Bread / Dessert / Other Food Shop Spots in Gifu Area

  • Jinenjo Yamasato
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    3.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Enashi Oichou Zhoushan 1120
    Located approximately a 10-minute drive from the Ena Interchange, this Japanese yam restaurant is located at the foot of Mt. Ena. They have a great menu for those paying attention to their health with items using only yams and the soup stock also using natural ingredients. One recommendation is their “mugi toro set” that combines barley rice with grated yams. You can enjoy the flavor of the simple ingredients. They also offer yam sashimi and dishes of grated yam soup. In addition, they also focus on Hida beef dishes, so you can get a taste with dishes like their Hida beef steak bowl set.

    自然薯を看板につけるほどの自信料理なのでしょうね。突き出しに出てきた、むかごも吸った自然薯もとってもうまかった。自然薯定食は、すりたての自然薯もたっぷり!ご飯も十分あり、とっても美味しかったです。 しかし、飛騨牛を使ったステーキ丼・・・・メニューの写真との差があまりにも・・・若い頃ではないので、結果的にはこれくらいの分量で十分満足しましたが、ちょっと写真との差が・・・ね?? その上、写真にはない...

  • HIda-Takayama boulangerie panove
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    5.0
    6 Reviews
    Shopping
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Okamotomachi 2-140-4
    This bakery a 10-minute walk from JR Takayama station is thoroughly dedicated to its dough making and aims for its bread to always taste freshly baked. Their Retro Baguette is their flagship item. Extended fermentation accentuates the wheat's rich flavor, and the baguettes are crispy on the outside, moist and chewy inside. They have daily bread specials too, and their hard bread prepared with natural yeast on Fridays and Saturdays comes recommended. They hold bread making classes, and sometimes operate a stand at events, too.

    A very kind local lady drove us here because we were looking for a bakery. One of the ladies spoke English and helped us. There was an orange tart which was really delicious along with other...

  • 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.
  • Plesic TOKORO SWEETS
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Gifushi Kotoduka 2-1-18
    PlesicTokoro Sweets is a small confectionary in Kotozuka,Gifu City. The owners use natural vanilla beans and other carefully selected ingredients to create Western-style confections with a seasonal flair. Its custard puddings, bottled custard puddings topped with fruit preserves, and roll cakes, available throughout the year, have been featured on television. The shop can accommodate customers who have sensitivities to eggs, dairy products, or wheat by making bottled fruit preserves without custard.
  • 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.)
  • 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。

  • Ajidokoro Furukawa
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    4.5
    15 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Hidashi Furukawachouichinomachi 11-3
    This restaurant inside a machiya (traditional wooden townhouse) is located in a corner of Matsuri Square an eight-minute walk from JR Hida-Furukawa Station in Gifu Prefecture. Besides dishes featuring Hida Beef as the main items such as Hida Beef hoba miso (miso grilled with onion on magnolia leaves) using homemade miso, a hoba miso steak set and Hida Beef curry, they also serve unique items such as cold soba noodles made with natural ingredients and only available on weekends, and Hida Furukawa ramen topped with char siu Hida-raised pork. In addition, there is also a shop with specialty products and souvenirs from Hida Furukawa, and it can be used as a base for sightseeing.

    We chanced upon this lovely restaurant selling local cuisine and hida beef. It happened to be the real life location of the Hit Anime Film “Your Name”, which the owner proudly shared. Free Japanese...

  • Boulangerie Un Pain
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    4.0
    2 Reviews
    Shopping
    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。

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Enasuya Kannonji Store
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    4.0
    3 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Enashi Oichou 2695-150
    This Japanese confectionery shop is known for its famous Gifu chestnut sweets. Besides offering merchandise, the store also has a dine-in cafe space. You can taste cafe menu items using their prided chestnuts while enjoying the greenery and colorful leaves of the changing seasons. One of their specialties is a chestnut parfait that is ice cream and jelly arranged with glazed chestnuts. In addition, the set that has their specialty kuri-kinton (candied chestnuts with mashed sweet chestnuts) and matcha green tea is also popular. There are also famous sightseeing spots in the vicinity such as Ena Gorge and the ruins of Naegi castle, well known as the “castle in the sky,” making it an easy place to rest at during a drive.

    岐阜県にある、和菓子のお店だそうで、銀座の三越での催事に出店されていて、気になり行ってみました。 今回、栗きんとんを購入。 栗本来の味を楽しむため、お味はとてもシンプル。甘さ控えめで上品なお味でした。

  • 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。

  • 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。

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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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