Reasons I Love Japan - Sweets!! Candy!

There are SO many Japanese treats I love, I need to divide this topic into parts or this post would be ridiculously long. I'll start with candy!

When I first got to Japan I decided I would try all the  candies, no matter how weird! I quickly gave that idea up, because it was expensive and I was eating way too much sugar, and a lot of the candies were weird! So I changed my goal to finding the best candies, trying what was most popular or what looked good to me. These are some of my favorites of what I've found so far!

Haichu! Hi-chew is one of my favorites. They have some flavors here that they don't in the states, cherry, white grape, and cola and Fanta flavors! 

Just some of what I've bought. :)

POCKY! Definitely my favorite! It comes in so many flavors, I've found more than these seven but I wanted to try the fancier ones first!
From left to right: caramel almond, strawberry, caramel, another strawberry kind, chocolate, chocolate almond, and cookies n cream! Caramel almond and the second strawberry kind were gross, but the rest were way good! Apparently there are lots of flavors because I am always finding or hearing about new ones.

I ate all my Pocky and went shopping again :)

So many candies!!!

This candy is awesome. It's kind of a game. There are three gumballs, one is super sour or wasabi flavored, and you try not to pick the sour or spicy one! It's fun to play with other people. I've been lucky so far...

Here is one of those candies, in the colors of a stoplight. I didn't notice the "wasabi" written on the side until after my poor friend Katie got the spicy one! 

This snack is called "happy turn" and it makes you happy!

The package caught my attention first!

This candy has 4 sticks of gum, each divided in four pieces. You take different pieces and combine them to make lots of different flavors! It's fun! That's why the face on the front is so crazy, it's amazed at all the flavors, or something. The flavors are soda, orange, grape, and apple, and they all go together well. I like how some Japanese candies are also a game! 



So those are some of my favorites of the Japanese candies I've tried! :) But there are also some crazy things out there too...

Squid candy, in lots of flavors.

Actual squid.