When you go sightseeing, you can't help but buy soft-serve ice cream. Hakodate, a representative tourist destination in southern Hokkaido, also has many shops that serve delicious soft-serve ice cream.

While the classic vanilla flavor is certainly delicious, why not try some other flavors once in a while?

From coffee and chocolate to pumpkin and even wine, Hakodate has a wide variety of unique soft-serve ice cream flavors that you won't find anywhere else!

So, this time, we'll introduce six types of soft serve ice cream, focusing on some of our top recommendations for unique and unusual flavors.

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1. Chouette Cacao <Chocolate Soft Serve Ice Cream>
2. Lucky Pierrot <Silk Soft>
3. Coffee Room Kikuchi <Mocha Soft Serve>
4. Petit Merveille <Kuririn Soft>
5. Hakodate Wine <Wine Soft Serve Ice Cream>
6. Milkissimo
Final thoughts

Located in Goryokaku, Hakodate, "Chouette Cacao" is a specialty chocolate shop in Hakodate. Their chocolates and Western-style confections, made with fresh cream from Hokkaido and cacao carefully selected by their pastry chefs, are visually appealing and extremely popular with women.

The adjacent "Glacier C'est Chouette" is an ice cream specialty shop where you can enjoy colorful ice cream and soft serve in a pop-art style store accented with orange.

These stylish chocolate soft serve ice creams, accented with pieces of chocolate, come in two flavors: bitter chocolate and white chocolate. The less sweet bitter chocolate has a smooth texture and the rich chocolate flavor fills your mouth.

Lucky Pierrot is a local hamburger shop in Hakodate. Affectionately known as "Rappi," this shop is very popular with tourists and locals alike for its unique hamburgers, including the Chinese Chicken Burger, and its side dishes. The different interiors of each store are also not to be missed.

At Lucky Pierrot, you can enjoy this "Silk Soft" soft serve ice cream. At first glance, it looks like ordinary soft serve ice cream, but as the name "Silk Soft" suggests, it contains silk amino acids.

Silk amino acids are said to have a detoxifying effect that lowers cholesterol levels and makes it easier for the liver to eliminate harmful substances, and are also said to be effective for relieving fatigue, controlling blood sugar levels, and even hangovers. Silk was also a favorite of Cleopatra and Yang Guifei.

Why not try Silk Soft and achieve beauty and health?

Coffee Room Kikuchi is a long-established coffee shop located in the Yunokawa district, Hakodate's premier hot spring area. They serve a coffee-flavored soft-serve ice cream called Mocha Soft.

This gelato-based soft serve ice cream is colder and has a more refreshing, slightly crunchy texture than regular soft serve. With just one bite, the harmonious blend of bittersweet coffee flavors fills your mouth.

This soft-serve ice cream was featured on the popular TV show "Suiyō Dōdeshō." It seems that fans of the show have come to visit this place on pilgrimage, considering it a sacred site.

Petit Merveille is a popular Western-style confectionery shop in Hakodate. They have three locations in the city: one in the Red Brick Warehouse, one in Suehiro-cho, and one on Hondori Street. This time, I visited the Hondori Street branch.

The modernly designed shop also has a café corner where you can relax and enjoy some sweets.

Kuririn soft serve ice cream is made with milk from Jersey cows on Mount Komagatake and organically grown "Kuririn" pumpkins, said to be "the sweetest pumpkin in Japan." If you're eating in, we recommend the warm Kuririn pumpkin tart.

Beneath the cold Kuririn soft serve ice cream is a freshly baked pumpkin tart. The combination of cold soft serve and warm tart is exquisite.

Nanae Town is about a 30-minute drive from Hakodate. Hakodate Wine is a winery located along National Route 5. Their wines, which are made with a focus on the taste that suits Japanese palates, have been highly acclaimed, including winning the "Gold Medal" twice at domestic wine competitions.

At "Budokan," the directly managed store attached to the Hakodate Wine factory, you can enjoy wine soft serve ice cream made with Hakodate Wine's proud wine.

The two types of soft-serve ice cream, red and white, change monthly, and apparently many customers return every month.

This light and refreshing soft-serve ice cream, infused with grape flavor, has a reduced alcohol content, making it enjoyable for children and drivers alike.

6. Milkissimo

Lastly, although it's not soft serve ice cream, I'd like to introduce "Milchissimo," a gelato shop born in Hakodate. They have shops at Goryokaku Tower and Kanemori Red Brick Warehouse, two of Hakodate's most famous tourist spots.

Made with milk produced near Hakodate and seasonal ingredients from Hokkaido, these colorful gelatos are a delightful treat for both the eyes and the palate. They have stores in Sapporo and Chitose Airport, as well as locations in the Kanto region.

<Milchissimo>
*Please check the official website for store and business information.
URL:http://www.milkissimo.com/

Final thoughts

So, that concludes our introduction to some delicious soft-serve ice cream shops in Hakodate!

Soft serve ice cream is a must-try during a stroll. All of the soft serve ice creams we've introduced here have a distinct Hakodate feel to them.

Please experience the best of Hakodate with your taste buds!

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