲気を味わうこと画できるのも嬉しいです。駅からはちょっと遠くて、バスの利用をお勧めします。郡山市役所のすぐ近くです。

  • Shinanoya Confectionery
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukushima Koriyama-shi Atamimachi Atami 1-94-2
    "This confectioner is located in Bandai-Atami Hot Spring town, called the ""retreat of Koriyama."" It's about an eight-minute walk from Bandai-Atami Station, and the shop is filled with a good old-fashioned Showa atmosphere where they offer handmade, additive-free daifuku mochi treats. They use Fukushima-grown adzuki beans to offer an elegant sweetness in daifuku marked by their soft, fluffy texture. It offers up fresh-made mochi that's not too loose or too firmly compacted. They offer standard coarse-crushed tsubuan bean paste and smooth koshian paste, as well as whole-bean filling, and minced green soybean paste for a full selection that often sells out by noon."
  • Kumatapan Honpo
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    5.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukushima Sukagawa-shi Higashimachi 53-5
    This Japanese confectionery is in the center of Sukagawa. Located about 500 meters from Sukagawa city office, it offers up Kumatapan, considered soul food by the locals, as well as a range of other treats. Kumatapan, with its crisp outside and moist inside texture, is made by mixing brown sugar water into wheat flour and kneading it to a dough, then wrapping it around smooth sweet bean paste before baking. The treats retain their old-fashioned taste developed after the Second World War, when sugar was finally freely available again. The makers adjust the brown sugar levels depending on the day's temperature and humidity, making sure they always get the perfect puffy texture.

    以前にお土産で頂きとても美味しかったので、来週の帰省に合わせて友人家族にお土産として買いに行きました。 くまたぱんと言っても、パンはなく中はあんこで、その周りを黒糖で覆い、さらに白砂糖が、まぶしてあります。そんなに甘くなく、私は黒糖好きなので、気に入りました。欲を言えば一個ずつ個装になっていたら食べやすいと思います。

  • Funabashiya Main Store
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukushima Soma-shi Nakamura Omachi 73
    This long-standing confectioner first opened in 1888. Located some 500-meters from the Soma City Government Office they offer traditional Japanese sweets, top quality fresh seasonal confections, baked goods that make for perfect presents, and more. The specialty of this authenticity-oriented shop is their Madoka Manju which features a gentle elasticity and springy outer dough. They offer two varieties, each carefully and individually made, one with a strained red bean paste filling with a brown sugar dough wrapping and the other with a white bean paste filling with a miso dough wrapping. Their Irodori sculpted seasonal mochi treats are a beautiful confection that make for the perfect gift.
  • Aizu Hongo Seto Ceramics Fair
    Shopping
    Fukushima Onuma-gun Aizumisatomachi Setomachi Ko 3162
    A special event that is held on the first Sunday of August. Nearly 100 stalls are lined up along Setomachi-dori Street, the town's main street, offering Aizu-hongo ware, lacquerware, locally grown agricultural goods, and more. The festival dates back to the late Meiji period when the disciples of the Aizu-hongo Pottery studios sold their wares on the road as souvenir for people worshipping the annual festival at Hachiyoji Temple in Aizuwakamatsu City. The event, with people gathering the early morning to buy functional and beautiful potteries just as they were in the past, has become popular as the summer tradition in Aizu.
  • Tamanashi Tofu Chaya
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    3.5
    9 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukushima Onuma-gun Kaneyamamachi Tamanashi
    A tofu shop in the Kaneyama and Tamanashi area, Oku-Aizu, still considered to be an unexplored region. They offer authentic handmade tofu made with Oku-Aizu Centennial Water that springs from deep within the mountains. Their fresh tofu, made with carefully selected locally grown green soybeans and bittern gathered from natural salt fields, has a vibrant top-quality flavor that gradually exposes the sweetness of the soybeans in your mouth. The shop is located within a kominka-style Japanese residence and you can enjoy their Tamanashi Gozen Meal which comes with Yose Tofu (soft tofu), Namaage (deep-fried tofu), Okara (tofu dregs), and donuts. Alongside their handmade tofu which can't be had anywhere else they also offer soy milk soft-serve ice cream and tofu dregs donuts so many people stop by while driving.

