Shopping Spots in Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter Area

  • Design Market Kurashiki Hayashi Genjuro Shouten
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    4.0
    48 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Achi 2-23-10
    This is a shopping complex opened in 2012 in the restored main building, house, annex, storehouse and courtyard of the drug store Hayashi Genjiro Shouten built in the early Showa period. There are eight shops on the theme of affluent lifestyles in the complex such as everyday goods select shops, original cafes, restaurants where you can enjoy wood-kiln pizza, and denim specialty shops. There is a memorial room in the main building introducing the history of the drug store Hayashi Genjiro Shouten. The nearest station is Kurashiki Station.

    セレクトショップとカフェ、林源十郎のヒストリーコーナー等、それぞれオーナーが異なるお店が入っているようです。 個人的にはナンシー関の消しゴムはんこを使った雑貨に心を奪われましたが、結局使えるものだけ購入してきました。 二階のグリーンが置いてある器のお店は、店主不在のため販売不可と張り紙してあったりと、自由な感じですね。 三階は展望コーナーとカフェ。カフェタイムでしたが空いていました。

  • Ohara Museum of Art Museum Shop
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    3.5
    7 Reviews
    Shopping
    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Chuo 1-1-15 Ohara Art Museum
    A 15-minute walk from JR Kurashiki Station. A shop located within Ohara Museum of Art, Japan's first western modern art museum, situated on the corner of Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter. They sell art books and merchandise such as stationary decorated with motifs of the art in the museum's collection. In particular they offer a wide selection of postcards decorated with the works of artists including El Greco, Monet, Gauguin, and Picasso. Also popular is the Original Book Tin Cookies which come in a tin shaped like a book and decorated with a print of a classic novel. You can enter the shop without entering the museum.

    今回は美術館には寄らず、美観地区散策の際にミュージアムショップにだけ寄りました。 25年以上前は、美術館や展覧会でポストカードなど買うと100円くらいしましたが、 その当時は、こんなにおしゃれなミュージアムショップなどはなかったけれど 大原美術館は美術館本体の内容もお値段以上でしたが(笑)、 びっくりするくらいポストカードとかが安くって、たくさん買いました。 ほとんどは手紙など送って使い切ってしま...

  • Heisuiken
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    4.5
    12 Reviews
    Shopping
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Honmachi 8-8
    A select food shop located in a residential area a little ways off from the Bikan Historical Quarter in Hommachi, Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture. The shop operates out of a remodeled warehouse built in the Taisho period which once belonged to the Morita Shuzo sake brewery. The shop is crowded with carefully selected delicious things from around the country; Heisuiken always stocks over 1,000 different items. Focusing on traditional Japanese foods, the shop carries a wide array of delicacies, from cheeses and jams to seasonings and even foods from other countries.

    岡山倉敷の平翠軒さんへ訪問。 色々と珍しい物がありました。 今回は、バチコを買いました。 美味しかったです。 店内は賑わっていました。

  • Kikkodo (Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter Branch)
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    4.0
    38 Reviews
    Shopping
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Achi 2-22-13
    This long-established Japanese confectionery shop is located in the Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter of Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture and opened in 1877. It is the shop that created the famous Kurashiki sweet “Murasuzume,” which is made by taking a thin crepe and coating the browned side with coarse sweet red bean paste and wrapped in the shape of half moon. You can purchase Murasuzume made by expert bakers, and can even try your own hand at baking some. It takes about five minutes, and you can choose between regular and jumbo sizes. Visitors will take turns making them after applying.

