VANILLABEANS Releases Mother's Day Limited Set Featuring New Fruit Tea-Flavored Chocolate Sandwiches

The Yokohama craft chocolate shop VANILLABEANS dropped its Mother's Day Especially Set (エスペシャリーセット) on April 1, and the headline is genuinely new: two fruit tea-inspired Shochora flavors, Strawberry Tea and Peach Tea, both built from locally sourced Kanagawa Prefecture ingredients. Neither exists in the brand's permanent lineup. Both are gone when the season ends.

The Shochora is VANILLABEANS' signature piece: fresh chocolate ganache sandwiched between crispy butter cookies, then sealed in a thin couverture shell. The product reportedly sold at six pieces per second during peak demand, and it is the reason most people first encounter the brand. For the Mother's Day set, that same buttery, snapping architecture carries two new interiors. Strawberry Tea is the brighter of the pair, fruit-forward with a tea-lifted finish that makes it the natural match for a crisp Earl Grey or a light Darjeeling. Peach Tea runs warmer and more floral, closer to what you'd want beside a first-flush Japanese green tea or a gentle oolong. The regional ingredient sourcing gives both flavors a specificity that imported fruit extracts simply cannot replicate.

The Especially Set also introduces Rich Milk as a Paritoro flavor for the first time. Paritoro is VANILLABEANS' other standout: a three-layer petit chocolate cake combining classic chocolate, a molten ganache center, and a couverture shell. The Rich Milk ganache used here is the same milk chocolate recipe that consistently ranks as Shochora's most popular flavor among women, meaning this is a cross-format debut that longtime fans will notice.

Pricing is accessible for a craft Japanese import: the 4-piece set is ¥1,987 (approximately $13 USD) and the 8-piece is ¥3,974 (approximately $26 USD), both arriving in Mother's Day-exclusive pink wrapping. The 4-piece works as a precise, thoughtful gesture; the 8-piece delivers the full flavor spread and has more presence as a proper gift box. Online orders through vanillabeans.yokohama went live April 1. In-store availability across VANILLABEANS' Kanagawa and Tokyo Station locations opens April 16. The last day to place a Mother's Day delivery order is May 11 at 9:59 a.m. Japan Standard Time, with delivery possible through May 18. Shelf life runs approximately 10 days from the ship date, so coordinating the delivery date to land close to May 11 (Mother's Day in Japan) makes sense.

For gift-givers outside Japan, the set is available through Rakuten Ichiba and Yahoo Shopping Japan, both of which are accessible via international forwarding and proxy shopping services. The brand does not ship directly to Okinawa or remote islands.

This is specifically the right gift for the mom who still talks about a trip to Yokohama, keeps a dedicated tea shelf, or has grown tired of the same European chocolate box every May. Chocolate Design Co., Ltd., the Yokohama company behind VANILLABEANS under CEO Masahiro Otsuki, has built the brand's identity around regional provenance since it launched from a two-square-meter prefab in 2000. The Kanagawa sourcing in these two new flavors is not a marketing footnote; it is the through-line that makes this limited set worth tracking down from the other side of the world.