Top Japanese food souvenirs to buy in Japan
What are you going to buy in Japan as souvenir for yourself or friends? Granted, you will find a lot of little trinkets at a gift shop in one of the many Tokyo hotels, but you want to bring back something sentimental. Japan has too many great choices of souvenirs for tourists such as foods, decorative, miniature figurine or architecture, toys, comics, fashionable clothes and others. To me, buying some biscuits, snacks or sweets home is always one of the best choice in Japan, since I love eating. Not only are they good in taste, they are also great looking as a souvenir in very nice gift packing. No any other country or city can match the wide varieties of biscuits Japan has to offer. Moreover, biscuits at any price from 100¥ to 1,000¥ are as good to eat as to give as souvenirs.
I tried many Japanese food souvenirs while on my travel to Japan and bought home as many. They are all fantastic, both in packaging and taste. Here are some of them being photographed just to share with those who are going to Japan or fans of Japanese products.
I bought this beautifully packed biscuits in Kyoto. 1,000¥.
Japan is famous for its Japanese biscuits, or better referred as rice cracker. This is one type of Japanese rice crackers, also bought in Kyoto.
Best suited for souvenir to friends and colleagues, this mini rice crackers pack is bought in Osaka Namba. 200¥.
Bought in convenient shop, these short breads are nearly as good as those from Scotland, with a variety of flavours, made with Hokkaido dairy products.
This conventional type of rice crackers can widely be seen elsewhere outside of Japan. I bought it from souvenir shop in Shinsaibashi, Osaka Namba.
This is my favourite, the giant smoked scallop! Each one of them is as big as a golf ball in diameter and costs only 200¥ each! Tremendous snack only available in Hokkaido.
Dried squid, another popular souvenir from Hokkaido.
I would strongly recommend this fruit flavour dipped biscuit sticks found in Hokkaido. The flavors we have seen so far are either, chocolate, strawberry, vanila, or milk, but this one in the unique cream of Yubari Melon, the top grade cantaloupe found only in Hokkaido, is simply brilliant! I tried the real melon in Hakodate and these sticks have the similar great taste!
Don’t forget some of these excellent sweets produced in Japan, also available in melon flavour!
I bought Belgian chocolate from Brussels, Swiss chocolate from Bern, Napolean coffee from Rome, Danish cookies from Copenhagen, and I bought rice crackers from Japan!? Catch more stories of Japanese food souvenirs from my travel to Japan 🙂 – Travel Feeder, your ultimate travel photo guide to Japan
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Cecil Lee
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I list it by an automatic translation
Thank you for coming to Japan.
I am thankful for the introduction of a good place of Japan.
By the way, there is the souvenir food such as the joke in the Japanese sightseeing spot, too.
Because it looked like you did not buy it, I felt relieved.
For example, it is the joke food which “a Jingisukan caramel” of Hokkaido distributes to a co-worker in a company.
※ The genuine “Jingisukan” is very delicious with a sheep and the dish of vegetables with specialite de la maison of Hokkaido.
However, the caramel which the roasted meat taste of the sheep makes is not delicious at all.
Because there is such a thing in each place, please be careful.
In addition, I wait for being visited Japan.
- June 7, 2012(◎_◎;)SENBEIは、お米から作られていて、醤油味。塩味をはじめ、
- June 7, 2012様々な味のものが存在します。
ASAKUSAなどの町で、焼きたての状態で食べると、美味しいようです。
Hi can you please tell me the name of biscuits in first picture? Specially the purple wrapper one, which has black peas in it? How to pronunce in English? I tasted it once but was no one to ask the name…. thank u
- August 14, 2013@ Dz,
- August 14, 2013I’m not sure the exact name of the one you mentioned with black peas in it, but they are some kinds of senbei or biscuits found in Kyosendou (京煎堂) shop in Kyoto. 🙂
Hi Cecil,
What is the name of the smoked scallop? I want to buy it online
- December 11, 2017