My Neighbor Totoro Café in the heart of Tokyo

Hidden in the backstreets of the popular fancy Shimokitazawa Area, a small cute café called Shiro-Hige´s Cream Puff Factory attracts their customers with self-made cream puffs and cookies shaped in the silhouettes of the characters appearing in the movie “My Neighbor Totoro”.

The entrance welcomes you with selected Totoro merchandise and the whole ambience feautures the charm of a cozy, friendly and warm home.

On the first floor you can visit the little shop selling cookies and cream puffs for take-out.

The filling of the cream puffs come in different flavors, two standard ones (custard & fresh cream, chocolate cream) and some which are limited to the current season (caramel banana cream: January – April; strawberry cream: January – June; green tea cream: May – August; peach cream: July – September; chestnut & chestnut cream: October – December; raspberry & cream cheese: September – December).

We went up to the second floor and where happy that a lunch and dinner menu is available as well, beside their speciality, the cream puffs.
We ordered the steak lunch together with custard & fresh cream cream puffs. (The cream puff must be ordered together with a drink.)

It was really good, and we couldn´t stop taking pictures of the cute Totoro-shaped goodies.

Information

Shiro-Hige’s Cream Puff Factory
Hours: 10:30am – 7pm (Closed on Tuesday)
Tel: 03-5787-6732
Access: 3min walk from Setagaya-Daita Station (Odakyu Odawara Line)
Address: 5-3-1 Daita, Setagaya-ku, 155-0033 Tokyo
URL: http://www.shiro-hige.com/ (Japanese only)

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