Shopping Spots in Hiroshima Area

  • Okashi Matsu Ai Do Innoshima Nakanosho
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    4.0
    3 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hiroshima Onomichi-shi Innoshima Nakanoshocho 678-1

    車で立ち寄りました。駐車場があるため車移動の時は助かります。入荷したばかりですよと店員さんに言われ、はっさく大福を購入しました。季節限定に弱いです。

  • Hakuai Do
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hiroshima Onomichi-shi Innoshima Habucho 2085-10
  • 8 Camellian
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    5.0
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hiroshima Kure-shi Chuo 3-4-21
    This novel confectionary shop is located a five-minute drive from Kure Station. Identifiable by its exterior facade which wouldn’t be out of place on a European street corner, the shop sells an abundant array of Western-style confections. The skilled and experienced owner and chef has won awards in contests across the country, including in Fukuoka, Tokyo, and Kobe. The shop’s showcases are filled with colorful products spanning everything from standard cakes to exquisite confections made with seasonal fruits, and customers rave that a visit to the shop is a visual delight as well. The shop’s baked confection assortments and puddings make perfect small presents. You can also order a custom birthday cake and specify things like size and decoration.

    市役所の二つ呉駅側の道を思いつきで歩いていたところ発見しました!どのケーキもとても美味しそうで迷ってしまいました。サガでしょうか、迷った時に本日のスペシャルと見るとついつい頼みたくなってしまいます。中身はキャラメルムースのケーキ(正確な名前は失念...)の上にキャラメルクリーム入りのシューが乗っていました。上品なお味で、甘さも控えめで2つくらいならペロリと行けそうでした! 焼き菓子も購入しましたが...

  • Tsubakian Hiromiya (Main Shop)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hiroshima Kure-shi Chuo 5-8-15
    This Japanese confectionary shop is adorned with a sign which exudes an air of history. Using choice ingredients, the shop makes by hand and sells namagashi fresh sweets which express the sentiments of the season. The shop’s signature Tsubaki Manju buns have even been presented to the imperial household and were inspired by the camellia (called “tsubaki” in Japanese), the official flower of Kure City. Made with Awa wasanbon fine-grained Japanese sugar, the buns have a smooth, mild flavor and were presented to the emperor and empress in 1989 in the first year of the Heisei era. The shop’s strawberry daifuku rice cakes, only available for a limited time each year, are particularly popular with young customers and make delightful gifts and souvenirs.
  • Gallery Miyakeya Shoten
    Shopping
    Hiroshima Kure-shi Hondori 7-7-1
    This store is owned and operated by Sempuku Miyakehonten, a longstanding sake company established in 1856. The store sells the company’s famous Sempuku brand of sake, known for its smiling Otafuku logo; as well as store-exclusive sakes and merchandise. The store’s Daiginjo Amazake Soft Serve Ice Cream is popular with children and adults alike. In the adjoining Sake Kobo Seseragi, you can walk along a 130-meter-long corridor and watch the company’s factory in operation beyond floor-to-ceiling windows which extend along its entire length (reservation required).
  • Boulangerie 101 Brio
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    4.0
    11 Reviews
    Shopping
    Hiroshima Hiroshima-shi Naka-ku Hashimotocho 5-7
    This bakery is located just beyond the Kyobashi Bridge traveling from Hiroshima Station. The bakery sells choice breads designed to light up your table while also preserving French, German, and other European bread traditions. Also utilizing homemade sauces, sides, curry, and fillings, the bakery’s products are so delicious you’ll never tire of their flavor. The bakery sells a wide variety of products, as well, to ensure you’ll have as much fun choosing what to buy as you will when eating them.

