Do you like Japanese ice cream?
In Japan, almost all people buy prepackaged ones. So you can find it easily anywhere in Japanese stores.
Here is 10 best seller ice cream in Japan. Also, I put some reviews on those of it.
10:Coolish
Coolish is drinkable ice cream that is a mixture of ice cream and crushed ice.
The most popular flavor is vanilla and there are lots of other flavors.
The best time to drink it is in the summer. Because the taste of it is slightly sweet and crushed ice has a good presence to cool down your body.
Price:120yen
Calories:153kcal
Fat :6.7g(milk fat is 0%)
Size:140ml
Where you can buy it: supermarkets and convenience stores
Review:
•Cost performance:★★★☆☆
•Tastes: At first, it tastes like gelato. But it’s not too sweet. I think that combination is nice.
•Other recommend point: You can eat it with one hand.
9:MOW
MOW is a rich milk taste ice cream.
In the case of vanilla flavor, It contains 8% of milk fat but it only costs 140 yen at convenience stores.
To make that price possible, it contains high overrun*. So, the texture is like little bit fluffy.
*overrun is air contains in ice cream
Price:140yen
Calories:230kcal
Fat :10.4g(milk fat is 8.0%)
Size:140ml
Where you can buy it: supermarkets and convenience stores
Review:
•Cost performance:★★★★★
•Tastes: I recommend strawberry flavor because it’s used strawberry juice. And also, it has a good rich milk taste.
•Other recommend points: There are no emulsifiers and stabilizers.
8: Giant Cone
Giant Cone is ice cream in a cone.
Ice cream fills its cone and there is some sauce or chocolate inside the ice cream.
Its top is covered with chocolate and cookies or nuts.
Price:140yen
Calories:280kcal
Fat :17.5g(milk fat is 3.0%)
Size:140ml
Where you can buy it: supermarkets and convenience stores
Review:
•Cost performance:★★★☆☆
•Tastes: Ice cream is a little bit bland. But the combination with other ingredients is good.
•Other recommend point: Bottom of the cone, there is a chocolate pool. So you can enjoy until the last bite.
7:Pino
Pino is 6 pieces of ice cream covered with chocolate.
Ice cream is used condensed milk so the taste of it is really rich milk taste.
Chocolate is softly melted in your tongue. So the combination of ice cream and chocolate is perfect.
Price:140yen
Calories:31kcal✖️6 pieces
Fat :2.0g(milk fat is 8.0%)✖️6 pieces
Size:10ml
Where you can buy it: supermarkets and convenience stores
Review:
•Cost performance:★★☆☆☆
•Tastes: Ice cream contains low overrun*. So it is rich in flavor. But I think 10ml ✖️ 6 pieces are not enough.
*overrun is air contains in ice cream
•Other recommend point: If you wanna eat more, you can buy a box which contains 30 pieces. Normally it’s sold at supermarkets.
6:Azuki bar
Azuki bar is kind of solid shaved ice.
It’s used red beans paste which is famous for wagashi ingredients.
There are no additives and preservatives in it. So it’s really healthy ice cream.
Price:70yen
Calories:112kcal
Fat:0.3g(milk fat is 0%)
Size:65ml
Where you can buy it: mostly in supermarkets only.
Review:
•Cost performance:★★★★☆
•Tastes: There are lots of red beans. And it’s not too sweet. But be careful in eating it because it’s really solid.
•Other recommend point: The taste of it is similar to zenzai(Japanese traditional sweet). So you can experience what Japanese traditional sweet is.
5:Haagen-Dazs
As you know, Haagen-Dazs is a popular ice cream company.
In Japan, You can find Japanese taste Haagen-Dazs ice cream.
There is not only matcha taste but also ice cream with mochi.
If you wanna find something new, you should visit convenience stores.
Price:272yen
Calories:239kcal
Fat :14.8g(milk fat is 13.5%)
Size:110ml
Where you can buy it: supermarkets and convenience stores
Review:
•Cost performance:★★★★☆
•Tastes: Taste is perfect. Matcha is so rich taste and a combination of ice cream is nice. But a little bit expensive.
