Commercially, Christmas is celebrated big time in Japan. There may a few families that go about it the American style within their homes, but not many Japanese put up a tree and lights. It’s all about that KFC chicken (Why??) and Christmas cake!
This Colonel was hanging out at my local KFC. Kinda creepy, right?
Here’s the competition:
Mos Burger trying to use a cute girl in a Santa outfit, haha!
Also spotted these Christmas cakes at 7-11:
So cute!!
I headed to a local sweets shop, Fujiya, for my Christmas cake.
Peko-Chan greeted me at the door.
While we were shopping for cake, a small child in a Santa onsie and hat entered with its parents. I’m not one for kids, but I couldn’t help being tickled. I told his mom, “かわいい！！”, meaning kawaii or cute, and he waved at me. ;_; My heart melted.
Ahem, back to Christmas cake.
Fujiya had an amazing selection.
The cake I ate is called ミニブッシュドノエル. Apparently that means Mini Bush of Noel. The name seems so funny and inappropriate in English. 😉
https://www.instagram.com/p/_tYzupMMrh
So that’s about it! KFC and cake! Oh, and it’s a big date day for Japanese couples. In fact, as mentioned on my podcast Cat & Fox, there is one restaurant in Tokyo that banned couples on Christmas Eve.
I’ll leave you with an interesting read on how Christmas cake became such a hot thing in Japan.
The Sakura Project 
Posted on December 28, 2015
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