Shopping Spots in Mie Area

  • Uoharu
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    3.5
    2 Reviews
    Shopping
    Mie Pref. Iseshi Ujinakanokirichou 49
    This long-established marine product store opened in 1931 and is located at the entrance of Oharai Town in front of Ise-jingu Shrine. The old wooden building has a big “Uoharu” sign as its landmark. You’ll find saury, dried round herring, horse mackerel, and many other dried marine products that Ise has been blessed with for ages. The “same no tare,” which is sun-dried shark slices that can only be eaten in Ise and are provided as an offering to the shrine, is a popular product that has been featured as an Ise souvenir in magazines and newspapers.

    おはらい通りに2店舗あります。 さめたれが有名ですがさめたれは冷蔵で保管しないとアンモニア臭が出て食べられなくなるとのこと。 無料で小さい保冷剤、100円ほどで大きい保冷剤を入れていただけますが、買ったときはまだ凍っていた塩のさめたれも4時間ほどかかって家に帰ると保冷剤は解けてないけどしっかり解凍済みでした。 急いで帰ったので食べる分にはおいしくいただけましたが塩味の強い骨のない白身魚といった感じ...

  • Dagashi no Aiya
    Shopping
    Mie Pref. Matsusakashi Nakamachi 1869
    Aiya, located about seven minutes’ walk from Matsusaka Station, is a well-established inexpensive traditional sweet shop which is uncompromising about keeping the traditional handmade process. In a tiny shop with a retro atmosphere, there is a range of inexpensive handmade snacks using local ingredients which may make you feel somewhat nostalgic. Youmeito for which wheat flour is kneaded with raw sugar and syrup, hard candy such as kurodama, rakkadama (peanut candy) and hachimitsudama (honey candy), Suirai Japanese style cookies and various flavors of nanairomaneki are recommended by the owner. The shop sells them loose as well as by weight and also offers assortments for gifts.
  • Kogetsudo
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Mie Pref. Igashi Uenonakamachi 3028
    Kogetsudo, located five minutes’ walk from Uenoshi Station on the Iga Railway Line, is a well-established Japanese sweet shop selling decchiyokan (sweet bean cakes using inexpensive ingredients). In a tiny shop with a traditional and retro exterior, there is a range of nostalgic sweets including Iga local sweets. Decchiyokan, the hallmark product, is like a soft sweet bean jelly, and this famous traditional confectionery has long been loved in the Iga region. Decchiyokan, which is moist and smooth with soft texture, is lightly sweetened as it uses traditional ingredients such as agar strip and honkuzu (100% arrowroot) from the Yoshino region. The owner makes them himself every morning.
  • Kashikobo Shimaya
    Shopping
    Mie Pref. Shimashi Shimachouwagu 851-4
    Kashikobo Shimaya located in Shima Town on the Ise Peninsula, is a specialty Japanese and European sweet shop. Many of the sweets use seafood which is abundant in the Ise Peninsula and a local specialty. The Kinko tartlet is a Japanese infused roll in which yuzu paste is sprinkled with kinko, a dried sweet potato and a well-known local specialty of Ise, and wrapped with castella made from rice flour. The Tanuki cake which became famous for its originality and is featured in the media is a tiny cake shaped like a tanuki (raccoon). The colors such as chocolate and matcha symbolize Feng Shui, and also sold online.
  • Katsuo no Tenpaku 'Katsuo Ibushi Goya'
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    4.5
    6 Reviews
    Shopping
    Mie Pref. Shimashi Daiouchounakiri 362-1
    This bonito smoking shop in Daiozaki, Nakiri, Shima City is over 100-years-old. Their dried bonito was once used as an offering to Ise-jingu Shrine and they still use their traditional hand-made techniques of “tebiyama” stacking smoke boxes. You can get tours to see how they prepare the charcoals and make the bonito for “Kiwametsuki Katsuobushi (High-Quality bonito)” and “Ise Nakiribushi.” (for a fee) Once they’re done you can experience shaving the bonito flakes yourself, sample some of the best bonito dashi soup, and taste the freshly carved bonito on top of a bowl of hot rice as Okaka Gohan.

