Tsuchiura has been inhabited since ancient times, and is blessed with rich crop yields. The city’s products, including fisheries and agricultural produce, processed foods, soy sauce, sweets, and handmade crafts, are highly regarded. Look at, enjoy, and taste the wide variety of specialties, including handmade products with authentic local flavor and newly created products, all grown by traditional techniques.
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Assorted tsukudani, pond smelt grilled with mirin sauce, pond smelt boiled with sweet sauce, pond smelt boiled with sugar, grasshoppers boiled with sweet sauce, carp boiled with sweet sauce, dried shrimp.
Tsuchiura is the biggest lotus root (renkon) production area in Japan. Processed foods such as udon noodles and pickles made from renkon are becoming popular.
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Renkon noodles (semi-dried), renkon noodles (dried), pickles, renkon powder.
Tsuchiura produces a variety of traditional sweets and candies.Sweets made from renkon have now been created
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Renkon sablé, Kasumigaura sablé, soba sankaku, renkon pie manju (buns stuffed with sweetened bean paste), Kijo manju.
Tsuchiura produces the high-quality Hitachi aki soba, a buckwheat noodle. The city is also famous for brewed products, since it is surrounded by major producers of high-quality soybean and wheat. Tsuchiura soy sauce retains a high reputation.
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Onono Komachi soba, buckwheat flour, Shiho soy sauce, Ohitachi soy sauce, natto in straw bag, Tsuchiura Zeppelin curry.
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Tsuchiura fireworks, renkon key rings, picture postcards.
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Shops (some products may not be available) 名産品取扱店 |
Kirarakan『きらら館』
2-35, Ariake-cho, Tsuchiura
TEL:029-824-6110 FAX:029-824-6110
Open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Closed from 29th December to 3rd January
Tsuchiura Machikado Kura Daitoku『土浦まちかど蔵「大徳」』
1-3-16, Chuo, Tsuchiura
TEL:029-824-2810 FAX:029-824-2819
Open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Closed from 29th December to 3rd January
Komachi no Yakata『小町の館』
491, Ono, Tsuchiura
TEL:029-862-1002 FAX:029-862-1002
Open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Closed from 29th December to 3rd January
Closed on Mondays (unless the Monday is a national holiday, when it closes the next day)
Suigo People’s Lodge『国民宿舎「水郷」』
255, Oiwata, Tsuchiura
TEL:029-823-1631 FAX:029-823-4816
Shop counter opens 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Open 365 days a year
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For more information, please contact the Tourism and Products Section, Department of Industry and Tourism. |
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Tsuchiura City Office (1st floor, Takatsu Office), 2-7-36, Shimotakatsu, Tsuchiura 300-0812 |
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[TEL] 029-826-1111 029-826-1111 ext. 7605, 7606 |
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[FAX] 029-823-9220 029-823-9220 (common) |
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土浦市役所(高津庁舎 1階) 〒300-0812 土浦市下高津二丁目7-36 |
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【TEL】 029-826-1111(代) 内線7605・7606 |
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【FAX】 029-823-9220(共通) |
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