Shopping Spots in Hiruzen Highland / Tsuyama / Mimasaka Three Hot Springs Area

  • Hinoki Herbal Dyeing and Weaving Gallery
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Okayama Maniwa-shi Katsuyama 193
    This dyeing workshop and gallery is about a 10-minute walk from JR Chugoku-Katsuyama Station. The workshop is at the back of the shop, and the noren curtains used in the Katsuyama Townscape Preservation District are made here. The gallery is housed in a remodeled sake brewery building that's about 250 years old, and it displays and sells plant-dyed coasters, tenugui towels, handkerchiefs, and more, as well as taking orders for custom noren curtains and tapestries.
  • Confectionery Kuraya
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    4.0
    14 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Okayama Tsuyama-shi Numa 77-7
    A 10-minute drive from JR Tsuyama Station. Founded in the first year of the Meiji period (1868) this long-standing Japanese confectioner continues to make sweets using their guarded family recipes. Their well-known Ekubo (Dimple) Sweet Ichima sandwiches coarse red bean paste made from domestic adzuki beans in bouche-style castella pastry and was the recipient of the National Japanese Wagashi Confectionery Competition's Governor's Award. Their Waffle treat, filled with custard cream made with a healthy amount of fresh eggs and milk, is also popular for its nostalgic flavor and sweetness. All of their treats are made with very little in the way of additives or preservatives. Attached to the confectioners is the Kuraya Teahouse.

    時々急にこちらのぜんざいをいただきたくなります。今日も、この上品な甘さに触れることが出来、満足な時間をいただきました。落ち着いたカフェスペースは、テーブル間のソーシャルディスタンスも十分でした。いつも通り、店内で生どらをお土産に買わせていただきお店を後にしました。駐車場は広く台数も確保され、いつでも安心して伺うことが出来ます。津山は、隠れた菓子処だと実感させられます。

  • Tagohonke Sake Brewery
    Shopping
    Okayama Tsuyama-shi Nara 69
    A 10-minute drive from the Tsuyama Interchange on the Chugoku Expressway. A sake brewery that has built an almost 300-year tradition in a land blessed with beautiful nature and clear streams. Their hallmark product is their Kamo-Itsuha refined sake which draws its name from the Kamo River and a Japanese white pine (Itsuha in Japanese) that was planted at the same time the brewery was founded. It's a Daiginjo top-quality sake made from Yamada Nishiki rice, perfect for sake brewing, milled 40% and the subterranean waters of the Kamo River resulting in an elegant smooth sake with a fruity aroma. Also recommended is their Sakushu Tsuyama Beer, a local beer made on-site in their factory.
  • Patisserie WAKANA
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Okayama Tomata-gun Kagaminocho Yoshihara 695-2
    Located about two-minutes down National Route 179 from the Innosho Interchange on the Chugoku Expressway. This western-style confectioner specializes in using local ingredients hand chosen by skilled patissiers. They seek to make handmade treats that are delicious and healthy using farm products that local producers have painstakingly produced. One of their highlight treats is their Tsuyama Roll Cake made to give the appearance of a cherry blossom in full bloom. Red bean paste with cherry blossom petals mixed in to the paste is wrapped in cherry blossom pink sponge cake and then the cake is topped with double-flowered cherry pickled in salt. Also recommended is their Kagamino Horori, a soft melt-in-your-mouth chocolate cookie.
  • Musashi no Sato Rakuichi Rakuza
    Shopping
    Okayama Mimasaka-shi Miyamoto 90-1
    A 15-minute walk from Miyamoto-Musashi Station on the Chizu Express or a 20-minute drive from the Sayo Interchange. This specialty goods store located within Musashi-no-Sato village combines various facilities including a restaurant, lodging, and hot spring bath house. Products available for purchase include monthly hand-made side dishes and salted fish made from locally caught fish and their devotion leads to the shop always being bustling with tourists. Popular items include seasonal crops, goods made from the local specialty black soybeans, and honey as well as victory amulets from Musashi Shrine and other Musashi merchandise. They hold a monthly morning market every fourth Sunday except for the end of the year.
  • AEON MALL Tsuyama
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    3.0
    7 Reviews
    Shopping
    Okayama Tsuyama-shi Kawanabe 1000-1

    岡山津山のイオンモール津山へ訪問。 広々としたイオンモールでした。 お客さんはやや少ないという印象でした。 駐車場は空いていました。

  • Ohara Sta. Local Products Store
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    2.5
    3 Reviews
    Shopping
    Okayama Mimasaka-shi Furumachi 1494-24

    乗り継ぎのついでに立ち寄るのを楽しみにしていましたが、シャッターがおり、中止の看板がありました。それほどお客さんが来なかったのかもしれません。きっぷ売り場の人は親切で、飲み物の自販機が一台あります。

  • Cainz Home FC Tsuyama
    Shopping
    Okayama Tsuyama-shi Takano Hongo 1406
  • Lawson Maniwa City Office Mae
    Shopping
    Okayama Maniwa-shi Kuse Hana Kura 2939-2
  • Mimasaka Yoshi Nokinchaikan
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    2.0
    1 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Okayama Pref. Mimasakashi Mameda 450-1

    県道5号線沿いにある、小さな農産物直売所です。店の前には花や野草などが、店内には農産物やお菓子などが売っています。小さい店なので当然品数も少なく、午後に行くとほとんどが売り切れでした。川沿いの田園風景が広がるのんびりしたところでした。

  • Chateraise Shoboku
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Okayama Tsuyama-shi Kamimura 145-banchi
  • docomo Shop Kuse
    Shopping
    Okayama Maniwa-shi Kuse 2394-1
  • docomo Shop Mimasaka
    Shopping
    Okayama Mimasaka-shi Myoken 137
  • docomo Shop Tsuyama Interchange
    Shopping
    Okayama Tsuyama-shi Kawanabe 931-1
  • docomo Shop Tsuyama Haida
    Shopping
    Okayama Tsuyama-shi Haida 102
  • docomo Shop Tsuyama
    Shopping
    Okayama Tsuyama-shi Odanaka 1445-1
  • Direx Kuse
    Shopping
    Okayama Maniwa-shi Kuse 2935-1
  • Kusuri no Lady Higashitsuyama
    Shopping
    Okayama Tsuyama-shi Kokubunji 15-banchi 1
  • Kusuri no Lady Tsuyama Takano
    Shopping
    Okayama Tsuyama-shi Takanoyama Nishi 526-banchi 1
  • The Daiso DAISO AEON MALL Tsuyama
    Shopping
    Okayama Tsuyama-shi Kawanabe 1000-1

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Overshadowed by Hiroshima to the west and the Kansai region to the east, Okayama is an easy spot to miss but a nature-rich gem where the Seto Inland Sea laps at its toes and peach and grape farms complete its interior. One of Japan’s Three Great Gardens, Koraku-en in Okayama city is well worth a visit before progressing to Kurashiki, where preserved wooden Edo buildings line the picturesque canal.

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