Shopping Spots in Gifu Area

  • Chez Shibata Tajimi Branch
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    3.5
    17 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Tajimishi Taiheichou 5-10-3
    The main branch of a café and Western confectionary shop which also has locations overseas situated a five minute drive from the Tajimi Interchange. The owner, who worked in Paris, aims to create new sweets based on classic French confections while respecting the traditions of the past. The shop’s display case is filled with row upon row of different confections, and the selection is so abundant you’ll have difficulty choosing. Particularly recommended is the shop’s specialty “Visitandine,” a small cake made with almonds and browned butter which has even been praised by Parisian confectionary chefs. The shop also offers many seasonal items such as gateau chocolate and shaved ice. The shop’s Nishio matcha and yuzu cake, limited to just three customers a day, is also a must-taste.

    ずっと行きたくてやっと行けました。 夕方に行ったのでケーキの種類は限られていましたが、どれも美味しそうなものばかり… お皿も高級感があり、優雅なティータイムを過ごせました! 帰り際に友人への新築祝いで洋菓子を購入。ケーキの種類も増えていたので、遅くに行っても食べれると思います。席数は多くないです。

  • Yoroken Main Shop
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    4.0
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Kamogunkawabechou Shimokawabe 273-1
    This Japanese sweets shop opened in 1993 and is located in Kawabe Town, Kamo County, Gifu Prefecture. Including the fruits daifuku (red bean paste-filled mochi), stuffed with homemade bean paste and cream using red beans Miyabi from Hokkaido’s Tokachi region and select fruit, they develop products such as “Marugoto Kyoho no Daifuku” and “Kuri Kinton Daifuku” every season. Their year-round product “Tappuri Cream no Nama-dorayaki” has various flavors from milk bean paste to cheese, and a milk chocolate one with chocolate mixed into the batter.

    餡カフェで美味しくモーニングいただき、スイーツもいただいたのですが、隣店舗の大福販売店で、カラコンつけた背の低い女店員が、商品説明の嘘を堂々と言い放ち、大福選んでる最中に背中を向けていたり、挙げ句のはてにはゴールドカードで決済した後に、早く帰れ的な下品な指さばきでカードを押し返し、こんなカードの返却の仕方初めてでした。 不愉快すぎます。 マナー接遇きちんち教育しないと お客様みんな不愉快ですよ...

  • Maruaki Hida-Takayama Store
    Shopping
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Tenmanmachi 6-8
    This yakiniku barbecue store directly operated by a butcher shop is located in the Tenman Town, Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture. They mainly offer Hida beef, a brand of beef from Gifu Prefecture. You can not only enjoy the beef as yakiniku, but also as shabu-shabu and sukiyaki. You can also compare different cuts of meat such as diced steak, sirloin steak and boneless short rib with their large plate of select Hida beef yakiniku. In addition, the store allows you to experience Hida’s deluxe local cuisine of beef grilled on top of dried magnolia leaves topped with homemade miso.
  • Inaka Kougei Kan
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    4.0
    1 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Gifu Hida-shi Kawaicho Tsunogawa 709
    "This craft museum is where you can experience the traditional craft of ""Yukizarashi Sanchu Japanese paper"" in Kawai-cho, Hida City. You can enjoy experiences including papermaking and vegetable dyeing. Sanchu Japanese paper is made by exposing and bleaching ""kozo,"" the raw ingredient for Japanese paper, with snow for a characteristically light and natural color. Called ""Kozo no Yukizarashi,"" it is a traditional technique that has been handed down for close to 800 years in the area. Although it has been handed down as a farmer's winter work, the number of producers has decreased dramatically in recent years. In addition, it is possible to observe the work process by the craftsmen and the actual making of Japanese paper."