    広島市内の中心部にあるパン屋です。 お店は朝早くから繁盛しており、種類もたくさんありました。 ハムが入ったパンは柔らかいソフトな口当たりでした。

  • Sanfrecce Official Club Shop V-POINT
    Shopping
    Hiroshima Hiroshima-shi Naka-ku Kamiyacho 1 Underground shopping center 630 Kamiyacho Shareo
    This is the official shop for Sanfrecce Hiroshima, the hometown professional soccer team of Hiroshima City. Situated in the Shareo Higashi Street area in the Shareo underground mall in Kamiya-cho in the heart of Hiroshima City, the shop sells Sanfrecce Hiroshima merchandise and provides related services. In addition to uniforms, towels, scarfs, and other merchandise perfect for cheering the team on, the shop also carries an abundant array of other products, including stationary, keychains, and limited edition collaboration merchandise, making it a mecca for Sanfrecce Hiroshima fans. The shop also sells game tickets and provides members club registration.
  • ACCES HIROSHIMA
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Hiroshima Hiroshima-shi Naka-ku Shintenchi 4-2
    The glass curtain wall of this mall draws the eye. Consisting of four floors aboveground and one below, the mall is occupied by fashionable apparel shops and a stylish cafe. Each floor has ceilings 4.5-meters-high, resulting in a sense of openness and airiness far exceeding that of your everyday mall. A garden space on the third floor enables visitors to take in refreshing breezes and natural light. A mall and yet a garden, a commercial space and yet a space for relaxation, the facility engenders an atmosphere unlike anyplace else.
  • Kameya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hiroshima Hiroshima-shi Higashi-ku Hikarimachi 1-1-13
    This Japanese confectionary shop is located a ten-minute walk from Hiroshima Station. The shop sells Kawadori mochi, a confection which is one of Hiroshima’s most celebrated and which is made with high quality gyuhi soft rice cake mixed with walnut; as well as a variety of other Japanese sweets. Kawadori mochi are a traditional confection derived from a historical event concerning the samurai lord Mori Motonari during the Nanboku-cho period. Dusted with kinako toasted soybean flour and cut into bite-sized pieces, the confection is skewered with a toothpick to keep the hands clean when eating and makes a perfect gift. The shop’s monaka wafer cakes, filled with top quality sweet bean jam, are only available from the main shop and branch shop in ASSE, Hiroshima station building.
  • Omiyage Kaido (Inside Hiroshima Shinkansen Central Gate)
    Travel / Tourism
    Hiroshima Hiroshima-shi Minami-ku Matsubaracho 1-1-2 Hiroshima Sta. Konai 2F Shin Kansen Inside Ticket Gate
    This souvenir and gift shop is located inside the ticket gate of JR Hiroshima Station, the entranceway to Hiroshima. Because of its location and abundant selection of items, it is a great place for Shinkansen riders to pick up a few souvenirs. Here you can find a wide variety of famous Hiroshima souvenirs, including staple Momiji Manju buns, Hattendo custard buns sold across the country, and senbei rice crackers made using an entire oyster pressed into their center.
  • EKICITY HIROSHIMA
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Hiroshima Hiroshima-shi Minami-ku Matsubaracho 3 Eki City Hiroshima
    This business park is located near the South Exit of Hiroshima Station. The facility consists of a commercial building with 11 floors aboveground and one below, and a residential building with 46 aboveground floors. The commercial building was opened as a new Hiroshima landmark in 2017 and is adjoined by the Edion Tsutaya Electrics, which is designed to be an “electronics store where customers can enjoy a comfortable time and discover new things.” The commercial building is also occupied by a variety of restaurants and medical facilities and it has won renown as a new station front entertainment destination. The facility’s large, glass-covered outer walls give the plaza in front of the station a brighter, more cheerful impression, and the business park was awarded the Hiroshima Community Development Design Grand Prize for contributing to the creation of a townscape appropriate to the area which serves as the entranceway to Hiroshima on land.
  • Yamatoyo Fukuya Department Store (Hiroshima Station Front)
    Shopping
    Hiroshima Hiroshima-shi Minami-ku Matsubaracho 9-1 Fukuya Hiroshima Ekimae B1
    This grocery store is located in the Fukuya Department Store Hiroshima Ekimae branch in front of Hiroshima Station. The store is located in the Lala Kitchen food area on floor B1 and carries a wide selection of specialty products from across the prefecture such as Hiroshima nazuke greens pickled in salt. Hiroshima nazuke, one of the store’s most popular products, is counted as one of Japan’s three great pickled green varieties, alongside Nagano’s pickled nozawana and Kyushu’s pickled giant red mustard. Hiroshima nazuke has a crisp texture and goes perfectly with a bowl of fresh-cooked rice. Other products the store sells include Hiroshima’s famous smoked oysters, chirimen dried whitebait, and seasonal gifts, and many tourists stop by here to search for souvenirs.
  • Ohagi no Mise Kodama
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    4.5
    3 Reviews
    Shopping
    Hiroshima Mihara-shi Shiromachi 1-6-1
    This Japanese-style deli food shop is located about 100 meters away from Mihara Station. Originally a sushi and ohagi (red bean jam coated rice cakes) restaurant, today the shop sells handmade ohagi, octopus tempura, karaage fried chicken, inari sushi rice wrapped in fried tofu, and other Japanese-style side dishes. Identifiable by the red shop curtains on either side of the entrance, the shop’s famous octopus tempura is filling and is made using huge, whole octopus legs. It not only makes a great appetizer to enjoy with a tasty alcoholic beverage, it also makes a great souvenir and gift.

