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A little taste of heaven
Enjoy the ultimate in confectionery
Chuo City offers a wide range of confectionery stores, offering the highest quality in both Japanese and Western style confections. Here's a thorough introduction to the cream of the crop to help you and your sweet tooth get started. These special confections and their stunning presentation, all created using carefully selected ingredients and the skills of true craftspeople, are made to bring you a moment of pure heaven that you simply can't experience anywhere else.

Chuo City offers a wide range of confectionery stores, offering the highest quality in both Japanese and Western style confections. Here's a thorough introduction to the cream of the crop to help you and your sweet tooth get started. These special confections and their stunning presentation, all created using carefully selected ingredients and the skills of true craftspeople, are made to bring you a moment of pure heaven that you simply can't experience anywhere else.

* Published content contains information as of February 2017. Business days, business hours, rates, etc. may be changed due to the circumstances of the place of publication. Please check with each publisher for the latest information.
[Updated on February 28, 2017]

Toshi Yoroizuka TOKYO
A confectioner overseen by Toshihiko Yoroizuka, one of the top patissiers in Japan. Sit at a counter seat and enjoy your selection right there in the shop, based in the Yoroizuka concept of "enjoying sweets with all five of your senses." One particularly popular menu item is the "La Gorgonzola Superieur", which uses gorgonzola in both the batter and the ice cream. The fragrant, rich flavor of the gorgonzola is perfectly accompanied by delicious pistachio cream.
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La Gorgonzola Superieur
*One example of course meals.(¥2,000～,tax included)

Tsuruya Yoshinobu Tokyo
A purveyor of Japanese confections where you can sit at the counter and enjoy fresh sweets. There's nothing quite like watching skilled craftspeople at work as they prepare delicious treats, allowing you to first enjoy the delicate details with your eyes before the tasting begins. The seasonal fresh sweets using Kyoto style batter and maturation techniques simply melt in your mouth with an elegant sweetness, while the freshness makes them delightfully moist.
Address

1st floor, COREDO Muromachi 3, 1-5-5 Nihonbashi Muromachi, Chuo City, Tokyo

Access

Directly connected to Mitsukoshimae Station Exit A6 on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line or Hanzomon Line

Business Hours

Shop 10:00～21:00
Tea House / Cake House 10:30～20:00(L.O.19:30)

Regular Holiday

January 1

Telephone

03-3243-0551

03-3243-0551

URL

http://www.turuya.co.jp/en/index.html

Tea and seasonal fresh sweet¥1,296(tax included)
*The fresh sweet changes depending on the season.

HIGASHIYA GINZA
A café based in the concept of a "modern Japanese tea salon". The "tea and light meal" menu item, only available around tea time, allows you to enjoy sushi wrapped in fried tofu and HIGASHIYA confectionery all served in a bamboo basket, bathing you in the sophistication of Japanese afternoon tea. Select from any two of around thirty types of tea always in stock and enjoy an elegant tea moment.
Address

2nd floor, Pola Ginza Building, 1-7-7, Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

Access

A short walk from Ginza-itchome Station Exit 7 on the Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line

Business Hours

Shop 11:00～19:00
Tea House 11:00～22:00(L.O.21:00) / 11:00～19:00(L.O.18:00) on Sundays and Holidays

Regular Holiday

Mondays (when Monday falls on a holiday, it will be closed on Tuesday)

Telephone

03-3538-3240

03-3538-3240

URL

http://www.higashiya.com/

Tea and Light Meal¥3,780(tax included)
*Available between 14:00 and 17:00
(18:00 on Sundays and holidays).
*The content of the set may change depending on the season.

Kyobashi-Sembikiya Kyobashi Main Store
A parlor attached to Kyobashi-Sembikiya, retailers of luxury fruit. The patissier selects the fruit just when it is at the best for eating, allowing you to enjoy its maximum sweetness and full flavor. The "fruit parfait" is an especially gorgeous treat, featuring ten different types of fruit with popular staples such as orange and cantaloupe combining sumptuously with seasonal fruit.
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Fruit Parfait¥2,160(tax included)
*Made using seasonal fruit.

Kanmidokoro Hatsune
Kanmidokoro is a long standing confectioner of more than 100 years. Their flagship anmitsu agar jelly dessert is carefully prepared using only rigorously selected, all-Japanese ingredients. They continue to take the time and effort to preserve their original flavor over so many years, including special black sugar syrup with all unpleasant flavors carefully removed, and handmade agar using red algae from the Izu Islands. Their "green tea & bean paste white rice dumplings" (1,100 yen), packed with plump and springy shiratama white dumplings, are also very popular.
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Anmitsu¥700(tax included)
*Please select brown or white sugar syrup.

BUNMEIDO CAFE
A café attached to the long-standing confectioner Bunmeido. The "fresh "Mikasa" pancakes" are made using methods unchanged since the Taisho period (1912-1926), arranging the skins from dorayaki bean jam pancakes into regular pancakes. Cooked on a special copper plate designed especially for pancakes, these delicious delights are both fragrant and fluffy. They also go perfectly with bean jam and green tea ice cream.
Address

1-13-7 Nihonbashi Muromachi, Chuo City, Tokyo

Access

A two-minute walk from Mitsukoshimae Station Exit A4 on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line or Hanzomon Line

Business Hours

11:00～23:00 / 11:00～21:00 on Sundays and Holidays

Regular Holiday

Year-end and New Year holidays

Telephone

03-3245-0002

03-3245-0002

URL

http://www.bunmeido.co.jp/nihonbashi-honten/index.html

Fresh "Mikasa" Pancakes
Served with special bean jam, whipped cream and green tea ice cream
¥980(tax included)
*Available from 14:00.