Groceries Spots in City Center Area

  • Honke Owariya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoutoshi Nakagyou-ku Kurumayachou Junichiro Niro
    Honke Owariya is a soba (buckwheat) confectionery shop located north of Kurumayacho-dori Street from Karasuma Oike Station. It has a long history dating back from the Muromachi period, and in 1465 moved from Owari to Kyoto as a confectionery shop. The shop is built with a charming wooden construction from the early Meiji period, and as it is in a place removed from the hustle and bustle one can enjoy a relaxing moment here. The signature dishes are “Hourai  Soba” made in the spirit of “buckwheat is a fortuitous food” and “Soba Mochi” which is a sweet made with soba flour.
  • MACCHA HOUSE Kyoto Kawaramachi
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    3.5
    81 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Nakagyo-ku Kawaramachi Dori 4 rice Yoneya Town rising 382-2
    This store specializing in matcha green tea is located in Kyoto's Shijo Kawaramachi, and among the nine branches they have opened mainly in Asia they provide an original menu that has arranged items reimported from the matcha green tea culture that has developed overseas. Known for using matcha from Kyoto's long-established shop Morihan, on off-days it is so popular that there will be lines several hours long. The most popular item is the matcha tiramisu, in which mascarpone cheese and sponge cake are placed into a masu (traditional square measuring cup) and given a sprinkling of matcha on top. The thick texture with the fragrance of the matcha makes for an exquisite combination and is one of their specialty sweets. The closest station is Kawaramachi Station.

    A quick stop at a Maccha House, why not? I discovered the chocolate maccha ice cream for myself and I was positively surprised. So for any maccha fan a definite must stop and for people like myself...

  • Murakami Kaishindo
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Chukyo-ku Teramachi-Tori Nijo-Eru
    This patisserie was established in 1907 on Teramachi-dori Avenue, in Tokiwagi-cho, Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto City. They offer a variety of sweets like 11 types of cookie, or Russian Cake, which is made from scratch and softer than the cookies. They also sell summer-only Orange jelly, and creamy Teramachi Vanilla Pudding. The attached cafe, housed in a renovated 90-year-old Japanese style building, offers coffee and cafe-only sweets.
  • Eirakuya Main Store
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    4.5
    44 Reviews
    Shopping
    Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Nakagyo-ku Kawaramachi-doru 4-street east east side
    A shop founded in 1946 at Kawara-machi Shijyo which sells both tukudani foods preserved in soy sauce and confections. Selling both sweet and salty foods, the shop’s bite sized shiitake mushroom tukudani and kohaku jelly are its most popular items in these respective categories. Whether sweet or salty, all of the shop’s products are made with select ingredients by artisans with experience cultivated since the shop first opened. The shop is adjoined by a café which serves beverages, parfaits, anmitsu syrup covered sweet beans, and seasonal items.

    Came here with husband for a break while kids are in Pokemon Center in Takashimaya playing ga-ole. I have long wanted to try japanese desserts. I have heard of course its not too sweet but delicious...

  • Konnamonja
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    4.0
    38 Reviews
    Shopping
    Kyoto Kyoutoshi Nakagyou-ku Nishikikoujisakaimachi Turning corner Midomiya Town 494
    Fujino sells fresh Kyoto tofu nationwide. It operates as Konnamonja inside of Nishiki Market. The menu has a lot of items for walking tourists, with popular options including tofu and soy milk sweets such as soy milk ice cream and soy milk donuts. There are also tofu specialties including okara (tofu residue) and aburage (fried tofu). Sold only in winter, they also have “Kyoto hotpot sake lees stew” with soy milk and sake lees from Seishu Hakushika.

    Konna Monja is a cute store that specializes in soy products in Nishiki Market but they seem to be more well-known for their tofu/soy doughnuts! I wish I could have tried their soy ice cream (?) as...

  • Mariebelle Kyoto Main Shop
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    4.5
    72 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoutoshi Nakagyou-ku Yanaginobambasanjou Shimuru-cho 83
    The first Japanese branch of a New York-based chocolate shop, it is located in Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto. The interior has an antique ambiance, and rich chocolate in stylish wrapping is sold. In the cafe, you can also enjoy hot chocolate, gelato and various other sweets using chocolate.

    No place does brunch better than Marie Belle. I visit here every time Im in Kyoto. Atmosphere is intimate with furniture echoing the early 20th century. Crystal glasses and china tea cups. High...

  • Yamanaka Abura-ten
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    4.5
    11 Reviews
    Shopping
    Kyoto Kyoto-shi Kamigyo-ku Shimodachiuridori Chiekoin Nishiiru Shimomaruyacho 508
    A shop that specializes in oils that first opened in the latter years of the Edo period, sometime between 1818 and 1830. They continue to sell oils that have been and still are an essential part of daily life including oils for votive lights, cooking oils, and oils for hair and skin care. The stately building maintains its outwards appearance from when the shop was first founded and has been registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan as well as an important scenery structure of Kyoto. Despite only selling Japanese oils they still offer a wide selection including their Tamajime Shibori Sesame Oil which has the pure taste and scent of sesame, their Cottonseed Cooking Oil which imparts a gentle flavor to fried foods, and their Fragrant Peanut Oil which can add a savory scent to Chinese cuisine and salads.

