Groceries Spots in Gifu Area

  • Suya-Nishiki
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Nakatsugawashi Nakatsugawa 1296-1
    A long-standing Japanese confectionary shop established in the Genroku era (1688-1704). The shop’s signature item is its kuri kinton mashed sweet potatoes and candied chestnuts. The shop also offers many other Japanese sweets made with chestnuts, including kuri natto glazed chestnuts and kuri yokan chestnut jelly. Some of the shop’s items, such as the kurumi mochi walnut rice cakes and kudamono mandara jelly are available year-round, but much of what the shop sells are seasonal only sweets which are only offered until the ingredients used to make them run out, such as the kaya arare Japanese nutmeg snacks and the natsu yokan summer jelly. The shop is adjoined by the Japanese-style sweets café Kaya, which serves zenzai sweet adzuki bean soup and shiratama rice flour dumplings. You can also enjoy the shop’s seasonal Japanese confections here. The shop is normally closed on Thursdays but remains open without close from September to December.
  • Cheesecake Princess
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    4.0
    18 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Ogakishi Nishitogawachou 2-45
    A cheesecake specialty shop offering over 20 varieties of cheesecake at any given time from among a selection of more than 100. The shop’s cheesecakes are made with select ingredients and include fruit cheesecakes, vegetable cheesecakes, Japanese-style cheesecakes, and seasonal cheesecakes. The shop’s cheesecakes were originally made just for the family’s owner—crafted without the use of excessive additives or chemical compounds, these cheesecakes are safe and healthy to eat for adults and children. Particularly recommended is the “Hana Yori d’Anje,” a delicately sweet and melt-in-your-mouth unbaked cheesecake served in a masu wooden sake cup from Ogaki, a city which boasts the largest production of masu cups in the country. Visually appealing as well, this cheesecake variety makes for a popular souvenir.

    行く前から地元の有名店と聞いてチェックしていたので行ってみたかったです。 とても可愛らしくて美味しかったです。 また行きます。

  • Imafuji Shoten
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    4.0
    29 Reviews
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    Gifu Pref. Onogunshirakawamura Ogimachi 226
    This bar is located along Shirakawa Kaido Street that goes through the world heritage site of Shirakawago. Many different kinds of sake from Hida line the interior of the shop, and you can drink and compare them at the standing bar counter. They sell snacks such as Hida beef croquettes and Hida beef skewers, and it is convenient to get things to eat while sightseeing. They also sell unfiltered sake-style soft-serve ice cream in the summer. It is less than 1% alcohol, so even those who cannot drink can try it. In addition, they have Shirakawago souvenirs including “gassho senbei” (egg rice crackers shaped like large thatched-roof houses with walnuts) and Shirakawago Sable, making it an easy-to-visit sightseeing base.

    金沢発白川郷日帰りツアーに参加した時に添乗員さんがドブロクが有名だと聞いたので立ち呑み屋さんでドブロク辛口500円を頂きました。17度ですが飲みやすくグイグイといきました。

  • Boulangerie Un Pain
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    4.0
    2 Reviews
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    Gifu Pref. Kaidushi Hiratachousangou 894-1
    This bakery is right near the large southern torii gate to Chiyobo Inari-jinja Shrine in Kaizu City. Its name means a loaf of bread in French, and as the name implies, each and every item is prepared with the utmost care. Their genuine baguettes are famous, made with authentic ingredients and methods. They offer different freshly baked items daily. Their crispy croissants with fresh cream inside, brioches made with fresh local eggs, and kouign-amann all come recommended.

    美味しいパン屋さんでした。種類はさほど多くないですが、どれも丁寧に作って理、美味しいパンです。お店の雰囲気も良かったです。

  • Gujo Jimiso Daikokuya
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    3.5
    4 Reviews
    Shopping
    Gifu Pref. Gujoushi Hachimanchouhonmachi 837
    This special Gujo miso specialty shop with a charming sign, Gujo indigo-dyed shop curtain and red-fruited nandina balls as its landmark is located a five-minute drive from the Tokai-Hokuriku Expressway Gujo-Hachiman Interchange. Their special miso bean paste, made with a time-honored method, uses natural water that springs from underneath the shop and select Japanese soybeans. It has the sweetness and aroma unique to Japanese soybeans, and has a mellow taste even though it is thoroughly salty. Large soybean grains remain in the miso, and it is characteristically soft. You can even eat samples at the front of the store. In addition, they also offer their own original brown sauce and unpasteurized soy sauce.

