Japan has a strange obsession with creating a variety of KitKat flavors. Someone mentioned the KitKat Chocolatory in Tokyo was a great place to find new and seasonal flavors. This seemed like the perfect adventure on a rainy Saturday. Here was my train route.
The trip was pretty easy. I only had to switch trains once in Yokohama. This area of Tokyo is called Ikebukuro. It is located more on the north side of the city. Adjacent to the Ikebukuro station is a HUGE mall with 8 floors, a rooftop and 2 basement floors. Somewhere in those 11 levels is the KitKat Chocolatory. It took me about an hour to find it. I went all the way up to level 8 and came all the way back down.
Directory of the mall. Not helpful unless you read kanji.
Then I realized there was basement floors.
These floors are adjacent to the train station. I’m not exaggerating when I say, I found the KitKat Chocolatory right where I came out of the train station turn stall. Yep. I basically walked right past it. Oh, well. I enjoyed the mall walking! Fortunately, there were escalators. And I could replenish calories I burned with KitKats.
A funny side note. I was exploring solo and I as approached the chocolatory, one of the sales clerks turned around and went behind the counter. No big deal, right. We have not spoken to each other. No greeting at all. Until she returns from behind the counter with an English KitKat menu and offers it to me. “Oh! Thank you! Arigatōgozaimas!” Hilarious. I wanted to ask her how she knew I spoke English. Haha.
I purchased a large assortment!
Strawberry Maple, Butter, Champagne Raspberry are the “new” flavors. The Fruit Variety: strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, lemon & passion fruit.
Also, the sublime combo which is the high end of the three classic chocolates.
I will conduct taste test over the next week and let you know which one changed my life, if any.
If you want, we can go when you visit. There isn’t a lot to the chocolatory. But, it could be worth it just for the picture!!
