Adult Flavors

Original Chocolate (Introduced 2010)

White Chocolate (introduced 2011)

So KitKat has a line called オトナの甘さ which translates basically to sweetness for adults. Basically the KitKats aren't quite as sweet as their regular counterparts and the chocolate has bits of biscuits in it, so it's a little more crunchy. The most recent one, the matcha flavored one, is one of my favorites. I might even buy this one a second time! The others are good too, and you can buy the regular chocolate one anytime. 

Matcha (introduced 2012)

More Omiyage KitKats (cont.)

One of my friends went traveling and then mailed me some KitKats. She's super sweet!

Kawagoe is a city in Saitama prefecture. It's nicknamed "Little Edo" because it's still got a touch of the old era. It's also famous for sweet potatoes. I haven't been yet, but I've heard you can get sweet potato coffee and beer! Why haven't I been there yet? I'm not a huge fan of sweet potato flavoring though I love sweet potatoes, so these weren't my favorite KitKats.

She also when to the north for some red leaf viewing. She found these KitKats from that area. There's Yamagata's Cherry and Tochigi Strawberry. I love fresh cherries but not really cherry things. And as you may be able to guess, the strawberry ones tasted like any other strawberry one. Not bad though!

Tochigi Strawberry

Yamagata Cherry

More Omiyage KitKats

My friend and I went to Kyoto for a week and we happened across this special KitKat. A popular souvenir from Kyoto is a sweet called Yatsuhashi. There's two types - soft and hard. The hard kind is like a hard cinnamon cookie. This KitKat tastes like that, so basically it tastes quite cinnamony. Yum!

I'm not sure where the person who bought this went but this Blueberry Cheesecake is from somewhere within the Kanto Koshinetsu area (The greater Kanto area?). Anyway, one of the boyfriend's coworkers brought this in to his office and he snagged me a photo and a KitKat. To be honest it was a little too sweet for me but not so bad.

Omiyage Flavors #2

Okinawan Box?

Kyushu Box?

One of my roommates occasionally goes on business trips to other parts of Japan. If there's some KitKat there that I haven't had yet, she's super sweet and brings me back some. When she went to Okinawa she got me Purple Sweet Potato KitKats (紅いも). I had gotten some from her when she went to Kyushu earlier in the year. But the box is different. I don't know if they changed it during the year or if it's the Okinawan package.
 

Speaking of the Kyushu omiyage, she also brought me Yuzu and Pepper KitKats (柚子こしょう) that time. It wasn't particularly delicious. I like this flavor in chips but not chocolate.

Sakura Matcha

The December 2011 re-release.

The one I originally had in March 2010

I'm a huge fan of Sakura flavored anything. I can't tell you how much I look forward to spring every year for all the sakura things. This past fall, KitKat had a thing online where people could vote for the flavor they wanted to see released again in December. Sakura Matcha (桜抹茶) won. I was hoping for one I hadn't seen before but I wasn't sad in the least that this one won.

Strawberry #1 (Strawberry Tarte)

There's so many different strawberry KitKats. To be honest, they all taste the same to me. None of them have tasted bad, but none of them have been amazing. Anyway, this is the most recent one I've come across: Strawberry Tarte (パティシエのストロベリータルト味)

Omiyage Flavors

Today I received some Kitkats from a student who visited Nagano over the holiday. He brought me Apple flavored ones and Cayenne Pepper ones. I didn't really care for the Apple ones but my roommate loved them. We both liked the Pepper ones because the kick was subtle and really complimented the chocolate.