    国道400号沿い、金山町にある豆腐料理店です。枝豆から作った豆腐などの小売もやっていて、お土産に持ち帰って湯豆腐にして食べました。特別な味がするほどではないのですが、確りと丁寧に造ってあり、素材の良さを感じました。 豆腐もさることながら、ブナ林の奥から湧いてきる名水は、大きなペットボトルの水を捨てて入替えて持ち帰って良かったと思いました。とても柔らかく仄かな甘みを感じるような、正しく甘露という表...

  • Miharu Shoshindo
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukushima Tamura-gun Miharumachi Shinmachi 160-4
    A long-standing Japanese confectioner said to have been founded during the mid-Meiji period. They make and sell seasonal sweets and treats for various auspicious events, including Miharu's specialty Otari-Manju . During the period of upheaval, the shop was established next to the Miharu horse market and the Otari-Manju gained popularity amongst the horse dealers that visited the city. It comes in two varieties with both smooth and coarse red bean paste. The thin-skinned manju made with local miso and soy sauce is a classic Miharu souvenir that can't be had anywhere else. Also popular are their authentic yokan jelly made with local adzuki beans and their Mame-Daifuku made with salted boiled red peas.
  • Fureru Iwaseya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukushima Tamura-gun Miharumachi Nakamachi 38
    A Japanese and western-style confectioner located along National Route 288 about a five-minute drive from Miharu Station. At this shop in the center of Miharu you'll find sweets one by one made with care and devotion. One of their popular treats is their adorable Sakura Sable shortbread cookie which both looks like a cherry blossom flower and has salted cherry blossoms included in the batter. You can buy just one or a bundle and they make for the perfect Miharu souvenir. Other popular treats include their Miharu Takizakura, a cherry blossom shaped baked treat with a coarse red bean paste inside, and their Miharu Pie, a crispy pie filled with white beans paste, walnuts, and raisins.
  • Hanakago
    Travel / Tourism
    Fukushima Tamura-gun Miharumachi Nakamachi 4
    Part of a project to revitalize the town center by renovating three old warehouses in the Nakamachi area of Miharu Town. It now serves as a tourist information center for Miharu Town as well as a souvenir shop that offers a wide arrangement of goods from traditional handicrafts to local foodstuffs. They also sell the local sake Miharu-Goma including Miharu-Goma Black Label which is only available in the Miharu region.
  • Nikoniko Bakery
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukushima Tamura-shi Ogoemachi Kamiogoe Moto Ike 52
    A bakery offering soft fluffy bread made with delicious dough that everyone can enjoy. Bread is not sold at the bakery but can be found in the York Benimaru in Ono Town, Ono Plaza, and Funahiki, in the Lion D'or in Koriyama Higashi and Funahiki, the Abukuma Kogen SA, and a variety of other shops in Funahiki, Takine, Okoshi, Miyakoji, and Tokiwa. They also offer popular special cakes for Christmas and birthdays made by reservation only.
  • Shimogo Town Local Products Center
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    3.5
    5 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Shimogomachi Yagoshima
    A shop selling fresh picked agricultural goods from the Minami-Aizu region, primarily from Shimogo Town. They offer a wide variety of goods from local processed goods to local liquors and sake as well as folk crafts and handicrafts. They also offer Aizu's endemic local Aizu-jidori poultry. There's also a restaurant where you can enjoy a variety of local dishes including 100% Shimogo Town grown buckwheat soba noodles, Aizu-jidori chicken curry, and a special trout burger made with the local specialty trout.

