Top 4 best Japanese sweets souvenirs

The Japanese government is putting many efforts on inviting tourists from foreign countries. It is a boom to invite foreigners to Japan due to the Olympic games held in Tokyo on 2020.
Hotels are making a lot of efforts to host more and more guests. And the Japanese government is thinking of lifting bans on the services to renting private homes and rooms such as Airbnb.

And souvenir making companies are also doing their best to make better products that sell for foreign people.
If you visit Narita airport, you will see that there are many souvenirs being sold and foreign people are keep buying them.

In this article, I would like to introduce some top 4 best Japanese sweets souvenirs!

Azabu Karinto is, as the name shows, it is a kind of Karinto sweets.
According to Wikipedia, Karinto is...

Usually, Karinto is a hard and stiff sweets.
However, this Azabu Karinto is a soft Karinto unlike ordinary ones.

Brown sugar flavor is my recommendation!

Shiroi Koibito is pretty famous souvenir of Hokkaido.
The taste is very simple cookie and chocolate. However, I am sure that you will be addicted to this taste and finish entire box of this in a day longest.

There are white chocolate flavor and black chocolate flavor.
You can buy them at Haneda and Narita airport.

Fukusaya is such a famous castella maker in Japan.
Fukusaya was founded in 1624 at Nagasaki prefecture. Since then Fukusaya has been the leading frontier of castella market.
Authentic Fukusaya's castella is like this.

However, Fukusaya released new type of castella named cube castella.
Cube castella looks like a cube, as the name shows. And suitable for eating one by one.
If you unbox authentic castella, you have to eat it as fast as you can so as not to let them go dry.
Cube castella solved this problem. And moreover, it looks cute.
After release, cube castella instantly became famous.

I super recommend this as a gift to gourmet friends of yours!

Tokyo Banana is such an authentic and famous souvenir of Japan. However, I still think this is the best souvenir of Japan.
Simply taste good and its taste has potential to be popular with various people.
Sweet sponge and banana flavored cream make best match.

I gave Tokyo Banana to many people to foreigners from various countries, and everybody seriously liked it. One of them bought a lot of these by himself when he visited Japan.
And one more good thing is you can buy it anywhere such as Haneda and Narita Airport, shopping malls and souvenir shops.

There are various flavors for Tokyo banana. Every flavors taste good, but my recommendation is still the original flavor.