A gelato shop that offers "impossiblely strong matcha gelato" opened on January 4th in the Asakusa main store of "Suzukien". A collaboration with Nanaya, which sells sweets made with Shizuoka matcha.

"The darkest matcha gelato in the world"? (Source: Suzukien Asakusa Official Facebook)
"The darkest matcha gelato in the world"? (Source: Suzukien Asakusa Official Facebook)

For the matcha gelato offered at the store, you can choose the strength of the matcha from 7 levels from "No. 1" to "No. 7". Among them, the No. 7 matcha gelato, which is said to be "impossiblely strong," uses matcha from Shizuoka prefecture, which has won the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Award for the third consecutive year. You can enjoy the taste of "it seems to be".

Prices start from 340 yen for a single cup (tax included, same below) for No. 1 to No. 6 and 360 yen for a cone. Only No. 7 single cup from 530 yen, same cone from 550 yen.

In addition to matcha flavor, roasted green tea, genmaicha, milk, strawberry, rich chocolate, Dainagon, and sesame gelato are also available.

There are 14 flavors! But I still want to try matcha
There are 14 flavors! But I still want to try matcha

The store is located in Suzukien Asakusa Main Store, 3-4-3 Asakusa, Taito-ku, Tokyo. Sales hours are from 10:00 to 17:00 (however, it may vary depending on the congestion situation). At the time of writing the article (January 5th), there was no eat-in, only To go. When I contacted the store, the latest waiting time was about an hour and a half, and the line was relatively short in the morning.