Tokyo Banana

Tokyo Banana

Tokyo Banana (東京ばな奈) (also written "東京バナナ" and "東京ばなな" with the same pronunciation) is a Japanese sweet. It is the souvenir sweet of Tokyo and is manufactured and sold by Grapestone Co..

Tokyo Banana Miitsuketa (見ぃつけたっ) went on sale in 1991. The cream uses strained banana puree. After baking, the sponge cake is steamed to bring out a soft texture. Yearly sales are roughly 4 billion yen.

Tokyo Banana Miitsuketa is manufactured at MASDAC Corporation's factory in Tokorozawa, Saitama.

Tokyo Banana Series

A picture of Tokyo Banana Miitsuketa
A banana shaped sweet full of banana custard wrapped in a fluffy sponge. Best consumed within 7 days of purchase.
Caramel banana custard cream wrapped up in a caramel coloured and flavoured sponge. Went on sale on August 10th 2011 celebrating 20 years of sales of Tokyo Banana.
Banana cream inside chocolate. It becomes banana mint flavour "Summer Choco" in the summer season (mid May - mid September).
Folded up banana flavoured biscuit dough and pastry.
Cream and banana custard cream puff.
Rum-raisin banana ganache sandwiched between banana scented cookies.
Banana anko in a moist outer layer.
3 layers of cake mixture layered atop one another and moistly baked baumkuchen

Products sold in the past

Kuro Bei

Ample banana custard wrapped in a bitter-sweet cocoa sponge cake.
Chocolate rolled up in cocoa flavoured pastry folded into 328 layers.
Consisting of 2 layers of chocolate banana mixture and muscovado mixture.
Japanese dessert consisting of two slices of sponge cake with red bean jam in between

See also

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