    このトリップアドバイザーの口コミを読んで体験可能と知り、子供たちが焼いて、中でお抹茶と一緒に焼きたてを頂きました。口コミありがたいです。

  • Kurashiki-Isho Achi Branch
    Shopping
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Achi 2-23-10 Hayashi Genjiro Shop Main Hall 1F
    This is a sundry goods shop located on the first floor of the main building of the Hayashi Genjuro Shoten, a complex in a repaired and refurbished wooden Western-style building of the early Showa period, about 15 minutes on foot from Kurashiki Station. It is the first whole-sale store of the Kurashiki-based miscellaneous goods maker Kurashiki Design Planning Office. The shop offers about 2,000 original handicraft items carefully handmade by artists, making full use of the characteristics of the material such as paper, cloth, wood and glass. In the connected gallery space, workshops and exhibitions with the theme of monozukuri (manufacturing) are also held.
  • Lifestyle Design Museum Kurashiki Hayashi Genjuro Shouten
    Shopping
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Achi 2-23-10 Hayashi Genjiro Shop Main building 2F
    This is a select shop & cafe that sells clothing, food items and household items. It is located on the second floor of the main building in the shopping complex which is the restored wooden Western-style Hayashi Genjuro Shoten building from the early Showa period. The shop sells superb dishes and goods from Scandinavia and around the world, and items made by local Kurashiki and also national creators such as, excellent life design items. The cafe is a sister store of the popular Kurashiki cafe Miyake Shoten, and guests can enjoy eating seasonal sweets such as the famous Kurashiki Roman while touching the world class chairs and tableware sold in the shop. There are also seats on the roof to enjoy the townscape of the Bikan Historical Quarter.
  • Toworu Mingeiten
    Travel / Tourism
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Achi 2-25-48
    Toworu Mingeiten shop carries a full selection of folk arts, like ceramics, dyed hand-woven items, and blown glass objects; they are useful for everyday life. On occasion, it features artist exhibitions as well. The shop makes use of its Edo-era townhouse to maintain a cultured atmosphere. Approximately 10 minutes on foot from JR Kurashiki Station.
  • Iseya
    Shopping
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Honmachi 4-5
    Iseya provides a soothing space for adults and children to enjoy, offering European wooden toys and crafts, wooden toys and marionettes by Japanese artisans, and a wealth of other crafts conveying the warmth of paper and wood. Their original masking tape made in collaboration with Kuralica is cute. Eight minutes by car from JR Kurashiki Station.
  • Nyochikudo
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    4.0
    40 Reviews
    Shopping
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Honmachi 14-5
    This general store is located in the Honmachi area of Kurashiki City. It sells products centered on miscellaneous items using paper such as Japanese paper letter paper and small envelopes for gift money. Among them is popular original masking tape with various designs made in collaboration with the Kurashiki Machiya Tape Production Committee.

    岡山旅行の際、母がマスキングテープを欲しがっていた為、調べてお店にお邪魔しました。 入店した時間が閉店時間の30分前だった為、私たちが悪かったのかもしれませんが、入店してもいらっしゃいませの一言もなく、しまいには店員の方3名ほどお見受けしましたが、全員が無言で閉店後にもできるような補充作業を黙々とされており、まるでほっておいても買っていくんでしょと言わんばかりの空気感でした。 場所も少しメイン通り...

  • Kurashiki Yoimachi GARDEN
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Chuou 1-4-22
    This cultural facility complex is located in Chuo 1 Chome, Kurashiki City. It has an Italian restaurant utilizing seafood from the Seto Inland Sea, a fruit parlor offering a menu using fruits from the prefecture, and a salon and gallery that can be used for exhibitions and workshops in a newly built Kurashiki machiya (traditional wooden townhouse). There is also an adjoining bamboo forest walking garden and outdoor event space that is lit up after sunset.
  • Ebisu Manju
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    3.5
    10 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Achi 2-16-37
    This specialty ohban-yaki (Japanese pancake with sweet red bean paste) shop is located on Kurashiki Ebisu Shopping Street in Achi, Kurashiki City. Ebisu Manju, their signature ohban-yaki product, is simply made using only sweet bean paste inside. The store is not open in the summer, and sells products from the autumn to the spring.