    Amazing experience. The owner threw some jokes while explaining the traditional method to make bonito flakes. You can even taste some at the end. Pretty neat.

  • Iseji Meisan Aji no Yakata
    Shopping
    Mie Pref. Iseshi Ujinakanokirichou 52
    A food goods store with specialty products from along the Ise Road in Okage Yokocho, Kameyama City, Mie. This traditional store built in an old Japanese-style house offers rows upon rows of tightly packed Ise Road food items made from ingredients from the rich seas and mountains. These high-quality gifts are popular as souvenirs and to take home, including the highly recommended Ise Tea, Ise Takuan, Ise Udon, and Ise Soy Sauce, all made from the rich nature and climate of Ise. It’s a great place to buy gifts in bulk.
  • Kikuya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Mie Pref. Iseshi Ujimazaikechou 42
    This store in Oharai-machi in front of Ise-jingu Shrine makes and sells shoga (ginger) candy. Shoga candy, an Ise specialty made by simmering ginger juice and sugar together, has been a long-time a staple of Ise gifts. They offer a variety of flavors including matcha green tea, red bean and cinnamon. The retro packaging of Ise-jingu Shrine’s card is well loved by all ages.
  • hembamochi iseshi Sta. Mae
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    4.0
    5 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Mie Pref. Iseshi Honmachi 17-16

    JR伊勢市駅の近くの外宮参道にあるので、電車に乗る前に気軽に購入できます。餅2つ入りの1個から購入できるます。餡は甘すぎずさらっともちもちで、懐かしい味がします。

