Shopping Spots in Around Suwa Area

  • SUWA GARASUNOSATO
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    3.5
    86 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nagano Suwa-shi Toyoda 2400-7
    Standing on the bank of Lake Suwa, this art museum can be identified by its triangular roof. Displaying numerous delicate and highly emotional pieces by noted glass artists from countries around the world, the museum's standing exhibition changes seasonally. In one of the largest glass blowing workshops in the country, visitors can try activities such as glassblowing, candle making, and making glass beads. In the adjoining glass shop, there are a variety of accessories, tableware, and other glass items available for purchase which are also fun just to look at. The facility's bakery and restaurant, offering a sweeping view of Lake Suwa, is also recommended.

    単なるガラス製品のお土産屋さんかと思って入ったら、体験教室もあり、子供たちも参加できる。ガラス製品に限らず、一般的なお土産もあり、しばらく時間が使える。買い物の後はガラス張りのレストランで諏訪湖を見ながら飲むお茶もまたおいしい。旅に来たなって感じ。

  • Tateshina Jiyu Noen (Haramura Shop)
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    4.0
    46 Reviews
    Shopping
    Nagano Pref. Suwagunharamura Kamisato 18101-1
    A farmer's market standing along the Yatsugatake Echo Line in Kamisato, Hara Village, Suwa County. Hara Village produces the most celery of any place in Japan, and here you can purchase local celery as well as fresh, seasonal alpine fruits and vegetables grown at the foot of Mt. Yatsugatake; rice; dairy products; meat; processed foods; local liquors; and souvenirs.

    訪れた週末は、みぞれ混じりの寒い早春で、野菜はまだあまりないかなと思ってましたが、結構ありました。 サラダ春菊やルッコラ、ほうれん草、クレソン、山菜などを籠に入れました。一束の量が多いのが嬉しいです。 また柑橘類も結構出ていて、買いました。買った和風グレープフルーツはグレープフルーツゼリーみたいで、美味しかったです。

  • Takeya Miso Kaikan
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    3.5
    16 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nagano Pref. Suwashi Kogandori 2-3-17
    "This complex is located in a corner of the Takeya Miso Factory located in Suwa City, Nagano Prefecture. Besides art exhibits related to Takeya Miso, you can purchase original products using Takeya Miso and miso made in limited quantities. In addition, you can eat miso soup with pork and vegetables and sesame miso soft-serve ice cream in the food corner ""30 BAR,"" and it is visited by many people touring the factory."

    諏訪湖ウォーキングの最中に発見して訪問。味噌を買いに入ったのですが味噌ソフトが美味しそうで購入。でも味噌の風味はあまりしなかったですね。豚汁はこのご時世なのか販売休止。ここの口コミや写真見ると美味しそうなので食べたかったなあ。

  • CLASUWA
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    4.5
    20 Reviews
    Shopping
    Nagano Pref. Suwashi Kogandori 3-1-30
    A shopping complex located on the shore of Lake Suwa operated by Yomeishu Seizo Co. Ltd., a company famous for its Yomeishu medicinal liqueur. Built around the concept of offering a healthy lifestyle through food, the facility shop, bakery, and café and restaurant areas. In CLASUWA’s shops, you can purchase quality Shinshu foodstuffs and items for making your life more convenient as well as herbal teas and original health products. In CLASUWA’s restaurant, you can enjoy a meal together with a spectacular view of Lake Suwa and taste dishes made with flavorful Shinshu ingredients such as Shinshu Juicy Pork produced by Yomeishu Seizo. Closest station: Kami-Suwa Station.

    諏訪湖周囲のランドマーク。オサレなスポットとして観光客に公表のお土産、レストランが入る。こういう施設が観光地の好感度を上げてくれる。

  • Nouvel Bairindo Okaya Main Store (Kashi Kobo Suwa no Tsuki)
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    4.5
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Okaya-shi Chuocho 1-13-31
    Within walking distance of Okaya Station on the JR Chuo Main Line. This Western confectionary shop is located in the center of Okaya City. Since it was established in 1913, the shop has focused on using choice ingredients and refined techniques, and here customers can enjoy traditional flavors which have been refined over years. Using fresh milk and eggs from that very morning, the shop makes confections which utilize the unique ingredients and flavors of Nagano. The shop's signature Kurumi Yamabiko are particularly popular and have been awarded the Monde Selection gold prize for 14 years in a row. These tasty treats can be purchased both individually and in assorted sets. The shop also regularly holds cake making classes held by a skilled patissier.