    昔の方がおいしかった 久しぶりに食べたら 生地が硬くてパサパサしてた もっと もちもちして 触ったら中のあんこが感じられるぐらい もうちょっと 薄かったら食べやすいのかも 中のあんこも甘すぎた 砂糖を少なくして 塩を利かした方がイイと思った

  • Misokatsu Umenoki
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    4.0
    54 Reviews
    Shopping
    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Achi 2-19-3

    My brother-in-law recommended this restaurant and it delivered. My favorite things, aside from the food, was the quaintness of the restaurant and the friendliness of the staff.

  • Setouchian
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    4.0
    12 Reviews
    Shopping
    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Chuo 1-1-6
    A 10-minute walk south from JR Kurashiki Station. Located near the entrance to Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter this shop promotes the food culture of the Seto Inland Sea. They primarily sell special broths and seasonings all carefully handmade with locally sourced ingredients. A popular item is their well-known Oyster Senbei crackers. These thin fried crackers are made with whole Seto Inland Sea specialty oysters resulting in a snack with a light mouthfeel that fills your mouth with the rich taste of oyster. Also recommended are foods from their oyster series made with an abundance of oyster powder including their Seto Oyster Salt and Oyster Broth. Almost all of their products are available to be sampled. They also serve Cremia soft serve ice cream.

    食品系のお土産が多く、試食もたくさんあるので味を見て買うことができてよかったです。桃のバター(ミルクジャム)とレモン塩が美味しかったので購入しました。

  • Mushi Bunko
    Shopping
    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Honmachi 11-20
    An 18-minute walk from JR Kurashiki Station. This second-hand bookstore is tucked away on Honmachi-dori Street which cuts an arc east-west at the foothill of Mt. Tsurugata, north of Kurashiki River in Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter. Operating out of a renovated classic townhome built over 100 years prior they offer second-hand books from a variety of genres including natural sciences, Japanese literature, and the Okayama Bunko series. They also offer new publications and CDs from authors and publishers that are friends with the owner. There are also books written by Tanaka Miho, owner and moss enthusiast, including 'Koke to Aruku' (Walking with Moss) and 'My Little Second-hand Bookstore'.
  • Gallery Jurou
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Honmachi 3-9-1
    A 10-minute walk from JR Kurashiki Station. This folk arts shop and rental gallery, located in Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter, operate out of renovated former rice storehouse from the Edo Period. Under the giant beams in the shop you'll find a variety of works including hand-made ceramics, glass work, woven rush, and dyed pieces. Their assorted five-color Rush Coasters, made from domestic natural rush with cutely designed Japanese patterned silk edging, are a popular product. The rental gallery has a large room on the first floor and a smaller room on the second floor. In the attached annex building you'll get a special feeling as you take of your shoes and ascend into the building. Tours are available as requested.
  • Kurabiatei
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    4.0
    21 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Honmachi 3-12

    倉敷美観地区を散策して、そのランチで 寄りました。瀬戸内の地魚の舌平目を『ゲタ』と言うそうで、その唐揚げ定食を食べました。美味しかったです○

  • Tenmanya Kurashiki
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    3.0
    5 Reviews
    Shopping
    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Achi 1-7-1

    倉敷駅前を美観地区側に出ると左側にあります。こじんまりとしてデパートです。地下に土産物を売っていて、美観地区をまわったあとでここで時間を作ってもよいかなと思いました。食事ができる店もあり、美観地区よりも混雑はすくなそうなので、ここでもよかったかなと思いました。

  • Kurashikihikarihatakemingeikanmae
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    3.5
    6 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Honmachi 4-21

    帰省して必ずと言って良いくらいお土産を買いに行く所です。 ついつい見ていると時間の経つのをわすれてしまうくらいいろいろと揃っています。見ているだけで楽しくなります。

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    Shopping
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    Shopping
    Okayama Kurashiki-shi Achi 1-1-1 「Sun-Ste Kurashiki」

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