Kitkat Chocolatory in Tokyo, Japan

One of the places I just had to visit during my recent trip to Japan was the Kitkat Chocolatory. There are a few stores scattered in different parts of the country and I chose to drop by the one in Seibu Department Store Ikebukuro.

Expectation: A store teeming with a zillion Kitkat variants.
Reality: A small stall with Kitkat variants I could count.

Okay I admit it. I was disappointed when I saw this stall. I was expecting a big store with shelves full of unique Kitkat variants that I had never seen before. Instead there were two rows of a dozen kinds at most.

They had antique Kitkats on display.

Butter Kitkat

A box like this containing a dozen Kitkats costs 1200 yen (around P480). Kitkats sold at the Kitkat Chocolatory are supposedly made of higher quality ingredients compared to the supermarket variety so they are more expensive. Read more »

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