[Fukuoka Airport Souvenirs] Popular Ranking & Top 5 Recommendations "Daimaru Airport Shop"

If you're having trouble choosing souvenirs at Fukuoka Airport, use this as a reference!

We asked the Daimaru Airport Shop at Fukuoka Airport about sales rankings and recommended products by buyers.

Domestic passenger terminal building, 2nd floor "Daimaru Airport Shop"

"Daimaru Airport Shop" is located on the 2nd floor of the domestic passenger terminal building, near the "Departure Security Checkpoint/South".

With a focus on Fukuoka, the store offers a wide selection of Kyushu sweets, Spicy Fish Eggs, noodles, seafood, and more.

Image: Daimaru Airport Shop

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Top 5 Best Selling

What are the popular products that everyone is buying? Here are the top 5 best-selling items (surveyed from March 2023 to February 2024).

1st place: Kayanoya "Hakata Limited Edition Kayanoya Flying Fish Stock" (5 bags, 496 yen)
This Japanese-style soup stock is sold exclusively in Fukuoka and uses grilled flying fish, a dish popular in Kyushu. It is made with two types of luxurious ingredients: grilled flying fish with a rich flavor and fragrant flying fish flakes.

2nd place: Fukusaya's "Uncolored Spicy Spicy Fish Eggs Pieces" (180g, 1,404 yen)

3rd place: Etoya "Plum Hijiki" (756 yen)
This is a very popular product from Etoya, a seafood store in Dazaifu City, Fukuoka Prefecture. It is a soft-type furikake with a refreshing flavor, made with carefully selected thick hijiki and crunchy plums. The balance between the chewy texture of the hijiki and the crunchy texture of the plums is exquisite.

4th place: Fukusaya "Uncolored spicy Spicy Fish Eggs cut barako" (230g, 1,296 yen)

5th place: Chikae "Value pack spicy Spicy Fish Eggs cutlets" (120g, 1,350 yen)

Top 5 Recommended Products

Next, we will introduce the top 5 recommended products as recommended by Daimaru food buyers.

All of these items can only be purchased at the Daimaru Airport Shop at Fukuoka Airport!

Fuki Restaurant "Spicy cod roe with Spicy Fish Eggs"

The Japanese restaurant "Oryori-dokoro Fuki" in Takasago, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City, became so popular that Spicy Fish Eggs it served at the restaurant started to be sold as a souvenir. It is a dish that makes use of the owner's skills and experience as a chef, and is made with uncompromising care.

"Spicy cod Spicy Fish Eggs with kelp" (150g, 1,080 yen) is marinated in soup stock and left to mature to the perfect degree.

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The umami of kelp blends in for a rich flavor.

Eating it with kelp makes the spiciness of Spicy Fish Eggs milder, so it is recommended for those who don't like spicy food.

Tsuchida Kaisan "Hakata Yamakasa Mentaiko"

If you want to choose Spicy Fish Eggs for connoisseurs, the "Hakata Yamakasa Mentaiko" (100g, 1,080 yen) from "Tsuchida Kaisan" on the B2 floor of the "Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin East Building" is also worth checking out. It can also be purchased at the "Daimaru Airport Shop."

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The shochu used for the pickling gives it a refreshing taste. Many people buy it again and again, saying, "I received it as a souvenir and it was delicious."

The packaging features an illustration of the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival, which is synonymous with Fukuoka, making it a perfect souvenir.

Fine Ryokoku "Ouma Bamboo Shoot Rice Base"

Fukuoka Prefecture is the number one producer of bamboo shoots in Japan. Among them, the "Ouma bamboo shoots" grown in the Ouma area of Kokuraminami Ward, Kitakyushu City, are so famous that they are requested by top-class restaurants in Kyoto and Osaka, the home of bamboo shoot cuisine.

"Ouma Bamboo Shoot Rice Base" (594 yen each), made with Ouma bamboo shoots and a specially made flying fish soup, is a hidden popular item with many repeat customers!

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You can easily enjoy authentic bamboo shoot rice by simply cooking it together with rice. It contains lots of filling bamboo shoots, and the texture and taste are very satisfying.

Tsubakiya Honpo "Goto Hand-Stretched Udon"

Be sure to check out not only Fukuoka specialties, but also the local specialties of each Kyushu prefecture.

Another popular dish is Tsubakiya Honpo's "Goto Hand-Stretched Udon" (200g soup for two meals, 579 yen), a local specialty of the Goto Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture.

It is made using pure camellia oil extracted from the camellias that grow wild on the island and salt from the Goto Sea, and is made using traditional handmade methods. Because there is a limited number of these noodles produced, they are also known as the "phantom udon."

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The noodles are thin and chewy, and go down extremely smoothly! The soup made from flying fish stock is also delicious.

Torizen Foods "Hakata Kawaya Vinegar Sauce"

Kawaya is a famous yakitori restaurant in Fukuoka, famous for its delicious "chicken skin" that is wrapped tightly around a skewer.

The vinegared sauce that is poured over the cabbage that the yakitori is served on has become so popular that it has been made into a product for home use called "Hakata Kawaya's Vinegared Sauce" (356 yen).

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Put it on cabbage and you'll feel like you're at a yakitori restaurant! It has a refreshing taste and you can eat as much as you want.

It can be used in a variety of dishes, such as sauteed pork and fried chicken.

Fukuoka souvenirs selected by buyers at Daimaru Fukuoka Tenjin store who are knowledgeable about gourmet food from all over the country.

It's worth remembering these items, whether you're looking for souvenirs, for yourself, or to treat guests. Be sure to check them out. (Text/ARNE Editorial Department)

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