Shopping Spots in Gifu Area

  • Shirotori Mokuyukan
    Travel / Tourism
    Gifu Gujo-shi Shirotoricho Mukaikodara 717-1
    A shop specializing in woodwork at Roadside Station Seiryu no Sato Shirotori. Since ancient times, Shiratori Town has been known for producing high-quality cedar and hinoki cypress. The shop is run by the Gujo Forestry Cooperative that manages the local forests with the environment in mind. Their many inviting wooden items include a table made of a single slab of 200-plus year old horse chestnut, and a round display shelf ideal for modern interiors. It's fun just looking at the items they have on display. Their laser-carved name plates are also popular.
  • Nakasho-seika
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Gujo-shi Hachimancho Shimadani 541
    A confectionery shop central Gujo Hachiman, opposite the Former Gujo Hachiman Government Building Memorial Hall, a popular sightseeing spot. Founded while the government office was still in use, the current owner brings a background in Western sweets to their products. They sell a variety of original sweets made with Gujo ingredients, including cinnamon flavored soft rice cakes and baked manju buns with crusts made with condensed cream. Their summertime Seiryu-no-Shizuku gelatin treats are like drops of a fresh, clear spring. They even look refreshing and make great gifts.
  • Tanizawa
    Style / Fashion
    Gifu Gujo-shi Hachimancho Honmachi 839
    The only store dealing in Gujo pongee fabric, a luxurious handwoven silk cloth is made with plant dyes to produce a luster and simple colors. It is woven with top-grade, carefully selected domestic spring cocoons. The more you wear it, the more lustrous it gets, and it can even be worn for three generations. Munehiro Rikizo, who was born in Hachiman-cho, revived the tradition of pongee woven by Gujo farmers for personal use. He employed an innovative technique to create today's Gujo pongee. He's been nationally certified an Important Intangible Cultural Property Technology Holder, a first for an individual dealing with pongee. The store's first floor sells kimono accessories and indigo dyed merchandise, and the second floor displays works by Munehiro Rikizo.
  • Ueda Saketen
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    4.0
    2 Reviews
    Shopping
    Gifu Gujo-shi Hachimancho Honmachi 846-3
    A three-minute walk from Miyagase Bridge, this is the oldest liquor store on Gujo Hachiman's waterfront area. The shop's Hida-style architecture gives a feel of its history. They offer a host of local sakes, rare hizoshu varieties, and more. Their daiginjo drip fresh sake is bottled from the droplets falling from a hanging bag is renowned nationwide. They only make 100 bottles of this precious hijzooshu sake annually. A wooden water trough in front of the store was made in Gujo 400 years ago. It's filled with spring water flowing from a limestone cave system. The slightly hard water is ideal for brewing sake, miso, and soy sauce. A machine provides empty plastic bottles so you can take some water with you.

    [本町]には 郡上八幡感をタップリ感じさせてくれる外観を持った店舗として[上田酒店][桜間見屋][平野本店]の3軒があり、[上田酒店]では 郡上おどりの保存会会長に依頼し 《踊り上手な人》だけが入手出来る免状があり、その免状を日本酒のラヘルにした《踊り免状シリース 添付 写真参照》があります。 この《踊り免状シリース》を 有料試飲として[純米原酒 or 本醸原酒 どちらも生、量的に1合弱...

