Other Shopping Spots in Wakayama Area

  • SUPER Ever Green (Iwade Takatsuka Store)
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    Wakayama Iwade-shi Takatsuka 188-1 Super Ever Green Plaza Iwade Takatsuka
    This farmer's market is located about a five-minute walk from JR Wakayama Line Iwade Station. It offers locally-sourced fresh fruits and vegetables, seafood, and other products at reasonable prices. The market's biggest attraction is its diverse selection, which is made possible by the one of the biggest shopping floors in the region. The market also features a pharmacy and is open from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 midnight, making it a convenient place to shop after work.
  • Tobe-yaki Ware Loire and TAZU Bread Making School
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    Wakayama Iwade-shi Nakabusa 411
    This shop specializing in Tobe ware is located about a 17-minute walk from Iwade Station on the JR Wakayama Line. It offers a selection of Tobe ware with a particular focus on tableware such as rice bowls, tea cups, and coffee mugs well-suited for everyday use.
  • Momoyama Tokusan Center
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    Wakayama Kinokawa Momoyamacho Ichiba 404-1
    This farmer's market is located a 35-minute drive from the Sennan Interchange on the Hanwa Expressway and five minutes south along National Route 24 from the Shimoisaka Intersection. It sells Arakawa no Momo peaches, a nationally-famous brand-name peach, as well as processed products made. The products include peach yokan (a type of jellied dessert), peach jam, and Togenshu peach liqueur. The market also sells local products such as fresh fruits and vegetables, Kinzanji miso paste, and more. The market is open seven days per week during the peach season, which runs from June to mid-August. During this period the market bustles with visitors from all across Japan. The market also serves as a hub for sharing information and other exchanges.
  • Jofuku Park Shop
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    Wakayama Shingu-shi Jofuku 1-4-24
    This park located a two-minute walk from JR Shingu Station. The park is dedicated to the Chinese alchemist and explorer Xu Fu, known in Japan as Jofuku. It is said that he came to Japan over 2,200 years ago in search of the elixir of life on the order of China's first emperor Qin Shi Huang. The park features a particularly vivid Chinese-style tower gate, a stone memorial to Xu Fu, and seven stone monuments to his seven chief vassals. The park's shop sells a number of Xu Fu-themed merchandise including Jofuku-no-Yu bath additive and Jofukucha. Jofukucha is a blend of Kumano green tea and Japanese evergreen spicebush, which is said to have been discovered by Xu Fu on his search for the elixir of life. The park also offers bicycle and Chinese dress rentals.
  • SUPER Ever Green Kami-Tonda Store, Farmers' Market Plaza Tenkomori
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    Wakayama Nishimuro-gun Kamitondacho Ikuma 564-1
    This farmer's market is located inside the Kamitonda branch of the Super Evergreen Supermarket and Drugstore, about a seven-minute drive from the Kamitonda Interchange on the Kisei Expressway. It deals in vegetables, fruits, flowers, rice, processed foods, desserts, side dishes, and salted items.
  • Akitsuno Farmers' Market Kitera
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    Wakayama Tanabe-shi Kamiakizu 1487-1
    "This is located a ten-minute drive from the Nanki Tanabe Interchange on the Hanwa Expressway. The local people provided the funds to found a farmers' market and operate it themselves. They take advantage of a climate and landscape where mandarin oranges, navel oranges and other citrus fruits can be harvested throughout the year, and a wide variety of seasonal citrus fruits are always displayed at the entrance to the store, all of them locally grown. The ""Oranchi juice"" produced onsite is also popular. The neighboring coffee shop Ikora Chaya is a good place to relax while drinking coffee that has been roasted in-house."
  • Honmamon Furusato Local Fresh Food Market
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    Wakayama Hidaka-gun Minabecho Higashi Yoshida 274-1
    "A five-minute drive from JR Minabe Station. This farmers market is operated by JA Kisyuu, the local Japan Agricultural Cooperatives branch. The market sells safe, healthy, and fresh foods raised amongst the area's abundant natural beauty. Some of the many foods you can buy here include Kishu Minabe Nankoume plums, a variety of Japanese plum created right here in Minabe Town; Usui peas, snow peas, and other legumes; highly sweet cherry tomato varieties such as Akatonbo, Yutosei, and Otohime; small sized watermelons, muskmelons, and other seasonal produce; flowers like statice and baby's breath; and umeboshi pickled plums, including JA Kishyuu's own original ""tomato-ume""."
  • Fresh Mart Special Product Direct Sales Store
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    Wakayama Hidaka-gun Inami Cho Inami 261-1
    A five-minute drive from the Inami Interchange. This farmers market is operated by JA Kisyuu, the local Japan Agricultural Cooperatives branch. The market carries produce raised amidst the area's lush natural abundance. Here you can find Usui peas, snow peas, and other legumes; highly sweet cherry tomato varieties like Akatonbo, Yutosei, Otohime; small sized watermelons just as delicious as their bigger counterparts; and brand items from across the country. In addition, the market also sells fresh, seasonal produce.
  • Sawayaka Hidaka
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    Wakayama Hidaka-gun Hidakacho Ibaraki 5
    A five-minute walk from JR Kii-Uchihara Station and a 15-minute drive from the Kawabe Interchange. This farmers market is operated by JA Kisyuu, the local Japan Agricultural Cooperatives branch, and can be reached by exiting Kii-Uchihara Station and taking a left at the Uchihara-ekimae Intersection. The market sells locally-grown produce such as mikan oranges, Usui peas, and cherry tomatoes, as well as choice foods created by local businesses and farmers. The market holds a variety of events, as well, such as food sample sales and events where you can cram a bag with as much produce as will fit and pay the same low price regardless of how much it contains.
