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

The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.