10 Recommended Sparkling Gold Leaf Gourmet Foods to Eat in Kanazawa City 【Kanazawa Sightseeing Spot】
Here are 10 recommended sparkling gold leaf gourmet foods to try in Kanazawa.
Let’s take a look at Kanazawa’s profound gold leaf gourmet sights, from gold leaf Japanese sweets to gold leaf burgers and even octopus dumplings filled with gold leaf.
- 1 Kanazawa City Sparkling Gourmet Attractions (Dining) 1 「Kanazawa Maimon Sushi Station West Main Branch」, a gold leaf conveyor-belt sushi restaurant
- 2 Kanazawa City Sparkling Gourmet Attractions (Dining) 2 Kinpaku TSUZUMI Burger 「Dining TSUZUMI」
- 3 Kanazawa City Sparkling Gourmet Attractions (Dining) 3: Gold Leaf Seafood Bowl 「Yamasan Zushi Honten」
- 4 Kanazawa City Sparkling Gourmet Places (Dining) 4: Gold Leaf Curry 「Jugatsuya」
- 5 Kanazawa City Sparkling Gourmet Places (Dining) 5 Gold Leaf Takoyaki 「Hakuza Kin no engiya」
- 6 Kanazawa City Sparkling Gourmet Places (Dessert) 6 Gold leaf soft serve ice cream 「Hakuichi」
- 7 Kanazawa City Sparkling Gourmet Attractions (Dessert Edition) 7 Gold & Platinum Leaf Soft Serve Ice Cream and Golden Coffee 「Kenjotei」
- 8 Kanazawa City Places of Sparkling Gourmet (Dessert Edition)9 「Kaikaro」: gold leaf zenzai, gold leaf kuzukiri, and golden parfait
- 9 Kanazawa City Sparkling Gourmet Places (Dessert) 9 Gold Leaf Pudding 「Kanazawa Pudding Honpo」
- 10 Kanazawa City Places of Sparkling Gourmet (Dessert) 10: Gold Leaf Castella and Gold Leaf Baum 「Mameya Kanazawa Mankyu」
Kanazawa City Sparkling Gourmet Attractions (Dining) 1 「Kanazawa Maimon Sushi Station West Main Branch」, a gold leaf conveyor-belt sushi restaurant
(Image from maimon_honten’s Instagram)
「Kanazawa Maimon Sushi Eki-Nishi Main Branch」 is popular among locals as a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant where you can stand in line.
The restaurant purchases fresh seafood twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening, and slices it right in front of your eyes.
The menu also features a wide variety of ingredients unique to Kanazawa, such as black rockfish, nodoguro, and Kabako crab, as well as sushi with a gold leaf decoration.
Kabako crab sushi with gold leaf is a gorgeous dish unique to Kanazawa.
Some fans regularly go to the restaurant because they can find rare ingredients that change on a daily basis and are available in limited quantities.
Recommended for those who want to enjoy seasonal gilt-edged gourmet food.
| Store Name | Kanazawa Maimon Sushi Eki-Nishi Main Store |
| Address | 3-20-7 Eki-Nishi-Shinmachi, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture |
| Access | 6 min. walk from JR Kanazawa Sta. |
| Phone number | 076-234-1144 |
| Opening hours | 11：00～21：30 |
| Related site | https://www.maimon-susi.com/shop/ekinishi/ |
Kanazawa City Sparkling Gourmet Attractions (Dining) 2 Kinpaku TSUZUMI Burger 「Dining TSUZUMI」
If you are looking for a meat-based gold leaf gourmet experience, this is the place to go, Tuzumi Burger.
The Tzumi Burger is a gold leaf burger with a meaty patty made from 「Noto pork」, a brand meat produced in Ishikawa Prefecture, sandwiched between rich cheddar cheese, fresh tomatoes and lettuce.
It is available at 「Dining TSUZUMI」, a European restaurant in Hotel Kanazawa.
The buns are also made by a popular bakery in Kanazawa, 「Hirami Pan」.
The gorgeous burgers, made with ingredients carefully selected by the chef, are sure to sell out every day.
It looks gorgeous with glittering gold leaf sprinkled on top.
It is a stylish hamburger you want to stretch out a bit and go out to eat.
| Store Name | DINING TSUZUMI |
| Address | Hotel Kanazawa, 1-1 Horikawa Shinmachi, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture |
| Access | 2 minutes by car from JR Kanazawa Station |
| Phone number | 076-223-1201 |
| Opening hours | 7：00～22：00 |
| Related Sites | https://restaurant.ikyu.com/120068/plan11840784/?visit_date=2023-03-01&num_guests=2 |
Kanazawa City Sparkling Gourmet Attractions (Dining) 3: Gold Leaf Seafood Bowl 「Yamasan Zushi Honten」
「Yamasan Zushi Honten」 is the best place to eat sparkling gold leaf kaisen-don in Kanazawa.
