Shopping Spots in Kagawa Area

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Ayakiku Sake Brewing

Travel / Tourism

Kagawa Ayauta-gun Ayagawacho Yamadashimo 3393-1

This history-rich sake brewery was founded in 1790. The brewery building has been designated a Tangible Cultural Property by Kagawa Prefecture, and the brewery company continues to use it to make choice sakes using local rice and water. The Ayakiku sake brand is the company’s signature brand, and Choyo, a daiginjo under this brand made with Kagawa-grown Oseto sake rice polished to 50%, is particularly popular because of its magnificent aroma and mild flavor. Visitors can tour the brewery, which has been outfitted with the latest brewing technologies (advance reservation required).
Kubo-san no Tofu Shop

Shopping

Kagawa Ayauta-gun Utazucho Hama 3-ban -cho 25-19

Located a 10-minute walk from Utazu Station, this tofu shop can be identified by its large, shamoji rice scoop-shaped sign. The shop makes choice tofu using only domestically-grown soybeans. The shop’s staple firm momen tofu is crafted by the hands of skilled artisans according to an old-fashioned method called “brick piling,” resulting in a smooth texture normally only seen in silken kinugoshi tofu. The shop uses no defoamers, stabilizers, or other chemical additives whatsoever, and employs rare sun-dried natural bittern, resulting in a tofu that is both healthy and delicious.
Chez Mo-ry

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagawa Ayauta-gun Utazu Cho Hamayonbancho 46-31

This patisserie is located an eight-minute walk from Utazu Station and can be identified by its red tile roof and green canvas shop awning. The shop sells staple baked confections and seasonal sweets. The shop’s showcases are filled with its vaunted desserts, which customers can choose to enjoy in an in-shop eating space. The shop is also famous for its cakes, made one at a time by the hands of a skilled pastry chef, including birthday cakes no birthday celebration is complete without, and anniversary cakes topped with seasonal fruits. Customers can also order a one-of-a-kind cake photo cake decorated with a photo you provide, and you can specify the size and additional decorations as appropriate to the event.
Hakueido （Yanagimachi Main Store）

4.5

12 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagawa Kanonji Kanonji Cho Ko 1125-7

This Japanese confectionary shop can be identified by its noren shop curtain featuring a depiction of an old Japanese coin and is located a 10-minute walk from Kan-Onji Station. Established over 100 years ago, the shop sells a variety of Japanese and Western-style confections. The shop’s famous and popular Kannonji mini cakes combine a Western-style cake with a moist white bean paste and egg yolk filling. Inspired by the Zenigata Sunae, the top sightseeing destination in Kan-onji City, the cakes are emblazoned with a simplified image of a coin. Inside, the shop has a folksy atmosphere and is replete with an eat-in space where customers can enjoy cakes and other sweets from the shop’s showcases, along with coffee and matcha green tea.

和菓子が有名ですが、洋菓子はお店で食べることができます。ケーキセットを選びました。フルーツ、ケーキが4種類と、プリンが乗っていて豪華でおいしかったです。
Makuya Toyoura Shoten

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagawa Kanonji Kanonji Cho Ko 2996-11

This longstanding shrimp cracker shop was established in 1877. Located a 10-minute walk from Kan-Onji Station, the shop continues to make its signature Aimusuyaki brand shrimp crackers without additives or fillers and using only fresh-caught shrimp from the part of the Seto Inland Sea known as the Hiuchi Sea. The crackers are made by thinly slicing the shrimp and cooking them using a round steel skillet, and many people like to use the crackers as-is as toppings for hotpots and sukiyaki. The crackers offer the rich flavor and aroma of high quality shrimp.
Nikaya Kamaboko

Shopping

Kagawa Kanonji Nishihonmachi 1-1-16

This kamaboko steamed fish paste shop was established in 1893. The shop continues to make the kind of simple, old-fashioned, yet flavorful kamaboko which is rarely seen today. The fish paste is made using silver white croaker and lizardfish stocked directly from the fish market, as well as seasonal fresh fish from the Seto Inland Sea, resulting in a distinct, firm texture which only authentic kamaboko possesses. Valuing connection to the local community, the shop only directly delivers its products in Kagawa Prefecture. The shop also sells fresh-cooked chikuwa fish paste tube cakes on-site when they have just been made.
Omiyage Shop MIU

Shopping

Kagawa Marugame-shi Furutaimachi 178

"Shoyu-mame"" is a local dish of Kagawa Prefecture, made by soaking fragrantly roasted soy beans in soy sauce and sugar. Although soy sauce beans are rarely cooked at home, they have long been an indispensable part of the dining table."
ONISHI SHOKUHIN

4.0

3 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagawa Marugame-shi Komeyacho 16

"Rokumangoku"" is a traditional Japanese confectionery known for its unique texture that boasts the dignity of the old Marugame domain. The shop offers a variety of elegant confections such as ""Marugame,"" which is engraved with the old characters for ""treasure,"" and ""Kyogoku-sama,"" named after the feudal lord of Marugame."

