MAISON CACAO, the chocolate brand that originated in Kamakura (founder: Shingo Ishihara), will release a Christmas-limited collection called "SNOW GARDEN" on Saturday, November 14, 2026.
The collection takes its theme from snowflakes blooming like flowers: clear winter air, quietly falling snow, and a silvery-white world sparkling in the light. A small snow globe holds a wintry scene, and the collection pairs that view with chocolate.
SNOW GARDEN COLLECTION
The collection carries the phrase "What would winter be without chocolate?" Winter is a season when chocolate tastes especially good, and MAISON CACAO values blends that bring out the individual character of each cacao-growing region and the natural flavor of the ingredients. The brand has put the delicate melt and slowly spreading aroma and taste of its chocolate into this winter-only lineup.
The collection has five products in total: three Aroma Nama Chocolates, a Nama Gateau Chocolat, and a Nama Chocolate Cookie. Each package shows a small snowy world, and every one tells a different winter story, so choosing among them is part of the fun.
Aroma Nama Chocolate HOLY (¥3,240, tax included)
This bitter chocolate evokes a winter night and comes from the limited collection that captures snowflakes blooming like flowers inside a snow globe. The cacao's natural fruitiness and soft sweetness are followed by a bright bitterness, and the aftertaste carries notes of rose and raspberry. The flavor is available only this winter.
Aroma Nama Chocolate NOEL (¥3,456, tax included)
This chocolate features the flavor of amaou strawberries. The base is a mellow milk chocolate with a cacao-derived caramel note and the aroma of toasted nuts, combined with large amaou strawberries grown at 友納農園 in Fukuoka. The chocolate offers rich sweetness, pleasant tartness, and a juicy fruit character.
Aroma Nama Chocolate SNOW (¥3,672, tax included)
This chocolate links the delicate beauty of a sparkling silver-white world to the scent of white strawberries. The base is a smooth white chocolate made from natural cacao butter from fragrant Colombian cacao, combined with rare white strawberries grown by 友納農園 in Itoshima, Fukuoka. Each piece offers deep, gentle sweetness and the delicate aroma that is unique to white strawberries.
Nama Gateau Chocolat CHRISTMAS (¥3,888, tax included)
Made with carefully selected fresh ingredients, this cake has a moist "half-raw" texture comparable to a restaurant dessert. Gateau chocolat is normally a baked confection, but this version overturns that idea. It appears as a limited collection item to mark Christmas.
Nama Chocolate Cookie Amaou (¥3,024, tax included)
These cookies are baked, yet they melt in the mouth like nama chocolate. MAISON CACAO's Nama Chocolate Cookie has a surprising texture for a baked confection. The winter-limited flavor stars amaou strawberries, and the assortment pairs them with white chocolate and milk chocolate.
Sales Information
The SNOW GARDEN COLLECTION will be sold from November 14 to December 25 at all MAISON CACAO stores and the online shop. The nama chocolates will end as soon as they sell out.
MAISON CACAO Store Information
- MAISON CACAO Kamakura Main Store (1-9-33 Yukinoshita, Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture, along Wakamiya Oji Street)
- MAISON CACAO Kamakura Komachi Main Store (2-9-7 Komachi, Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture)
- MAISON CACAO Marunouchi Store (3-3-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Shin-Tokyo Building 1F)
- MAISON CACAO NEWoMAN Yokohama Store (1-1-1 Minamisaiwai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, NEWoMAN Yokohama 1F)
- MAISON CACAO Gransta Tokyo Store (1-9-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Gransta Tokyo 1F)
- MAISON CACAO Haneda Airport Store (3-3-2 Haneda Airport, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Haneda Airport Terminal 1, 2F Marketplace, inside "HANEDA STAR & LUXE")
- MAISON CACAO JR Nagoya Takashimaya Store (1-1-4 Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, B1F)
- MAISON CACAO Daimaru Sapporo Store (Kita 5-jo Nishi 4-chome 7, Chuo-ku, Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Daimaru Sapporo B1F)
- MAISON CACAO Online Shop: https://onlineshop.maisoncacao.com/collections/christmas-collection