    岡谷市内の《シルク岡谷の絹産業遺産(近代化産業遺産群)》を散策し 休憩場所として利用しました。注文したのは[栗とリンコのモンフラン 495円税込][サンマルク...

  • Boulangerie Kerock
    Shopping
    Nagano Chino-shi Kohigashi 6595-248
    A handmade bread shop situated along the Venus Line a 15-minute drive from the Suwa Interchange on the Chuo Expressway. The shop's motto is to steadily implement the basics and draw out maximum goodness from the ingredients, and the establishment offers pain de campagne and other crusty breads, dressed breads, Danishes, confectionary breads, and more. The shop's popular melon bread has a hint of hazelnut, a crisp outer crust, and a moist interior. The shop's baked sweets and seasonal products like strawberry, chestnut, and blueberry Danishes are also popular.
  • Hachimitsu-gura
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nagano Chino-shi
    "A small museum adjoining the Gin no Saji inn which introduces the wonders of honey and beekeeping. The museum building is constructed in a unique local style used to build storehouses known as ""tategurumi;"" the front plaster facade incorporates a kote-e relief of a bee. An exhibition room and shop selling primarily domestic honey and honey-related knickknacks are located on the first floor; the museum's tasting course, in which participants get to compare the taste and aroma of over 20 varieties of honey, is particularly popular."
  • Yatsugatake Adventure Tours Lake Shiakaba Nature Canoe Tour
    Shopping
    Nagano Chino-shi Kitayama 3419-75
    35 minutes and 25 kilometers from the Suwa Interchange on the Chuo Expressway via National Route 152. This guided tour operated by Yatsugatake Adventure Tours is conducted on Lake Shirakaba situated at the foot of Yatsugatake Mountains. Lake Shirakaba is extremely calm and motorboats are not allowed on its waters, and this tour makes use of highly stable recreational kayaks, ensuring that everyone from age three up to senior citizens can have fun plying the lake. The tour takes around two hours. The company's Step Sup, the latest aquatic recreational activity out of California, are also popular.
  • Ebisuya
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    4.0
    8 Reviews
    Shopping
    Nagano Suwa-shi Kogan Dori 3-4-14
    Seven minutes from JR Kami-Suwa Station. Established in 1858, this shop is filled with lovingly crafted tsukudani foods boiled and preserved in soy sauce. The shop offers customers samples of its products so you can try before you buy. The shop's popular Japanese pond smelt is available in three varieties - shio (salt), shizenen (natural salt), and amakara (salty sweet); tasty as is, be sure to try them nanbanzuke and chazuke-style as well! Customers also love the simple flavor of the shop's Wakasagi Kobaini Japanse pond smelt from Lake Suwa stewed with Japanese plum extract.

    ワカサギの唐揚げが有名。 地元の人に紹介され、お土産に購入しましたが、家に到着するまでにすべて食べてしまいました。

  • Maihime Co., Ltd.
    Shopping
    Nagano Pref. Suwashi Suwa 2-9-25
    This brewer that was founded in 1894 in Suwa, Nagano Prefecture manufactures and sells sake and liqueurs. Their representative brands are “Shinshu Maihime” and “Suiro.” Using the cool underground water in Kirigamine and carefully selected rice suitable for sake brewing, it continues to make amazing sake bursting with flavor and highly aromatic. Most of the products manufactured by the company line the shop located in a refurbished warehouse, and you can choose your favorite sake while sampling different kinds.
  • SHINTSURU-HONTEN
    Shopping
    Nagano Pref. Suwagunshimosuwamachi Yokomachi Under the tree 3501
    This long-established traditional Japanese candy store founded in 1873 is famous for shioyokan (red bean jelly with salt), the specialty of Shimosuwa. Developed by the first-generation owner who took great pains to find the right balance in flavor, it became loved as a priceless and special sweet by people in the area, which is located far from the sea and where salt was precious. Using Tokachi-grown red beans and naturally-made agar, it is still kneading over lit oak wood, and is the gem of skilled pastry chefs. Exquisite with a slight salty taste within its sweetness, it is the classic snack of Shimosuwa. The nearest station is Shimosuwa Station.
  • Yatsugatake Chuo Agricultural Jissen School Direct sales shop
    Shopping
    Nagano Pref. Suwagunharamura 17217-118
    This direct sales shop is inside “Yatsugatake Chuo Nogyo Jissen Daigakko” in Hara Village, Suwa County. The produce here is certified as eco-friendly by Nagano Prefecture. You’ll find highland vegetables picked the same morning, fertilized eggs from free-range chickens, dairy products, meat products, student-made products, and local specialty products.
  • Kuzobe Mochi Honpo Araragi
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    4.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Chinoshi Kitayama Tateshina Takahara 4035
    This is a long-established Japanese confectionery shop known for a famous Tateshina confection, Kuzobee-mochi (rice cake). The origin of the rice cake is that in 1839 the ancestor, Yazaki Soji, who established Tateshina Hot Springs, handed out the rice cakes to the guests who came to take a bath. The rice cake comes in the five flavors of wormwood, perilla, chestnut, walnut and cherry in spring. The rice cakes remain a perennial favorite as a souvenir with their moist and rustic taste and elegant packaging.