感じが良く落ち着く。すごい美味しいという風に感じたわけでもないけど、雰囲気込みで良かった。地元の人が訪れているという感じ。コーヒーパック買ってみたが、たしかに和菓子に合う感じで満足した。また飲みたい。
Onoshita Breakwater

Shopping

Kagawa Takamatsu-shi Aji Cho 652-3

This breakwater was used as a shooting location in the 200 film “Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World.” The scene filmed here, one of the movie’s most impactful, featured main characters Saku and Aki talking with each other as they watched the setting sun. Jutting out into the sea, the breakwater is caressed by the gentle breezes of Seto and is stunningly scenic on clear days. Sometimes couples can be seen sitting on the breakwater around sunset talking with each other in a reenactment of the movie scene. Also known as a great fishing spot, on weekends many fishing-lovers come here.
Meibutsu Kamado Takamatsu Shop

4.0

9 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagawa Takamatsu-shi Marugamemachi 2-10

This longstanding Japanese confectionary shop has been in business for over 80 years. The shop sells good old-fashioned traditional Japanese confections. The shop’s famous and distinctive Meibutsu Kamado is shaped like an old-fashioned kamado hearth used for making salt and consists of a an egg yolk and white bean jam filling made with choice white kidney beans wrapped in aromatic cake. One of Kagawa’s most well-known confections, they make perfect Takamatsu souvenirs. The shop also makes seasonal versions, such as the springtime Sakura Kamado made with cherry leaves and flower petals; and the early summer Shincha Kamado made with Takase ichibancha tea, the first tea of the season.

二階にあるお部屋に登ると和風の落ち着いた喫茶空間が広がっていました。抹茶セットを頼んでゆっくり時間を過ごしました。インテリアをアドバイスした和田邦坊の作り上げた空間は落ち着きがあり一息過ごせる贅沢な空間を作り上げていました。
Okashidokoro Minatoya

4.5

2 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagawa Takamatsu-shi Kotobukicho 1-1-3

This Japanese confectionery shop, established in 1953, is directly across from the Kotoden Takamatsu Chikko Station. It sells seasonal Japanese sweets and the line of confections from the nationally designated Special Place of Scenic Beauty, Ritsurin Park. One of the most popular items, handed down since it’s founding, is the Ritsurin-no-Kuri sweet, with the distinction of appearing exactly like a real chestnut. The confection has a delicately flavored center of chopped chestnut and house-made white bean paste, to remind people that very long ago there were many chestnut trees in the Ritsurin Park.

高松港駅からほど近い場所にあります。春の朝日は非常に子ことが良くて素晴らしい思い出になりました。お菓子もおいしかったです。
N.Y GALLERY

4.0

3 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagawa Takamatsu-shi Kataharamachi 1-2

This district, formerly full of warehouses, is now a multi-complex area as an extension of the Kitahama Alley area. In these warehouses, just a 10-minute walk from Takamatsu Station, are housed over ten shops and stores of various businesses, such as galleries, cafes, flower shops, and bars. This area was developed to revitalize the deteriorating warehouses used to store navy cargo wares by diverting the space to commercial use. The retro rugged ambiance of the navy warehouses lend themselves to a creative space that can be used for a variety of events such as live concerts, parties, exhibits, and more. Many events for introducing creative new styles and arts are held here.

ゆったりとした座席、落ち着いた雰囲気。ちょっと歩き疲れた時、ふらりと立ち寄って、まったりできます。わちゃわちゃした雰囲気（？）の今どきの喫茶店ではなく、懐かしい雰囲気で小休憩。一階で、瓦せんべいなどを購入できます。
Tamamo Udon

Leisure / Hobbies

Kagawa Takamatsu-shi Kitahamacho 12-7

This udon restaurant, just a five-minute walk from the Kotoden Kawaramachi Station, offers true Sanuki udon with rather thinner chewy shiny noodles that just slip down one's throat. The discriminatingly chosen noodles make for a perfect combination of flavor with the delicately complex flavor of the dashi broth. In order to maximize the flavor of the fresh seafood from the Seto Inland Sea, the tempura toppings are fried up after taking the customer's order. It is said, one can never tire of eating here, even every day. In the store, one can also purchase udon or soy sauce for souvenir gifts.
Kamada Soy Sauce Sakaide Direct Sales Store

Shopping

Kagawa Sakaide-shi Honmachi 1-6-35

This historic soy sauce brewery, Kamata Shoyu, has existed since 1789. The direct-sales brewery, located just north of the Kofuen park, only sells soy sauce carefully brewed with discriminatingly selected ingredients. Its dashi-shoyu, the product practically synonymous with this brewery, is an all-purpose flavoring richly blending discriminately selected dried mackerel, dried bonito, and kelp in an authentic brewing process. It is often purchased as a souvenir gift, and is also popular for use at home. Originally created as a low-sodium broth base, it naturally has much less salt than authentically brewed soy sauce. It can be used as a base for udon broth, oden, stir-fry and many other dishes.
Yamahisa

