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Famous sweets store in Ameyoko fills a bag with sweets and a show, but is it still worth it?

• Oona McGee
  Jul 8, 2026
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This bargain bag comes with a unique performance, but things have changed over the years.

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• (Ameya Yokocho • Ameyoko • Ameyokocho • cheap deals • chocolates • confectionery • restaurants • Shimura Shoten • shops • SNJO • sweets • Tokyo • Ueno)

Is McDonald’s Japan’s Mushroom Mountain and Bamboo Shoot Village McFlurry worth the hype?

• Oona McGee
  Jan 26, 2026

A very Japanese McFlurry, in more ways than one. 

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• (Bamboo Shoot Village • chocolates • cool • desserts • ice cream • Japanese chocolates • Japanese commercials • kinoko no yama • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • McFlurry • Meiji • Mushroom Mountain • SNJO • soft serve • sweets • takenoko no sato)

McDonald’s Japan releases a Mushroom Mountain and Bamboo Shoot Village McFlurry

• Oona McGee
  Jan 15, 2026

New limited-edition dessert fans the flames of a longstanding chocolate war. 

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• (Bamboo Shoot Village • chocolates • commercials • cool • desserts • hana • ice cream • Japanese chocolates • Japanese commercials • kinoko no yama • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • McFlurry • Meiji • Mushroom Mountain • SNJO • soft serve • sweets • takenoko no sato)

Black Thunder grab event in Tokyo gets you a fistful of chocolate bars for less than 30 cents

• Oona McGee
  Feb 11, 2025

How many of these iconic Japanese chocolates can we grab for 40 yen?

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• (Black Thunder • candy • chocolate • chocolates • cool • events • food • Harajuku • marketing • Shibuya • snacks • sweets • taste test • Tokyo • Yuraku Confectionery)

Godiva releases first-ever chocolate daifuku in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jun 23, 2023

Traditional Japanese sweet gets an indulgent luxury makeover. 

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• (chocolate • chocolates • COK • daifuku • expensive fruit • fruit • Godiva • Japanese sweets • Sembikiya • sweets • taste test • traditional Japanese sweets)

What’s in the Lindt lucky bag for 2023?

• Oona McGee
  Jan 9, 2023

There’s more to this fukubukuro than just Lindor balls.

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• (chocolates • COK • food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2023 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2023 • lindor • Lindt • Lindt balls • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2023 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2023 • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Japanese student criticised for campaign against excess plastic packaging

• Oona McGee
  Jul 23, 2020

Some people in Japan just don’t want to part ways with individually wrapped candy.

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• (bourbon • candy • chocolates • environment • environmental issues • food • japanese snacks • Kameda Seika • petitions • plastic • plastic waste • rice crackers • snacks)

New Japanese KitKats feature sakura sake and a traditional cherry blossom dessert

• Oona McGee
  Feb 21, 2020

Hanami flavours are accompanied by a special limited-edition Easter treat this year. 

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• (cherry blossoms • chocolates • Easter • hanami • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kats • KitKat • nihonshu • sake • sakura • sakura mochi • souvenirs)

Japanese KitKats now come in edamame milkshake flavour

• Oona McGee
  Nov 27, 2019

New Zunda Shake variety perfectly blends chocolate with sweet soybeans. Read More

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• (chocolates • edamame • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kat • KitKat • KitKats • Nestle • Nestle Japan • souvenirs • soy • soybeans • zunda)

Japanese KitKats now come in Gold Caramel Tokyo Banana flavour

• Oona McGee
  Nov 19, 2019

New golden makeover supports hard workers like Olympics athletes.

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• Japan
• (bananas • chocolates • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kat • Kit Kats • KitKat • KitKats • Nestle • Nestle Japan • souvenirs • Tokyo Banana)

New Japanese KitKats capture the flavour of a busy port city

• Oona McGee
  Sep 6, 2019

Yokohama now has its very own KitKat based on a famous local sweet souvenir.

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• (chocolate • chocolates • COK • food • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kats • KitKats • mint • Nestle • SNO • sweets)

Japanese KitKats swap plastic bags for paper packaging with new origami feature

• Oona McGee
  Aug 6, 2019

There’s a reason to feel less guilty about eating KitKats, now that they’re saving the wildlife from tonnes of plastic each year. 

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• (chocolate • chocolates • environment • food • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kats • KitKats • mint chocolate • Nestle • plastic • sweets)

New Choco Mint Pocky comes covered in pastel green mint chocolate

• Oona McGee
  Jun 7, 2019

Mint chocolate now looks as cool as it tastes. 

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• Japan
• (choc mint • chocolates • food • Glico • Japanese sweets • mint • mint chocolate • Pocky • summer • sweets)

New Japanese KitKats combine mint, peach and rum for a summertime taste sensation

• Oona McGee
  May 25, 2019

We try the new alcoholic chocolates designed to keep you cool and refreshed during the hottest season of the year. 

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• (alcohol • chocolate • chocolates • COK • food • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kats • KitKats • mint • mint chocolate • Nestle • SNO • sweets)

Japanese KitKats get fresh with new peach rum mint flavour this summer

• Oona McGee
  Apr 25, 2019

Two new alcoholic mint varieties take the choc-mint experience to a whole other level.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • chocolate • chocolates • food • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kats • KitKats • mint • mint chocolate • Nestle • sweets)

Sakura Japanese Sake KitKats combine rice wine and cherry blossoms for a sweet hanami experience

• Oona McGee
  Mar 22, 2019

Sakura-flavoured KitKats now come with 0.07 percent alcohol.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • chocolates • hanami • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kats • KitKat • nihonshu • sake • sakura • souvenirs)

New Japanese KitKats combine ruby chocolate with everyday nuts and cranberry

• Oona McGee
  Mar 8, 2019

Two new flavours on offer this spring. 

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• Japan
• (chocolates • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kat • Kit Kat Chocolaterie • KitKat • ruby chocolate)

Taste the floor of a Japanese train station with new limited-edition chocolates from Tokyo Metro

• Oona McGee
  Mar 6, 2019

Eat the walls, ceilings, floors and stairs of a dozen different stations!

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• Japan
• (chocolate • chocolates • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • souvenirs • Tokyo • Tokyo Metro • trains)

Japanese high school life in the Heisei era at the heart of new Pocky x Milk Tea collaboration

• Oona McGee
  Feb 12, 2019

Bittersweet flavours combine to create a whole new taste sensation.

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• Japan
• (chocolates • COK • Heisei era • high school • Japanese high school • marketing • Pocky • school • school life • sweets)

New Sweet Sake Pocky showcases the flavour of a centuries-old Japanese sake brewery in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Feb 1, 2019

Special regional-exclusive release uses ingredients from the only sake brewery in the 23 wards of Tokyo.

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• Japan
• (amazake • chocolates • food • Pocky • sake • sweets • Tokyo)

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