I saved the "special" sweets for the last post in this series. These are mostly souvenirs, which you can easily identify by their elaborate packaging. Bringing souvenir sweets from a trip is what the Japanese do instead of sending postcards. So there are plenty of shops selling these sweets around sights, train stations, and airports.
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| These are sweets are apparently only sold in Kyoto. Slightly sweet dough triangles, available with various fillings (this was sakura - cherry blossoms). Nice, but not sweet enough to be my favorite ;-) |
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| A souvenir from the Tokyo sky tree. The taste is pretty much what you'd expect, but the packaging is a little over the top... |
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| Cute packaging, huh? The bear heads were very good, but compared to the size of the box, there were not enough of them in there ;-) |
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| Another souvenir from Tokyo Disneyland. Basically standard chocolate in a cute shape - wasting an incredible amount of packaging material... |
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| This is... NOT a birthday cake. It may look like one, but it is, in fact, a Christmas cake. Never heard of Christmas cakes? Well, me neither. But apparently they are hugely popular in Japan. |
