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Tokyo’s hidden mall serves up Japan’s best regional ice creams

• Elliot Hale
  Aug 17, 2025
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The only thing better than a nationwide ice cream tour is doing it without leaving the city.

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• (Anji Tabata • antenna shops • Blue Seal • camembert ice cream • casdoce • COK • food and drinks • Godipan • Godiva • Godiva Japan • Hirado • ice cream • Nagasaki • Niigata • Okinawa • regional food • regional foods • SNJO • soft serve ice cream • Tokyo • Tokyo Kotsu Kaikan • Yukiguni)

What happens when you seek refuge from the summer heat at Ikea in Shinjuku

• Oona McGee
  Jul 14, 2025

Surprising finds happen when you least expect them. 

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• (COK • ice cream • ikea • ikea japan • Masanuki Sunakoma • shinjuku • SNJO • soft cream • soft serve • soft serve ice cream • summer)

We visit the restaurant chain with more stores than either McDonald’s or Starbucks

• Elliot Hale
  Mar 28, 2025

It’s one of the biggest chains in the world, yet many people have never even heard of it.

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• (bubble tea • COK • fast food • fast food chain • food and drinks • Ikebukuro • Mixue • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • soft serve • soft serve ice cream • tapioca • Tokyo)

McDonald’s Japan’s Soft Twist Tower: A phantom ice cream only sold at select branches

• Oona McGee
  Jul 20, 2024

A secret soft serve with legendary status.

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• (coffee ice cream • COK • fast food • food • ice cream • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • new • news • secret menu • SNJO • soft serve • soft serve ice cream • taste test)

Shogun Coffee Soft Serve is a divine ice cream for modern-day samurai in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jun 3, 2024

Saza Coffee captures the essence of traditional Japan in a sweet dessert.

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• (cafes • coffee • coffee ice cream • coffee sweets • food • ice cream • Instagram • review • samurai • Saza • Saza Coffee • shogun • Shogun Coffee • SNJO • social media • soft serve • soft serve ice cream • sweets • taste test)

Second-tier Japanese convenience store’s “Drinkable Soft Serve Ice Cream” is a top-tier dessert

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 2, 2024

Minisof’s Super Milk is worth tracking down.

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• (COK • convenience stores • ice cream • Minisof • Ministop • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • soft serve ice cream • sweets • taste test)

Tokyo sweets store sells beautiful soft serve ice creams that look like works of art

• Oona McGee
  May 6, 2024

We try the edibile flowers that everyone’s talking about right now, and let you know where you can get them.

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• (cafes • food • ice cream • Instagram • review • SNJO • social media • soft serve • soft serve ice cream • sweets • taste test • TikTok • Toranomon Hills)

Ikea Japan stopped selling soft serve ice cream?! We try what they’re now selling instead

• Dale Roll
  Oct 26, 2023

The loss of the Ikea soft-serve ice cream cone left a hole in our hearts…but can we fill it with something else? 

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• (Ahiru Neko • ice cream • ice cream cone • ikea • ikea japan • soft cream • soft serve • soft serve ice cream)

Krispy Kreme’s Original Glazed Soft Serve Ice Cream arrives in Japan…but it’s disappointing

• Oona McGee
  May 20, 2023

We’d had high hopes for the ice cream’s first jaunt outside of the U.S., but it’s not what we were expecting.

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• (COK • crazy • desserts • donuts • food • ice cream • Krispy Kreme • Krispy Kreme Japan • P.K. Sanjun • SNJO • soft serve • soft serve ice cream • sweets • taste test • weird)

The most expensive ice cream in Japan? Metallic soft serve frays the nerves of staff who make it

• Oona McGee
  Aug 8, 2022

Sparkly soft serve gives you equally sparkly poops the next day.

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• (COK • cool • desserts • expensive • food • gold • haruka takagi • ice cream • platinum • restaurants • SNJO • soft serve • soft serve ice cream • taste test • weird)

Soft serve ice cream robots create the perfect cone in under 40 seconds【Video】

• Shannon
  Sep 29, 2020

Would you prefer dog-made or dino-made ice cream?

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• (cool • delicious • desserts • ice cream • Japanese robot • Robotic Connections • Soft Cream Robot • soft serve ice cream)

“Drinkable soft serve ice cream” in bottles to go on sale in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 27, 2020

A brilliant idea and suddenly the only thing we want to drink.

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• (COK • drinks • ice cream • Morinaga • soft serve ice cream • sweets)

Soon you can drink your ice cream at Lawson convenience stores throughout Japan

• Krista Rogers
  Oct 29, 2019

It’s up to you whether you want to count this new beverage product as a drink or as a dessert. 

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• (beverage • convenience store • drink • konbini • Lawson • new product • soft serve ice cream)

We head to Okayama Prefecture to try the second most delicious soft serve ice cream in the world

• Koh Ruide
  Oct 31, 2018

We didn’t know olives and vanilla ice cream could go so well together.

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• (dessert • food • K. Masami • Okayama • olive • SNJO • soft serve • soft serve ice cream)

Mr. Sato lives it up like a Harajuku schoolgirl, eats Japan’s longest soft serve ice cream cone

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 3, 2018

When it comes to battles against giant food, always bet on Sato.

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