You'll enjoy plenty of sushi, tempura, and ramen in Japan. But what food can you actually bring home? Our Japanese locals helped make this list of 14 Japanese snacks to bring home from Japan! Oishi me!
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Flavor profile: For a Japanese take on the English chocolate wafer bars, sink your teeth into edamame, cinnamon cookie, and macha flavors.
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Flavor profile: Feed the potato chip frenzy with bizarre flavors like sushi and salmon—the more bizarre, the better!
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7-Elevens in Japan sell way more than snack foods like potato chips. You can pick up a fantastic and cheap lunch here, like a bento box.
Flavor profile: Go lowkey with flavors like chocolate and strawberry, or fancy ones like cheesecake and champagne.
Flavor profile: Chocolate connoisseurs, rejoice! Morinaga DARS come in chocolatey and fruity-flavored bars.
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Flavor profile: Start with Crispy Lemon Mousse Oreos and top off the celebration with Birthday Cake and Tiramisu.
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Flavor profile: These fluffy, kawaii sweet buns most well-known for being shaped like baby chicks.
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Flavor profile: Small, sweet, multi-colored cakes and dumplings that glide across your taste buds.
Flavor profile: Exactly what it sounds like—french fries with that savory seafood taste.
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Flavor profile: The cutest little chocolate-covered biscuits meant to look like bamboo shoots.
Flavor profile: Green tea, also known as
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You can take tea and food tours in most major Japanese cities—a really cool way to explore things to eat!
Flavor profile: A cream-filled cake and the more frou-frou cousin of a Twinkie (also 50 times more delicious).
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Flavor profile: Hard candy flavored like the popular Mitsuya Cider drink.
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Locals say these snacks may not travel well in your suitcase. So definitely pick one up while in Japan!
Dorayaki
Flavor profile: A popular treat made of two pancakes filled with a sweet red bean paste.
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Taiyaki
Flavor profile: Famous Japanese cakes shaped like fish, commonly filled with a red bean paste (that doesn’t taste like fish at all).
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