The line between dessert and drink seems to get blurrier as time goes on. With bubble tea inspired by traditional Japanese sweets, and frappes getting more and more elaborate, who can say how far this trend will go?

One cafe that specialises in this dessert-drink crossover is Kyoto Rikyu, combining the traditional Japanese sweet warabi mochi with various flavours to create warabi mochi lattes. They currently have two branches in Aichi prefecture.

Now for the first time ever, Kyoto Rikyu are bringing these drinkable mochi treats to Tokyo, for a very limited time only pop-up shop. It will only be around from 18th to 23rd June, giving sweet beverage hunters just five days to taste it for themselves.

Their drinks menu has a lot to offer, with warabi mochi lattes in various flavours such as matcha, strawberry, brown sugar, royal milk tea, and roasted green tea.

The Tokyo pop-up store will be operating on a limited menu, so they will be serving up the classic warabi mochi with kinako.

But if you’re a warabi mochi maniac, it might be worth taking a trip to their main stores, as the full menu consists of all kinds of inventive takes on the sweet. The flavours include purple sweet potato, roasted green tea, dulche, matcha, strawberry, green tea, and melon, among others.

The Kyoto Rikyu pop-up store will be at Kokubunji Marui from 18th to 23rd June 2022 with a limited menu. To try out their full menu check out their website for shop locations!