    三原港の係員さんにおすすめされて伺いました。 タコ天がものすごく大きく、身もプリプリでおいしかったです。 友人と行きましたが、食べやすくカットして下さりありがたかったです。 また行きたくなりました。

  • Miyoshi Doll Pottery
    Travel / Tourism
    Hiroshima Miyoshi-shi Tokaichi Minami 4-12-7
    This pottery doll studio is the only one of its kind in the prefecture. Located a five-minute drive from the Miyoshi Interchange on the Chugoku Expressway, the studio continues to create Miyoshi dolls, a traditional pottery doll characterized by cute and simple yet beautiful forms. Also notable for their distinctive luster, the history of Miyoshi dolls is said to extend back to around 1633 when the third lord of the domain, Asano Nagaharu, brought back a doll maker from Asakusa in Edo and gifted dolls to retainers when they had children. Because of their beautiful luster, they are also known as “Hikari” (“Light”) dolls. The dolls are an essential part of seasonal festivities in the area but the work of painting them is only conducted during the coldest part of the year, meaning visitors who come here in the winter up to early April can watch the painting being performed.
  • Takehara Machinami TakeKobo
    Travel / Tourism
    Hiroshima Takehara-shi Honmachi 3-12-14
    This studio is situated along a road which has been designated a National Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings. The studio makes and sells bamboo baskets, decorations, and other bamboowork crafts. As several artisans are working on bamboo crafts in the studio at any given time, visitors can watch their skilled movements up close. The studio also offers a bamboowork activity for those interested. Under the attentive guidance of a bamboowork artisan, participants can make a shikainami basket or taketonbo helicopter toy.
  • Momijido Main Shop
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    4.0
    123 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hiroshima Hatsukaichi-shi Miyajimacho 448-1
    This historic momiji manju buns shop has been in business for over 100 years. Still located on the exact same spot as when it was founded, the shop continues to make momiji manju, a traditional Miyajima confection. The shop’s momiji manju are baked a golden yellow and have a fluffy, delicate texture. The shop uses only domestic Momiji eggs and whips them for an extended period of time, resulting in a batter that is air-filled and fluffy. The shop’s crispy, piping hot deep-fried momiji manju, a staple for tourists to enjoy while walking around Miyajima, were invented by the shop’s fourth generation owner out of a desire to find a delicious way to make use of momiji manju whose shape didn’t come out quite right in the production process.

    Bought to try but loved it. Bought few flavours to try them all. Delicious. Went back for seconds. Whilst in miyajima dont miss trying them.

