Freshly Fried Potato Chips With…Hunh?

Deep in the labyrinthine dungeons of Tokyo Station lies Tokyo Confectionary Land, where they fry up potato chips before your very eyes! Even if they stopped there, it would have been enough to spur me into searching out this only-in-Japan destination, but when I heard they offer them topped with either squeezy cheese or soft-serve and fudge sauce, who could resist?

Jonelle Patrick is the author of the Only In Tokyo mystery series, published by Penguin/Intermix. If you’d like to try fresh fried potato chips (or really go for broke and order the sundae), I suggest you try the Calbee store on Takeshita Street in Harajuku instead of tackling the difficult-to-navigate underworld of Tokyo Station. The Harajuku Calbee store is about halfway down the street, on the right, if you walk down Takeshita Street from the Harajuku JR station.