Shopping Spots in Takayama Area
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- Shinkogei
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- Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Hachikenmachi 1-86
- This Hida Takayama studio creates and sells folk arts and crafts with a focus on woodblock prints. Their popular dolls have a unique feel and are made with a technique they developed called “Mokuhan Tezome. They have a wide variety of these, including their Chinese Zodiac, Zodiac Kids, Hina Doll, and Carp Streamer series. The handmade dolls all feature rustic raw cotton dyed with Hida woodblock printing. They're steamed at a high temperature to fix the color before being stuffed with rice hulls and sewn closed. They also produce the traditional Hida votive plaques known as “Hida Matsukura Ema that have been made since the Edo period.
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- Ohnoya (Sannomachi Shop)
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- Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Kamisannomachi 13
- This koji ferment starter shop is in Kamisannomachi, an old Hida castle town with a historic district that survives to this day. It's a 10 -minute walk from JR Takayama Station. They've been making miso and soy sauce since the Edo period with a motto of “simple and delicious. Hida's natural environment has marked large seasonal temperature changes, pure air, and clean underground water that enhance their flagship products of red miso and koji miso. Their main soy sauce varieties of four-year soy sauce, one-year soy sauce, and kibiki soy sauce draw out the flavor of their ingredients. The shop offers miso soup tastings daily.
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- Funasaka Sake Brewery
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4.0104 Reviews - Shopping
- Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Kamisannomachi 105
- This sake brewery is located in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture in the middle of the old towns past the red Naka Bridge. With 200 years of history, they produce a lot of Japanese sake, including junmai ginjo (pure rice premium sake) Miyamagiku, which has umami and sweetness using Hida spring water and good quality brewer’s rice. Besides the Japanese sake shop and souvenir store, you can freely enjoy sake in the adjoining sake bar. In addition, there is also Restaurant Aji no Yohei, where you can taste Hida beef and please your mouth with juicy meat while drinking high-grade sake.
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I was walking through the old town looking for Masu for my wife; these are the cedar boxes that Coach Sushi in Oakland serves sake. The curio shop told me to go next door. Well to my surprise i...
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- Tsuruya Shoten
- Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Okuhidaonsengouhirayu 519
- A shop which sells local liquors, bathing powders created from sun dried mineral deposits collected from a hot spring well, Tsurunoyu natural hot spring mineral salts, and souvenirs. The shop’s “reverse hot spring eggs,” a Hirayu specialty, are boiled using hot spring waters drawn up right at the front of the shop—these tasty treats are characterized by soft egg whites, firm yolks, and a slight sulfur smell. Due to hygienic concerns, the eggs are not sold for takeout and must be eaten on the premises, but some people like to bring their own condiments to season the eggs just to their liking.
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- Hida Sansho
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- 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.
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- Hida Jizakekura Main Shop
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4.58 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.
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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。
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- Hidacchi Sarubobo Shop (Kokubunji Store)
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- Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Aioimachi 19
- This shop is ten minutes on foot from Takayama Station on the JR Takayama Main Line. They sell lots of items including the local Gifu Prefecture handcrafted talismans known as Saru Bobo and limited edition Hidacchi merchandise (Hida-Takayama's mascot with a bright red body and slightly mischievous expression). Their very popular Omoide Course Saru Bobo making workshop lets you choose the color of its body band, add writing or drawings, and then attach it with glue before giving it a vest. There is also a full-fledged Saru Bobo making program where you piece it together by using thread, needle, and glue to attach the head, body, hood, and the rest.
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- Bunrindo
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4.01 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.
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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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- Maruaki Hida-Takayama Store
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- 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.
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- Hidacchi Sarubobo SHOP Yasugawaten
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- Gifu Takayama-shi Kamiichinomachi 53-6
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- The Daiso Gifu Takayama
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- Gifu Takayama-shi Kamiokamotomachi 3-57
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- Takayama Green Hotel Hida Tourist Center
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- Gifu Takayama-shi Nishino Isshikimachi 2-180 Takayama Green Hotel Shikiji Uchi
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- Chateraise Takayama
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5.01 Reviews - Gourmet / Alcohol
- Gifu Takayama-shi Hanaokamachi 3-chome 102-1
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Believe it or not this place has the best Macarroni in Japan. Take a look of the wonderful desserts they have. Really hign quality desserts it is worthy to come.
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- Zip drug Kiryu
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- Gifu Takayama-shi Kiriumachi 2-chome 348
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- docomo Shop Takayama
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- Gifu Takayama-shi Shimokamotomachi 1006-1
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- The Daiso DAISO Gifu Takayama
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- Gifu Takayama-shi Kamiokamotomachi 3-57
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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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