Introducing Cream Box, Koriyama's local bread!

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This local delicacy originated in Koriyama City, where bread is baked with a thick layer of white milk-flavored cream. Cream boxes are sold at bakeries all over the city, and each shop has different flavors, shapes, and unique cream boxes. Why not enjoy comparing the different cream boxes and find the one that suits your taste?

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Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture

It takes at least 76 minutes by Shinkansen from Tokyo Station. There are hotels around Koriyama Station that can accommodate a total of 8,000 people, and there are plenty of experiences that take advantage of the urban area. You can also enjoy Japanese-style nighttime content such as bars and snacks. You can also feel the grandeur of nature by moving north, south, east, and west. In Koriyama City, which was developed by drawing water from Lake Inawashiro, which is also a national park, has natural scenery such as Japan's oldest cherry blossoms, and is also recognized as a story of Japanese heritage, you can enjoy food culture and activities such as sake and fermentation. You can experience it. We look forward to your visit as the starting point of your trip to Tohoku.

Here are five stores that sell Cream Boxes.

① Otomo Bread

Otomo bread store

963-8014 24-9 Toramarumachi , Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture

This is a long-established bakery that has celebrated its 100th anniversary and is known to everyone in Koriyama. Otomo Bakery's long-selling milk bread is a popular and delicious bread that uses only the highest quality ingredients without changing the wheat mix or manufacturing method. This milk bread is also used in the cream box (150 yen), and it goes perfectly with the mildly sweet milk cream placed on top of the bread. We also have Rakuo cafe au lait flavors and limited time cream boxes (strawberry, cherry blossom mochi, Setouchi lemon, Mont Blanc, sweet potato, pumpkin, etc.).

②Gato Nakaya

Gato Nakaya

963-8851 3-12-12 Kaisei, Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefectur

This is a nostalgic bakery that provides school lunch bread to schools in Koriyama City and has been loved by the citizens for a long time. Cream Box is a thick-sliced bread slathered with homemade milk-flavored cream, making it a snack that everyone will love. For a limited time, we have a caramel box and an uncream box.

③Tyrol

Tyrol

963-8862 1-24-11 Saikon, Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefectur

We are particular about making our bread ``freshly baked'' and bake it multiple times a day, so there are many freshly made breads lined up at the store. Be sure to try the freshly baked cream box as well. The crispy, fragrant toasted bread and the gentle sweetness of the creamy milk cream are the perfect match.

④Futabaya Bakery

Futabaya Bakery

963-8877 25-21 Doumae-machi , Koriyama City , Fukushima Prefecture

Located near the station, this long-established bakery offers a wide variety of breads and cakes. The coffee bread, invented by the previous owner, who loved coffee, has been loved by locals for a long time. The Cream Box (151 yen) at Futabaya Bakery is a popular item following the coffee bread, with a perfect match of soft milk cream and buttery Danish pastry.

⑤Saint ETOILE Koriyama store

Sant ETOILE Koriyama store

195 Hushida, Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture 963-8003 Food Hall Pi...

This is a nationwide bakery located in a food supermarket inside a station, but they only manufacture and sell cream boxes at the Koriyama store. This popular product consists of a 12-13 cm square piece of fluffy bread topped with mildly sweet cream with a distinct milk flavor. Available in three flavors (condensed milk, caramel, and peanut), it is popular with a wide range of customers.

If you have a chance to visit Koriyama, please give it a try!

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Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture

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