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Starbucks adds pumpkin to its autumn Frappuccino for Halloween
- Oona McGee
Oct 15, 2020 - Tweet
Slowly inching closer to Japan’s first pumpkin spice Frappuccino.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccino • halloween • Japanese Frappuccino • potatoes • pumpkin • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweet potatoes • sweets)
New sweet potato/college potato Frappuccino joins the roster at Starbucks Japan
- Casey Baseel
Sep 19, 2020
Classy new drink has its roots in Tokyo university student life.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccino • potatoes • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweet potatoes • sweets)
We try the new Chocolate Marron Frappuccino and Latte from Starbucks Japan 【Taste Test】
- Oona McGee
Sep 2, 2020
Like drinking a Japanese autumn.
- Japan
- (autumn • chestnut • chestnuts • chocolate drinks • COK • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • review • seasonal drinks • SNJO • Starbucks Japan • sweet drinks • taste test)
Starbucks Japan kicks off autumn with tempting chocolate and chestnut flavored drinks
- Kay
Sep 1, 2020
Autumn is around the corner in Japan when chestnut flavored products start making an appearance.
- Japan
- (autumn • chestnut • chestnuts • chocolate drinks • Frappuccinos • seasonal drinks • Starbucks Japan • sweet drinks)
Save money AND enjoy a delicious jiggly jelly treat with this Starbucks topping ‘hack’
- Katie Pask
Aug 8, 2020
Now you can have your drink and eat it, too.
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (coffee • drink • experiment • Japanese desserts • latte • mochi • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • warabi mochi)
Hiroshi Fujiwara from Fragment Design creates a new Starbucks in Tokyo
- Oona McGee
Jul 29, 2020
“Godfather of streetwear” reimagines Starbucks as a gas stand that sells exclusive Fragment drinkware and T-shirts.
- Japan
- (cool • drinkware • fashion • Fragment • Hiroshi Fujiwara • Miyashita Park • Shibuya • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • streetwear • Tokyo)
Starbucks revamps cafe in the heart of Tokyo’s Roppongi to create tea-centered haven
- Ingrid Tsai
Jul 4, 2020
A special opportunity for tea enthusiasts to beat the summer heat and try out Starbucks’s newest flavors.
- Japan
- (cafes • Roppongi Hills • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • tea • Teavana • Tokyo)
Starbucks Japan opens first sign-language store in Tokyo
- Oona McGee
Jun 29, 2020
Staff at new “Signing Store” use hand signs to communicate with customers.
- Japan
- (disabilities • hearing impaired • news • sign language • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Tokyo)
Starbucks Japan releases new summer drinkware range with Pegasus as the star
- Oona McGee
Jun 28, 2020
Mythical winged horse appears on travel mugs, tumblers, and inside a special snow dome lid for a limited time.
- Japan
- (COK • drinkware • limited edition • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan)
People in Japan queue for one last drink at Starbucks before 850 stores close
- Oona McGee
Apr 12, 2020
Coffeehouse chain shuts its doors to keep customers away but ends up attracting crowds instead.
Starbucks Japan reveals second sakura cherry blossom drinkware range for 2020
- Oona McGee
Feb 20, 2020
New collection inspired by pink petals in the misty spring rain.
- Japan
- (cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms 2020 • COK • drinks • drinkware • mugs • sakura • sakura 2020 • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • travel mugs)
Starbucks Japan reveals new sakura cherry blossom drinkware range for 2020
- Oona McGee
Feb 7, 2020
Limited-edition collection captures the beauty of petals on the spring breeze.
- Taiwan
- (cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms 2020 • COK • drinks • drinkware • mugs • sakura • sakura 2020 • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • travel mugs)
Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo unveils exclusive sakura cherry blossom drinkware range for 2020
- Oona McGee
Feb 7, 2020
Travel mugs, cups and glasses adorned with pink blooms sit alongside cherry blossom mocktails for a limited time.
- Taiwan
- (cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms 2020 • COK • drinks • drinkware • mugs • sakura • sakura 2020 • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • travel mugs)
Starbucks Japan lucky bag is the most hard-to-get fukubukuro of the New Year
- Oona McGee
Jan 3, 2020
A lucky bag so popular it can only be purchased by lottery winners.
- Japan
- (fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • Lucky Bags • new year 2020 • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan)
We try Starbucks Japan’s new jiggly Frappuccino, hope it brings us luck!【Photos】
- Kay
Dec 31, 2019
We try the new Starbucks drink designed to bring in good fortune for the New Year and find out what a “lucky” drink tastes like.
- Japan
- (azuki • Frappuccino • kinako • Starbucks Japan • sweet drinks • warabimochi)
“World’s most beautiful Starbucks” gets a makeover in Japan, but is it still beautiful?
- Oona McGee
Dec 24, 2019
We visit the award-winning Starbucks to see if it’s still worthy of its title after a facelift.
- Japan
- (cafes • coffeehouse • coffeehouses • food • food and drink • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Toyama • travel)
Starbucks Japan creates first-ever lucky jiggly Frappuccino
- Oona McGee
Dec 21, 2019
It’s all about fortune and fun for the first New Year of the Reiwa era.
- Japan
- (adzuki • azuki • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • Japanese sweets • kinako • limited edition • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets • warabi mochi)
We try the new Starbucks Santa Boots Chocolate Frappuccino in Japan【Taste test】
- Oona McGee
Dec 5, 2019
Santa’s boots come filled with lots of little surprises.
- Japan
- (Christmas • Christmas 2019 • COK • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • limited edition • review • Santa • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets • taste test)
Starbucks Japan unveils new Santa Boots Chocolate Frappuccino for Christmas 2019
- Oona McGee
Nov 28, 2019
Something here got lost in translation.
- Japan
- (Christmas • Christmas 2019 • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • limited edition • Santa • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan)
We try the Nutty White Chocolate Christmas Frappuccino from Starbucks Japan
- Oona McGee
Nov 23, 2019
Can a drink that’s meant to look like an illuminated Christmas tree actually taste good?
- Japan
- (Christmas • Christmas 2019 • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • limited edition • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan)
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