  • Yokkaichi City Bussan Tourist Hall
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie Pref. Yokkaichishi Yasujima 1-1-56
    This tourist center, located inside the Kintetsu Yokkaichi Station exhibits and sells local products. It has a wealth of express bus and accommodation brochures and sightseeing information. The center serves as a rest area, and customers can drink Kabuse tea produced in Suizawa Districtfrom its Banko ware cups. It also exhibits and sells specialty products of Yokkaichi City, such as Hinaga Uchiwa fans and Nagamochi rice cakes. Other products include items relating to the Konyudo-kun mascot character. There are also bicycles available for rent, making the center a convenient base for sightseeing.
  • Toraya Shogetsu
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Mie Pref. Suzukashi Mikkaichichou 1871-15
    This Japanese-style sweet shop in Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture was founded 50 years ago. Taking the Mie Kotsu Route Bus from Kintetsu Shiroko Station, you'll find it near the Karasuno Bus Stop. Their hallmark item is Suzuka-no-Shufu Rider Monaka, a sweet shaped like a motorcycle racer like you might see at the Suzuka Circuit race track. They're made with superior ingredients including tsubuan red bean paste made with soft cooked name-brand Hokkaido grown adzuki beans sandwiched between tasty wafers made from domestic mochi rice. They also have dora-yaki cakes made with the same red bean paste as their monaka cakes.
  • Ise department store
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie Pref. Iseshi Honmachi 1-1
    This souvenir shop is at the hot spring inn Ise Shinsen near Kintetsu Iseshi Station in Mie Prefecture. They offer local souvenirs such as Ise udon noodles and Ise shrimp chips, sweets, their own glassware, and original products like their bountiful harvests Mochi rice cakes. They also sell seafood and agricultural products like their own special udon noodles, Ise shrimp, aosa green algae, and Ise tea. Choose your souvenirs from the largest selection of products in the region in their casual and spacious store.
  • Nakatani Takeshi Association
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie Pref. Iseshi Kawasaki 2-4-4
    This variety shop is approximately 10 -minute walk from both the north entrance of Kintetsu and JR Iseshi Station and Kintentsu Ujiyamada Station. Formerly the Cafe Mona Lisa, it's been renewed, and in July of 2018 they started selling cookies and unique Ise themed designer goods. It's in a remodeled warehouse that was built 150 years ago and used to store brown sugar. Their popular Satonaka cookies are a local favorite from their time as a cafe, incorporating the salt, rice, and sake left as offerings at Ise Jingu Shrine in a contemporary way. They also sell bagels on Thursdays.
  • Iseji Saien
    Shopping
    Mie Pref. Iseshi Ujinakanokirichou 150-6
    This gardening store whose focus is on seasonal flowers, Japanese flowers and tea blossoms is located west of Okage Yokocho, a one-minute walk from the JinguKaikan-maebus stop, approximately 20 minutes by bus from either Ujiyamada Station or Iseshi Station. Japanese flowers bloom all year round in this 330-square-meter gardening store, which displays the beauty of classical plants for all to see with plants such as the three classical flowers of Ise - Ise chrysanthemum, Ise fringed pinks and Ise iris, which came to be cultivated thanks to the horticultural culture that began in the Edo period. The store also holds experience classes each season, such as painting Manekineko and Ise's traditional Yo-Yo toys, and Yoseue group planting classes.
  • Mother Fruit
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Mie Pref. Iseshi Okamoto 1-2-3
    Founded in 1991, Mother Fruit is located near the Ise City Hall and specializes in Ise-style confections. It sells only Jingu Shiraishi Cookies and Beni Kajitsu cookies. Jingu Shiraishi Cookies are meant to evoke the white stones (Shiraishi) that are spread on the ground in the most sacred part of Ise Jingu Shrine, and their rounded shape gives an impression of neatness. Customers like their crunchy texture, their faint sweetness, and the scent of chestnut. Together with the pink Beni Kajitsu cookies, they form a contrast between red and white and are therefore recommended as presents for celebrations.
  • Asahiya Sakamoto Manju Seizohonpo
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    4.0
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Mie Pref. Iseshi Futamichouchaya 107-6
    This veteran Japanese-style confectionery at Futaminoura Station was founded in 1913. They take pride in providing genuine manju buns, so everything's handmade. Their delicious Sakamoto Manju feature 100% Hokkaido adzuki red bean jam in buns prepared with naturally fermented rice koji starter. These treats with chewy outsides and the clean sweetness of adzuki beans are only available at their shop, providing a traditional flavor that you can only find there. Once they're sold out, that's it. Of course, they're great as snacks, but they make fine souvenirs as well.

    二見浦駅を出て市街に向かってすぐ。酒素饅頭は、「さかもとまんじゅう」。 ご主人曰く「よそは酒粕を入れているんで酒饅頭と言っているが、これはそうではなくて、麹菌で作っている酒饅頭。本物の酒饅頭です」。 まあ、自意識の高いお店です。

