Information of Shops

Mori

Mori delivers Kyoto pickles that bring out the natural flavors of the ingredients. This shop not only purchases the ingredients, but also grows them on its own farm in Kameoka, Kyoto. Mori also maintains its traditional method of pickling passed down through generations. ri is committed to making traditional Kyoto pickles, it also focuses on creating pickles that transcend traditional boundaries.

• pickles

Notoyo

This is a shop specializing in river fish, of which there are only a few in Kyoto and only three in Nishiki Market. The products lined up in the store are fileted, cut into chunks, and cooked in large pots in the back of the store, where they also prepare products for wholesale delivery to kaiseki restaurants.

• freshwater fish
• processed fish
• tsukudani
• deli

Minoyoshi

In a word, Minoyoshi is a cereal store, but that does not describe it wholly. It has beans such as black soya beans and azuki beans meant to be cooked at home. It has confectionery ingredients such as Wasanbon sugar and kanbaiko rice flour that are used in Japanese confectionery shops. It also has dried bracken fern starch and frozen konjac jelly used in kaiseki cuisine for special tea ceremonies. There are also a variety of items that, at first glance, even locals wonder what they are used for.

• cereals
• Japanese sweets

Azumaya

The owner's desire to "cherish the atmosphere of Nishiki Market" can be felt in the plaster walls and the interior using lots of wood. The shop is passionate about sourcing sweets produced in Kyoto and sells cute sweets in small portions, making it a fun experience to shop there. It is exciting just to look at the kohaku-to (confection of brightly colored, melted agar-agar), which are like jewels that you can eat. Their lineup of dry confections made with wasanbon sugar changes with the seasons.

• Ingredients & Seasonings
• Japanese sweets

Karikari hakase

This popular takoyaki shop has a line of people waiting in front of it anytime one passes by. Why are there so many couples? Perhaps it is because the young and cheerful staff makes it easy to enter the shop. That may be one reason, but it may also be because of the delicious and reasonable price (280 yen for one pack of takoyaki). The crunchy takoyaki live up to the shop’s name (“kari kari hakase” ≈ “Doctor Crunch”).

• deli
• restaurant

Tobeian

A signboard on Nishiki Koji invites you into a little alleyway. As you go through the alley, you come to an opening where the restaurant stands. This dramatic approach to the restaurant is exciting in itself. The name of the restaurant, "Tobeian," is a pseudonym of the painter Ito Jakuchu (116-1800). Ingredients in season are purchased from famous stores in Nishiki, and the chef carefully checks them each time, thinking about how he can make the best dishes out of them.

• restaurant

SNOOPY Tea House

This store is like a paradise for Snoopy fans. The first floor of the store, converted from an old Kyoto townhouse, sells a variety of Snoopy goods. It has a take-out corner for dorayaki sweet bean paste sandwiches and soft-serve ice cream. Even these are designed with Peanuts characters. The second floor is a restaurant, where of course all the menu items are decorated with Peanuts characters.

• Japanese sweets
• western style sweets
• restaurant

Nishiki Kofukudo

A delicious sight. This is a storefront that fits such words. Kyoto is a city that places great importance on the customs of each season. You can feel and taste Kyoto with sweets associated with these customs. Kofukudo, founded in 1868, has had its main store near the Gojo Ohashi Bridge (now Matsubara Bridge) for 150 years. The specialty Gojo Giboshi Monaka is a monaka made in the motif of a giboshi (a type of ornamental finial used on Japanese railings) decorating the parapets of the Gojo Ohashi Bridge.

• Japanese sweets

Nishiki Yatai Mura

A variety of stalls are lined up selling fresh sashimi, oysters, seafood rice bowls, black wagyu beef steaks, grilled seafood, seafood tempura, and many other items.

• restaurant

Tachinomidokoro Gabana

In 2016, a pickle shop in Nishiki Market with a row of pickling barrels suddenly became a standing bar. At first, the place just offered Sawaya Matsumoto junmai sake, beer, and pickles, but the idea that a standing bar is a “ford on the seashore” brought in some crazy staff from all over the place, and now it is a bar where people from all over the country come to enjoy a drink. It is a very marketplace-like bar where creatures that have continued to evolve in their respective unique ways snuggle together and drink.

• pickles
• obanzai
• restaurant
• sake, whisky, beer