Maison Cacao, the artisan raw chocolate brand originating from Kamakura, will open its largest flagship store to date on November 21, 2025 (Friday) on Wakamiya Oji street in central Kamakura.
The new flagship store, which renovates an entire three-story Western-style mansion, is themed around designing a chocolate experience, delivering different worlds and surprises on each floor.
The first floor is an experience floor featuring "freshly made, freshly baked sweets" prepared live by chocolatiers.
This is Maison Cacao's first live sweets space where you can taste the current deliciousness with all five senses—aroma, sound, heat, and everything in between.
Bells ring at different times throughout the day as chocolatiers bring out freshly made creations from the kitchen.
Maison Cacao Kamakura Flagship Store Information
- Floor Name: MAISON CACAO Flagship Store 1F
- Operating Hours: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
- Service Style: Dine-in and takeout available
- Address: 1-9-33 Yukinoshita, Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture (along Wakamiya Oji street)
- Opening Date: November 21, 2025 (Friday)
Over 10 new fresh sweets will debut at the Kamakura flagship store 1F. Here are some featured items:
Daily Rotating! [Raw Chocolate Tart] ¥432 (tax included)
Maison Cacao is engaged in cacao cultivation from their own farm in Colombia. These raw chocolate tarts allow you to enjoy the surprisingly different, profound world of chocolate created by the terroir of each region and cacao blending. The chocolate variety changes daily, offering new flavors to discover each day.
[Raw Chocolate Pie Fondant] ¥486 (tax included)
A freshly baked fondant pie with crispy, flaky croissant dough filled generously with melting bitter raw chocolate cream. Freshly made items are provided at different times throughout the day.
[Fresh Cream Puffs] (2 varieties: ¥691 tax included)
Maison Cacao's first fresh cream puffs. Light choux pastry filled with silky-smooth vanilla custard and raw chocolate custard.
[Fresh French Crullers] (2 varieties: ¥378 tax included)
Crispy on the outside, moist on the inside, with a light texture. Available in maple sugar and cinnamon varieties.
Freshly Baked! [Traveling Cake] (One loaf: ¥2,808 tax included)
This cake captures the aroma and juiciness of premium fruits from across Japan that the traveling Maison has encountered. The fluffy, chewy, and moist batter is layered luxuriously with fruits such as cherries and pineapple. Despite being a baked confection, it has the freshness of biting into real fruit. The deliciousness of the traveling Maison is delivered in a new form.
On the first floor of the Kamakura flagship store, which features a large atelier kitchen, you can taste sweets baked right before your eyes by the artisans. The craftsmanship visible through the glass, the rising aroma of cacao, and freshly made sweets delivered at the sound of a bell.
You can enjoy the atmosphere as if you're inside a chocolate workshop.
About the Brand
Maison Cacao was born in Kamakura, Japan's cultural city, in 2015. It all started when founder Shingo Ishihara encountered cacao landscapes in Colombia. With the belief that deliciousness connects to richness of heart, and wanting to create a happy chocolate culture with Japanese sensibility and creativity, the brand is involved in every process from cacao cultivation in Colombia to fermentation and roasting, connecting producers and customers through their commitment to high-quality chocolate making. They also focus on educational activities in Colombia, seeking future prosperity through cacao agriculture.
