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(5)Oshima Aozora Ichiba
(6)Yuki no Furusato Yasuzuka
(7)Kanzuri
(8)Tomato
(5)Oshima Aozora Ichiba
Address:403-3 Oka, Oshima-ku, Joetsu
Tel: 025-594-3257
Hours: 8:30 to 5 pm
Closed: Wednesdays (open every day in May, August and October)
Selling fresh local vegetables, nameko mushrooms grown at the factory, and Joetsu specialty items.
Top 3 Recommended Items
1. Homemade konnyaku
2. Joetsu-area wild plants and vegetables
3. Joetsu specialty products: sasadango (sweet rice and yomogi leaf dumpling stuffed with red bean jum), saké, etc.
(6)Yuki no Furusato Yasuzuka
Address:140 Taruda, Yasuzuka-ku, Joetsu
Tel: 025-595-1010
Hours: 9 am to 6 pm
Closed: Mondays (Tuesdays when Monday is a national holiday)
Sells seasonal local vegetables, gelato and doburoku (homemade saké). The gelato uses rice flour and seasonal ingredients, so you can enjoy a variety of flavors.
Top 3 Recommended Items
1.Kakimochi
2.Sasadango
3.Sansai (wild plants)
(7)Kanzuri
Address:437-1 Nishijo, Myoko
Tel: 0255-72-3813
Hours: 8:30 am to 5:30 pm
Closed: Sundays, holidays, some Saturdays
Kanzuri is a pepper paste that has been made as a preserved food in this area since ancient times. As part of the process, peppers are spread out onto the pure white snow to cure, before being mixed with salt, citrus flavoring, koji (a fungus used in saké and soy sauce production), then fermented for three or six years.
Top 3 Recommended Items
1. Kanzuri
2. Kanzuri with added flavorings
3. Chili peppers
Pepper harvesting and yuki sarashii (spreading peppers on the snow) sessions are available for ¥500 (excluding tax; reservation is required)
(8)Tomato
Address:430-1 Sakaguchi Shinden, Myoko
Tel: 0255-82-2760
Hours:April to September: 9 am to 6 pm
October to March: 9 am to 5 pm
Closed: January 1 to 4
A Myoko facility named for the nearby tomato farms, Tomato sells fresh local farmed and wild vegetables. Events are also held every month. Also sells handmade sweets and pickled items made by local people.
Top 3 Recommended Items
Shop
1. Tomatoes 2. Sweet corn 3. Sansai (wild plants)
Cafeteria
1. Ju-wari soba: 100% buckwheat soba 2. Ankake ramen: ramen with a starch-thickened topping 3. Sasazushi