    食用だけでなく塗装用の油や輸入のオリーブオイルもありました。オリーブオイルだけでも色々種類があり変わったオイルもありますし、味見もでき、こちらの意向を伝えるとアドバイスしてくれオススメの商品を教えてくれます。落花生の油はお薦めです。

  • Tsukimochi-ya Naomasa
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    4.0
    17 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoutoshi Nakagyou-ku Kiyamachisanjou Crow
    This venerable wagashi (Japanese sweet) shop was founded in 1804. First operating in a time when only fresh (not preserved) sweets could be made, the shop created baked sweets filled with sweet red bean paste and has continued to craft Kyoto treats in line with the times beloved by the masses. In addition to its titular geppei rice cakes, the shop offers a wide selection of fresh sweets. Particularly popular are its warabi-mochi cakes made with real warabi (bracken) starch; the sweet red bean paste, perfect with a cup of green tea, and the melt-in-your-mouth texture is exquisite. Sanjo Station is the closest station to the shop.

    三条木屋町から高瀬川沿いに上がるとあるわらび餅の有名なお店です。購入しなくても風情のあるお店を拝見するだけでも話のタネになります。店内は米を蒸す匂いがします。和菓子は種類がたくさんあるので、迷います。今回はホテルの部屋で、夜食かデザートに食べようと思って行きました。結局、購入したのは、名物「わらび餅」になりました。「わらび餅」は、普通に想像するものとは違って、柔らかなお餅で餡を包んであります。餡は...

  • Yoshihiro
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Nishinokyohigashigekkocho 22
    "A long-standing Japanese confectionary shop established in 1958 located a five-minute walk from Nijo Station. The shop has been featured on television and in a variety of magazines. Both the shop's yatsuhashi manju cinnamon rice flour confection buns, invented by the original owner; and its ""Kyoka"" buns stuffed with matcha powdered green tea bean jam, created by the second generation owner; have won awards in national confectionary competitions. The restaurant's handmade dorayaki pancake sandwiches are also a staple product; the popular Mont Blanc dorayaki are only available in fall. The shop also offers handmade Kyoto confectionary making classes where you can watch a master and try making your very own confection to bring home. Over 70 thousand people have participated in these popular classes."
  • Nishiki Marun
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    3.5
    4 Reviews
    Shopping
    Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Nishikikoji-dori Yanaginobanba Higashiiri Higashi-uoyacho 180

    錦市場の中では大きめのお店で、かわいいお菓子がいろいろと並んでいました。小さな瓶に入ったお菓子の”ぴこまるん”というのがあり、人気のようでした。

  • Mamemasa
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    4.0
    19 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Ebisu Kawadori Yanaginobanba Nishi Iru 6-264
    A long-standing bean confectioner that sells Ebisugawa Five Color Beans, the Kyoto specialty the same as yatsuhashi sweets. Ever since their founding in 1884 they've continued to make and sell delicious beans in the same location. Their flagship Ebisugawa Five Color Beans are a lucky charm created by the founder as they thought about Kyoto printed silk flowing in a clear stream. The colors represent the earth, with the green the trees, red the fire, yellow the ground, white the gold, and black (cinnamon brown) the water. It's a festive candy with the elegance of Kyoto made with fragrant beans and fine quality sugar allowing you to easily taste the sweetness.

    京都の有名なお菓子屋さんでデパートや駅で売られています。 行った時は1組いました。 試食もできますので、どうぞ。

  • PATISSERIE Salon de the m.s.h
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Oshikojidori Fuyacho Nishiiru Tachibanacho 630
    A patisserie focused on sweets because as the owner says, 'A shops leading actor is always the cake.' Along with standard roll cakes and shortcakes, they also sell limited time only cakes made with seasonal ingredients and seasonal sweets. In particular is their specialty Fuya Roll, made with nama-fu wheat gluten mixed with rice flour it has a springy and bouncy mouthfeel and is addictive. Equipped with a rare for Kyoto western style garden the atmosphere of the shop invites you in to a fairy-tale story and draws many repeat female customers.
  • Dintora
    Shopping
    Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Nakauoyacho 494
    A long-standing shop that sells a secret blend of fragrant shichimi seven spice. They continue to sell the blend that they first started selling when they opened in the Nishiki Market where gourmet customers gather in 1878. Freshness is important to get the most flavor out of their blend of a number of chili peppers. Only enough shichimi seven spice is made to stock the store so as to impact the flavor as little as possible. Their Yuzu Citrus Shichimi is made with a healthy amount of domestic yuzu citrus and is perfect for hot pots and pickles so it's a common souvenir item.
  • Fuka Nishiki Shop
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    4.0
    20 Reviews
    Shopping
    Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Nishikikoji-dori Sakaimachi Kado Kikuyacho 534-1
    This Kyo namafu (soft puffed wheat gluten) specialty shop has been in business since the Edo period. Namafu is an essential part of Kyoto's traditional cuisine, and this shop always has over 20 types of the versatile foodstuff in stock, ready to be stewed, fried, or baked. This namafu is marked by its chewy texture with a smooth mouthfeel. They also have special types like yomogi herb or chestnut flavored fu, as well as top-grade miso, a must-have for many namafu dishes. They have a number of unusual and limited styles, including fu made with tomato, chocolate fu with French chocolate in the dough, and more that can only be found at Fuka.

