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Food
2024.01.12
Eighteen LAWSON strawberry products supervised by Ichibiko, a strawberry sweets specialty store, have been on sale at LAWSON stores nationwide (excluding LAWSON STORE100) since January 9, 2024.
In addition to the sweets, cooked breads, and bakery items from last year’s collaboration, this year’s fourth round of the collaboration will include new ice cream, Chinese steamed buns, chilled beverages, and snacks.
Strawberry milk is now available from Lawson! You can enjoy the gentle milk and sweet and sour taste of strawberries.
The combination of white milk ice cream and pink strawberry ice cream is a cute two-color ice cream. The “strawberry ice cream” offers the sweetness and aroma of strawberries, while the “milk ice cream” has just the right amount of sweetness.
The strawberry sauce with warm pulp comes out from inside the pure white product, creating a new sensation of enjoying “warm strawberries”. The milk cream filling adds a mildness.
Bakery & Strawberry Sandwich with a combination of red and white strawberries. The sweet and sour taste is perfect for breakfast or a light meal.
This year, too, there is a tempting array of sweets.
ICHIBIKO is a strawberry sweets specialty store “of strawberry, by strawberry lovers, for strawberry lovers. We select the best strawberries for our sweets and baked goods, and make them into the best sweets. We deliver a sweet, happy, and delicious strawberry experience that will bring smiles to the faces of children and adults alike.
A new classic product “Coffee Jam” is now available from “High-quality “raw” bread specialty store Nogami”!
Chasou Moritaen Namba Branch] Summer-only ‘Chafuftanoon Tea’ by reservation only.
Eitaro Enmoto! A new tourist attraction where you can enjoy raw confectionery sales, production demonstrations, and Japanese confectionery cafes
[Hotel Gajoen Tokyo] Shave ice, which is popular every year, will start from July this summer
The summer-only ‘Akafuku mizuyokan’ will soon be out of sale.
Josuian’s ‘grape daifuku’, available again this year for a limited time only.
Nara
Countrywide
Kagawa
Kyoto
Countrywide
Nippon Kodo launches limited-edition incense and incense burner sets with a ‘Snake’ design, the Chinese zodiac sign for 2025.
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[ Kimuraya (department store)]Snowman’ is available only during the Christmas period. Japanese Stollen, made with traditional sake-type dough and Japanese ingredients, is on sale again this year.
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Nagasaki’s famous New Year 2025 New Year’s limited edition Kujuukushima zodiac crackers are on sale.
Nagasaki
Godiva supervises Yatsuhashi and launches Yatsuhashi Chocolat on Fri 22 Nov.
Kyoto
[Hinodeya Confectionery and Fujioka En]Limited sale of hojicha dango made with Toyama stick tea.
Toyama
Limited edition original gin ‘NISHI-GIN’, jointly produced by a group of restaurants in Nishijin, on sale from 25 November.
2024.12.20
Nippon Kodo launches limited-edition incense and incense burner sets with a ‘Snake’ design, the Chinese zodiac sign for 2025.
2024.12.18
Winter special parfait at the Unjo Saryo café in the Tale of Genji Museum, Uji, Kyoto.
2024.12.16
OnigiriBurger ‘Eel Kabayaki – Double Eggs’, newly launched as part of Kansai International Airport OnigiriBurger 1st anniversary menu.
2024.12.13
[New Furano Prince Hotel]This year’s plan to enjoy a snow fairy ‘zebra finch’ birdwatching experience and a lunch set with a zebra finch cake plate.
2024.12.11
Third FUKUCHA brand shop ‘Uji Store’ opens.
2024.12.09
Hiroshima
Art
Simose Art Museum, located in Otake City, Hiroshima Prefecture, has been awarded the prestigious Versailles Prize as the “Most Beautiful Museum in the World.”
The award ceremony took place on December 2 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, marking a historic moment for the museum and Japanese architecture.
The Versailles Prize Website:https://www.prix-versailles.com/2024
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Food
December sees the arrival of a number of Christmas breads. The Snowman with his cute smiling face is a sweet loaf with two different flavours: pudding cream and chocolate cream. It is a heartwarming treat with flavours that both children and adults can enjoy.
Also back this year is the popular Japanese Stollen, which was a big hit last year. This is a special cake that can only be tasted at Kimuraya, using Japanese-inspired ingredients such as persimmons, figs and koshi-an (sweet bean paste). Please take this opportunity to try Kimuraya’s limited edition Christmas bread.
Hiroshima
Art
The Hiroshima Museum of Art is hosting the exhibition “ZIPANGU: Contemporary Artists Who Defined the Heisei Era” (November 2, 2024 – December 22, 2024). This showcase brings together works by some of the most prominent figures in Japan’s contemporary art scene, including Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami, Makoto Aida, Yoshitomo Nara, Chiharu Shiota, Izumi Kato, Akira Yamaguchi, and Miwa Komatsu. The exhibition has already garnered significant attention, exceeding 10,000 visitors.
HYAKKEI covered the dialogue between contemporary artist Takashi Murakami and Sueo Mizuma, the curator of this exhibition, held at the RIHGA Royal Hotel Hiroshima. We also conducted an exclusive interview with Mr. Mizuma.
The discussions centered on the aspirations behind the ZIPANGU exhibition and offered forward-looking insights, not only into Japan’s art world but also into the rediscovery of value within Japanese culture by its people.
Osaka
Food
Event
From 25 Oct (Fri) to 8 Dec (Sun), 2024, a pop-up shop for miffy café tokyo will be held in Umeda, Osaka.
Hiroshima
Travel
Culture
Two types of paper seals made exclusively for autumn, ‘Chrysanthemum and Tanzaku’ and ‘Autumn Leaves and Candles’, have been available since Monday 9 September at Daisho-in Temple on the World Heritage island of Miyajima. Quantities are limited and will run out as soon as they are gone.
Kyoto
Restaurant
Event
On selected days in September 2024, the wedding venue Kyoto Art Grace Wedding Hills will offer a ‘Hanari Otsukimi Afternoon Tea’, where guests can enjoy sweets and savouries inspired by the moon viewing on the fifteenth night of the month.