    柏木さんというおばあちゃんが毎日山中和紙の作業を行っています。3階には飛騨の古い生活用具が展示されています。 入館料は無料ですよ。

  • Gero Onsen Ideyu Morning Market
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    2.0
    2 Reviews
    Shopping
    Gifu Pref. Geroshi Mori 2626
    This morning market is held at the entrance of Gero Onsen Gassho Village in downtown Gero Onsen. In addition to locally harvested vegetables and specialty products like tomato juice, blueberry jam, buna shimeji mushrooms, local sake, and pickled red turnip, you can also buy locally produced miso and konnyaku gelatin. Vegetables are on sale from Friday to Monday. They also sell a variety of Japanese items like chirimen silk scrunchies and pouches, antiques, and Gero specialty items you won't find at ordinary souvenir shops.

    朝市という名前だったので野菜などの並ぶ場所を想像していたのですが、木彫りや染物、土産物だけの市でした。謎のアーミーグッズのお店もありました。店舗数も10店程度、バスも泊まっていて観光客は多いようですが特に訪れるべき場所とは感じませんでした。

  • Sumii Tomijiro Shoten
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    3.0
    1 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Gifu Pref. Gifushi Minatomachi 46
    Located approximately a one-minute walk from the Nagara-bashi bus stop, this souvenir shop is on a side street off of Nagarabashi-dori Street. They specialize in both folding and non-folding fans, and make both by hand. There are special Gifu fans and other items for tourists coming to see cormorant fishing. Their mizu-uchiwa (fan of bamboo and very thin Japanese paper) are made with natural varnish applied to paper made from the fibers taken from the bark of a clove-like bush, and it is characterized by its cool, see-through appearance. There are also items designed with goldfish and cormorant fishing images. It does not close from May 11 to October 15, the cormorant fishing season. In addition, its operating hours are different during and after the season.

    岐阜の名産品であるうちわの製造をしています。特に水うちわは和紙を使い、絵柄は鵜飼いや金魚といった涼しげなもので、外国からも買いに来る人がいます。

  • Ozeki & Co., Ltd.
    Shopping
    Gifu Pref. Gifushi Ogumachou 1-18
    Ozeki & Co., Ltd. is a long-established (founded in 1891) manufacturer of paper lanterns, with its head office in Oguma District, Gifu City. Paper lantern manufacturing is one of Gifu City’s traditional crafts; besides supplying Bon-chochin lanterns to department stores etc. throughout Japan, Ozeki & Co., Ltd. also exports “AKARI” designer lighting brand products (which were developed in collaboration with the U.S. born sculptor Isamu Noguchi) to Europe and North America. AKARI products have won international acclaim for their superior artistic qualities. In addition, Ozeki & Co., Ltd. produce innovative products that break with convention, such as paper lanterns made from traditional Japanese “Washi” paper, and “Letter Lanterns” that can be folded up and sent in the form of a letter, etc.
  • Takumiya (Yasugawa Branch)
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    4.0
    79 Reviews
    Shopping
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Shimoninomachi 2
    Takumiya is a combination premium butcher's shop and restaurant located in the Yasugawa shopping district in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture. The butcher's shop on the first floor sells superior Hida beef, while the restaurant on the second floor serves Yakiniku (grilled beef) and steak, also made from high-quality Hida beef. Hida Beef Mabushi is another popular menu option here; this is a three-course meal that involves first eating the beef plain, then with a herbal sauce, and finally with a special stock.

    This is where to go to try the famous Hida beef. We ordered two dishes from the set menu - steak slices and boiled beef on rice. Absolutely sublime. The beef was beautifully seasoned and melted in...

  • Japanese Sake Brewery TENRYOU
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    4.5
    3 Reviews
    Shopping
    Gifu Gero-shi Hagiwaracho Hagiwara 1289-1
    A 15-minute drive from Gero Station on the JR Takayama Main Line. This long standing brewery makes sake and shochu with choice rice, water, and people. The brewery's Tenryo sake is lovingly crafted by the chief brewer using Hidahomare, a local specialty rice ideal for sake making; and underground spring water from the Hida Mountains. Instilled with the spirt of brewery founder Hinoya Sahei, this sake is the embodiment of Hida. The brewery's novel products like the sparkling sweet sake Sumasuma are also popular. Visitors can tour the brewery year round for free, and also enjoy sake tasting (advance reservation required).

    We were there before their renovation. The Manager speaks English and gave us a box full of tokens to try their free flow sake. Check the availability for their next brewery tour after renovation.