    ゲキまず 信じられない。 どうやって使ってもつかいきれない。 別に感じよくもなく高いだけ。 行くことないからいいけど。

  • Tanakaya Senbei Sohonke (Main Shop)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Ogakishi Honmachi 2-16
    Located in the city of Ogaki in Gifu Prefecture, Tanaka-ya Senbei is a shop founded in 1859 that specializes in Senbei (rice crackers). The founder learned to make Senbei in Osaka, and invented Ogaki Senbei, which contain miso. This recipe has been handed down through the generations, to produce crackers that achieve a hard gloss without the use of eggs. The miso flavored with a Koji leavening agent has its own special sweetness and scent and melts in one’s mouth. It sells three types of crackers, the thick and round, one-folded with a balance of hardness and sweetness, and twice-folded, that is famed as the hardest in Japan. The shop also offers Tamahodo, wafers that come in a variety of flavors.
  • Inohiroseikaho
    Shopping
    Gifu Pref. Hidashi Furukawachouninomachi 7-12
    This long-established shop is a ten-minute walk from Hida-Furukawa Station. Founded in 1908, they have been making miso rice crackers for over 100 years. With a commitment to standards and flavor, they use homemade miso that's been fermented for three years made with Ryuho soybeans from Akita, producing rice crackers one by one with the same methods they've used since the beginning. While crunching away, the simplicity and warmth of the Hida locals may come to mind. These rice crackers been chosen as an official souvenir of the Gifu Tourism Alliance.
  • Imoniichan no Mise
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    5.0
    1 Reviews
    Shopping
    Gifu Pref. Kaidushi Hiratachousangou 1984
    Chiyobo Inari Jinja Shrine, popularly known as Ochobosan, is one of the Japan's three great shrines dedicated to the god Inari. Located along the path that leads to the shrine is Imo Niichan, which specializes in Daigakuimo (glazed sweet potatoes). Customers can enjoy freshly made Daigakuimo while watching them being cooked on a large griddle. The combination of the thick, shiny, slightly crispy coating and the warm, tender sweet potato is a treat not to be missed. Anyone who eats her quickly understands why this uniquely delicious flavor brings in so many regular customers. Daigakuimo are available in four sizes, ranging from small to extra-large. The restaurant also serves Oni Manju sweet buns with sweet potates (white or black sugar) and Imokenpi (strips of hard candy sweet potatoes).

    お千代保稲荷の脇道にあるお芋菓子店。 平日でも普通に人が並ぶ人気店かと。 自分も同じくして並んで看板商品の「大学いも」と芋菓子を購入。 大学いもは大きな鉄板でその場で作っており、熱々ホクホクで別腹にすんなりと入ってしまいました。 おやつ変わりにはちょうど良いです。

  • Tsubameya (Yanagase Main Shop)
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    4.5
    10 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Gifushi Hinodemachi 1-20 Royal Building 1F
    Located an 11-minute walk from JR and Meitetsu Railways’ Gifu Station, this popular Japanese sweets store makes products utilizing the deliciousness of the ingredients for an amazing result. Their popular product is “hon-warabi mochi” (brack starch cakes covered in sweet soybean powder), which is fluffy and melts in your mouth, and is covered with lots of fragrantly roasted soybean powder. Please note that although this branch opens at 9:00, only this product is sold from 11:00. In addition, the store is also lined with seasonal sweets and items only available there, such as the Daichi no Oyatsu series, mochidora (chewy red bean pancakes sandwiching red bean paste), kusamochi (pounded rice cakes with Japanese mugwort) and kuzupurin (kudzu starch pudding).

    長良橋通りに移転後初の訪問、ツバメわらびと大地のどらやきを購入。 平日の11時頃でしたが、まったく行列なしで直ぐに購入出来ました。 わらび餅はとろとろプルンでたまりません、どら焼きはしっとりとた皮と食べ応えのある小倉餡で飽きの来ない味です。

  • Valise Bagel
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    4.0
    8 Reviews
    Shopping
    Gifu Pref. Kakamigaharashi Nakasumiyoshichou 1-19
    This bagel shop is located in front of Kakamigahara City Hall. A blue sky that brings to mind the airplane used in the shop’s logo is drawn onto the ceiling of the white interior. Cherishing natural flavors, they offer safe and delicious bagels that use no oil, milk or eggs, and use Gifu-grown wheat and Shirakami Kodama yeast. A popular item in the shop is their assortment of 12 bagels, which they pack with mainly slightly sweet and easy-to-eat bagels. It is open from 11:00 to 18:00 or until their goods are sold out.