  • Enakawa Kamiya Enakyo Store
    Shopping
    Gifu Ena-shi Oicho 2632-105
    "This is a Japanese and Western sweets store that makes and sells kurikinton (pureed sweet chestnuts), a fall time treat that has long been loved by all kinds of cultured people such as travelers, waka poets and haiku poets visiting the Nakasendo post town. They use a brand chestnut ""Choicest Ena Chestnuts"" grown by local contract farmers, and have been making sweets that adapt to the trends and needs of the age. To make their most popular sweet ""Kurikinton,"" a prided masterpiece, carefully selected chestnuts are steamed with a little bit of sugar, and are then squeezed out carefully one by one. It is a local confectionery with a fun simple texture that will warm you from the inside. ""Four Season Kurikinton"" that reflect the colors of the four seasons, and ""Yamamatayama,"" a grilled manju (steamed cake) with chunky azuki bean paste inside are also popular."
  • Sanroku Station Shop
    Travel / Tourism
    Gifu Takayama-shi Okuhida Onsenkyo Shinhodaka Shinhodaka Onsen Sta.
    "A souvenir shop in Shinhotaka Onsen Station, the boarding point for the Shinhotaka Ropeway. It also has restaurants and a footbath. The shop has a wide variety of items such as noted products from the Northern Alps, carefully selected Hida sake, and Shinshu wine. Some of the many items only available there include miniature toy cars and lapel pins replicating Japan's only two-story gondola. Their Meshinosai is a popular prepared product made of wood ear mushroom. The name means ""rice accompaniment"" in the local Hida dialect."
  • Sancho Station Shop
    Style / Fashion
    Gifu Takayama-shi Okuhida Onsenkyo Shinhodaka Nishihodakaguchi Sta. 3F
    "A store on the 3rd floor of Nishihotakaguchi Station, accessible via the Shinhotaka Ropeway. The ropeway has a panoramic view and two stars from the Michelin Green Guide Japan. The store's many limited edition items include postcards you can send from ""Yamabiko Post,"" the Japan's highest mailbox with service year-round, sable shortbread cookies, and commemorative prints of the 2,156-meter summit. They also have wooden charms with small bells attached that can be marked with the date of your ascent. Their Unkai Mochi treats featuring red bean jam with locally grown perilla in soft, cloud-like sticky rice cakes is a perfect Shinhotaka souvenir."
  • Alps-no-Panya-san
    Shopping
    Gifu Takayama-shi Okuhida Onsenkyo Shinhodaka Onsen
    A bakery at the Shinhotaka Ropeway with its incredible seasonal alpine scenery. Some of their fresh-baked items include plain croissants, chocolate croissants, croissants with bean jam, and maple pecan and spinach feta cheese baked goods. Many people buy highland produced milk to go with their popular crispy croissants and enjoy them while soaking in the footbath in front of the station.
  • Hida Kogen Ham and Hida Cheese Factory
    Shopping
    Gifu Takayama-shi Kokufucho Sangawa 1654
    A meat atelier that has been handmaking fine roast ham in Kokufu-cho for over 30 years. While they focus on processed meats like sausage, bacon, and ham, they also make dairy products like cheese mousse, and yogurt. Their renowned roast ham is seasoned in a marinade for a month and then smoked for 30 to 40 hours. Only a minimum of additives is used in order to protect the inherent flavors of the meat, finishing the hams one-by-one with meticulous attention. The resulting flavor is so superb it's been featured on television many times.
  • Kobishiya
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    4.5
    9 Reviews
    Shopping
    Gifu Takayama-shi Hatsudamachi 1-64
    This deli is a five-minute walk from Takayama Station on the Kokubunji-dori shopping street. They specialize in handmade onigiri rice balls, and also sell sushi, fried foods, salads, stewed items, and more. They've been in business for over 60 years and are very well known locally. Their onigiri include everything from standards like ume plum and salmon to creative ones like soy-boiled clam and eel with sauce mixed in with the rice. Using neither machines nor artificial seasonings, their rice balls resemble sushi in that they aren't too compressed, and taste delicious even when chilled.

    息が長いんですね、このお店。自餅に根付いたお店です。この日、買ったのは(価格は税込)「えび天むす 190円」「飛騨牛天むす 190円」「ねぎみそ 150円」。ここの名物は言わずと知れた、飛騨牛天むすです。こびしやでこれを買わずして何を買うのか、と言って過言なし。ねぎみそも美味しかったな-。高山でおにぎりといったら、こびしやさんです♡

  • Folkcrafts Kuratsubo
    Shopping
    Gifu Takayama-shi Kamiichinomachi 8-1
    An antique shop located about 15 minutes from the Takayama Interchange on the Chubu Jukan Expressway. Its old-fashioned facade is reminiscent of historic Takayama. It sells Hida Takayama antiques including folk crafts, items for everyday use, art, and more. Everyone from local restaurants to traditional homes nationwide shop here for their interior decor. They've shipped items abroad too, including an all-cypress door with fine wooden lattice work, a Japanese zelkova chest of drawers, and a large Imari ceramic bowl. They also take orders for 30 - 70 centimeter sugitama, the cedar twig balls that hang under the eaves of sake breweries.
  • HIDA COLLECTION Kurashi no Seisakusho
    Shopping
    Gifu Takayama-shi Kamiokamotomachi 3-362
    This woodwork shop was born from a desire to make Hida furniture that would be passed down through the generations. Using old timber harvested from the forests of the Hida region, they make items like single slab tables, wooden desks, and smaller items. Their single slab tables made of top-grade wood dried with both natural and artificial processes last a lifetime and grow more beautiful the more they're used. They also offer made-to-order work crafted from mountain cherry, horse chestnut, zelkova, walnut, and other woods. Small items such as clocks, photo frames, and stools make great gifts.
  • Fabric & Kimono Shop ODORIYA
    Travel / Tourism
    Gifu Takayama-shi Kamisannomachi 5
    A kimono shop in Kamisannomachi that dates back to the Edo period. It sells cotton fabric, cotton apparel, bags, smaller items, and more. They focus on original products featuring thread for sashiko, a kind of traditional Japanese hand embroidery, made to order for dye houses. Sashiko thread comes in 370-meter bundles for fine varieties and 185-meter bundles for yarn. It's more loosely woven than regular thread, producing a textured feel when sewn. Other items include unbleached thread, mixed six-hued thread, and thread in 25 colors. Their wide variety of hand towels include traditional chusen dyed, reversible, and old-fashioned original designs that are fun just to look at.
  • Haneya
    Travel / Tourism
    Gifu Takayama-shi Kamisannomachi 67
    "This souvenir shop is located a ten-minute walk from Takayama Station. It is in an old part of town where you can feel the history of Takayama, known as Hida's ""Little Kyoto."" It offers mainly small items, such as cell phone straps, handkerchiefs, key rings, and stuffed animals based on sarubobo, a doll that has been produced in Hida for generations. The ""Sarubobo Bandage Kitty"", a red, sarubobo-style Hello Kitty wearing a bandage, is a limited-edition item that can't be bought anywhere else in Japan. There is also a bandage stuck on the back of the head of the shop's mascot, Jumbo Kitty, and many visitors like to take pictures with it."
  • Oita Sake Brewery (Kami-sannomachi Shop)
    Shopping
    Gifu Takayama-shi Kamisannomachi 67
    A shop run by the Oita Sake Brewery, which makes the dry tasting Onikoroshi (Ogre Killer) sake. It's located in Kamisannocho, an Important National Preservation District for Groups of Historic Buildings. They sell sake and various kinds of shochu Japanese liquor delivered fresh from the brewery every day, as well as and the work of local artists. They hold seasonal sake tastings too. Their tasting counter lets you compare various brews and try sake cocktails, sake and coke, cloudy sake with soda, and more.
  • Toraya Roho
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    4.0
    12 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Kamininomachi 75
    An old-school Japanese sweet shop located a 13-minute walk from Takayama Station that was founded in 1830. They sell a range of items including steamed mugwort manju buns, mugwort rice cakes, cherry petal daifuku rice cakes, dorayaki pancake with various flavored cream fillings, and yokan red bean jelly. Their popular mugwort manju buns feature tsubuan red bean jam wrapped in a soft dark green crust. They sell them individually at a reasonable price. There is a bench in front of the store where customers are welcome to sit and eat their purchases.