  • Midoriya-Rouho
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    4.5
    20 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Kamo-gun Yaotsu Cho Yaotsu 4096-1
    "A long standing Japanese confectionary shop located a three-minute walk from the Yaotsu Town Hall. The shop continues to make confections according to secret recipes never taken off the premises and handed down parent to child. The shop's specialty kuri kinton is a popular and simple gem with a mildly sweet sugar taste and rich chestnut flavor. Because they are made with fresh picked chestnuts, they are a seasonal item only offered from late August through early April. The shop also carries an abundant variety of products offered year round, like ""Kuritamadare"" kuri kinton wrapped in gyuhi, and ""Kurimu Daifuku"" candied chopped chestnut kuri kinton mixed with fresh cream."

    朝一に来店したのですが、中々店員の方が出られづ店主の年配女性が対応して頂きましたが、横柄な接客態度、非常識な梱包に怒りを覚えました。

  • Suya Main Shop
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Nakatsugawa-shi Shinmachi 2-40
    A long-standing Japanese confectionary shop facing the Nakasendo Road 4.3 kilometers from the Nakatsugawa interchange on the Chuo Expressway. Nakatsugawa is believed to be the birthplace of kuri kinton mashed sweet potatoes and candied chestnuts and each year in September Japanese confectionary shop across the city sell kuri kinton, the flavor of which differs from shop to shop. Suya's kuri kinton is made with choice chestnuts and sugar and has an unaffected, simple flavor. The shop's kuri kinton is only available when in season, but customers can purchase the similarly flavored kuri kinton yokan jelly throughout the year. From late November to August, the shop also sells buckwheat flour confections like soba man buns.
  • Dodan Ikkyu Naegi Shop
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    4.0
    12 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Nakatsugawa-shi
    "Head towards Gero Onsen from the Nakatsugawa Interchange on the Chuo Expressway, take a left at the Aoki traffic light, cross the Shiroyama Bridge, and drive a further two kilometers. This Japanese confectionary shop is on the right side of the road heading towards the Naegi traffic light. The shop's signature kuri kinton mashed sweet potatoes and candied chestnuts, made with chestnuts grown in Miyazaki Prefecture, have a delicate chestnut aroma. Other popular products include ""Kahoguri"" - chestnut paste mixed with butter cream and wrapped in a cocoa flavored choux pastry dough; and the ""Dodan no Sato"" Western-style dorayaki pancake sandwich filled with a white azuki bean filling."

    建物は古風な装いで雰囲気が良い。栗ごはんの御膳を頼んだが、大きい栗がゴロゴロ入っていて、味付けも薄めなので、栗本来の甘さを十分に感じられた。栗の和菓子もどれも美味しく、お土産に買って帰りました。

