Information of Shops

Stand-up dining Sushi Nishiki

Although it is a very small restaurant, you can enjoy authentic sushi with fresh ingredients! And it's less than half the price of high-end sushi restaurants, making it a very good value.
It is a very convenient place to stop by for Kyoto's local sake and entrées.

• sushi

Kyo Tsukimachian West

This shop specializes in an unusual pastry called "Fuku-Daruma Anesu.” "Anesu" is based on the sound of a Portuguese word for baked sweets. It is actually a word that has been used for a long time in Japan, although not many people are familiar with it. The ingredients are flour, sugar, and eggs. The surface is baked to a smooth firmness, and the face of Daruma (a Buddhist saint) and the word "fuku," meaning "good luck," are branded on it. Hence, “Fuku-Daruma Anesu.” The texture is crispy, like a Japanese "bolo" cookie, which also happens to be derived from a Portuguese pastry.

• Japanese sweets

Hashiya Mansaku

How many chopsticks are there? This store specializes in chopsticks and chopstick rests. Perhaps because of the image of Kyoto cuisine, chopsticks give a very Kyoto-like impression. Generally, most chopsticks are made of asunaro hinoki cypress, but here in Kyoto, where Nagaoka is a major bamboo production site, this shop has a full lineup of chopsticks and chopstick rests made of bamboo, as well as bamboo toothpicks and toothpick box sets.

• chopsticks

Ajisai Notoyo

If you go up the stairs next to the Notoyo West Shop, you will find a machiya-style restaurant there. The time here passes slowly—a refreshing change from the hustle and bustle of the marketplace. The eel is grilled carefully in the restaurant using binchotan charcoal, so the skin is crispy, and the taste of the special sauce made with a secret recipe is unbelievably delicious. Eel rice bowl, eel set meal, koi-no-arai (hot-water-washed and then cooled carp), and, on weekdays only, hitsumabushi (similar to eel teriyaki on rice) are available.

• eels

Ichibachokusou Kaisendonya

In addition to sushi and kaisen-don (seafood rice bowl) using fresh ingredients from all over Japan, the Kyoto-style inari sushi and Kyoto-style tenmusu (rice ball with tempura) are also very popular. The dashimaki rolled omelet, handmade by the cooks every day, and grilled seafood such as oysters shipped directly from the producers are also exquisite.
The restaurant also sells appetizing skewers. Please enjoy them inside the restaurant.

• beef
• sushi

Chinami

“Originally, we sold dried foods such as kelp, but my parents started tsukudani (food boiled down in soy sauce and mirin), and we have become a specialty store of kelp and tsukudani,” says the owner of Chinami. “While using high-quality kelp to make traditional products, we are also promoting kelp for a new audience with our creative original tsukudani, represented by our signature product ‘Oyajinakase.’ We strive to maintain a balance between tradition and innovation while always remembering the tradition of kelp-using cuisine.”

• tsukudani
• delicacy
• dry foods

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.

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Nandaimon Nishiki branch

This restaurant is a hidden gem, tucked away a bit from the street of Nishiki Market. This is a Japanese beef steak restaurant operated by Nandaimon, a long-established yakiniku restaurant founded over 60 years ago. You can enjoy high-quality wagyu beef in a relaxed Japanese-style atmosphere. Only black wagyu beef is used. In particular, the fillets and sirloins are A5-grade Hirai beef from the Kyoto-Tanba-bokujo farm.

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Kikuya

As one would expect from a Nishiki Market delicacy store, Kikuya has shelves after shelves of unique foods. There are many rare items, and even just looking through the shelves and refrigerators is exciting. There are more than 400 items. Not only are there seafood delicacies, such as karasumi (dried salted mullet roe pouch) and sea urchin, but also frozen foods, ingredients for tea ceremonies, nuts, dried fruits, etc. You will find a wide range of rare and tasty products. Kikuya is not only a shop with a wide variety of snacks that go well with drinks. It is also a shop that supports the growing appreciation of Kyoto’s cuisine.

• delicacy
• Japanese sweets

Ochanoko saisai

Ochanoko Saisai is a specialty store that sells chili pepper seasoning, which is a must for those who love spicy food. In particular, the “Maiko Han Hee Hee (literally, ‘Maiko scream’)” series is captivating hot spicy food lovers. Made with domestically produced habanero chili peppers, it is characterized by a hot spiciness that lingers in the mouth. In addition, there are many other specialty products such as yuzu shichimi (shichimi seven spices with yuzu citrus), black shichimi, and “Kyo-Rayu (chili oil) Furikake,” a delicious topping that makes eating rice irresistible.

• Japanese sweets
• seasoning