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Starbucks Japan unveils new peach milk pudding drink that’s like a decadent dessert
- Oona McGee
Jul 21, 2026 - Tweet
Limited-edition chilled cup combines summer fruit with creamy pudding pieces in new “Delight Me” release.
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Starbucks Japan adds shaved ice desserts to the menu at select locations
- Oona McGee
Jul 14, 2026
Limited-edition granita with edible flowers gives us a cool alternative to Japanese kakigori.
- Japan
- (desserts • granita • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • Peach • peaches • Princi • shaved ice • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • summer • sweets)
Starbucks Japan puts a bow on peach season with new limited-edition Peach Creamy Tea Latte
- Oona McGee
Jul 9, 2026
Starbucks says sayonara to the summer fruit with a new limited-edition beverage.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccino • latte • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • milk tea • Peach • peaches • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • summer • tea • tea latte)
Starbucks Japan releases three new peach drinks, but the real star isn’t the Frappuccino
- Oona McGee
Jun 27, 2026
One drink will have us coming back for more this summer.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccino • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • Peach • Peach Frappuccino • peaches • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • summer • tea)
Starbucks Japan releases new Frappuccino, tea and soda drinks for summer
- Oona McGee
Jun 19, 2026
Serving up peaches three ways – melty, fizzy and chunky.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccino • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • Peach • Peach Frappuccino • peaches • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • summer • tea)
Frappuccino perfume from Starbucks is now available in Japan… but you can’t buy it
- Oona McGee
Jul 29, 2025
Select customers will be able to wear the peachy scent of this heavenly limited-edition beverage.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • muscat • Peach • peaches • perfume • review • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • summer)
Peachy keen life hack! Japan’s Zen-Noh shares an ingeniously easy way to pit a peach in seconds【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 15, 2024
The fastest, easiest way possible to get a prized peach ready to eat.
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)
Peach juice served fresh out the tap at Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Airport
- Master Blaster
Feb 12, 2024
Just like mom used to plumb.
- Japan
- (drinks • faucets • Jewelry Peach • Mt. Fuji • Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Airport • peach juice • peaches • Shizuoka • Shizuoka Marche • travel • Yamanashi Naito Farm)
Banto, the fruit eaten by Son Goku in Journey to the West, is real, and we just ate it【Taste test】
- SoraNews24
Aug 13, 2023
From the literary classic to our stomach.
- Japan
- (banto • coiled peach • COK • crazy • flat peach • food • fruit • peaches • SNJO • taste test • weird)
The phantom juice only available from vending machines at JR East train stations
- Oona McGee
Aug 10, 2023
Only on sale for a limited time, and in a very limited area.
- Japan
- (acure • COK • cool • drinks • Japanese train stations • Japanese vending machines • JR East • juice • Peach • peaches • SNJO • taste test • train stations • trains • vending machine drinks • vending machines • weird)
Trying the peach custard treat in Japan that got over 20 thousand likes in a week
- Shannon
Jul 12, 2023
Peach season is the best season for this Tokyo confectionary.
More peach is the name of the game with Starbucks Japan’s Momo More Frappuccino【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 14, 2022
Can our Frappuccino-loving reporter find something to love about summer?
- Japan
- (COK • drinks • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccino • K. Masami • peaches • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets • taste test)
Fukushima peaches: Worthy of the praise given to them by foreign Olympics teams?
- Oona McGee
Aug 9, 2021
Australia and the United States have been vocal about their love for these Japanese peaches, so we buy a box and try them out.
- Japan
- (2020 Olympics • 2020 Tokyo Olympics • athletes • COK • fruit • Fukushima • Olympics • Olympics athletes • peaches • review • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo Olympics • travel)
We tried Japan’s peach-flavored potato chips, and they do not disappoint in their peachiness
- Dale Roll
May 6, 2021
Who would have thought that peaches and potatoes would make a good match?
- Japan
- (cool • food • Fukushima • Mr. Sato • peaches • potato chips • taste test • weird • weird food • weird foods of Japan)
We try the new Peach on the Beach Frappuccino from Starbucks Japan
- Oona McGee
Jul 22, 2019
Cheeky by name, cheeky by nature, this new limited-edition drink is the refreshing summer hit we’ve all been waiting for.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • peaches • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets • taste test • white peaches)
Starbucks Japan’s first-ever white peach Frappuccino is ready to kickstart the summer fun
- Casey Baseel
Jul 13, 2019
New dessert drink promises to recreate the joy of biting into a ripe, juicy peach.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccinos • peaches • Starbucks • sweets • white peaches)
Peach Coca-Cola coming to Japan in a world-first for the company
- Oona McGee
Jan 10, 2018
People in Japan will be the first in the world to find out what the unique flavour combination tastes like.
- Japan
- (Coca-Cola • Coke • Cola • drinks • fruit • hina matsuri • limited edition • Peach Coca Cola • Peach Coke • peaches • soft drinks)
McDonald’s Japan has peaches playing together nicely in new white/yellow peach McShake
- Casey Baseel
Aug 2, 2017
Japan is in the middle of a peach sweets boom, and McDonald’s shakes things up by using two kinds of peaches at once.
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