Harajuku: Street Food Paradise and Tokyo Furnished Apartments

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Takeshita Dori
Harajuku is known as the fashion capital of Tokyo. Did you also know that you can find various delicious street foods in Harajuku? If you are looking for a delicious reason why you should consider Japan in your future travels or if you want to stay for good, place Harajuku on your list. This place never gets out of fun, colorful and bizarre yet very sumptuous street foods you will ever taste.

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Here are some of the famous street food shops you can find at Harajuku:

Le Shiner
This colorful store is originally from Korea. With their expansion, they introduced the shop to Japan in 2018 and the rest was history. Le Shiner became the first store to introduce rainbow-colored food in Tokyo. Not only are their food very instagrammable but the taste is a big hit. They sell rainbow cheese sandwiches, colorful soft serve ice cream, unicorn foods and even a rainbow-filled cheese dog. One of their best sellers is their rainbow cheese sandwich which is making rounds on social media nowadays. The cheese sandwich has a gooey cheese inside when pulled apart revealing that very satisfying rainbow colored filling.

Momi & Toys
This shop is famous for their delicious crêpes and cotton candy. You can also find assorted Japanese snacks here that you can enjoy while strolling along Takeshita street. The store also serves rice meals such as taco rice and spicy coconut curry bowls and bubble tea drinks to match it with. People love the crêpes at Momi & Toys as they are topped with different toppings and fillings that will match everyone’s cravings. You can enjoy their food at their spacious dine-in area.

Calbee
Speaking of snacks, Calbee is one of the largest snacks companies in Japan. The shop serves fresh fried potato chips with a lot of flavors that you can choose from. Their most popular snack is the Jagariko – a fried potato with a distinct flavor and ingredients such as dried vegetables in the dough. You can get limited edition snacks that are only available at the Calbee shop.

Eiswelt Gelato
For everyone who loves gelato, head directly to this shop. Eiswelt Gelato is known for its animal-shaped ice cream. Aside from its adorable ice cream shape, this shop serves only the best homemade ice cream. You can order a frog shaped ice cream, a piggy, teddy and bunny ice creams and select amongst the shop’s different flavors. Sometimes, the shop serves limited edition flavors, so you might want to keep your eye on that. For lactose intolerants, the shop also has options for dairy-free ice cream. At certain holidays, the shop introduces seasonal characters – they have snowmen, skeleton and even santa claus shaped ice cream.

Croquant Chou Zakuzaku
This is one of the shops at Takeshita street where you can expect a long line outside. They serve their signatured croquant chou – a pastry coated with almonds and filled with fresh cream from special blended flour from Hokkaido. Croquant is French which means crisp pastry while chuo is a pastry used for cream puffs, in short, croquant chou means crispy cream puff. The croquant is so popular you cannot see their shop without a long line of people waiting to be served. Don’t get stressed out by the long line as it moves fairly and you will surely be enjoying your croquant in no time.

Reissue
Shout out to all coffee lovers out there! This shop serves coffee like you have never experienced before. Enjoy a good cup of coffee and add some extra yen and you can have incredible coffee art from an experienced latte artist. You can choose any photo you would like to put into your coffee. They also have a 3D latte art made from milk foam. These are the drinks that they offer together with the 3D latte art: cafe mocha, cappuccino, vanilla latte, caramel latte, honey latte and hot chocolate. This unique coffee shop is on the second floor of a building a few blocks from Takeshita street. The shop’s faced is quite easy to miss so make sure you look out for the tiny letters that says Reissue in English or リシュー in Japanese.

Kanazawa Ice
Kanazawa University has invented an ice cream that will surely top all the ideas you have in enjoying your ice cream. This shop sells ice cream that does not melt even with temperatures up to 40℃. This famous no-melt ice cream is perfect during the summer season as it does not melt easily. The ice cream can withstand hot temperatures for 3 hours. The secret ingredient that’s been keeping this ice cream to last long in the heat is an ingredient called Strawberry Polyphenol. What are you waiting for? Grab a scoop now.

Long! Longer! Longest!
Japanese are really very creative in finding the quirkiest of things. Imagine eating your favorite food but with a lengthy twist. Long! Longer! Longest! Serves soft cream, tornado potato, churros and cotton candy at 30cm, 34cm and 40cm in length. And that’s not the end of it, they also serve the “longest” size which ranges from 52cm for the tornado potato, 55cm for the churros and 60cm for the cotton candy. What a shop to start your feeding frenzy of street food at Harajuku.

Let’s wrap it up!

The best way to experience a country’s culture is to try their local foods. Where else would you rather start in exploring Japan’s finest than Harajuku. Not only will you be entertained by other shops that sell different fashion items but you will get a chance to taste all the foods mentioned above.

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