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12 recommended gourmet foods and souvenirs map for eating at Nishiki Market, Kyoto [Not for eating!

Known as "Kyoto's kitchen," Nishiki Market is a treasure house of gourmet food! With an array of foodstuffs unique to Kyoto, the market has become a popular spot visited by many tourists from Japan and abroad in recent years. While "eating and walking" to enjoy gourmet food at restaurants is allowed, "walking and eating" while walking is prohibited! Enjoy Kyoto's gourmet food while observing good manners.
(TEXT/Kae Nishio, EDIT/Kanako Horike)

Contents of this article

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[Nishiki Market is 390 meters long and is the kitchen of Kyoto with a variety of souvenir stores and stores!
2.
Visit Nishiki Tenmangu Shrine, popularly known as Nishiki no Tenjin-san
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Kiyoe's yuba cream croquettes are light and creamy with a Kyoto-like flavor.
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Beef tenderloin aburi-zushi at Kyo-no-Onikato-Hiroshiki, where you can enjoy melt-in-your-mouth meat sushi at a reasonable price.
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Cute-looking octopus eggs with quail eggs stuffed into the octopus head [KAI, Nishiki Ichiba
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The best-before date is one minute! An-butter taiyaki with melted butter is irresistible [Nishiki Ichiha & Mamemono to Taiyaki (Nishiki Ichiha & Mamemono Taiyaki)
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Summer Strawberry Daifuku made with large strawberries and a special red bean paste.
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Tanaka Keiran's "No-Maki" is a specialty of dashimaki, a taste that has been handed down for more than 90 years.
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Also recommended for lunchtime drinking! [Takoyaki (octopus dumplings) at Taco Hai
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Thick-cut dashimaki sandwiches from Nishiki Hirano, a deli specializing in prepared foods that has been in business for over 100 years.
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Soy milk doughnuts made with carefully selected Japanese soybeans [KONOMONJYA
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A specialty store specializing in a wide variety of mochi rice crackers [Terakoya Honpo Nishiki Store (Terakoya Honpo Nishiki-Ten)
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Souvenir #1] The delicious aroma of freshly roasted tea soothes you.
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Souvenir #2] Kyoto pickles specialty store [Masugohonten] continues to evolve while inheriting tradition.
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Extra Edition (1)] This is also a must-see place! Nishiki Market, also known as a museum at night
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What is the relationship between [Nishiki Market] and the Gion Festival?
17.
Extra Edition 3] Frequently Asked Questions Q&A
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[Access to Nishiki Market
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Finally.

11. Soy milk doughnuts made with carefully selected Japanese soybeans [KONOMONJYA

[Kyo Tofu Fujino has its main store near Kitano Tenmangu Shrine. The store's tofu and sweets store, KONNA MONJYA, offers not only tofu and fresh yuba made with the utmost attention to detail, but also soy milk doughnuts, which have been on sale since the store's opening. By kneading soy milk into the dough, the doughnuts are made fluffy and less sweet. Freshly fried doughnuts are served at the store, and there is often a line of customers waiting in line. There is a bench on the east side of the store where you can eat in and enjoy the freshly made, hot doughnuts.

Soy milk doughnut

Soy milk doughnuts: 400 yen for 8 doughnuts. The small size is perfect for eating while walking around.

This is not what it looks like.
Konna Monja Appearance

Eating and drinking space: Yes
Access/3 min. walk from Exit 14 of Hankyu Karasuma Sta.
Payment method / cash, e-money
Voice of the shopkeeper.
SOY amazake is another recommended menu item. It is made by mixing more soy milk with amazake and has a refreshing taste without being too sweet.
Editor's Voice.
The soy milk doughnut is bite-sized and easy to eat, and tastes great hot or cold! The donuts have a slight sweetness to them as they are, making it easy to gobble them up.

This isn't good enough.

12. A specialty store specializing in a wide variety of mochi rice crackers [Terakoya Honpo Nishiki Store (Terakoya Honpo Nishiki-Ten)

Terakoya Honpo Nishiki-Ten, located just outside the west entrance of Nishiki Market, specializes in mochi rice crackers made from 100% domestic glutinous rice and made using traditional methods. The name "Mochiyaki Sembe" comes from the fact that the square-shaped rice cakes are made from high-quality glutinous rice and baked in a number of steps, one by one, as if each rice cake were carefully baked. The baked rice crackers are coated with soy sauce and then topped with shichimi (seven spices), nori (seaweed), etc. Each piece is sold separately, making it easy to purchase.

Terakoya Honpo Cuisine

The popular Nure Okaki is combined with mayonnaise and yuzu (citrus) radish from Kyo Tsukemono Mori. 320 yen. The flavor of glutinous rice and yuzu daikon are a perfect match!

Terakoya Honpo Exterior
Terakoya Honpo Interior view

Eating and drinking space: Yes
Access/2 min. walk from Exit 16 of Hankyu "Karasuma" Station
Payment methods / cash, credit card, e-money
Voice of the shopkeeper.
In addition to rice crackers, the Nure Okaki (wet rice crackers) with yam, which are soaked in a secret soy sauce sauce and have a chewy texture, are also very popular!
Editor's Voice.
Check out the various types of rice crackers available in the store, including seasonal and limited-time-only products.