    皇室の方々も立ち寄って、もとめていかれた名店。こういうお店を本当の老舗というのだろう。今のお菓子にはない、奥深い美味しさが、じわ-っと、口中に広がる。ぜひ多くの人々に食べてもらいたい。

  • Shokusaikan
    Travel / Tourism
    Nagano Pref. Suwagunshimosuwamachi Taishadori 5522-2
    A store on the first floor of the Shokusai-kan, a large tourist facility. The store offers a wide variety of products from Shinshu and Shimosuwa areas, including famous confections, alcoholic drinks, crafts, Shinshu miso, soba noodles, and local character goods. Many tourists visit the area in order to buy souvenirs, let alone the local specialties.
  • Yatsugatake Country Kitchen Bakery
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    4.0
    26 Reviews
    Shopping
    Nagano Pref. Suwagunfujimimachi Tatsuzawa Hirohara 1-1436
    A bakery situated along the Yatsugatake Hachimaki Road in Tatsuzawa Hirohara, Fujimi Town, Suwa County. Slow baking its breads in a firewood oven, the bakery's most popular bread is its cheese shokupan. Other breads on offer include croissants, brioche, and babka mixed with chocolate and other fillings. Customers can have their favorite bread sliced in the bakery for use in making a sandwich in the adjoining restaurant.

    周りはとても静かな雰囲気で高原を満喫できる場所にあります。 何回か利用させて頂いていますが、いつも変りなくどのメニューも大変美味しいです。スタッフの感じも良く自然な接客が安心出来ます。 小渕沢・富士見高原に来た際には必ず寄りたいレストランですね。

  • 808 Kitchen & Table
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Suwagunharamura 18113-1
    This cafe restaurant and bakery is on the Yatsugatake Echo Line in Kamisato, Hara Village, Suwa County. Run by the neighboring Tateshina Jiyu Noen produce shop, they serve meals featuring local fruit and vegetables in season. Their bakery sells fresh baked bread made with Tateshina and Yatsugatake ingredients, and their shop offers local Shinshu wine and comestibles like Chozumeya ham and sausage from Karuizawa. They also have soft-serve ice cream and fresh juice available for take-out.
  • Nouvel Bairindo (Chino Shop)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Chinoshi Toyohira 1936-1
    "This sweet shop is on the Merchen Highway in Toyohira, Chino City. They sell confections including ""Suwa-no-Tsuki,"" a baked sweet with a mix of fresh cream and white bean jam, ""Suwa Kurumi Caramel,"" a monaka wafer cake filled with a caramel walnut mix in the shape of figures related to Suwa's history, and the popular ""Kurumi Yamabiko"" with cookie crust around a caramel and walnut filling."
  • Lake Walk Okaya
    Shopping
    Nagano Okaya Ginza 1-1-5
  • TSURUYA Chino
    Shopping
    Nagano Chino-shi Honmachihigashi 10-58
  • Don Quijote Chino
    Shopping
    Nagano Chino-shi Miyagawa 1199-1

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Nagano prefecture is an exciting mix of mountains, hot spring monkeys, and preserved Edo history. At the heart of the Japanese Alps, Nagano is one of the country’s most popular destinations, whether in winter for its snow sports and the much-loved Jigokudani Monkey Park or in the warmer months for discovering the undulating hills on foot. For fantastic Edo architecture, head to the Kiso Valley for a 60-kilometer stretch of quaint wooden buildings that marked the Nakasendo route 200 years ago.

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