  • Hirogawa Town Fureai-kan
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    Wakayama Arida-gun Hirogawacho Yamamoto 971-1
    This local specialty products market is situated in front of Hirokawa Beach Station. The market sells fresh vegetables, fruits, and other products from farms in the Hirokawa Town area. The market's selection includes Arida mikan oranges, one of the area's most well-known specialty products; as well as daily necessities. In the market's adjoining restaurant, you can eat udon made with Shiawase no Kuro Udon, a patented variety of udon noodle which suppresses post-meal blood sugar level spikes. Particularly noteworthy is the visually-striking Inamura no Hi Curry Udon noodles, which is made with dozens of spices and mikan oranges and topped with shredded chili peppers arranged to resemble a bonfire in the center of the bowl. The restaurant also serves a wide selection of donburi rice bowls, teishoku combo meals, desserts, beverages, and more. In addition, the market has rental cycles, making it a convenient place from which to base area sightseeing activities.
  • Agricultural Cooperative Corporation Kibi Produce Market Dondon Plaza
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    Wakayama Arida-gun Aridagawacho Sho 1003-2
    This farmers market is designed to be a place where customers can see the faces of the people that made the products on sale. The market is filled with fresh, picked-daily local vegetables, fruits, flowers, and more. Arida is famous for its abundant citrus fruit production, and customers will also find a wide variety of seasonal citrus fruits here, including mikan, dekopon, ponkan, Hassaku, and navel oranges. In addition, the market holds numerous events, including mikan picking in a nearby mikan farm from mid-November to mid-December.
  • Aisai Temarikko (Kasei Store)
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    Wakayama Wakayama-shi Enokihara 223-26
    "A farmers market located in Enokihara, Wakayama City, Wakayama Prefecture. ""Temarikko"" is derived from the Kishu Temari vegetable brand being promoted by JA Wakayama, the local Japan Agricultural Cooperatives branch. The market sells spinach, Japanese mustard spinach, cabbage, and other vegetables primarily from Wakayama Prefecture; JA Specially-cultivated Crops-certified original brand rice; fruit such as mikan oranges; and more."
  • Aisai Temarikko (Isao Store)
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    Wakayama Wakayama-shi Sonobe 1449
    "A farmers market located in Sonobe, Wakayama City, Wakayama Prefecture. ""Temarikko"" is derived from the Kishu Temari vegetable brand being promoted by JA Wakayama, the local Japan Agricultural Cooperatives branch. The market sells edible chrysanthemums, sweet potatoes, napa cabbage, and other vegetables primarily from Wakayama Prefecture; JA Specially-cultivated Crops-certified original brand rice; fruit such as mikan oranges; and more."
  • Aisai Temarikko(Okazaki Store)
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    Wakayama Wakayama-shi Terauchi 575-1
    "A farmers market located in Terauchi, Wakayama City, Wakayama Prefecture. ""Temarikko"" is derived from the Kishu Temari vegetable brand being promoted by JA Wakayama, the local Japan Agricultural Cooperatives branch. The market sells bamboo shoots, mikan oranges, and other fruits vegetables and flowers from Wakayama Prefecture; the market also offers a rice polishing service in which you can have your desired rice polished for you while you shop."
  • Ever Green Miyakaido Store Chokusan Hiroba Tenkomori
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    Wakayama Wakayama-shi Akizuki 227-2
    This discount store specializes in perishable foods. It is attached to the EverGreen supermarket, which carries everything from daily necessities to alcohol at steep discounts. It offers a wide selection of farm-fresh fruits and vegetables including strawberries and citrus from Wakayama Prefecture. The store occasionally carries seasonal citrus fruit varieties such sanpokan that are rarely seen outside of the local area. The store stays open until midnight, allowing customers to take all the time they need to shop.
  • Aisai Temarikko (Saika Store)
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    Wakayama Wakayama-shi Nishihama 1-1-1
    This is located a 10-minute drive from JR Miyamae Station. This community-oriented farmers market primarily sells fresh, safe, and healthy produce grown in Wakayama City. The market also offers a popular service in which you can have rice of your choosing polished for you while you go shopping. You can even have your rice polished to your preferred degree of polishing, retaining some of the nutrient-rich outer surface if you so desire. Here you can buy JA Specially-cultivated Crops-certified original brand rice grown by JA farmers and six other varieties of rice, as well as flowers and vegetables such as sweet potatoes and green onions.
  • Aisai Temarikko (ShikagoNakanoshima Store)
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    Wakayama Wakayama-shi Arimoto 18-1
    Located a four-minute walk from Kii-Nakanoshima Station on the JR Hanwa Line. This farmers market sells fresh vegetables picked that very morning as well as vegetables picked that afternoon and that evening, ensuring you will always find the freshest produce here. The market's farm-fresh reliable and safe produce is grown in Wakayama Cit. The market offers a popular rice polishing service in which you can have your desired rice polished for you while you shop. You can even have your rice polished to your preferred degree of polishing, retaining some of the nutrient-rich outer surface if you so desire. Here you can buy JA Specially-cultivated Crops-certified original brand and six other varieties of rice, as well as napa cabbage, cabbage, flowers, and much more.
  • Hama no Utase
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    Wakayama Arida-shi Miyazakicho 2489
  • Wakayama Tourist Souvenier Center
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    3.5
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    Travel / Tourism
    Wakayama Wakayama-shi Ichibancho 3

