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Japanese Confectionery Spots in Gifu Area

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  • Kogetsu Honke
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    3.5
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Geroshi Kouden 1145-4
    This Japanese and Western sweet shop is in Koden, Gero City, Gifu Prefecture. Their Japanese sweet called “namadora with a filling of fresh cream and tsubuan bean paste sandwiched between pancakes made from local red eggs and milk is a local favorite. They also sell limited time items filled with the flavors of the season. Their “Wa-MORI-mori Parfait with fresh cream and fruit on kudzu mochi starch cake and sponge cake is popular too. It’s easy to hold on to and great for walking about the hot spring district.

    生どら美味しいです。秋限定の生どら（栗入り）もあり、栗きんとんもあり美味しいです。温泉街ではなく、駅近にあります。

  • Tanimatsu (Main Shop)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Kamichinomachi 53
    This shop on Hida Takayama's Bunnemonzaka Shopping Street specializes in the local Takayama sweet known as kokusen. They've maintained the handcrafted tradition of their flagship item since they opened in 1892. These sweets with a single twist are made with charcoal fire roasted sesame seeds held together with mizuame syrup, then stretched and cut into bit-sized pieces. Being handmade, they have just the right texture, with an exquisite sweetness and the fine flavor of their carefully selected ingredients. Kids like the shop's soft genkotsu sweets made with a blend of kinako soy flour and brown sugar.
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  • Ganso Umajirushi Mishima Mame Hompo
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    5.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Kamichinomachi 103
    Founded in 1868, this bean sweet shop is in the town area northwest of the Takayama Castle Ruins. Their “Mishimamame is a local favorite and is said to be the oldest bean sweet in Japan. It’s made of roasted soybeans coated with high-quality sugar and green laver, and mixed with salty ryokuto beans, making it the perfect sake snack. Their popular Nishiki-gaya featuring Japanese nutmeg is only available from late November to April. Many of their products have been featured on TV and in magazines, and Emperors have received them as gifts on many occasions.

    サクッとした味が人気の三嶋豆です。 お店の人によると、小学館のサラニという雑誌に取り上げられ、日本で1番歴史の古い豆菓子であることが判明したとか。 また、お店から見える中庭が、素晴らしいと、外国人の方が庭の写真をよく撮られていきます。

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  • Iwaki
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Kamisannomachi 111-2
    Located right next to the red Naka Bridge that spans the Miya River, this is the only warabi-mochi (bracken starch cakes covered in sweet soybean powder) store in Takayama. “Iwaki no Sawarabi,” their signature menu item, is warabi-mochi that characteristically melts in your mouth and was creature through a unique manufacturing method, and it is recommended that you eat is at room temperature without refrigeration. In addition, they are popular as souvenirs since they last for three days, and can even be sent by mail to other places from the shop. They also sell winter-only products such as “Sakura Fubuki” and “Hida Apples” using seasonal fruit. Please keep in mind that the store closes when they sell out of products.
  • Matsuuraken Honten
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Enashi Iwamurachou Honcho 3 - 246
    A long-standing Japanese confectionary shop located in the castle town district surrounding the ruins of Iwamura Castle near Akechi Railroad Iwamura Station. Since the shop was established in 1796, its signature product has been its castella cakes, made according to the same recipe transmitted from Portugal for over 200 years. The shop’s castella cakes are made with closely scrutinized, top quality ingredients and unsparing effort, with an emphasis on traditional flavor. Made with a large quantity of egg yolks, these castella are notable for their moist texture. Other recommended shop selections include the yokan jelly stuffed with large chunks of Japanese chestnut, and the shop’s seasonal Japanese sweets. (Note that there is a similar but unaffiliated shop in the town called Matsuuraken Honpo.)
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  • 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.
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  • Tanakaya Senbei Sohonke (Main Shop)
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    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.
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  • 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。

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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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。

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  • 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...

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  • 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。

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  • 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。

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  • 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。

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  • 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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  • Yamamoto Sataro Shoten
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Gifushi Matsuyachou 17
    This veteran oil wholesaler with a history of 140 plus years was founded in 1876. Its head office is on a small road between Inaba Shrine and National Route 256. Originally, they pressed rapeseed oil, but after the facility was destroyed in air raids, they became wholesalers, making use of their previous experience. Now they primarily offer karinto fried dough cakes, shortbread, and biscuits. They also produce the Daichi-no-Oyatsu line of sweets in collaboration with the Japanese confectionery artisan Machino Kimihide, also known as “Macchin. They use their know-how and passion as oil wholesalers to make sweets that feel safe and familiar as the decades roll by.
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  • Sakuya (Kanimitake Interchange Store)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Kanishi Kakida 844-1
    This branch of Enagawa Kamiya manufactures and sells mainly sweets with chestnuts. It has developed a number of original products such as “kuri-kanze” and chestnut ice pudding. They also hold events and sweets-making workshops. The chairs shaped like kuri-kinton (candied chestnuts ) inside the store have become its symbol, and it is a popular photo spot. You can eat Japanese-style pancakes and Sakuya Pudding in the adjoining cafe. It is known for changing most of its menu items each season, and it sells a limited number of the Mont Blanc cake “Kuri Hitosuji” using a lot of chestnuts in the autumn. You can enjoy “cotton snow ice” shaved ice there in the summertime.
  • Okashi Tamai Ya Honpo
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Gifu-shi Minatomachi 42
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  • Kankaraya
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    4.0
    15 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Ena-shi Iwamuracho Iwamuracho 806-1

    人気の観光地で人気の食べ物屋さんで映画のロケ地になった店。おはぎが有名だけどうどんも食べられる。うどんだけたのんだらおはぎを食べないかと聞かれた。昔風のお店で古いただすまい。若いカップルがどんどん入ってきていっぱいになる。

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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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