Information of Shops

Nomura Tsukudani

Nomura Tsukudani has an ample selection—about 100 kinds!—of tsukudani (food boiled in soy sauce). There are also products sold by weight for home use. Nomura Tsukudani has inherited the tradition of carefully making various products little by little since their early days when they were a delicatessen, which was still rare at the time.

• Kyo Tsukudani

Tsunoya

With the motto of "always procuring fish in the best condition," this store has been in operation since 1928. It is now run by its third-generation owner and has been in business for over 90 years. They deal in salted and dried fish, and their main products are chirimenjako (dried baby sardines), guji (tilefish), and overnight-dried flounder and barracuda. They are especially particular about Wakasa seafood and delicacies such as heshiko (fermented fish) and Wakasa flounder.

• Wakasa

Yakitori Torisho

We specialize in yakitori, which is carefully grilled over charcoal. Larger than usual yakitori are grilled over high heat using carefully selected charcoal for an aromatic flavor. A wide range of dishes are available, from the popular tare-yaki (grilled chicken with sauce) to wasabi, ume plum, and tsukune with mozzarella cheese, and can be ordered from a single piece. Please enjoy our specialty yakitori in the restaurant where the aroma of charcoal grills wafts in the air.

• Yakitori Restaurant

Tanabeya

Tanabeya is a long-established dry foods store that has been in business since 1830. There are many stores in Nishiki Market that were established generations ago in this location and still continue today. Among these, Tanabeya is the sixth oldest, following Iyomata (sushi), Kimura (fresh fish), Tsunori (fresh fish), Tsunoki (liquors), and Yubakichi (yuba) in order of establishment.

• Dried Food

Gyokouchokusou Ryoushigoya

This “Kaisen Don" (seafood rice-bowl) and "Kaisen Yaki" (grilled seafood) restaurant uses the freshest ingredients from all over Japan. They grill and prepare the specialties of fishing ports across the country in a dynamic manner! The restaurant has a large number of seats with plenty of space. Please feel free to go in.

• Seafood rice bowl, Grilled seafood

Inumaeya

Opened in the spring of 2023, this shop serves beef skewers, mainly Kobe beef, and yakitori chicken skewers with a sauce made by their special recipe. They have seating inside, so you can enjoy the freshly grilled skewers right away.

• Gastropub

Yubakichi

A sign at the entrance of the store says it was established in Nishiki Market in 1790. Since then, Yubakichi has been dedicated to yuba (soy milk skin). It is the only shop that both sells and produces yuba in Nishiki Market. They have been able to continue to make yuba here because of Nishiki's groundwater, they say. The current owner is the ninth generation since the establishment of the store, and he still stubbornly maintains the store's traditional handmade methods.

• Kyo Yuba

Leg Yasuda

“We deal in health-related products such as socks, knee support bands, thermal undergarments, and other products made of carefully selected materials,” they say. “Our products are carefully manufactured at factories mainly in Japan to please our customers. Among our natural fiber products, our silk products are cool in summer and warm in winter, and have excellent moisture retention properties. We are particular about materials and knitting methods, and recommend products that provide the comfort that cannot be felt with synthetic fibers.”

• Socks

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.

• Matcha Sweets

Torisei

Torisei has been selling chicken for about 110 years. The store is a long-established poultry specialty store whose popular items are duck breast and chicken thighs cut up in the morning. In the back of the store, you can always see the busy workers. It is said that a shop visited daily by many customers is able to keep its merchandise fresh and tasty, and this is truly the case at this thriving shop. Torisei is dedicated to morning-cut chicken and duck meat. They also wholesale this meat to restaurants and accept orders to ship it to other parts of the country.

• Poultry