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Akita Citizen’s Market, where you’ll find the delicious flavors of Akita!
A 5-minute walk from JR Akita Station. Akita Citizen’s Market is located in a convenient area lined with hotels. It houses approximately70shops selling the flavors of Akita. The spirited voices of the shopkeepers recommending their specialties to customers can be heard throughout the building from early in the morning.
Just walking around to soak in the atmosphere is fun! It serves not only as Akita’s “kitchen” for the local people but also as a popular place for tourists to buy souvenirs.
Akita Prefecture has the Sea of Japan to the west and the Ou mountains range running north and south at the prefectural border to the east. As such, it has an abundance of products from both the sea and the mountains. And nothing beats the freshness of a local produce market.
You can buy all the flavors of Akita such as local fish, salted salmon roe, salted cod roe, freshly harvested vegetables, fresh wild vegetables, fresh fruit, fish boiled down in soy sauce, dry foods, local sake, and flowers; all the ingredients for Akita’s famous hot pot dishes,kiritanpo-nabe and shottsuru-nabe, as well as all of your daily necessities.
Double your fun at the Citizen’s Market!
As you walk around the market sizing up the products, you will certainly hear the Akita dialect. You will get a friendly feeling from the unfamiliar yet somehow nostalgic tone of such local words as “bodakko (salted salmon),” “dadami (cod milt),” “bakke (butterbur sprouts),” “ke (eat),” and “nanmoda (you’re welcome).” Please experience the local atmosphere, and if there’s anything you would like to know about the products and how to eat them, feel free to ask.
Lower right: Leisure Space
Thankfully, most of the shops sell their products by weight. If you find a product you are interested in, you should ask the shopkeeper if you can taste a sample. The nice thing about the Citizen’s Market is that you can sample various products and then buy just as much as you want if you like what you have tasted. There are several places “Leisure Spaces” in the market where you can eat what you just bought.
There are also restaurants in the market.
The market is not just for shopping. You can also enjoy a meal. The conveyor-belt sushi restaurant Ichibanzushi owned and operated by Citizen’s Market, is also popular with the local residents for their carefully selected ingredients and distinctive flavors. You will also find a local ramen shop called “Shinasoba Ito”, a coffee shop with beans roasted in-house, and others.
Akita Citizen’s Market
4-7-35 Nakadori, Akita City 010-0001
TEL 018-833-1855
Closed Sundays *May be closed or opened temporarily at other times
Opens at 5:00 a.m.
Access: 5-minute walk from JR Akita Station
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