    国道121号 沿いにある、まちの駅です(道の駅ではありません)。 地元の農作物やお土産が陳列されています。 お蕎麦屋さんも併設されています。 今回は、向かいにある笹屋皆川製菓の倉村まんじゅう、そして花豆パイを買いました。

  • Tamokaku Hon no Mise
    Shopping
    Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Tadamimachi Narato Tsubaki 61
    This book store features a unique system in which individuals can become owners of a plot of forest land by selling old books. This program was launched in 1994 with a goal of preserving the naturally-blessed mountain forests of Tadami by allowing people to become owners of the forest in exchange for their old books. It is possible to exchange a certain amount of books, DVDs, and other similar items assessed at 10% of their retail price for one tsubo (approximately 3.31 square meters) of forest.
  • Aizu Tajima no Kinokoya
    Shopping
    Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Minamiaizumachi Seki
    This shop manufactures and sells processed foods made with foraged ingredients such as edible wild vegetables and mushrooms as well as a number of regional dishes of the Aizu region. The shop makes its products in the old-fashioned way, sparing no effort in order to carefully preserve the inherent flavors of the ingredients. We recommend their Yamaudo Abura-itame, which consists of fried and seasoned mountain asparagus, a wild plant known for its unique fragrance and slight bitterness. We also recommend their Fukinoto Miso, which consists of young giant butterbur shoots blended with Aizu country-style miso paste.
  • Oze No Sato Koryu Center Souvenir Store
    Travel / Tourism
    Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Hinoematamura Mizuri 1155-1
    This shop offers a variety of specialties of Hinoemata Village and also features an attached restaurant. Recommended souvenirs include their Mizu Sayaka gelatins, which are made with Oze's cool and clear water, Iyo Miso, Hatto (buckwheat and rice pounded mochi), and more. Iyo miso, a dish long eaten in Hinoemata Village, is made by mixing miso paste with grilled and shredded char. It is often eaten as a topping on rice or rice cakes and also makes a great snack to go with alcoholic beverages.
  • Tamakawaya
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    4.5
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukushima Nihonmatsu-shi Take Onsen 1-13
    This Japanese confectionary shop in Dake Hot Spring has been making its bean paste-filled Kuroganeyaki pastries by hand the same way it first did in 1948. The confection was presented to Prince Takamatsu when he visited the area on ski trips in 1955 and 1957. Another one of the shop's notable products is its peach paste-filled Sakurazaka, which won the Sado Iemoto Prize at the 23rd National Confectionary Exposition. All of the shop's many products make great souvenirs.

    和菓子屋さん。 くろがね焼きと味噌饅頭が人気のようです。 クレジットカードや電子マネーを利用することができます。

  • Fukufukuwa Honpo
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    4.5
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukushima Fukushima-shi Matsunamicho 4-18
    This confectionary shop established in 1956 is best known for its Fukufukuwa Manju buns, which won the grand prize at the 1984 National Confectionary Exposition. Another of its many other popular products is their Fukufukushu cream puffs, which comes in two great varieties; the lightly-flavored white cream and the popular chocolate cream. Yet another is their soft Fukushima Yakyoku pastries, which feature a filling of syrup-pickled apples.

    2019年7月、福島競馬場近くの福福和本舗へ行って来ました。店内にはカフェスペースもありました。いろんなお菓子を試食できるのも嬉しかったです。吾妻っこ(1個150円税別)を購入しました。

  • Watanabe Orchard
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Fukushima Fukushima-shi Niida Kitajima 19
    This fruit farm offers fruit picking relatively close to central Fukushima City. It is located about five kilometers west of Fukushima Station and about two kilometers north of Fukushima Nishi Interchange on the Tohoku Expressway. The farm specializes in peaches, a specialty of Fukushima, of which it grows 18 varieties (and more than 30 varieties if you include saplings). It also grows 10 varieties of cherry and one variety of apple (as well as two additional varieties that serve as pollenizers). The farm takes great pride in the diversity of the fruit it grows. It is possible to enjoy cherry picking starting around early June and peach picking starting around mid-July. The farm also sells cherries, peaches, and apples and will even offers home delivery service.

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