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.

Tsukudani『佃煮』

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.

 Processed foods made from renkon『レンコン加工品』

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.

　Renkon noodles (semi-dried), renkon noodles (dried), pickles, renkon powder.

　Sweets 『銘菓』

Tsuchiura produces a variety of traditional sweets and candies.Sweets made from renkon have now been created 

Renkon sablé, Kasumigaura sablé, soba sankaku, renkon pie manju (buns stuffed with sweetened bean paste), Kijo manju.

　Soba,soy sauce, natto『そば、しょう油、納豆など』

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.

Onono Komachi soba, buckwheat flour, Shiho soy sauce, Ohitachi soy sauce, natto in straw bag, Tsuchiura Zeppelin curry.

　Others『その他』

Tsuchiura fireworks, renkon key rings, picture postcards.

Tourist Information and Products Center Kirarakan『観光情報物産センターきらら館』

9-1, Yamato-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)