    全国発送もしているそうですが、知る人ぞ知る隠れた名店なので、目の前にある市役所の職員さんのランチタイムには争奪戦らしく^^;;、売り切れごめん的なところもあるので、開店同時を狙った方がいいかも?

  • Naraya Honten
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Gifushi Imakomachi 18
    This long-established Japanese confectionary shop was founded in 1830, and is located in Imako-machi, Gifu City. They provide a traditional taste that has been guarded since it opened with the motto of things that do not change and should continue to be protected. Their specialty “Yuki Taruma” and “Miyakodori” are meringue confectionery using only select caster sugar and fresh egg whites since they were first sold in 1886. The white birds are cute, and the candy breaks apart easily and melts in your mouth. In addition, famous confectionery with elegant tastes such as the “kagariyaki ayu,” which is made in the shape of the beautiful sweetfish in the Nagara River and use mainly egg yolks, that you can purchase there are highly recommended as souvenirs.
  • Omamiya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Gujoushi Hachimanchouhonmachi 862
    This long-established Japanese sweet shop in Gujo-Hachiman was founded in 1887. They use Chinese cinnamon and high-quality sugar to make their cinnamon candies and black cinnamon candies, Gujo-Hachiman local favorites. They’re still crafted by hand today, using the full range of their artisan’s skills. While they’re of course great eaten as is, taking a sip of coffee while one’s in your mouth is a real treat. They also sell such splendid Gujo sweets as Turkish delight mochi and monaka wafer cakes. Their samples make it easy to find your favorite.
  • Tsuchiya (Tawaramachi Main Shop)
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    3.5
    15 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Ogakishi Tawaramachi 39
    Tsuchiya is the main store of a traditional sweet shop founded in 1755 in the city of Ogaki in Gifu Prefecture. Specialties on sale include persimmon yokan (candy made from agar and bean paste) made from intensely sweet Dojo Hachiya persimmons, Noshigaki and Enju Gaki, with a slightly dried surface. From autumn to winter, one of its most popular products is Kuri Kinton, made with only sugar and the finest chestnuts that careful farmers grow in the local rich soil. The beautiful Japanese sweet called “Mizu no iro (the color of water)” is a rarity that has attracted coverage in Nikkei Newspapers.

    大垣駅から徒歩15分。 西美濃名産の柿を使った柿羊羹で有名な1755年創業の和菓子店。店舗は木造瓦葺きの歴史ある建築物で、古めかしい「柿羊羹」の木製看板が趣を添えている。 商品もさることながら建物好きの人にも訪れて頂きたい店である。

  • Hida Sansho
    Shopping
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Okuhidaonsengoumurakami 35-1
    This is where products such as the Hida classic Sansho Powder is manufactured and sold. They harvest the local specialty sansho (Japanese pepper) buds one by one by hand, and then after drying them in the shade, the sansho is dried in the sun and turned into powder with a millstone and mallet in order to keep the aroma. This sansho powder that is made with a time-consuming process that has remained unchanged since its founding suits not only eels, meat and fish but also cheese and Italian dishes, giving it the reputation of being something very addictive. Their “Sansho Shichimi,” which mixes sansho with red pepper, red cayenne pepper, hemp seed and white sesame, and their whole grain sansho, which comes with a mill to enjoy the fragrance when it is freshly ground, are both popular items.
  • Hida Jizakekura Main Shop
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    4.5
    8 Reviews
    Shopping
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Kamisannomachi 48
    This local sake specialty shop is located in a corner of the old townscape of the popular sightseeing spot Hida Takayama. Using an old kominka (old house), it is lined with over 500 kinds of local sake specially selected from all 12 breweries in the Hida region. Besides the representative brands of Tenryo and Horai, there are also many premium brand-name sakes, products limited to certain breweries, and original local sake made in partnerships with breweries. They also offer local Hida beer and juice using fruit grown in Hida. In addition, there is a free tasting corner led by special staff, which is great since you can select your favorite local sake.

    高山の古い町並みにあった酒屋さんが、こちらの飛騨地酒蔵本店です。 私たちはお昼ごろに高山に着いて、昼食をいただいた後、さんまちというこの古い町並みを歩きました。通りは、たくさんの観光客でにぎわっていましたが、こちらの酒屋さんの中は欧米系の外国人の姿が多かったと思います。 店内には、高山のお酒はもちろん、岐阜県内と思われるたくさんの地酒が並んでいました。

  • 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...