  • Blanca (Toba Main Store)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Mie Pref. Tobashi Toba 3-15-3
    The main store of the Western-style confectionary Blanca is located in the city of Toba. Its flagship product is its Shell Leines, i.e. madeleines made in the shape of pearl oyster shells. These sweets have not only won numerous national prizes, like Honorary President Prize at the Japan Confectionary Expo 1994, or Prefectural Prize (Mie) at the Japan Gift Awards 2017, but were also chosen to be served during coffee breaks at the G7 Iseshima Summit. Natural pearl shell calcium, made by grinding up the mother-of-pearl inside the shell, is added to the dough, and this confection is popular for its crispy outer layer and its moist center.
  • Yanagiya Hozen
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Mie Pref. Matsusakashi Nakamachi 1877
    This veteran confectionery shop is five minutes on foot from JR Matsusaka Station. It has operated for over 430 years since its founding in 1575. One of its most popular items is its monaka with a unique and refined flavor that consists of a filling called oinotomo (similar to yokan sweet bean jelly) spread between two wafers. Other sweets like their bell-shaped Suzu Monaka, and Norinaga Candy which revived an old kind of medicine in a new way come recommended as snacks to go with tea or souvenirs. Guests can also enjoy a leisurely cup of matcha green tea and seasonal sweets while gazing at the garden of their Sabo Yoryuen. Some of these sweets include cream zenzai soft bean jam cakes, ujikin warabi (made from uji tea and glutinous rice cake with bracken), and their own gelato.
  • Wakamatsuya (Okage Yokocho Shop)
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    4.0
    45 Reviews
    Shopping
    Mie Pref. Iseshi Ujinakanokirichou 52 Inside Okage Yokocho
    This veteran nerimono fish cake shop and home of the Cheese Stick is an Okage Yokocho classic. Founded in 1905 in Kawasaki, known as Ise's kitchen, they continue making nerimono with the same flavor that's been passed down through the generations. Items include their super popular Cheese Sticks (fried fish cake on a stick with cheese inside), Hiryozu fritters made with a base of tofu and fish paste mixed with nine other ingredients, and their Clam and Scallop Sticks packed with the sweet and savory flavor of shellfish. You'll get your order piping hot as they fry it for you on the spot. Of course, you can eat it on the go, but taking some time to eat at their tables is nice, too.

    おかげ横丁にある「若松屋」。 食べ歩きグルメとしてもいいし、店内にテーブルがあるので、店内でも食べられます。 注文が入ってから揚げてくれるので、アツアツの練り物が頂けます。 今回はテイクアウトでひりょうずというものも購入。 がんもどきのような感じですが、大き目の具が沢山入っていて、具の食感と練り物のハーモニーがいい感じです。 ボリュームもありますので、シェアして食べたほうが いいと思います。

  • Akafuku Isuzugawa Store
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    4.0
    33 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Mie Pref. Iseshi Ujiurata 1-11-5
    This long-established Japanese confectionery store was established around 300 years ago. It is famous nationally for its Akafuku, which is made with high-quality sweet bean paste on mochi rice cake. The Isuzugawa branch not only sells souvenirs, but also has a cafearea. Customers can enjoy the taste of their Akafuku in the cafewhile also drinking Ise-cha tea which matches its flavor perfectly. The cafehas a unique seasonal menu with Matcha honey Akafuku shaved ice, a simple Akafuku Zenzai and a refreshing coldZenzai.

    伊勢の名物赤福、電信棒、駅のベンチにも場所があれば伊勢は赤福の文字ばかり。しかし何度食べても赤福は美味い。JRでも近鉄の駅で三重県以外でも買えてしまいますが、本場の伊勢で食べる味は格段に美味い。今は餅を焦がしたぜんざいもありますが、私はふつうに食しました。

  • Gyutora (Eddy’s Hachiken-dori Street Store)
    Shopping
    Mie Pref. Iseshi Fukiage 2-5-3
    Gyutora Eddy's is the Hachima-dori Street Store of Eddy's supermarket, a chain that does business only in Mie Prefecture and is considered one of the most famous stores there. It sells mostly fresh, unprocessed foods and box lunches. Customers can buy Ise Amatare Karaage Banno Tare (deep-friend chicken with sweet dipping sauce), packs of Matsusaka Tori Yakiniku (grilled Matsusaka chicken), which appeared at theB-1 Grand Prixregional food festival, and other products typical of Mie Prefecture. It is known to be a shop where visitors can buy distinctive souvenirs.

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Spread across the eastern side of the Kii Peninsula, Mie prefecture boasts hundreds of kilometers of pretty coastline comprising the oyster-rich Toba city and Shima National Park all the way down to Kumano, a city that marks the beginning of part of the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage, which runs into neighboring Wakayama prefecture. However, Mie is best known for the Ise Jingu Shinto shrine inland, one of the oldest and largest shrines in the country.

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