    和歌山城天守閣の下にある、観光案内所です。西の丸庭園、別名を紅葉渓庭園と称する名園から歩いてすぐ、という立地にあります。バス停留所は、市役所前が敷地内です。お土産物も数多く取り揃えてあって、いろいろと役に立ちます。

  • Shirahamamachichikisambututenji Sales Tokorokairaikan
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    Wakayama Pref. Nishimurogunshirahamachou Hiki 2039-73

    一階がお土産二階はランチが出来たのでエビフライ定食を食べました。海老は小さめでしたがちゃんと新鮮な味がしてとても美味しかったです。 店員さんも親切で丁寧、優しかったです。 海岸の方にも遊びに行きましたが比較的ゴミが少なく、ゴミ拾いをしにビーチを散歩したのが楽しかったです!

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Wakayama prefecture unites pilgrims, food lovers, and culture buffs in a tranquil corner of Japan at the base of the Kii Peninsula. The setting for many a Kumano Kodo pilgrimage trail, Wakayama invites those in search of spirituality from one side of the prefecture to the other, from the 100-plus Buddhist temples of the sacred Mount Koya in the west to the inspiring temples of the Kumano Sanzan set among breathtaking nature in the east. Once the grueling hike is complete, make a beeline for Wakayama city to savor some of the country’s most delicious ramen noodles.

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