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Starbucks Japan unveils new Sakura Frappuccino for cherry blossom season 2025
- Oona McGee
Feb 10, 2025 - Tweet
Limited-edition pink drink captures the beauty of hanami flower-viewing picnics.
- Japan
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The top 5 Starbucks Frappuccinos we’d like to drink again in Japan this year
- Oona McGee
Jan 2, 2025
There were many limited-edition drinks on the menu in 2024, but these were the best that deserve to be mainstays.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan)
Starbucks Japan reveals new Holiday Frappuccino for 2024
- Oona McGee
Oct 29, 2024
The Hatsuyuki is specially designed to look like fallen snow.
- Japan
- (Christmas • Christmas 2024 • drinks • Frappuccinos • Frappucinos • holidays • Japanese Frappuccino • limited edition • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition)
Starbucks Japan adds new Pachi-Pachi Trick customisation to its Halloween Frappuccino
- Oona McGee
Oct 18, 2024
Why choose between trick or treat when you can have them both at Starbucks?
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccinos • Frappucinos • halloween • Halloween 2024 • Japanese Frappuccino • limited edition • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition)
Starbucks serves up a new afternoon tea set in Japan with a super high price tag
- Oona McGee
Sep 21, 2024
New Pasticcini Flight still likely to sell out regardless.
- Japan
- (afternoon tea • cakes • COK • desserts • drinks • Frappuccinos • Italian food • limited edition • pasticcini • Princi • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets • Teavana)
Starbucks adds official Kids’ Frappuccinos to the menu in Japan
- Oona McGee
Sep 19, 2024
Three Frappuccinos for children, and a tiny condiment bar with syrups so little ones can customise their drinks like a grown-up.
- Japan
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Encountering the secret Starbucks Frappuccino that rarely appears in Japan
- Oona McGee
Sep 15, 2024
An exciting way to refresh your palate, but only for a limited time.
- Japan
- (COK • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccinos • K. Masami • limited edition • pineapple • review • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • sweets • taste test)
Starbucks adds a very Japanese Frappuccino and latte to select stores in Japan
- Oona McGee
Aug 30, 2024
Enjoy the taste of autumn in Japan with three limited-edition drinks you won’t find anywhere else.
- Japan
- (autumn • chestnuts • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • Mont Blanc • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • Starbucks Tea & Cafe • Starbucks Tea and Cafe • sweets • tea)
Starbucks Japan unveils new limited-edition Frappuccino for autumn
- Oona McGee
Aug 29, 2024
Pumpkin spice and all things nice, plus a baked sweet potato.
- Japan
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Starbucks Japan releases a Sunset Frappuccino as a sayonara to summer
- Oona McGee
Aug 27, 2024
A bittersweet farewell with a Japanese twist that’s only on the menu for nine short days.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • pineapple • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • sweets)
How salty is Starbucks Japan’s new limited-edition jelly Frappuccino?
- Oona McGee
Aug 6, 2024
Inspired by a day at the beach, with a jelly that tastes like salty sea waves.
- Japan
- (COK • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccinos • K. Masami • limited edition • pineapple • review • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • sweets • taste test)
Starbucks Japan adds a salty limited-edition Frappuccino to its menu for summer
- Oona McGee
Aug 1, 2024
New yellow-and-blue beverage is designed to look and taste like a day at the beach.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • pineapple • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • sweets)
Starbucks releases a cute Frappuccino and Unicorn Cake…but not in Japan
- SoraNews24
Jul 16, 2024
Putting cute cakes and limited-edition Frappuccinos to the test.
- China, Japan
- (China • COK • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccino • SNJO • Starbucks • sweets • taste test)
Starbucks Japan adds a new Love & Peach Frappuccino to its menu for summer
- Oona McGee
Jul 11, 2024
Spreading peach and love to the masses, but only for a limited time.
- Japan
- (COK • drinks • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • Peach • peaches • review • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • taste test)
Starbucks Japan adds a Love and Peach Frappuccino to its menu for a limited time
- Oona McGee
Jul 4, 2024
A new summertime drink, designed to look and taste like a ripe peach.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • Peach • peaches • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • sweets)
Is Starbucks Japan’s new Frappuccino better than the 7-Eleven smoothie?
- Oona McGee
Jun 30, 2024
Two icons go head-to-head, but one is a poor man’s strawberry.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • bananas • COK • convenience stores • drinks • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese Frappuccinos • K. Masami • limited edition • review • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • taste test)
Starbucks Japan’s new limited-edition Frappuccino tastes great, is good for the planet
- Oona McGee
Jun 23, 2024
A fruity dessert beverage that’ll make you feel good while you drink it.
- Japan
- (bananas • drinks • environmentally friendly • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • mottainai • mottainai bananas • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • sweets • ugly bananas)
We go bananas for Starbucks Japan’s new bananas range
- Oona McGee
Jun 2, 2024
Saving the planet, one banana at a time…
- Japan
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Starbucks Japan adds a Banana Brulee Frappuccino to the menu, with a bunch of new treats as well
- Oona McGee
Jun 1, 2024
B-grade “Mottainai Bananas” get a new lease on life, but do they make for a B-grade Frappuccino?
- Japan
- (bananas • COK • drinks • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccinos • K. Masami • limited edition • review • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • sweets • taste test)
Starbucks Japan unveils new Banana Brulee Frappuccino to save ugly fruit
- Oona McGee
May 22, 2024
Limited-edition drink and sweets will save three million bananas from the reject bin.
- Japan
- (bananas • drinks • environmentally friendly • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • mottainai • mottainai bananas • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • sweets • ugly bananas)
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