  • Hida Earth Wisdom Center
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Chishimamachi 900-1
    This general purpose facility is in Chishima-machi, Takayama City. There are two multi-purpose halls: the Hida Convention Hall can hold up to 2,000 visitors, and the Hida Geijutsudo has seating for 500. The Shokuyu-kan has meeting rooms and a restaurant, and Museum Hida displays Hida-made furniture and more. At the Welcome Plaza, there is a 16-meter-wide panorama picture of Hida, and a cell animation table displaying a cell from Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atom).
  • Souvenir Shop Yamakawa
    Travel / Tourism
    Gifu Gero-shi Koden 1163-1
    Located at the western end of the Gero Ohashi Bridge, this is Gero Onsen's largest souvenir shop. You can recognize it by its 2.4-meter-tall blue eyed beckoning cat, known as James Gorohei Jr. Lots of tourists take photos with it. The shop offers a wide selection of unique Gero Onsen souvenirs. These include slow boiled onsen-tamago eggs in dashi broth, Hida beef rice balls, and boxed lunches with lots of Hida beef, and the Inochi-no-Ichi local rice brand that's been declared the tastiest in Japan. The adjacent sake shop sees a lot of visitors and features the 12 breweries of the Hida area.
  • Owariya Confectioners
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Gero-shi Yunoshima 124-1
    This shop manufactures and sells Gero Onsen's famous Tochinomi Senbei rice crackers. Made with chestnut and wheat flour produced in Gifu Prefecture, the shop has used the same recipe since its founding more than 50 years ago. The crackers are slightly hard and deliver a light aroma of chestnuts when bitten. They're the ideal Gero souvenir. Other rice crackers include a tasty lightly baked low-sugar version and their kayanomi senbei, a Western version with a blend of butter and Japanese nutmeg (kaya). They're available at various inns and souvenir shops throughout Gero City, as well as at their main factory.
  • Seikado
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Gero-shi Hagiwaracho Hagiwara 1294
    "This long-established Japanese confectionery shop was founded in 1933. It is known as the birthplace of the famous Gero Onsen confectionery ""Tochinomi Senbei."" With their simple and nostalgic flavor, these homemade ""Tochinomi Senbei"" are created one at a time, and are renowned as a souvenir from Gero as snacks to be had with tea. They have also attained the gold prize at the National Confectionery Exposition. In addition to traditional Japanese sweets, they also sell western sweets such as chiffon cakes baked with medicinal herbs from Hagiwara, and roll cakes with fresh fruit. The fall limited edition ""Apple Pie Made from Southern Dimpled Apples"" is a fast-selling popular product."
  • Yoroken
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Kakamigahara-shi Sakuragicho 1-8
    A Japanese sweet shop close to Inuyama Castle and a 10-minute walk from Meitetsu Shin-Unuma Station and JR Unuma Station. They've been hand making uiro sweet rice jelly the traditional way since their founding in 1922. The rice flour and other ingredients are all domestically produced. They offer a number of varieties of the sweet, such as a simple white uiro made with rice and sugar, a stronger flavored dark uiro made with brown sugar, an azuki bean type with a slight scent of persimmon, and a yuzu citron variety with a refreshing citrus aftertaste. The shop was originally in Nagoya, but they changed their name in 2015 and reopened at their current location.
  • Magoroku Senbei Honpo
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Seki-shi Honmachi 3-6-2
    A hand-grilled Japanese wafer shop founded in 1926. Named after the great swordsmith Magoroku of Seki, Magoroku Senbei is one of Seki City's leading manufacturers of the treats. Made from eggs, flour, and sugar, they have a crisp texture with a light flavor reminiscent of sponge cake. They're highly popular and make great gifts as well as the perfect Seki souvenir. They're available in boxes ranging from eight to 58 wafers, but you can get them individually wrapped too.
  • ACTIVE G
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Gifu Gifu-shi Hashimotocho 1-10-1
    A commercial complex directly accessible from JR Gifu Station. It has restaurants featuring ingredients produced in Gifu, as well as shops selling household items, variety stores, a grocery store, and a sports club. Lots of people stop by while they're travelling as it's the closest complex to the station's ticket gate. You also encounter many people there on business as its home to a branch of the Japanese employment agency, a bank, the Gifu notary public office, and the NHK Culture Center. The complex also holds product exhibits, workshops, and events.
  • Shibata Ame Honpo
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Gifu-shi Daihocho 3-4
    "This candy shop is a 15-minute walk from Gifu Station. They have been making handmade candies with the same recipe since their founding. Their hallmark product is Nobunaga Aruheito, a famous Gifu confectionary that has received the Prime Minister's Award. It's a reproduction of aruheito, a kind of candy that was introduced from the southern islands during the Warring States Period. These candies feature more sugar than usual varieties. They come in three flavors: ""Pure Sugar"" made simply with sugar and starch and without added flavors, ""Hakka"" with a subtle flavor and addictive aftertaste, and ""Brown Sugar"" made with high grade Okinawan brown sugar that's packed with minerals."

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Tucked away in the very center of Japan, Gifu prefecture houses mountains, old towns, and one of Japan’s greatest hot springs, Gero Onsen. A tour of the prefecture’s traditional architecture will take you from the mountain-enveloped wooden streets of Takayama to the mountain village of Shirakawago, where visitors can explore 250-year-old thatched roofed houses known as gassho-zukuri.

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