•Other recommend point: They produce so many new flavors. And most of them are sold only in Japan.
4:Papico
Papico is a frozen smoothie that is in 2 bottles.
So you can share it with your partner.
The most popular flavor is chocolate coffee. The taste of it is close to cafe mocha but it’s not much sugary.
And there are some other flavors like fruit. So many Japanese people eat it in the summer.
Price:140yen
Calories:87kcal✖️2
Fat :2.9g(milk fat is 0%)
Size:80ml✖️2
Where you can buy it: supermarkets and convenience stores
Review:
•Cost performance:★★★★☆
•Tastes: It tastes refreshing. And you can taste the original taste of ingredients. So I recommend the fruit flavor of it. Because it contains more than 40% of fruit juice.
•Other recommend points: I don’t feel ice cubes when I eat it so that I think it’s similar to gelato. So it’s worth buying it because it just costs 140yen for 2 bottles.
3:Parm
Parm is a vanilla ice cream covered with chocolate.
Chocolate is softly melted in your tongue. The taste is similar to Pino but the quantity is 1.5 times larger than it.
The company creates chocolate for Parm. So when you eat it, ice cream and chocolate are melted same time.
I think the combination of them is perfect compare to other brands.
Price:140yen
Calories:237kcal
Fat :15.6g(milk fat is 8.0%)
Size:90ml
Where you can buy it: supermarkets and convenience stores
Review:
•Cost performance:★★★★★
•Tastes: Ice cream is a rich milk flavor. The quality of it is so nice. I think ice cubes are so tiny, so that texture is so smooth.
•Other recommend points: The company says it is high quality and using good ingredients but at a low price. I absolutely agree with that.
2:Super Cup
Super Cup is ice cream in a cup that is famous for its large quantity, high quality, and low price.
Popular flavors are vanilla, matcha, and chocolate cookies.
In the case of matcha, it’s not used matcha essence, it’s used real matcha.
So the taste of it is rich. And it contains 200ml but it costs just 140 yen.
That’s why many Japanese people say it’s high-cost-performance ice cream.
Price:140yen
Calories:301kcal
Fat :15.7g(milk fat is 0%)
Size:200ml
Where you can buy it: supermarkets and convenience stores.
But matcha flavor is mostly sold at supermarkets.
Review:
•Cost performance:★★★★★
•Tastes: I think this series of ice cream are contained low overrun*. So every flavor is rich in taste but not much sugary. I recommend seasonal flavors that are sold every 3 or 4 months.
*overrun is air contains in ice cream
•Other recommend points: They also have another series which is Super cup sweet’s. It is 4 layers of ice cream which is consists of 2 different flavors of ice cream and 2 different types of sauce or cookies. I recommend the strawberry shortcake flavor.
1:Choco Monaka Jumbo
Choco Monaka Jumbo consists of thin sheet chocolate sandwiched by ice cream, monaka wafers.
It is completely NO.1 ice cream in Japan. Because since it was produced in 1972, it is always popular among Japanese people.
The combination of ice cream and chocolate is perfect and also monaka wafers are always crispy.
The reason for crispy is they don’t have stocks.
They adjust the volume of their production every 5 days.
Price:140yen
Calories:302kcal
Fat :16.7g(milk fat is 3.0%)
Size:150ml
Where you can buy it: supermarkets and convenience stores.
Review:
•Cost performance:★★★★★
•Tastes: Ice cream is a rich milk taste. I think it has a high overrun* so that it’s not too heavy. Chocolate is also not much sweet. That’s why combinations of them are really good.
*overrun is air contains in ice cream
•Other recommend points: You can share with your friends. The monaka shells are18 snap-off pieces.
Where is the best place to buy them?
When you come to Japan, you can find lots of convenience stores.
It’s easy to get them
But I recommend supermarkets instead of convenience stores.
Supermarkets always offer discounts. So you can get them at a reasonable price( sometimes 50% off!).
And the last, if you want to know more about Japanese ice cream, this is a recommended blog.
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