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Eevee returns to Japan’s famous Tokyo Banana, bundled with a cute tote bag

• Elliot Hale
  Feb 28, 2026
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The beloved Tokyo souvenir re-introduces chocolate sponge Eevee cakes, along with a collectible keepsake for fans.

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• (anime • chocolate • COK • cookies • cute • Eevee • food • Pokemon • souvenir • sweets • Tokyo • Tokyo Banana • tote bag • video games)

Get your cakes in about a minute with Tokyo Station’s unmanned Tokyo Banana shop

• Master Blaster
  Oct 15, 2025

No fuss, no muss, no people.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • shinkansen • shopping • snacks • SNJO • souvenirs • stations • Tokyo • Tokyo Banana • Tokyo Station • train platforms • trains • unmanned shop • unmanned store)

Contest underway for Pikachu Tokyo Banana 4-piece cushion set

• Master Blaster
  Sep 10, 2025

You can only enter and hope this Pikachu chooses you.

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• Japan
• (cakes • contest • cushions • food • nanab berry • Pikachu • pillows • Pokemon • snacks • Tokyo Banana)

How to get to east Japan’s best highway rest stop for foodies without a car of your own

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 5, 2024

Your stomach will thank you for the legwork.

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• Japan
• (buses • Ebina • Ebina Service Area • food • highway rest stops • ice cream • Mr. Sato • service areas • SNJO • sweets • Tokyo Banana • travel)

Tokyo Banana Curry adds capital’s souvenir sweet’s sweetness to roux, but not in Tokyo

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 11, 2024

This new mix of sweets and spices has us ready for a road trip.

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• (COK • crazy • curry • curry rice • Ebina • Ebina Service Area • food • instant curry • retort curry • sweets • Tokyo Banana • weird)

Legendary Melon Bread by Tokyo Banana returns after 20-year absence【Taste Test】

• Master Blaster
  Mar 18, 2024

It has awakened.

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• Japan
• (Ebina Service Area • food • Legendary Melon Bread • melon bread • Melon Pan • Tokyo Banana • Tokyo Station)

Sweet Tokyo food souvenir Tokyo Banana teams up with Kyoto matcha maker for brand new cake

• Dale Roll
  Jul 31, 2023

Tokyo’s most famous souvenir combines with its most famous flavor for an airport-only treat!

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• (cake • Haneda Airport • Itohkyuemon • matcha • Narita Airport • souvenirs • sweets • Tokyo Banana • Uji Matcha)

Tokyo Banana’s Legendary Curry Bread tests the limits of what makes a good karepan 【Taste test】

• Oona McGee
  Dec 11, 2022

New store at Tokyo Station goes bananas for curry bread…and doughnuts.

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• Japan
• (awesome • bananas • bread • COK • cool • crazy • curry • curry bread • doughnuts • food • Japanese food • karepan • Mr. Sato • SNJO • souvenirs • sweets • Tokyo Banana • Tokyo Bananas • Tokyo Station)

Pokémon Tokyo Banana’s latest offering is adorable Pikachu and Eevee chocolate cookie sandwiches

• Krista Rogers
  Sep 21, 2022

The cookies also feature a variety of designs so that you can have fun trying to eat ’em all.

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• (chocolate • COK • cookies • cute • Eevee • food • Pikachu • Pokemon • souvenir • sweets • Tokyo • Tokyo Banana)

McDonald’s teams up with local confectioners for new lineup of very Japanese desserts

• Oona McGee
  Apr 25, 2022

Schoolgirls step in to represent Tokyo, Kyoto, and a surprise outsider for this surprising collection. 

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• Japan
• (COK • commercials • desserts • food • Gion Tsujiri • ice cream • Japanese commercials • kikyo shingen mochi • limited edition • marketing • matcha • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • McShake • new • pies • shingen mochi • sweets • Tokyo Banana • video)

Potato chips that don’t get your fingers all powdery developed by Calbee and Tokyo Banana

• Master Blaster
  Nov 11, 2021

A revolution in chip design.

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• Japan
• (Calbee • food • Hiroo Onogi • Jaga Boulde • potato chips • snacks • Tokyo • Tokyo Banana)

Move over, Pikachu and Eevee — Piplup is here to take over Pokémon Tokyo Banana!

• Oona McGee
  Sep 22, 2021

We’re very much looking forward to eating you, Piplup!

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • anime • COK • convenience stores • cute • food • Japanese convenience stores • Piplup • Pokemon • souvenirs • sweets • Tokyo Banana • video games)

Eat Eevee! Pokémon Tokyo Banana team-up enters round two with suggestions to freeze, singe Eevee

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 23, 2020

Once again, the number-two Pokémon is right on Pikachu’s heels.

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• (anime • COK • cute • Eevee • food • Pokemon • sweets • Tokyo Banana • video games)

Permanent Pikachu Tokyo Banana gift cake shop opening in Tokyo!

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 3, 2020

Tokyo’s most popular souvenir gets even better, and easier to find too.

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• (anime • COK • food • Pikachu • Pikachu Tokyo Banana • Pokemon • sweets • Tokyo Banana • Tokyo Station • video games)

Pokémon Tokyo Banana haul: Will we find the rare Pikachu tail?

• Oona McGee
  Nov 24, 2020

We buy stacks of the new limited-edition sweet souvenir to see if we can snare all six cute Pikachu designs. 

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• (7-Eleven • limited edition • omiyage • Pikachu • Pokemon • souvenirs • sweets • Tokyo Banana)

Tokyo Banana teams up with Pokémon for limited-edition Pikachu sweets collection

• Oona McGee
  Nov 9, 2020

Tokyo’s best-selling sweet souvenir charges up with six cute Pikachu designs. 

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • limited edition • omiyage • Pikachu • Pokemon • souvenirs • sweets • Tokyo Banana)

Tokyo Banana and KitKat team up to offer limited-edition Caramel Banana KitKats

• Katy Kelly
  Jul 25, 2020

The smash hit taste sensation is back! In KitKat form! Again!

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• Japan
• (Kit Kat • Kit-Kat flavors • limited edition • omiyage • souvenirs • Tokyo Banana • Tokyo Okashi Land)

To celebrate their birthday, Uniqlo are giving customers presents with their purchases

• Katie Pask
  Jun 13, 2020

Getting presents on someone else’s birthday? It’s like a reverse birthday!

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• Food & Drink, Japan
• (local specialties • local sweets • snacks • souveinrs • souvenir • Tokyo • Tokyo Banana • Uniqlo)

First ever sales of popular Tokyo Banana cakes outside of Tokyo planned then cancelled due to Coronavirus

• Kay
  Apr 11, 2020

Popular Japanese snack Tokyo Banana was set to venture into unchartered territory by opening shop in Osaka, but unfortunately, it was not to be.

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• Japan
• (COK • coronavirus • food • Osaka • souvenirs • sweets • Tokyo • Tokyo Banana)

Japanese KitKats now come in Gold Caramel Tokyo Banana flavour

• Oona McGee
  Nov 19, 2019

New golden makeover supports hard workers like Olympics athletes.

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• Japan
• (bananas • chocolates • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kat • Kit Kats • KitKat • KitKats • Nestle • Nestle Japan • souvenirs • Tokyo Banana)

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