    高山街上的房屋和店舖都很有歷史,這家店也不例外,店裡空間不大,和菓子色彩和風味都很傳統,在老街屹立不搖多年,饅頭口感也很不錯。

  • Fukudado Fukuda Pharmacy
    Shopping
    Gifu Takayama-shi Shinmeimachi 4-9
    A long-established drugstore with over 150 years of history in Shinmei-machi, Takayama City. On consultation they'll make recommendations based on your symptoms from a variety of remedies that includes traditional Chinese and natural medicines.
  • Oak Village Takayama
    Shopping
    Gifu Takayama-shi Kiyomicho Makigahora 846
    A store run by Oak Village, which aims to create woodwork that can be used for as long as the tree the item was made from lived. They make one-of-a-kind furniture primarily using Japan's abundant hardwood. Items include dining sets, chairs, sofas and unit furniture. They also produce wooden toys like blocks and xylophones, interior goods, tableware, lacquerware, and more. Also on site are the Seseragi Lounge and Gallery where you can enjoy the rich nature of Takayama and Kiyomi, as well as the Forest Museum that showcases a variety of perspectives on woodworking culture.
  • Fujimiya Honmachi Store
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Honmachi 2-25
    This dumpling shop is located on Takayama Honmachi 2-chome shopping street, which was once the central shopping location in Takayama. For over 60 years since its establishment, their mitarashi dango (rice dough dumplings with sweet-salty sauce) using original dumpling dough and soy sauce ordered directly from a soy sauce brewery were famous. Takayama's mitarashi dango are different from everyday sweet and salty dumplings, and are characterized by their unsweet taste from being made with the fragrance of the soy sauce-based sauce. These small dumplings are perfect for eating while walking around Takayama. The shop sells zenzai (red bean soup), which warms up the body, freshly-ground coffee and gohei-mochi rice cakes (grilled rice cakes skewered and basted in sweet walnut miso) with a sesame aroma, and you can also the inside tables.
  • Fujimiya Kajibashi Store
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    4.0
    21 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Honmachi 3-1
    This dumpling shop is located a ten-minute walk from Takayama Station at the foot of Kajiyabashi Bridge. It sells salty mitarashi dumplings (rice dough dumplings with sweet-salty sauce) that are fragrantly made with an original soy sauce-based sauce instead of the usual sweet dumplings. Their sauce has a traditional flavor that has been used since its establishment. It is a special sauce made by blending three types of soy sauce. The shop also sells Hida's local dish of gohei-mochi rice cakes (grilled rice cakes skewered and basted in sweet walnut miso) that are also not sweet, so you can experience the slight sweetness of the glutinous rice.

    高山の定番、鍛冶橋のたもとで頂いたみたらしだんご90円。世間でいう甘辛のタレで頂くそれではなくお醤油のタレをつけてこんがり焼き上げるタイプ。これが高山流みたらしだそうです。こまお店、何度訪れたか分かりません。 見慣れた鍛冶橋店のおばちゃん、相変わらず頑張ってるようですが…この日のおばちゃん、無愛想&不機嫌でした。

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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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