Zaku Zaku (ザクザク) is a store that specialises in their unique cream puffs using fresh ingredients from Hokkaido. We taste-tested the famous croquant chou (クロッカンシュー) and soft serve from the Zaku Zaku store in Harajuku.
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Pablo (パブロ) is a chain of cafes found around Japan, famous for its delicious cheese tarts. They also have a number of Pablo Mini outlets where you can buy mini cheese tarts on the go. We joined a respectably long queue to taste test the Pablo Mini cheese tarts in the Tokyo suburb of Akihabara.
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Q-Pot is a popular Japanese brand, famous for making jewellery and accessories that look like sweets. Taking the concept full circle, Q-Pot Cafe is the official eatery where you can enjoy sweets made to look just like the Q-Pot jewellery!
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Nicolas House, also known as Nicolas Usagi, was a rabbit themed cream-puff restaurant and cafe in Tokyo’s suburb of Omotesando.
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Ivorish is a gourmet French toast restaurant in Japan. You read that correctly: a restaurant that specialises in French toast. We visited the Shibuya branch for their tasty twist on a classic Western breakfast (which, by the way, you can order day and night).
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Tokyo’s district of Harajuku (原宿) is famous for many things, not least for its youth culture and over-the-top street fashion. It’s also the place to go for Japanese crepes, a treat that anyone with a sweet tooth must try when visiting Japan. Harajuku’s famous Takeshita Dori (Takeshita Street 竹下通り) is home to many Japanese crepe shops. In a quest to find Harajuku’s best crepes, we have reviewed the three most prominent crepe stores in the area.
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A great tasty treat found around Japan is the Japanese crepe. Shimokitazawa (下北沢), or Shimokita for short, is known as one of Tokyo’s more interesting suburbs, popular with hippies (or hipsters, depending on how you look at it). It’s therefore no surprise that if there’s a crepe shop in Shimokitazawa, it’s going to sell natural crepes. Natural Crepe is a small Japanese crepe chain selling some of the most delicious crepes in Tokyo.
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Café de Miki with Hello Kitty is located in Diver City, one of several large shopping centres on the man-made island of Odaiba in Tokyo Bay. It specialises in a small but tasty range of Hello Kitty themed pancakes, lattes and other Hello Kitty treats.
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The Kawaii Monster Cafe – かわいいモンスターカフェ – opened in August 2015 as a collaboration between artist Sebastian Masuda and Diamond Dining, the company responsible for several of Tokyo’s best known themed restaurants. No less than a match made in heaven, the Kawaii Monster Cafe is right at home in iconic Harajuku (原宿), the home of kawaii. Read on to find out about the crazy, colourful dining experience Tokyo’s most trippy themed cafe has to offer.
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Kogetsu (鼓月) is a Japanese sweet shop and cafe in Kyoto. One of its three stores is located in the beautiful district of Gion, where it is one of several cafes specialising in green tea matcha parfaits.
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