As the first overseas branch of Maribel, which has its main store in New York, this popular store attracts fans from all over Japan. The store offers a wide variety of sweets using its cacao, including ganache chocolates, gelato, and cookies. When you open the blue box, you will be greeted by a richly flavored art ganache with a message on each piece.

For the 2024 Valentine's Day season, the chocolatier produced by Kyoto Kitayama Marre Blanche, which produces the long-selling Kyoto souvenir "Cha no Kwa" (green tea langdosha), is introducing the smooth-tasting mini terrine Kyo-ippon Petit (milk green tea). The rich flavor of the tea spreads in the mouth as if one were drinking o-no-cha, allowing one to enjoy the depth of Uji-Shirakawa's matcha green tea.

A rare store in Kyoto specializing in raw chocolate. Raw chocolate is made using only organic raw cacao and natural sweeteners, without any dairy products, preservatives, or emulsifiers, and is made at temperatures below 48 degrees Celsius. Their standard bonbon chocolates have a rich aroma of cacao and a smooth melt-in-your-mouth texture, as well as a refreshing aftertaste that disappears as if it had never existed.

Gion Tsujiri, an Uji tea specialty store established in 1860, has come out with rich matcha chocolates that are perfect for Valentine's Day gifts. The chocolat mou (1,490 yen), which is popular every year, is a Japanese chocolat containing 3 pieces each of matcha and hojicha. The luxurious chocolates are decorated with gold leaf and look like precious stones.