There are 18 kinds of neta (fish and shellfish), enough to overflow out of the bowl, and the gold leaf on top makes a big impact.
The rice and vinegar are made using local products, and the seafood is also caught in nearby waters.
In addition to kaisendon, the restaurant also serves sushi, local cuisine, and local sake, allowing you to enjoy the food while having a drink.
If you come to Kanazawa, do not hesitate to try the Kaisen-don at 「Yamasan Zushi Honten」, which is good to look at and good to eat.
| Store Name | Yamasan Zushi Main Store |
| Address | 68 Shimo-Omi-machi, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture |
| Access | 4 minutes by car from JR Kanazawa Station |
| Phone number | 076-221-0055 |
| Opening hours | 7：30～19：00 |
| Related website | http://www.yamasan-susi.com/menu |
Kanazawa City Sparkling Gourmet Places (Dining) 4: Gold Leaf Curry 「Jugatsuya」
Speaking of Kanazawa, one of its specialties is Kanazawa curry.
If you are looking for a western-style, rice-based, gold leaf gourmet meal, this is the place for you! This is recommended for those who want to try a western-style, rice-based, gold leaf gourmet meal.
The place where you can enjoy Kanazawa Curry is the Japanese restaurant 「Jugatsuya」 located in Higashi Chaya-gai.
This curry is filled with beef tendon from Kanazawa’s famous 「Kanazawa Oden」, and is full of flavor from the tender beef tenderloin that has been simmered and blended.
It is filled with glittering gold leaf and has a nice spicy heat.
There is also a cake with gold leaf for dessert.
| Store name | Jugatsuya |
| Address | 1-26-16 Higashiyama, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture |
| Access | 9 minutes by car from JR Kanazawa Station |
| Phone number | 050-5492-9843 |
| Opening hours | 11：30～16：00 |
| Related website | https://r101800.gorp.jp/ |
Kanazawa City Sparkling Gourmet Places (Dining) 5 Gold Leaf Takoyaki 「Hakuza Kin no engiya」
The 「Hakuza Kin no Engiya」 is an extravagant version of takoyaki that uses gold leaf for good luck in sparing quantities.
The boldly shining gold leaf on the takoyaki is so visually effective that it will knock your socks off.
The performance of hand-rolling the takoyaki and placing a thin layer of gold leaf on top is also a must-see, and is exciting even before eating.
Photography is of course allowed.
It has an authentic taste made with natural broth, domestic wheat, fresh octopus and sweet shrimp from Noto.
There are three flavors to choose from: the standard 「Kiwami Sauce」, 「Noto Shio」, which uses sea salt from Noto with its strong umami flavor, and 「Kanazawa Shoyu」, which uses Kanazawa Ohno soy sauce with its distinctive richness and aroma.
| Store name | Hakuza Kin no Engiya |
| Address | 1-13-23 Higashiyama, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture |
| Access | 8 minutes by car from JR Kanazawa Station |
| Phone number | 076-253-8881 |
| Opening hours | 11：00～17：00 |
| Related site | https://www.hakuza.co.jp/shop/kinnoengiya/ |
Kanazawa City Sparkling Gourmet Places (Dessert) 6 Gold leaf soft serve ice cream 「Hakuichi」
Kanazawa’s representative gourmet food, “Kinpaku-so Soft” is a must-try in Kanazawa.
The originator of the gold leaf soft serve is 「Hakuichi」.
It was first sold as a limited edition to commemorate the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train service.
The 「Kagayaki soft-serve ice cream」 with a single piece of gold leaf boldly placed on top of the soft-serve ice cream is topped with small cherry blossom-shaped chocolate toppings, making it almost too good to eat.
The toppings also change with the seasons, such as chocolate shaped like a pumpkin during Halloween and small plum chocolates during the plum season.
Foilichi also has cute chocolate bars topped with gold alazan, which are very popular as souvenirs.
| Store Name | Hakuichi |
| Address | 1-15-4 Higashiyama, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture |
| Access | 7 minutes by car from JR Kanazawa Station |
| Phone number | 076-253-0891 |
| Opening hours | 9：00～17：00（store closes at 18:00） |
| Related sites | https://kanazawa.hakuichi.co.jp/shop/higashiyama.php |
Kanazawa City Sparkling Gourmet Attractions (Dessert Edition) 7 Gold & Platinum Leaf Soft Serve Ice Cream and Golden Coffee 「Kenjotei」
The gold and platinum foil soft serve ice cream at 「Kenjotei」 is so gorgeous that one might hesitate to eat it.