Shopping

Kagawa Shozu-gun Shodoshima Cho Yasuda Ko 243

This notable brewery was founded in 1951. It has been making traditional authentic soy sauce for over four generations. Formerly, on Shodo Island, there was a thriving soy sauce brewing industry. This Shodo Island brewery has continued the art of soy sauce making, which spans over 400 years, with the principle concept that 'we are first consumers and secondly producers'. The most popular soy sauce variety, the Gankona kodawari shoyu honnama is an all-natural sauce, based on the domestic organically grown unprocessed soybeans and wheat, and fermented in the aged cedar barrels. Its distinctive feature being that the yeast remains living because it is never heated. It can be used in a variety of dishes such as simmered dishes, or just straight.
Toyo Olive

4.0

4 Reviews

Shopping

Kagawa Shozu-gun Shodoshima Cho Ikeda 984-5

This is an olive specialty shop established in 1955. They manufacture and sell high quality food and cosmetic products containing ingredients derived from the olive. They are the proud owners of Japan's largest olive orchards; one that is 12.5 hectares on Shodo Island and another of 13 hectares on Toshima Island. Unlike olive farmers overseas, where the olives are harvested by machine all at once, their farm has the distinction of handpicking all of the olives to carefully select those that have not been damages by pests. The highest-grade olive oil, pressed in their own factory, has received awards both in Japan and worldwide. This oil, a treasure directly from nature itself, and makes a wonderful souvenir or can be shipped as a gift.

オリーブの島小豆島にある国産オリーブオイルの製造直売店。このお店では量り売りのサービスも期間限定で行っている。
Heiwado Main Shop

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagawa Shozu-gun Shodoshima Cho Noma Ko 1411-1

This historic Japanese confectionery is said to be founded sometime during the Taisho period. This shop, with a distinctive exterior, which reminds one of bygone years, sells a large assortment of western and Japanese confections. The Shimamurasaki, a fine Japanese confection is one in which the highest grade of soy sauce, a specialty of Shodo Island, is added to the pastry dough enveloping a mildly sweet white bean paste, and has come to be one of the confections associated with Shodo Island. The popularity of this sweet, shaped into the shape of a brewing barrel, has not waned for many generations. Another sweet, which has become a popular item sold on the internet, is the Shodo Island Olive Castilla cake, in which olive leaf powder and olive oil is used. The Shodo Island Shoyu Castilla that has a faint aroma of soy sauce, and the Maiko Kiku confection, which sandwiches Hokkaido adzuki beans between western pound cake pieces, are beloved as well.
Ittokuan

Travel / Tourism

Kagawa Shozu-gun Shodoshima Cho Noma Ko 2211

This is a specialty store inside the Hishio-no-sato grounds that house a tsukudani and soy sauce brewing factory. Here, the practice of making discriminating soy sauce and tsukudani has been carried in with the convictions and passion of the father of Shodo Island style tsukudani, Takebe Yoshiji. The historic design of this store is modeled after the original one. Prior to the war, this interesting building was used for storing the casks for fermenting soy sauce. Potato vines, which served as the first food item to be made into Shodo Island style tsukudani in 1945, are on display in the store, as well as an introduction to the history and development of soy sauce and tsukudani food processing.
Tsukudaniyasan Shop No. 2

Shopping

Kagawa Shozu-gun Shodoshima Cho Katajo Ko 44-270

This is a direct sales shop operated by the tsukudani foods specialty shop, the Okada Takeichi Shoten, founded in 1948. In this sunny spacious shop, there can be found over 50 varieties of tsukudani foods at any given time. In fact, Shodo Island, famous for its former soy sauce manufacturing industry, boasts the record for the highest production of tsukudani products in Japan. Almost all of the tsukudani food products can be tasted on site, so visitors are sure to find their favorite product. The vanilla softy cream, the Tsukudani Softy-cream, to which has been added the salty tsukudani sauce, can only be enjoyed here. The ice cream is topped with heart and star shaped tsukudani kelp pieces making for a sweet and salty rich new flavor combination. The shop faces the National Route 436 with its trademark little old lady on a red signboard.
Ikemoto Hoeido

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagawa Shozu-gun Tonoshocho Honmachi Ko 608-3

This is a Japanese sweets shop, only about a fve-minute drive from the Tonosho Port. Since its inception, at the beginning of the Showa period. The jizake-manju bun, is flavored with the local microbrew sake made from the clear Shodo Island water and rice, and has a very mild sweetness. It is said the rich flavor and its gentle aroma are habit forming if one ever tastes this sweet once. The have many original items available only here, such as the rather mildly sweet mei-roll, and the western and Japanese flavor-mixed coffee-flavored warabimochi.

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Japan’s smallest prefecture, Kagawa, may take up just a small corner of Shikoku, but it has grown increasingly popular with the recognition of Naoshima, its "art island" in the Seto Inland Sea between Shikoku and Honshu. Just a stone’s throw from the islands, mainland Kagawa’s prefectural capital, Takamatsu, holds history in its castle ruins and its pride and joy, Ritsurin Garden, is known as one of the country’s best gardens.