Specializing in hand-woven linen products, Ban-INOUE suggests a lifestyle cherishing “traditional culture and material from Nara”.
Bags, table accessories and many other linen products are perfect for souvenirs. In their Yamato Café, they offer tea, sweets, and Nara home-style dishes using chemical-free and organic ingredients. Try their simple yet heartwarming tastes.
Open terrace seating (42 seats) with a large glass window and open-air seating (16 seats) are also recommended.
Shop
Deer motif bookmark: 231 yen
Deer motif strap: 525 yen
Ayumi Shika deer pattern tote bag (large): 3,675 yen
Nara deer mini towel: 525 yen
Body caring lunch: 1350 yen
This month's rice bowl dish: 1000 yen
Green powdered tea parfait: 700 yen
Tube cake with green powdered tea set
*Prices include tax.
- Item
- Linen gifts, crafts & dining
- Tel
- +81-742-27-1010
- Open
- Shop / restaurant: 10:00-19:00 (L.O.18:30); Seasonally changed
- Seats
- Table:38seats / Terrace:18seats
- Holiday
- Open every day (seasonally changed)
- Official site
- http://www.asa-ban.com/
Shop&Restaurant
- Osaka’s time-honored soba buckwheat noodle shop offering delicious soba in Nara.
- Kurokawa Honke, founded in 1615, is the time-honored shop specializing in kudzu (plant producing starch) products in Yoshino mountain area in the southern part of Nara.
- Seasonal and safe vegetables, Nara’s specialties and products are all here; fresh, delicious, and reasonably priced as they are brought directly from the farms.
- Specializing in hand-woven linen products, Ban-INOUE suggests a lifestyle cherishing “traditional culture and material from Nara.”
- Homemade sweet caramel custard will remind you of nostalgic childhood. Try our caramel custard and feel warmth and gentleness.
- A variety of sweets using Nara’s yam and Yoshino kudzu (starch) respecting Nara’s local climate and seasons.Names of sweets derive from ancient Man-yo-shu (anthology of poems from the 7th century).
- A relaxing and casual cafe produced by the owner of the exclusive Italian restaurant, Ristorante i-lunga.
- Nara’s souvenirs and tastes are all here for tourists and locals.A number of Nara’s original character goods(including Nara’s official mascot character, Sento-kun), snacks, accessories and specialties are all under one roof at Naraya.
- Yume-Kaze Plaza’s original design T-shirts (limited production) are available. A variety of fun outdoor events will be held occasionally.
- Kakinoha sushi and Izasa sushi, a Nara specialty originating from the food tradition deep in the ancient Yoshino and Kumano mountains.
- The chef, Junichiro Horie, worked in Italy for many years and achieved One-star in the famous restaurant guide in 2004 as the first Japanese chef.
- Outside is crispy and inside is fluffy. TEN.TEN.CAFE selects the finest ingredients for the best waffles. Sauces, jams and even ice creams for topping are all homemade. Live music and rakugo (traditional comical story-telling performance) event will be organized in the café.