Platinum is said to be difficult to process thinly, but they have succeeded in processing it, so you would like to try not only gold soft serve ice cream but also platinum soft serve ice cream.
They put thinly stretched platinum foil on freshly squeezed soft serve ice cream, which is exciting until you eat it.
There are two flavors to choose from: Hokkaido vanilla and specially selected green tea, and you can even have a mix of the two.
Another recommended gold leaf glittering gourmet food at 「Kenjotei」 is 「Golden Coffee」.
As the name suggests, this luxurious coffee is covered in gold leaf, and the coffee beans are specially blended for Kenjotei.
The coffee is so delicate that if you do not hold your breath when drinking it, the gold leaf will fly off with your nose breath.
Only the coffee can be purchased at the online store of Mijotei.
| Store name | Kenjotei |
| Address | 1-19 Kenrokucho, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture |
| Access | 9 minutes by car from JR Kanazawa Station |
| Phone number | 076-222-1600 |
| Opening hours | 10：00～16：30 |
| Related site | https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfd5GAhJaKM/ |
Kanazawa City Places of Sparkling Gourmet (Dessert Edition)9 「Kaikaro」: gold leaf zenzai, gold leaf kuzukiri, and golden parfait
When you open the lid, you will be surprised to see a gorgeous zenzai covered with gold leaf.
There is a white bean inside the zenzai, but you may not know where to start with the gorgeousness.
「Kaikaro」 is the largest teahouse building in Kanazawa, located in the Higashi Chaya-gai district, and is a city-preserved building worth seeing.
Kuzukiri (gold leaf kuzu-kiri) served with molasses with gold leaf floating on it is also a popular dish.
Other sparkling gourmet foods such as gold leaf parfait, gold leaf coffee, and gold leaf shaved ice in summer can also be enjoyed at the emotional 「Kaikaro」 café.
| Store name | Kaikaro |
| Address | 1-14-8 Higashiyama, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture |
| Access | 7 minutes by car from JR Kanazawa Station |
| Phone number | 076-253-0591 |
| Opening hours | 10：00～17：00 |
| Related site | https://www.instagram.com/kaikarojapan/ |
Kanazawa City Sparkling Gourmet Places (Dessert) 9 Gold Leaf Pudding 「Kanazawa Pudding Honpo」
「Kanazawa Pudding Honpo」 offers gold leaf pudding with a silky smooth texture that almost melts on the tongue.
In addition to the gold leaf pudding, there are six other fresh puddings made with local ingredients such as Noto salt and Kaga-bocha (stick tea) available in a variety of flavors.
The most popular among them is 「Kinpaku Azuki」, which is azuki beans topped with gold leaf.
The sparkling taste is said to be sought after by many as a souvenir.
It is also nice to choose your favorite pudding, such as Noto salt pudding or green tea pudding, and enjoy it in the teahouse-style store.
Seasonal puddings are also available one after another, so be sure to check the store regularly.
| Store Name | Kanazawa Pudding Honpo |
| Address | 1-13-10 Higashiyama, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture |
| Access | 8 minutes by car from JR Kanazawa Station |
| Phone number | 076-225-7749 |
| Opening hours | 10：00～18：00 |
| Related website | https://kanazawa-pudding.com/ |
Kanazawa City Places of Sparkling Gourmet (Dessert) 10: Gold Leaf Castella and Gold Leaf Baum 「Mameya Kanazawa Mankyu」
Gourmet gold leaf gourmet products recommended for otsukai and souvenirs are the gold leaf castella and gold leaf baumkuchen from 「Mameya Kanazawa Mankyu」.
Using local ingredients such as organic soybeans and black beans from Noto, the moist textured sponge cakes and baumkuchen are covered with gold leaf for a gorgeous appearance.
They would make great gifts for celebrations or for loved ones.
Seasonal sweets are also beautifully shaped and may be purchased as a treat for yourself.
Paired with a cup of delicious tea, you are sure to have a wonderful time.
| Store Name | Mameya Kanazawa Mankyu |
| Address | 50-1, Ha, Iwade-cho, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan |
| Access | 13 min. drive from JR Kanazawa Sta. |
| Phone number | 076-258-3366 |
| Opening hours | 9：30～18：00 |
| Related website | https://www.mameya-bankyu.com/ |
We have seen some of the most gorgeous Kanazawa gourmet places that are covered with glittering gold leaf.
Why don’t you try gold leaf gourmet foods when you want to feel special, such as on your birthday, anniversary, or when you want to boost your luck?
Everyone will love these shiny gourmet foods, and your smile will be sure to sparkle.
Kanazawa City is a treasure trove of places of interest. There are many recommended spots.
Why not visit these places of interest in Kanazawa City as well?
●「Shima」 in the Higashi Chaya district, Kanazawa City’s recommended sightseeing spot
