10 Gift & Specialty Shops in Takayama That You Shouldn't Miss

Japanese tea shop at Hida Takayama.

It is a shop dealing with overseas antique miscellaneous goods and retro miscellaneous goods as well as sales and classroom of Glu Deco® accessories. Within the shop, you can also experience the possibility of using a Swarovski ® stone to create a Sarabolle Strap and iPhone Sarabar case at 3,500 yen. Of course, you can take home items you created.

Our company is continued more than 140years from 19C. We are recognized the oldest Soya-Bean Cakes Shop in Japan by Shougakukan. We have never used the food additives and continued the original process of manufacture from our ancestor. It seems that the origin of this “Mishimmamame” has the following story: One day a grandmother wanted to eat her favorite lasted beans but she could not chew the hard foods because of her week teethes. Therefore, her son arranged to be softer to cook the soya-beans with the sugar. So.”Mishimamame” is arranged to cook with soft-roasted beans and sugar. Furthermore we put the green colored beans with white ones, which means to keep the goods from humidity and to change the taste inside of your mouth. Japanese “MAME” sounds have the means of “cheerful” and “Healthy” therefore we took this “Mishimamame” in the celebration party to invite the new year in this Hida District.

I have never seen this stationery! I gathered interesting and fun stationery that I only found here. Watch, touch, write, enjoy. Attractiveness of stationery, rediscovery! Pen Shop IMAI (Pen Shop Imai) opened a new writing institution store, the third generation of the small stationery shop in the city of Hida Takayama, "Komari Stationery Store". Fountain pen, ballpoint pen, pencil pen etc etc, a lot of writing instruments and a little fashionable stationery collection. Please spend your time trying writing a fountain pen, writing letters and so on.

Hida Takayama Cutlery Store Konoha. We carry selected knives and tools, crafted in Japan. Made in Seki, Echizen, Sakai, Tsubame Sanjo, Banshu Miki , etc. Konoha is near the Takayama morning market.

We practice and inherit the Japanese traditional embroidery culture, "Sashiko." Sashiko is specialized in sewing each simple stitches by hands. It was developed as a method of strengthen the fabric and now it provide a beautiful and traditional hand-made crafts. We have a variety of crafts and display some art pieces. Professional craftsmen may be available for demonstration. No fee for entrance and feel free to come inside and take a look of our beautiful Sashiko pieces.