    錦市場に行けば何軒か生麩屋さんがあるだろうと歩き、行き当たりばったりで入ったお店です。 タイミングのせいかもしれませんが、とても多くレジ前で結構並びました。 定番のお麩と変わり種がいくつかありました。 帰宅後、購入した田楽味噌を塗ってお麩をいただきましたが、また思い出して食べたくなる甘じょっぱい味でした。

  • Yamadashiya
    Shopping
    Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Nishikikoji-dori Fuyacho Nishi Iru
    A teahouse marked by its red paper lantern on the west side of the Nishikikoji-dori Street and Fuyacho-dori Street intersection. They sell fresh just prepared tea leaves in a shop with a nostalgic air reminiscent of the past. Their flagship product is their Restaurant O-Bancha green tea. In Kyoto tea brewing is commonly called O-Bancha and freshly roasted Kyoto Bancha has a reputation as being more fragrant. It's also less bitter and easier to drink compared to sencha or standard bancha green teas. As it's sold by scale you can even purchase small quantities.
  • Kikuya
    Shopping
    Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Nishikikoji Tominokoji Higashi Iru Higashi-uoyacho 198
    A specialty shop selling delicacies from all around Japan following the concept of 'Kohuku (satisfaction with eating delicious food) dining'. They of course offer the big three delicacies of dried mullet roe, salted entrails of sea cucumber, and sea urchin as well as a wide variety of other products including dried scallops, salted sea squirt, Suizenji nori seaweed used in tea gatherings and kaiseki traditional course meals, malva nuts and iwatake rock tripe. They also sell chocolates, candies, vegetable chips and dried fruits in cute boxes meaning their products aren't just bought for business use but also by many tourists. Anyone can enjoy their goods regardless of age, gender, or nationality.
  • Gosho Ame Honpo
    Shopping
    Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Sanjo Kawaramachi Higashi Iru Nakajimacho 98
    A candy shop selling Gosyo-ame, a candy made with the same original techniques by boiling carefully selected sugar and glucose syrup at high temperatures. This long-standing shop first opened in 1912 and has a glorious history including winning the Honorary Grand Prize at the National Confectionary Exposition and being presented to the Emperor and Empress of Japan. Operating out of a compact location facing Sanjo-dori Street they have an overflowing display of colorful candies. Many tourists by these candies as souvenirs due to their reasonable prices, long-lasting quality, easy portability, and difficulty to break.
  • So-honke Kawamichi-ya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Aneyakoji Dori Gokomachi Nishi Iru Anedaitocho 550
    This specialty shop makes and sells Soba Horu, a baked sweet going back to the early Meiji period made using buckwheat flour. Kawamichi-ya is said to go back to when Kyoto was known as Heian-kyo, and has sold sweets and soba flour since the Genroku era (1688-1704). It applied soba noodle making techniques to the making of Portuguese sweets to create Soba Horu. Since they do not use any oil, they have a light flavor and are often used in tea ceremonies and as Kyoto style sweets for guests. They come baked in umebachi crest shape or circles, and make perfect gifts.
  • Kameya Yoshinaga
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    4.0
    6 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Teramachi Dori Oike Sagaru Shimohonnojimaecho 504
    This venerable sweets shop was founded in 1832. They sell their famous Oike Senbei from their corner shop on Gokomachi-dori Street just off Oike-dori Avenue. These simple griddle cooked senbei glutinous rice crackers are mildly sweetened with sugar and cooked with a turtle shell pattern. The light, fluffy texture matches the light aroma of soy sauce for an elegant, Kyoto-style luxury. The red label was designed with help from printmaker Shiko Munakata, and they come packed in a handy-sized tin can. They're a popular souvenir from Kyoto because they stand up well to transport.

    京都の知り合いに、お茶のお供として出していただいたお菓子が美味しく、お店を聞いてお土産に買って帰った。く秋らしく栗を形どったお菓子だった。

  • Boulangerie Liberte
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    4.0
    28 Reviews
    Shopping
    Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Teramachi Dori Nijo Agaru Tokiwagicho 65-2
    This pastry shop and bakery is located on Teramachi-dori a five-minute walk from Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae Station. The popular shop consistently places highly in contests in Paris, the world's most competitive market for pastry shops and bakeries. Their specialty is their Pain Liberte, hard bread made using the subtle techniques of confectionary making. Featuring a blend of three wheat varieties, the bread brims with sourness and earthy flavors. A homemade levain starter and honey is kneaded into the dough, which is cooked slowly over a long time. It is perfect for breakfast, brunch, or dinner.

    Went here for some breakfast pastries, what a find!! Such a choice of savoury and sweet pastries to choose from at reasonable prices. We chose a sausage focaccia and Hama/cheese pastry for savoury...

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