About 180 stores line the narrow lanes, offering a wide variety of fresh seafood, locally grown vegetables and fruits.
You can get seafood such as nodoguro (Pacific bluefin tuna) and locally caught amaebi (sweet shrimp).
The highly reputed kaisen-don (seafood bowl) is especially well known for the size and taste of its ingredients.
While enjoying local gourmet food made from local ingredients, you can also enjoy conversation with the restaurant staff.
You can also enjoy eating fresh ingredients grilled on a grill or Omemachi croquettes.
Kanazawa’s kitchen with 300 years of history
Located in Musashigatsuji, Kanazawa’s downtown area, this restaurant has flourished as the citizens’ kitchen as the gozensho (kitchen) of the Maeda family of the Kaga Clan, which had Kanazawa as its castle town since 1721 during the Edo period.
Fresh seafood from the Sea of Japan and locally grown vegetables and fruits are handled here. The area is always bustling with activity as sellers and buyers interact with each other.
Omi-machi Ichiba Complex
A complex facility offering fruit and vegetables, fresh fish, a restaurant district, etc. The first floor sells fresh produce, the second floor is a restaurant district, and the basement floor is a bakery, light eating and drinking establishments, and stores selling Noto’s agricultural products and processed marine products.
Fresh food stores 9:00-17:00
Restaurants 7:00 - 23:00 (11:00 - 21:00 for most stores)
Varies depending on the store.
Varies by store (some stores are closed on Wednesdays when the central market is closed)
From Kanazawa Station East Exit
A short walk from Musashigatsuji/Omi-machi Ichiba bus stop by Hokuriku Railway bus or Nishinippon JR bus.
A short walk from Musashigatsuji/Omimachi Ichiba bus stop by Machi Bus
A short walk from the Musashigatsuji/Ohmi-machi Market bus stop on the Kanazawa Flat Bus Konohana Route “Omi-machi Ichiba Shrine” Nagamachi Route and Zaimoku Route