5月 23, 2019
The 7 Best Must-Buy Souvenirs in Tokyo Station, Japan
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Have you ever wondered what to buy as a souvenir when visiting Tokyo for leisure, sightseeing or business? Tokyo Station has many shops and is a treasure trove of Tokyo souvenirs. In this article, we will introduce a souvenir ranking that we must buy when we visit Tokyo Station! We selected recommended souvenirs such as products limited at Tokyo Station! Please refer to this article for choosing a souvenir.
1. A popular souvenir “Crispy Chocolate of Tokyo Station and Marunouchi Station” with a cute Tokyo station firm
This item is popular as a souvenir of Tokyo Station. Produced by Western confectionery Morozov, this “Crispy Chocolate” is a crispy crunch shaped like an atmospheric inside of Marunouchi side of Tokyo Station building, with a white chocolate coating. This item looks cute, and of course, it is a delicious souvenir limited at Tokyo Station.
In addition, a package with colorful character fonts looks lovely and is suitable for souvenir! There is no doubt that the crisp texture of crispy chocolate will be addictive! Please purchase when you visit Tokyo Station!
Name: Crispy Chocolate of Tokyo Station and Marunouchi Station
Address: Congectionery store at South gate of Tokyo Station
Access: Near Marunouchi South gate
2. A delicious souvenir “Tokyo Kaminari-Sha” that its taste will melt your cheeks
The most popular souvenirs of the “Tokyo Kaminari-Sha”, a shop marked by the red color, white color, and lightening mark which is outstanding on the Keiyo Street leading to the Keiyo Line Home, is “Tokyo Kaminari-Ya”. It is a sweet roll topped with nuts and sesame sprinkled with a fluffy cream wrapped in langue de chat with fragrantly baked rice flour. This sweet’s image is a horn of lightning god.
The look’s cuteness and smooth and tasteful sweetness are sure to make everyone glad as souvenirs! Although it might be a bit far away to reach as the shop is located on the Keiyo Line in Tokyo Station, please consider purchasing it!
Name: Tokyo Kaminari-Sha
Address: Tokyo Keiyo Street
Access: Inside of Yaesu South gate
3. Plenty of luxury chocolates! Classic souvenir of Tokyo Station “Tokyo Gianduia Chocolate Pie”
Here comes the product of a collaboration of sweet chocolate and crispy pie dough! It is a signature product for all of the chocolate lover! It is a chocolate pie limited at Tokyo Station that using a lot of popular “Gianduia chocolate cream” from long-established brand “Caffarel” in Turin, Italy.
You can enjoy its thick and rich taste, a roasted hazelnut flavor, and crispy texture of this chocolate pie. Of course, chocolate pie alone is enough to satisfy you, but this product is also popular for its sophisticated packages with a sense of luxury. It is perfect for souvenirs given to women.
Name: Tokyo Gianduia Chocolate Pie
Address: GRANSTA TOKYO
Access: Near Yaesu underground central gate
4. The cute looking is also the reason for its popularity. “Torotoro yaki Cup Cheese” from Fromage Terra inside of the Tokyo Station ticket gate
This shop in the center of Keiyo Street is a cheese confectionery shop which specializes in the taste of cheese and makes sweets by selecting the best cheese for sweets from various cheeses from around the world including domestic cheese.
There are a variety of products that use selected cheese, but among them, “Torotoro yaki Cup Cheese” baked with a cup of the tart is the most popular souvenir product. The freshly baked cup tart is crispy, and the cream cheese in it has a gentle taste like rare cheesecake. Please try it once. You will surely want it as a souvenir!
Name: Torotoro yaki Cup Cheese
Address: Tokyo Keiyo Street
Access: Inside of Yaesu South gate
5. A classic souvenir from Tokyo Station! Bern’s “Brick sweet”
“Bricks” which reproduces the same size as the red bricks used in the construction of Tokyo Station and Marunouchi Station building from the well-established confectionery store “Bern” famous for crispy “Millefeille” coated with chocolate is perfect for a souvenir from Tokyo Station. The color and shape look just bricks.
Brick-type almond-flavored butter cake has a brick color even if it is cut! It is certain to be a Tokyo souvenir with a big impact! This item is limited at Tokyo Station and Daimaru Tokyo. Please come back to your home with this Tokyo Station’s unique product “Brick sweet” as a souvenir!
Name: Brick sweet
Address: GRANSTA TOKYO
Access: Near Yaesu underground central gate
6. This is Must Buy! Very popular as a souvenir! “Salt caramel roll” of ARINCO TOKYO STATION
A premium roll cake that can only be purchased at Tokyo Station from the specialty store for roll cake take-out “ARINCO” is “Salt caramel roll” from “ARINCO TOKYO STATION”. The roll cake is firmly coated with caramel using natural salt produced in Italy.
The salty and rich fresh cream of the salt caramel sauce is perfectly matched, and the roll cake dough is sticky! The dough also contains crushed caramel and you can enjoy both crispy texture and sticky feeling of the dough. The moment you eat it, the sweetness and deliciousness will make you smile for sure!
Name: Salt caramel roll
Address: Inside of TOKYO Me+ on 1st floor of Tokyo Station Ichibangai
Access: Yaesu North gate
7. Sweet “Mamegui” wrapped in the original small “Tenugui”
This shop is Japanese small goods shop mainly selling small handkerchief-sized napkin called “Tenugui” and foreigners like this as souvenirs. There are about 200 kinds of patterns for Tenugui, and there are patterns of the image of seasonal flowers and animals as well as trains, Shinkansen and Marunouchi station buildings.
There are also about 30 kinds of sweets such as candy, cracker, bolo, and tea. And you can get them wrapped in a Tenugui you chose right there. Not only as a souvenir for yourself, but it will be a trendy little souvenir from Edo! Don’t you look for your favorite pattern?
Name: Mamegui
Address: GRANSTA TOKYO
Access: Near Yaesu underground central gate
Let’s purchase Tokyo Souvenirs at Tokyo Station!
What did you think? This time, we introduced the 10 recommended souvenirs that should be purchased at Tokyo Station, which will be used for sure when traveling or sightseeing in Tokyo. It is fun to see souvenir shops at Tokyo Station as there are many limited items and original products unique to Tokyo! You might not have enough time to buy souvenirs when traveling, so please purchase souvenirs at Tokyo Station!