Maison Givrée is in Chuo-Rinkan, about an hour out from central Tokyo. If you know, you know: Chuo-Rinkan is the terminus you keep seeing on the boards while waiting for a Hanzomon Line train. It’s not often you go out of your way to the end of a subway line, but this time I made up my mind to do it.

This is the place.

Cakes

They only use delicious seasonal fruit, so the cakes themselves are nothing to worry about; the problem is having to carry them all the way back to Tokyo. There were so many kinds that choosing wasn’t easy. It would be nice to come with a few people and eat inside.

The cakes were really pretty.

The shop’s signature baked sweet, the tigré

Lots of varieties.

Gift boxes

Gelato

Once again choosing wasn’t easy, but they had a sweet potato shochu ice cream, so I ordered that and strawberry.

Inside

Inside

They even have Tomica candles. The kind of thing kids would love.

Today’s gelato

The sweet potato shochu gelato was truly a work of art. There’s a faint whiff of shochu, and with real sweet potato in it there’s a gentle sweetness too. The strawberry was as juicy as I expected. I don’t know when I’ll get to taste gelato this good again.

Strawberry cake

The cake tasted just as I expected.

Tigré

I bought one of each kind, and they’re all fine, but the basic tigré is still the most satisfying.

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