{"id":7039,"date":"2026-06-19T22:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=7039"},"modified":"2026-06-19T22:00:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T05:00:57","slug":"harajuku-custom-icees-come-to-help-tokyos-takeshita-street-stay-cute-and-cool-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=7039","title":{"rendered":"Harajuku Custom Icees come to help Tokyo\u2019s Takeshita Street stay cute and cool this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-736012\" src=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/1_035d91.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Slushy sweet drink from the U.S. makes its Harajuku debut<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Weather-wise it\u2019s been a surprisingly mild June in <strong>Tokyo<\/strong>, but that\u2019s only going to make the inevitable heart and humidity of midsummer feel all the more fierce when it does show up. Thankfully, shoppers on <strong>Takeshita Street<\/strong>, the corridor just outside <strong>Harajuku Station<\/strong> that\u2019s packed with trendy youth fashion boutiques, have a new way to cool off as<strong> Icees are coming to the neighborhood<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Though the sweet, slushy carbonated beverages have been beloved in America for generations, with a history that\u2019s even longer than 7-Eleven\u2019s venerable Slurpee line, it was only recently that Icees <a href=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/2024\/11\/28\/finally-icees-are-coming-to-japan\/\">arrived in Japan<\/a>. So far, pretty much the only place in Japan to find them was at select branches of the Toho Cinemas movie theater chain, but Icees wil be spending the summer at Harajuku\u2019s <strong>Go Go Cafe<\/strong>, an offshoot of the <strong>Candy a Go Go<\/strong> international sweets specialty shop.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-736013\" src=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/2_b7c306.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Candy a Go Go\u2019s involvement means that <strong>customers can create \u201cHarajuku Custom Icees\u201d by choosing gummies or other candies to sprinkle on as toppings<\/strong>. Regular non-customized Icees are available too, priced at 800 yen (US$5.10). The iconic <strong>blue raspberry<\/strong> Icee is part of the three-flavor lineup, but instead of cherry the crimson concoction is a <strong>strawberry<\/strong> Icee, and they\u2019re joined by a <strong>yellow peach<\/strong> flavor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-736014\" src=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/3_e3112d.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"635\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u25bc Go Go Cafe is located within the Cute Cube building, which has a playfully colorful storefront even by Takeshita Street standards.<\/p>\n<div class=\"googlemaps\"><\/div>\n<p>Much like how the drinks themselves eventually melt, the Icees\u2019 stay on Takeshita Street is one of wistful impermanence, but they\u2019re scheduled to be available from<strong> June 18 to August 17<\/strong>, so at least we\u2019ll have time to make plenty of sweet summer memories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location information<\/strong><br \/>\nGo Go Caf\u00e9<br \/>\nAddress: Tokyo-to, Shibuya-ku, Jingumae 1-7-1 Cute Cube Harajuku 1st floor<br \/>\n\u6771\u4eac\u90fd\u6e0b\u8c37\u533a\u795e\u5bae\u524d 1-7-1 Cute Cube Harajuku 1F<br \/>\nOpen 10 a.m.-8 p.m.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/candyagogo.com\/3056\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source, images: <a href=\"https:\/\/prtimes.jp\/main\/html\/rd\/p\/000000045.000107377.html\">PR Times<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u25cf Want to hear about SoraNews24\u2019s latest articles as soon as they\u2019re published? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RocketNews24En\">Follow us on Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RocketNews24En\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slushy sweet drink from the U.S. makes its Harajuku debut. Weather-wise it\u2019s been a surprisingly mild June in Tokyo, but that\u2019s only going to make the inevitable heart and humidity&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}