Information of Shops

Kumonocha Nishiki Market branch

Since the reopening of its Kiyomizu Sannenzaka branch in 2022, the Japanese tea café Kumonocha has quickly become a hot topic on social media. Under the concept of “Relaxing tea in Kyoto,” Kumonocha has opened in popular sightseeing spots in Kyoto City, including Arashiyama and Kiyomizu Temple. Their goal is to make authentic Japanese tea more accessible and enjoyable in everyday life.

• Japanese sweets
• western style sweets
• Cafe, Japanese and Western Confectionery

Hatagoya Rihei

Hatagoya Rihei is a new brand launched by Matsuya, a Japanese-style confectionery store founded over 100 years ago in Joyo, which is near the border of Kyoto and Nara.
Hatagoya Rihei offers creative sweets centering on dorayaki (sweet red bean sandwiches), aiming to create new types of Japanese sweets that reflect the changing seasons in Kyoto.

• Japanese sweets

Mame Shofuku

Mame Shofuku sells mainly Tanba-kuro (black soya) bean snacks as well as dry delicacies and other snacks. A dining space for customers is available at the back of the store.

• delicacy
• Japanese sweets
• restaurant
• sake, whisky, beer

TerakoyaHonpo

This sembei (rice crackers) and dango (rice dumplings) shop is located just inside the west entrance of Nishiki Market. They stick to the traditional method of making sembei. Domestic sticky rice is steamed and pounded into rice cakes, which are then baked with a soy-sauce-based sauce made with a secret recipe. The most popular products are mochi rice crackers made from 100% domestic sticky rice, nure-okaki (rice crackers with a chewy inside), and dango made of sticky rice.

• 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

Fuka

The history of the main shop of Fuka, which manufactures and sells nama-fu (Nama-fu are raw gluten cakes used for cooking), is long, with records showing that it was supplying nama-fu to the Imperial Palace in the Keio era (1865-1868) at the end of the Edo period. The Nishiki store opened around 1980 as a retail store. Production is done at the main store, which takes pride in making fu by hand without relying on machines. Their fish-shaped cakes with sweet bean fillings “Taiyaki fu manju” are now popular as a new type of fu manju dessert.

• soy food
• Japanese sweets

Nishiki Murasaki

“The roots of this restaurant lie in an oshiruko (sweet bean soup) and noodle store started by my father around 1945. I am committed to delivering the best-tasting food by cherishing the spirit of dedication that was taught to me by my father,” says the owner of Nishiki Murasaki. Drawing on his own experience working at a confectionery store, he now focuses on peanuts, Kyoto sweets, and old-fashioned Japanese sweets. “Every morning we purchase the highest grade peanuts from Enshu (Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture), which are freshly roasted, and only enough for that day's sales.”

• Japanese sweets

Sawawa

You can tell by the color of the shop’s curtains and sign that this store has something to do with green tea. It specializes in matcha green tea sweets, especially on sweets using matcha from Uji. The first floor sells a variety of matcha sweets, and the second floor is a café, which offers a menu that includes warabimochi (bracken starch jelly), parfaits, and anmitsu (a sweet bean paste desert with agar-agar jelly, etc.). They use spring-harvested tea leaves and the grinding is done in a stone mortar right in the store for you to see.

• Japanese sweets
• western style sweets
• 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

Tsubakiya

“Since we have a shop here at Nishiki Market, we want to demonstrate the advantages of face-to-face sales.” The shopkeeper gives customers a piece of paper with recipes on how to boil beans and other ingredients, and he also teaches how to preserve them. He also has a research-oriented side, learning various other methods of cooking and preparing that are in line with the times. He loves to talk, so you can ask him anything.

• cereals
• Japanese sweets