Pikachu Honey Cream Latte Falls On The Japan Menu

Starbucks Japan and Pokémon. Tall only. Honey and caramel on espresso. ¥690 in-store. 30 September through 8 October. Goods in two pipes. One item per person for three days.

Starbucks Japan and Pokémon open a collaboration on Wednesday, 30 September 2026. The drink is Pikachu Honey Cream Latte. Honey and caramel over espresso. Tall only. Official page lists ¥690. Takeaway notes also print ¥678. Honey is flagged on the menu. One original sticker per qualifying drink while stock lasts, 60 × 60 mm.

The recipe won an internal Barista Battle: more than 700 entries, six finalists, champion Junko Nitta of the Koriyama Asaka store. Starbucks is selling that winning cup as the collaboration beverage, not a committee flavor invented in a brand deck.

Goods run two channels. Stores get a reusable cup and three plastic Starbucks Cards. The official online store gets the larger hardware list: stainless bottles, tumblers, stacking mugs, aprons, charms, posters, totes, a dripper, a kettle, a canister, a milk frother, PVC pouches. Artwork is original, credited in the goods file to Hikaru Ichinori, under two key visuals named Coffee Connection and Coffee Adventure. Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, and Eevee recur.

Drink window in secondary rundowns: 30 September to 8 October, with early sell-out possible. Goods: from 30 September until gone. 30 September through 2 October, one unit per person per collide SKU in stores, beverage excluded. Drive-through may pause on the first morning.

Signal. What happened: Starbucks Japan dated a Pokémon collide to 30 Sept. Exact product: Pikachu Honey Cream Latte plus store and online goods. When and where: nationwide Starbucks except some shops, plus the official online store. Source: starbucks.co.jp/cafe/pokemon. Why it matters: the 30th-year calendar now includes a barista-won latte, not only cards and shoes.

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Pikachu Honey Cream Latte is a named flavor, not a yellow dye job. Honey and caramel are the sweet line. Espresso is the base. Cream is in the title. Tall is the only size on the official board. That limit is operational: one recipe, one ticket, less custom chaos on a launch week.

¥690 is the in-store figure on the special page. ¥678 appears as the takeaway number in a detailed rundown. Tax and in-store versus to-go rules are why those two exist. Confirm at the register. Honey means an allergen line. The page prints it. Do not treat the cup as a kids’ default without that line.

The sticker is the small paper object attached to the drink. One per cup. While stock lasts. 60 mm square. It is not the art sticker set sold online.

Nitta’s win is the origin story Starbucks wants attached to the cup. Seven hundred recipes narrowed to six baristas, then one champion beverage. That process is more interesting than a mascot foam art claim the official page does not make. The drink still has to taste like honey and caramel on espresso in a Tall cup. If it tastes like a pumpkin spice cousin, the Pikachu name is only packaging.

Digital Starbucks Cards in six designs are listed for web from about 6:00 on the 30th. Animation on the official app payment screen is mentioned. That is software merch, not the latte.

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Store floor, first three days, is where the crowd will be. Reusable cup Coffee Connection 473 ml, ¥1,300, warm grey, custom box on the back, art of a barista with Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, and Eevee around a coffee. Three store cards: Coffee Connection, Pikachu, Eevee, issued with ¥2,000 or more loaded.

Two art themes keep repeating so the shelf reads as a set: connection around a cup, adventure around coffee as a trip. Ichinori’s drawings are the surface. Earth-tone adjustments on character colors are in the goods copy. Reversible bottles flip a battle-adjacent pose against a quieter meeting scene.

This is not a single tumbler drop. It is a kitchen and bag drop with a drink attached. People who only want the latte do not need the kettle. People who want the kettle will still take a number on the cup.

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30 September is a Wednesday. Stores expect a queue. Drive-through pause is printed for the open. One unit per collaboration SKU per person through 2 October, drinks exempt. After Friday the cap lifts and stock still ends when it ends.

The latte’s listed end is 8 October. That is nine days if the syrup holds. Goods have no second date, only “until gone.” Online inventory is a different pile from the Harajuku-adjacent store pile.

Pokémon’s 30th year already has other coffee (BOSS cans) and other product (adidas). This file is Starbucks Japan only. Do not import a US menu. Do not import a yellow Frappuccino that is not on the page.

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Pikachu Honey Cream Latte. Tall. