Groceries Spots in Murakami / Shibata Area

  • Iwafune Minato Fresh Fish Center
    Shopping
    Niigata Murakami-shi Senami Onsen 3-6-38
  • Sennenzake Kikkawa
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    4.5
    67 Reviews
    Shopping
    Nigata Pref. Murakamishi Omachi 1-20
    Sennenzake Kikkawa is a long established store which sells salmon products located in Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture, famous for its salmon. Over 100 kinds of recipes involving salmon remain to this day. The store was founded in 1626 as a wholesaler of rice, but after handling fermented food products such as miso, soy sauce, and sake, the shop turned its attention to the production and selling of salmon products. There is a countless number of salmon hanging from the rafters in the extremely historical shop building with salmon and salmon roe products, produced without any additives, displayed within. Their most popular product is the salted salmon, cured for about one month.

    今年の3月も、おひな様を見に来ました。ぶら下がっている新巻き鮭も圧巻です。江戸時代からのおひな様も惜しげなく展示されています。日本酒を一本買いました。

  • Yukido Chuo-dori Shop
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Niigata Shibata-shi Tsukioka Onsen 231
    This shop makes select Japanese and Western-style confections and is located in Tsukioka Onsen, a hot spring district which was established in 1915. The Chuo-dori location makes and sells Western-style sweets. Particularly popular are the Lemon Bijin; these vaunted confectionary masterpieces consist of two types of lemon chocolate covered with a thick, moist cake outer coating. The treat is a revised version of the shop’s lemon cake, a favorite from long ago, now reappearing as a seasonal item. The cake contains lemon peel, and a refreshing lemony fragrance fills the air the moment you peel back the wrapper. Sold in the middle of Japan’s sultry summer, customers are encouraged to cool the confection before enjoying it.
  • Tsuki no Oka
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Niigata Shibata-shi Tsukioka Onsen 408 Wakuwaku Farm
    A trend-setting confectionary shop located just beyond the hustle and bustle of the Tsukioka Onsen hot spring district, the inner parlor of Echigo. Operating out of a century-old Japanese home moved to this location, the shop sells Japanese and Western-style confections made with local ingredients. Vaunted Yu Bijin Manju are made and sold by long-standing manju shop Yukido inside the establishment; these exquisite confections are made with molasses crafted from Okinawan kokuto brown sugar mixed with Yoshinohonkudzu and covered with a melt-in-your-mouth outer cake coating. In the middle of Japan’s sultry summer, customers are encouraged to cool them in a refrigerator before eating. The cream cheese-filled Tsukioka Cheese Manju; and Shio Daifuku dumplings, made with salt harvested on the Sasagawa Nagare coast, both made by Mochidokoro Maikiya, are also popular.
  • premium SENBEI DEN
    Shopping
    Niigata Shibata-shi Tsukioka Onsen 562-1
    A Niigata senbei rice cracker-themed, activity-oriented shop. Situated in a corner of the Tsukioka Onsen hot spring district, here you can enjoy hand-toasting and decorating senbei. The rice cracker broiler in the center of the establishment can be used to toast an oban senbei cracker decorated with your own unique design. The shop provides special balloon packaging to protect your fresh-toasted cracker from breakage when you take it home. The senbei crackers sold in the shop are discount broken senbei that were not suitable for selling as a regular product shipped straight from the factory. They may not be the prettiest, but they still taste just as good, and they often sell out in moments.
  • Izumiya
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    4.5
    4 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Niigata Shibata-shi Chuocho 2-1-17
    A Japanese confectionary shop standing right in between Shibata City Hall and Niigata Prefectural Shibata Hospital. This shop has been making confections according to the same unchanged, traditional recipes since 1890. The shop’s signature Goma Manju buns are made with high grade Hokkaido adzuki bean paste tenderly wrapped in pounded top class Niigata millet mochi. Made with great attention paid to how the mochi is pounded, the sesame seeds are toasted, and even the degree to which they are ground, from the time they are children local residents love these confections’ simple, unchanged flavor. The Kurumi Ganjiki, made with domestic walnuts known for their pleasant aftertaste coated in mizuame syrup and wrapped in fragrant sushi nori, is a traditional Shibata confection passed down unchanged since long ago. They are also known as “sazare-iwa.”

    老舗のお菓子屋さんで商店街にあります。ごま饅頭をたべましたが、ごまのおはぎのような感じで美味しかったです。ごまは、甘さ控えめですが、中のあんこがちょうどよい甘さでした。甘さがもっとほしい方のために追加の砂糖がついてきます。

  • Rokusai-ichi Market
    Shopping
    Niigata Murakami-shi Sannocho 1-1 Surrounding area
    A market held on every day of the month ending in a “2” or a “7.” The market’s name translates to “the market of six celebrations,” a reference to the number of times it is held each month. Held continuously since 1919, the market consists of some 150 stalls stretching from Oshagiri Hall (Murakami History Museum) to an alley in Sanno-cho. Here you can find a wide variety of things for sale, including seasonal fresh vegetables, seafood, local specialty products, edible wild plants, and fresh flowers. Even today, the market serves as the pantry of Murakami and bustles with customers. You can also find stalls selling everyday essentials you’d never see in a souvenir store, and many locals as well as tourists can be seen in the market.
  • Masujin
    Shopping
    Nigata Pref. Murakamishi Omachi 1-19
    Masujin is a liquor store located in Omachi, Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture. Its long history saw it start out as a sake brewery until 1945 when it merged to become the Taiyo Sake Brewery. The shop, built within the old town houses, is registered as a tangible cultural property of Japan and here visitors can see the sake bottles such as the ‘Sakabune’ and ‘Binbo-tokkuri’ which once held the precious liquid. The shop sells a variety of local sake including the premium sake Shiun Taiyozakari which is only sold in Murakami City.
  • Sosendo
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nigata Pref. Murakamishi Omachi 3-5
    Located in Omachi, Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture, Sosendo is a well-established Japanese confectionery shop that has been running since the Edo period. The main building built in 1893 was designated as a tangible cultural property of Japan, and still has the same old townhouse building style intact including the vaulted Japanese-style sitting room, old beams, and a sunken hearth. The shop has a variety of different confectioneries and cakes such as the Murakami specialty, Budokan, as well as fresh seasonal cakes and yokan (adzuki-bean jelly). Their Sake-no-kirimi rakugan (hard candy) which looks just like a fillet of salmon is a typical confection considering Murakami is known as the place of salmon.
  • Nakamuraya
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    4.0
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nigata Pref. Iwafunegunsekikawamura Yusawa 408-1
    Nakamuraya is a long-established Japanese-style confectionery shop in the Takase Onsen spa town in Sekikawa Village, Iwafune County, Niigata Prefecture. They only sell the kintsuba confection which boasts a history of over 100 years, but if you want to buy this cake, you’ll need to put in an order at least one day in advance. The delicately sweet tasting kintsuba made with the flavor of adzuki beans from Hokkaido has long been loved as a souvenir treat from Takase Onsen. Part of its charm is the exquisite flavor which comes from each being handmade in the old-fashioned way.

    キンツバだけを製造しておられる職人のお店でした。年配の職人さんのようで、注文を受けた分プラスαぐらいしか作らないそうです。今回は10個入りなら売ってもらえるとのことでお土産にできました。

  • Kokonoen
    Shopping
    Nigata Pref. Murakamishi Ogunimachi 3-16
    This long-established tea shop is located in Murakami City known as “Hokugen no Chadokoro (the northernmost tea cultivation area in Japan),” Niigata Prefecture and opened in 1800. Murakami tea is exposed to little daylight and grows amidst a harsh snowy climate, giving it a slight sweetness and mellow taste. The shop offers “Meicha Maizuru,” said to have been named by the lord of the Murakami clan, as well as matcha, gyokuro, sencha, and more. Next door is the “Kuheian”, where visitors can enjoy their matcha tea in the townhouse room.
  • Uotomi
    Shopping
    Nigata Pref. Murakamishi Kuwagawa 870-1
    This is a dried fish specialty store next to JR Kuwagawa Station, mainly selling processed goods using seafood from the Sea of Japan stocked from the Kuwagawa fishing port right in front of you. The many drying fish of carefully selected fresh seafood, dried in the sun and sea breeze from the Place of Scenic Beauty “Sasagawanagare” boast moderate salinity and good fat content. In addition to classic dried fish such as nodoguro (seaperch), horse mackerel and squid, the “Miso pickled octopus” using soft North Pacific Giant Octopus, is also popular. The Murakami specialty salmon and salmon roe are available in season.
  • Senami Manju Ganso Kimuraya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nigata Pref. Murakamishi Senamionsen 2-6-25
    This long running manju dumpling shop has been open for more than 60 years at Senami Onsen, one of Niigata's premier hot spring resorts. Their famous Senami Manjuu has long been a staple souvenir from Senami Onsen. Enjoy three varieties of flavors using rich molasses, fresh sweet shiso kneaded into the dough, and Murakami matcha green tea from the northern tea growing regions. Try their popular healthy baked rice flour donuts uses koshihikari rice grown in Niigata.
  • Ganso Tsukiokaya
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    5.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nigata Pref. Shibatashi Tsukiokaonsen 563-1
    This manju store is located in the Tsukioka hot spring area in Shibata City, Niigata Prefecture. The ingredients, koshi an strained bean paste, tsubu an mashed bean paste, shiro an white bean paste and kimi an made with an ample amount of egg yolk, of these four different types of Ganso Tsukioka manju are carefully selected, while retaining the same nostalgic taste. Also available here, are pie manju, with an unusual center of marron and almond paste in flaky pie dough, roasted sweet potato manju, and Tsukioka Daifuku manju, with an impressive marriage of three flavors-mochi on the outside, fresh cream in the middle, and matcha green tea paste or cocoa paste.

    月岡温泉には、何軒か温泉まんじゅうを売っている店がある。朝早くから開いているので、チェックアウトする時間にでも、お土産に買える。1セット580円箱入り(5ケだったか)を購入。粒あんや色んな味が楽しめて美味しかった。

  • Kinoto Manju Ya
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    4.5
    3 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Niigata Tainai-shi Kinoto 1235

    乙宝寺の門前にあります。 有名な乙まんじゅうが販売されています。 酒まんじゅうです。 ほかに揚げまんじゅうもありました。

  • Chateraise Shibata
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    4.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Niigata Shibata-shi Nakatacho 3-chome 1294-3

    洋菓子系チョコレートのものが食べたくなり来店。比較的安い価格帯のエクレールショコラを購入、変わらぬ美味しさで満足しました。

  • Hotto Motto Murakami Shinmachi
    Shopping
    Niigata Murakami-shi Shinmachi 15-5
  • Hotto Motto Shibata Shineimachi
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    4.0
    2 Reviews
    Shopping
    Niigata Shibata-shi Shineicho 3-1-4

    カツ丼関係のメニューが390円のセールになっていたので利用しました。牛肉とロースカツ丼のセットでこの値段は大変お得です。

  • Hotto Motto Shibata Honmachi
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    4.0
    1 Reviews
    Shopping
    Niigata Shibata-shi Honcho 3-1080-1

    セール期間を利用してロースかつ丼を購入。衣がカリッとエッジのきいたロースカツが乗った丼が390円とお得な価格でした。

  • Liquor shop Yamaya Shibata
    Shopping
    Niigata Shibata-shi Shineicho 3-2-12

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Found along the northwestern coast of Japan, Niigata prefecture is celebrated for its high-quality rice and breathtaking nature, most notably its spectacular mountains, whose white peaks draw in snow sports lovers from far and wide over the winter months. Hit the slopes at Yuzawa, pick out your favourite modern artist at Echigo Tsumari, or take a ferry over to Sado Island for an extra adventure.

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