  • Kodama Seipanjo Bakery
    Shopping
    Hiroshima Onomichi-shi Innoshima Habucho 1897-1
    This bakery shop is located a seven-minute walk from the Habu Port Passenger Terminal. Identifiable by its old-fashioned, faded yellow canvas awning, the shop makes original breads which have even been featured on television. The shop’s Neji Pan (twist bread) is particularly popular; the vaunted and exquisite bread has a fluffy, chewy texture and is covered with a heaping helping of granulated sugar. The crispy curry bread is also highly popular and it’s not unusual for these tasty breads to sell out before noon.
  • Shiomachi Shopping Street
    Shopping
    Hiroshima Onomichi-shi Setodacho Setoda
    This shopping street connects Setoda Port and the Kousanji Temple. The 600-meter-long retro shopping street is lined with over 50 establishments. The old-fashioned shopping street experienced new life after it began being featured in SNS posts by cyclists riding the Nishiseto Expressway. An atmosphere reminiscent of Japan’s bygone Showa period still hangs in the air here; a sign over the entrance to the street states “Welcome to the cyclist oasis.” Shiomachitei is a cafe and bar operating out of a traditional Japanese home building about 200 meters from the Setoda Port-side entrance, and it is a famous rest and maintenance spot for cyclists because cyclists are allowed to bring their bicycles into the establishment.
  • Mishimaya Manjuten
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    4.5
    4 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hiroshima Onomichi-shi Setodacho Sawa 209-17
    This longstanding Japanese confectionary shop was established in 1909. Located a three-minute walk from the Kousanji Temple, it can be identified by its undulating roof and stately, traditional kura storehouse-inspired exterior. The shop’s Mishima Manju buns consist of a thin outer dough stuffed with sweet bean paste. The flat, steamed buns have an elliptical shape and a faint sake aroma. The shop’s signature product, the Manju buns are officially provided to the Kousanji Temple. Other confections made by the shop include silky lemon cakes, chestnut manju buns, and dorayaki pancake sandwiches.

    老舗の和菓子屋さんと知らずレモンケーキ目的に立ち寄りました。やや小ぶりなレモンケーキは中のスポンジがほわっとして、優しいお味でした。保存料なしのためか賞味期限が短めで、職場のお土産には買えませんでしたが、すぐに渡せるなら喜ばれそうですね。しば餅も歯ごたえや餡の甘みの加減がとてもよく、美味しく頂戴しました。見た目スタンダードですがどれも丁寧さが感じられ美味しかったです。今度来る時はみしま饅頭を頂...

  • Kitamaetei
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    4.5
    13 Reviews
    Shopping
    Hiroshima Onomichi-shi Tsuchido 2-8-13 Kitamae Tei
    This shop is owned and operated by Fukuri, a company which was founded in 1786 in the mid-Edo period. The shop was opened in 2008 as Japan’s first specializing in flavored chirimen dried whitebait. From the mid-Edo period to the Meiji period, Onomichi flourished as the most prosperous port town on the Seto Inland Sea, and its bay was filled with the masts of kitamaebune cargo ships. This shop’s name is derived from the kitamaebune which once delivered products to areas across Japan, and was chosen to represent a desire to deliver delicious chirimen to customers nationwide. The shop’s products are made with choice ingredients and traditional techniques employed by skilled artisans, and customers rave that you can eat its chirimen every day and never get tired of it. The shop is filled wither all kinds of flavored chirimen, from standard varieties to novel new products, and customers can also sample everything that is for sale before they buy.

    海岸通りを東方向に市役所に向かって歩いていると海側にきれいなお店がありました。店の前にベンチがあります。店にはいるとちりめんのラップに包んだ小さなおにぎりをもらえました。色々な種類のちりめんが300円の小さなパックで売っていてます。帰りに二つばかり買って帰りました。

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There is more than meets the eye awaiting any Hiroshima-bound traveler. Kicking off in Hiroshima city, the Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima Castle, and Shukkeien Garden offer a couple of days of exploring; however, the real beauty lies along the southern coast of the prefecture. There, a series of islands spreads across the Seto Inland Sea: from the mysterious sea-submerged Great Torii Gate at Miyajima Island to the first half of the islands that connect Honshu to Shikoku via six spectacular suspension bridges.

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