  • Bunrindo
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    4.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Shimoninomachi 70
    This venerable traditional Japanese sweet shop established in 1926 is located in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture. It is lined with simple, traditional Japanese confectionery such as seasonal namagashi (Japanese unbaked sweets) , higashi ( Japanese dry sweets that keep longer) and rakugan (a kind of dry sweets made of rice flour and sugar,etc.) You can get a sense of regionality and history from the local sweets kuriyose (chestnuts in red bean paste) and yomogi manju (red bean paste-filled steamed cakes with Japanese mugwort). Besides the namagashi and higashi offered every season, they also have traditional Takayama dagashi sweets such as kokusen (starch syrup, sesame, sweet soy flour mixed and then panned into thin sheets) and kankanbo (soy butter sticks). The flavors are gentle and nostalgic, and traditional ingredients are used like soybeans, sesame and peanuts. Their assortments of seasonal higashi with rakugan, neri-yokan (firm red bean jelly) and usuyuki (“light snow”) is recommended.

    髙山の雰囲気にぴったりの和菓子屋さん。 珍しさに塩落雁と麦落雁を羊羹をお土産に。とても香ばしく美味しく頂きました。

  • Bentendo
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    4.0
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Gifushi Kandamachi 5-12
    This Japanese sweet shop founded in 1912 is a 10-minute walk from JR Gifu Station. Their Kurikomochi treats covered with chestnut powder is said to be the ultimate in Japanese confectionery. Artisans meticulously prepare them with only carefully selected domestic chestnuts. Adding the absolute minimum amount of sweetener, they leave the mochi rice cake itself unsweetened, letting the unadulterated flavor of the chestnuts shine through. Besides Japanese sweets like kuri-kinton (mashed sweet chestnuts) and strawberry daifuku (mochi rice balls with sweet filling) and strawberry custard daifuku during strawberry season, they also offer Western confections like roll cake, marble cake, baumkuchen, pie cake, and more.

    名鉄岐阜駅前を通る長良橋通沿いにあります。大正時代から続いているお店とのこと。優しい表情の店主が応対してくれ、ほっこりします。大きなガラス張りで外からも店内がよく見えます。岐阜は栗きんとんが有名ですが、こちらでは栗粉餅という名前の通り、お餅を栗粉で包んだもので、甘過ぎず、栗きんとんとは違った美味しさをいただきます。当日中しかもたないのも魅力です。

  • Matsuura-ken Honpo
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    3.5
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Enashi Iwamurachou Nishimachi 809-6
    This veteran Japanese sweet shop was established in 1882. It is approximately 10 minutes on foot from Iwamura Station on the Akechi Line. They make their hallmark sponge cake with the same methods first introduced to Nagasaki in the Edo period. Combining tradition and meticulous use of ingredients like fresh local eggs, caster sugar, and wasanbon Japanese sugar, the sponge cake features a large branding mark baked into the top. In addition to plain, they offer flavors like matcha green tea and brandy. Their assortment pack makes a great gift. They also sell Japanese sweets such as Iwamura Manju buns and Iwamurajo-no-Tsuki.

    朝ドラの「半分青い」の舞台にもなった恵那市岩村。 明智鉄道の岩村駅から岩村城のふもとまで1本道で、 旧城下がドラマでは「ふくろう商店街」。 松浦軒は本店と本舗がありますが、 こちらは商店街の下手にあって、観光客が少なめ。 店舗も小さくて、昔ながらの田舎の和菓子屋さんの風情です。 カステラが有名ですが、秋には栗きんとんもあります。

  • Mochiso
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    3.5
    17 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Ogakishi Kuruwamachi 1-61
    This traditional Japanese sweets shop located in Ogaki City, Gifu Prefecture is south of Ogaki Station, to the side of Ogaki Park after crossing the Shin-Ohashi Bridge. The mizu-manju that the shop has made since its founding in 1862 have a transparent jelly outside and packed with red bean paste. In particular, the “mizu-mangori” sold only in the summer are a popular product, and is mizu-manju covered in pure white ice and topped with syrup. In addition, they also have monaka (thin crisp mochi wafers) and sable so you can enjoy crispy Japanese and Western taste, and new products such as mochi filled with heavy cream that is matcha-flavored or a summer-only lime flavor.

    お餅を買いに行ってきました。季節の和菓子も種類多く、お赤飯もとても美味しいのでオススメです。行くたびに新しいお菓子が増えています。

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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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