Since reading the manga Nanatsuya Shinobuno Hosekibako, I’ve wanted to try a Mame-Daifuku; it appears as the main character’s favourite Japanese sweet snack.
As timing would have it, just as I had 1.5 days left in Tokyo, I watched a TV show featuring a celebrity’s best 4 spots in Tokyo for sweets with Anko (red bean paste). Akasaka Aono’s Mame-Daifuku came up as her best Anko sweets in Tokyo.
So off I went to Akasaka Aono the very next day to buy a Mame-Daifuku.
It was so soft it was gone in seconds; always trust sweets that expires the next day to taste delicious!
I also couldn’t resist buying their signature sweets, Akasaka Mochi. This one lasts 12 days but It was super soft and delicious, I went back for more. The packaging is also so cute.
Akasaka-Mochi is apparently gifted as a thank-you or sorry gift among celebrities as it’s both classy and tasty – but it’s very affordable at under 250yen (<A$2.50) each. The displays had a set of 5 (also wrapped in a cute furoshiki style packaging) but I was able to ask for an individual one too.
I found this out later, but Steve Jobs apparently loved this shop, and had a box sent to California every two weeks for six months through a proxy man.
Their website’s title tag also includes the phrase “Japanese sweets loved by Jobs” 😂
Akasaka Aono has been around for 125 years, first starting out as a confectionery store. The shop is easy to enter (ie. casual), but it can make a small queue and items can become sold out in the afternoon.
I got to their Akasaka-Mitsuke store (not their main store, but conveniently right outside a station) at about 12pm and was second in line, but after I purchased a handful of yum there were about 6 people waiting behind me.
Japanese sweets are nice enough from a convenience store, but ones from a specialty store are just at a different level. Akasaka Aono is a 🥈(=make a small detour) on #myrevisitlist.
See also
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