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One of Tokyo’s most beautiful soft serve ice creams is also one of its trickiest to find [Photos]

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 23, 2026
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Mr. Sato’s determination pays off in treat for the eyes and taste buds.

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• (COK • food • ice cream • Mr. Sato • SNJO • soft serve • sweets • Toranomon Hills)

Family Mart enters the soft serve game with giga-sized cones of milk or matcha goodness

• Krista Rogers
  Oct 22, 2026

Four stores in Tokyo recently started selling the soft serve in three flavors with little to no fanfare. Read More

• Japan
• (COK • convenience stores • Family mart • food • konbini • Mr. Sato • SNJO • soft cream • soft serve • sweets • Tokyo)

Snow Salt Soft Cream Cafe & Bar for grown-ups opens in Tokyo’s Ueno area with a bookish surprise

• Krista Rogers
  Sep 16, 2026

Adults can indulge in a coffee or alcoholic beverage paired with soft serve ice cream at this new oasis of calm in the city.
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• (affogato • bars • cafes • COK • food • ice cream • SNJO • Snow Salt • soft serve • sweets • Tokyo • Ueno)

Onsen Egg Bukkake Udon Ice Cream makes us rethink everything we thought we knew about sweets

• Oona McGee
  Sep 2, 2026

This noodle dessert makes our brains malfunction.

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• (desserts • food • ice cream • Kagawa • Kompira-san • Kompirasan • Noodles • restaurants • review • SNJO • soft serve • sweets • taste test • travel • udon • weird • weird food)

Tokyo sweets store has a “350% Pudding Soft Serve”, and people are going wild for it

• Oona McGee
  Aug 13, 2026

Is this ice cream dessert worth the hype?

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• (COK • cool • desserts • Ginza • ice cream • pudding • purin • Purin Lab • review • SNJO • social media • soft serve • taste test • Tokyo • viral • viral food)

Did you know? Only one Beard Papa’s in all of eastern Japan sells soft serve in a cream puff

• Krista Rogers
  Aug 12, 2026

The legendary Japanese chain known for its heavenly cream puffs has only a handful of stores where you can pair pastry with an icy treat.

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• Japan
• (Beard Papa's • choux cream • COK • cream puff • custard • dessert • frozen • Higashimatsuyama • limited • pastry • Saitama • SNJO • soft serve)

We found the world’s first Yakult 1000 soft serve, and it’s hidden away in Nara

• Oona McGee
  Jul 20, 2026

Unique Yakult find leaves us with a satisfied belly and a happy heart. 

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• Japan
• (antenna shops • cafes • desserts • gut bacteria • health • ice cream • Ice de Yakult • lactic acid bacteria • Nara • review • shaved ice • SNJO • soft serve • sweets • taste test • Yakult)

Japanese convenience store gives away free ice cream with creative ad at Shinjuku Station

• Oona McGee
  Apr 25, 2026

An even more convenient way to get ice cream. 

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• (advertising • campaign • convenience store • free ice cream • ice cream • konbini • limited • marketing • Minisof • Ministop • news • Shinjuku Station • SNJO • soft serve)

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)

Burger King dares people to trick or treat them in Japan this Halloween

• Oona McGee
  Oct 31, 2025

Those who take up the challenge will get a free ice cream in return.

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• (Burger King • Burger King Japan • desserts • fast food • halloween • ice cream • marketing • Shibuya • Shibuya Halloween • soft serve • Tokyo • trick or treat)

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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• Japan
• (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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• Japan
• (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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• Japan
• (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)

Tsunokoi’s unicorn soft serve ice cream cones bring color and magic to Shibuya

• Krista Rogers
  May 10, 2024

Choose from seven colors of unicorn cones and customize your toppings at this limited-time shop in the Shibuya 109 department store.

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• (colorful • dessert • Imada Kitchen • limited • Shibuya • shibuya 109 • soft cream • soft serve • Tokyo • unicorn)

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

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