Autumn is the season when a variety of agricultural products are in season, including sweet potatoes, chestnuts, pumpkins, apples, and grapes. There will be many delicious sweets that will help you feel the harvest season, as well as autumn leaves, Halloween, and other autumnal treats that you can enjoy visually as well.

Introducing autumn sweets in Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe. Why don’t you taste the taste of autumn?

1.（OSAKA）Sébastien Bouillet　Halloween Chocolates

2.（OSAKA）THE ST. REGIS OSAKA　Autumn Taste Afternoon Tea

3.（OSAKA）Shinsaibashi St. Grace Villa　Autumn foods and cute teddy bears

4.（KOBE）TOOTH TOOTH FISH IN THE FOREST　 Autumn Evening Parfait

5.（KYOTO）GionTsujiri・Saryo Tsujiri Gion Main Store　Limited Autumn Parfait and Softcream

6.（KYOTO）kyocafe chacha　Halloween Kyo Waffle

7.（KYOTO）YOJIYA CAFÉ　Chestnut and caramel face parfait

8.（KYOTO）KINAKO TO TORORI　Autumn Warabimochi

9.（KYOTO）CHAVATY kyoto arashiyama　Autumn leaves and afternoon tea in Arashiyama

Sébastien Bouillet, a pastry chef and chocolatier with stores in Lyon, France and Japan, will sell a limited number of adorable three-dimensional chocolates featuring black cats, spiders, pumpkins, and more. Sure to get you in the Halloween spirit!

The assortment of autumnal tarts are special seasonal flavors such as pumpkin and marron. The original autumn-inspired design of the packaging is also noteworthy.

The St. Regis Bar on the 12th floor of the St. Regis Hotel Osaka is offering an afternoon tea that blends Japanese and Western flavors in collaboration with the long-established Japanese confectionery shop “Taneya” in Shiga Prefecture. The menu features autumnal delicacies such as chestnut kinton and Mont Blanc Daifuku.

We invite you to experience the new tradition and innovation of afternoon tea while gazing out the window at the “Garden of the Sky”.

At the wedding hall “Shinsaibashi St. Grace Villa,” delicate and photo-worthy sweets made by the wedding hall’s exclusive patissier are very popular among girls. This fall, “Classic Lady’s Autumn Afternoon Tea” themed on teddy bears and apples is available on specific days until December.

The “Bear’s Hide and Seek” is a caramel custard cream puff sandwiched between chocolate bear mousse and puff pastry that resembles an apple. Please enjoy an exciting moment with autumn ingredients and a cute teddy bear.

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TOOTH TOOTH FISH IN THE FOREST in Kobe Meriken Park offers autumn evening parfaits that can be ordered from 5:00 pm. Two types of parfaits are available: a juicy Pione and Cheyenne Muscat parfait, and an apple, caramel, and black tea parfait. These parfaits are just like cakes.

Enjoy a limited edition evening parfait that will end the day with a smile at this bakery-cafe in the port city of Kobe’s Landmark Place.

Gion Tsujiri, established in 1860, is now selling Uji tea sweets limited to the autumn season.

Saryo Tsujiri Gion Honten’s autumn-only parfait is painstakingly prepared using an abundance of autumnal ingredients. The centerpiece of the parfait is Momiji Yokan, a sweet bean jelly.

Gion Tsujiri has created an autumn-only takeout menu, “Autumn Color Softcream,” featuring the flavors of Uji green tea and red sweet potatoes.

Please enjoy this limited-edition sweet menu offered by a long-established Uji tea specialty store. (The limited menu is available until late November)

Kyo Waffle, a popular one-hand sweet treat, gets a Halloween makeover. Luxurious sweet potatoes and chestnuts, the tastes of autumn, are used and topped with eyebrows, whiskers, and noses. Please enjoy these expressive waffles.

How about Mont Blanc, a limited flavor for October? This rich and moist flavor is made with chestnuts, the taste of autumn. You can enjoy the taste of Mont Blanc Cake in this new sweet.

Yo-jiya Cafe, well-known for its face parfait, now offers an autumn-only sweet that is a collaboration of Japanese chestnuts and caramel. The new taste of chestnut cream and caramel ice cream will be available until around the end of November.

This year’s highlight is the “Highest Mont Blanc”. Mont Blanc is handmade to order, so you can enjoy its fluffy and crispy texture. As the name suggests, this is the pinnacle of autumn chestnut sweets.

Kinako to Torori”, a store of freshly prepared warabimochi, now offers warabimochi that smells like autumn. The  warabimochi covered with store’s specialty kinako (soybean flour) is topped with a generous amount of chestnut red bean paste and sprinkled with sweetened astringent chestnuts, making it a delicacy that resembles Mont Blanc.

The “Mont Blanc Latte,” a drink of warabimochi rice cake, is also available as an autumn-only drink. This dessert drink is made with homemade chestnut red bean paste and offers a rich chestnut flavor and the melt-in-your-mouth feel of warabimochi.

Please enjoy the changing of the seasons with seasonal ingredients.

CHAVATY, a brand that introduces the charm of tea to the world, offers Autumn Afternoon Tea exclusively at CHAVATY Arashiyama (reservations required). (Reservations required.) The tea is filled with autumnal delicacies such as chestnuts, pumpkins, and purple sweet potatoes. The set includes chestnuts, pumpkins, purple sweet potatoes, and other autumn delicacies to add color to the autumn foliage in Arashiyama. (Available until November 30).

From seats reserved by reservation only, you can enjoy a panoramic view of the Wataratsuki Bridge and the autumn leaves of Arashiyama. Enjoy afternoon tea in an elegant atmosphere.

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In the fall, you want to enjoy not only the leaves changing colors, but also the delicious food! Please enjoy seeing, eating, and savoring the tastes of autumn in Japan.