#moomin cafe

[duckmeat-woohoo]

Single customer.

[amyflan]

[skellemona]

not an art post but it’s my birthday today and i got to visit the moomin bubble tea pop up in bristol england!! so worth it omg im alr missing it sm

[teddiursa-on-the-run]

Moomin Café

Benelic, the company that runs Donguri Kyowakoku shops and the Kirby Cafes, used to have two Moomin Cafés in Tokyo. One at the Tokyo Dome, and the other at Skytree. Both of them were closed in '22 as the brand licencing agreement ran out. Here's some pictures I took at the Dome City location years ago.

At the café, if you were sitting alone, they used to bring one of these big Moomin plushies to sit with you.

I got seated with the man, the myth, the legend himself, Moominpappa.

The dessert menu. If you look closely, you can see in the drink section, Emperor's Bride Tea with a small Finnish flag. This amused me endlessly at the time since I'd never considered Emperor's Bride particularily Finnish, I kind of assumed it was available everywhere, like English Breakfast or Earl Grey. I've looked at the menus for this cafe over the years, and they used to also serve Finnish "Lapin Kulta" beer.

There were also some pastries available. Real food too, I wish I could tell you why I don't have a photo of the actual menu. I think I must have been bee-lining for that cold drink section so hard I've just forgotten about everything else. I remember going in as I was trying to find a new pair of shoes at the Dome City since my poor ballerina flats had quite literally been worn straight through the bottoms with all the walking I had done that week.

Moomin with Snorkmaiden in a boat attached to the ceiling.

Some of the Moomin Merch. Japan seems to always have so much better Moomin stuff than we do in Finland.

A cream soda with a Moomintroll marshmallow.

I still think it's a shame the licencing agreement wasn't continued. Like all Benelic projects, these cafes had the theming right to the smallest detail, and were very popular from what I can tell. I've yet to visit the Moomin Valley Park in Saitama... I just know I would get about 8000 request for the special Arabia cup from friends and family if I ever went.

[mushipien]

sometimes I think about him...the big moomin I saw in a moomin cafe somewhere in Tokyo.

[theinternetisaweboflies]

The "anti-lonliness" Moomin Bakery & Cafe where you could eat your meal with a giant plush Moomin closed earlier this year, and I am definitely not crying about it.

[mirai-e-jump]

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[happyheidi]

moomin just wanted to take a dip

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