Terakoya Honpo Nishiki Branch

  • Terakoya Honpo Nishiki Center
  • Nishikikoji Bldg. 1F, 498-1 Naka-Uoya-cho, Takakura-higashiiru, Nishikikoji-dori, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
  • Tel. 075-223-1290
  • 10:00-18:00
  • 7 days a week
  • https://www.terakoyahonpo.jp/
  • MAP ishere

13. Souvenir #1] The delicious aroma of freshly roasted tea soothes you.

[As you stroll through Nishiki Market, the fragrant aroma of tea wafts through the air. That aroma is that of Bancha tea from YAMADASHIYA. Roasted tea, which is roasted daily, is called "Bancha" in Kyoto. The restaurant's standard restaurant obancha has a savory aroma, low bitterness, and low caffeine content, making it popular with men and women of all ages.

YAMAMASHIYA OBANCHA

Obancha from a cooking shop: 713 yen (100g). The weigh-in-your-own-quantity style, which allows customers to actually see and buy the products, is popular among tourists. A lineup of teas in a relatively inexpensive price range that are easy to use on a daily basis.

YAMAMASHIYA Introspection
YAMAMASHIYA Introspection

Access/3 min. walk from Hankyu "Kyoto Kawaramachi" exit 11
Method of payment / cash
Editor's Voice.
Materials explaining the characteristics of the tea and how to make a delicious brew are available in English and French for people from overseas!

brigand's shop

  • 501 Umeya-cho, Nishi-iru, Fuyacho-Nishiiru, Nishikikoji-dori, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
  • Tel. 075-223-5272
  • 10:00-17:00
  • Closed on Wednesdays *Thursdays are also closed for the time being
  • http://yamadasi.free.makeshop.jp/
  • MAP ishere

14. Souvenir #2] Kyoto pickles specialty store [Masugohonten] continues to evolve while inheriting tradition.

[Masugi is a Kyoto pickles specialty store with three branches in Nishiki Market: the main store, the North Store, and the East Store. Local people have long loved the tsukemono pickles that are made by skilled artisans using traditional methods and taking full advantage of the natural flavors of seasonal vegetables. In addition, the owner is certified as a "Future Master Craftsman" of Kyoto City's traditional industries, and the skilled craftsmen are certified as "Aji no Takumi: Kyoto's Food Meister. Enjoy the "real thing" taste of carefully pickled vegetables.

Masunori Shredded Suguki

Chopped Suguki (pickles) 540 yen. A popular product with just the right amount of sourness, made by chopping lactic acid fermented traditional Kyoto pickles Suguki into small pieces for easy consumption and seasoning it mildly.

Masugi Senmaizuke

Senmaizuke 756 yen (100g). Representative of winter Kyoto pickles with a refined taste of Shogoin kabu, one of Kyoto vegetables, and Rishiri kelp.

Masunogi Main Store Exterior

Eating and drinking space: Yes *Cutting service for purchased items available
Access/4 min. walk from Hankyu "Kyoto Kawaramachi Station" Exit 13
Payment methods: cash, credit card, transportation system IC, iD
Voice of the shopkeeper.
Senmaizuke is also recommended with Gion chazuke, a lightly pickled Mibuna greens for 324 yen, or wrapped with smoked salmon or salmon roe. It goes well not only with Japanese food but also with Western food.
Editor's Voice.
They always have more than 50 varieties of traditional Kyoto pickles such as Suguki and Senmaizuke, as well as seasonal products.

Masunori Masunori Main Store

  • Masuko Honten
  • Kyoto Prefecture, Kyoto City, Nakagyo Ward, Nishikikoji Street
  • Tel.075-211-5346
  • 9:00-17:30
  • 7 days a week
  • https://masugo.co.jp/
  • MAP ishere

15. Extra Edition (1)] This is also a must-see place! Nishiki Market, also known as a museum at night

Nishiki Ichiba is crowded with people during the day as "Kyoto's kitchen," but at night it offers a different kind of enjoyment. After the market is closed, creative paintings are painted on the shutters. These are the works of Ito Jyakuju, a painter who grew up in the Nishiki Market's produce wholesale shop. The shopping street, which has regained its serenity after the bustle of the daytime, looks like a museum at night. Why not take the time to view the works of Ito Wakaki at night, when the market has changed from its daytime appearance?

Nishiki Market Shutter

Jyukka Birds and Beasts by Jakuchu Ito, a Masuji-style painting depicting a paradise of animals and birds

Nishiki Market Shutter

Title of the work: "Chickens in a Cluster on a Barrier Painting. Various chickens are depicted in ink.

Nishiki Market Shutter

Also, be sure to check out the birthplace of Jakuchu Ito at the entrance of Takakura-dori.

The information is subject to change. Please contact each store or facility directly for the latest information.
All prices include tax.
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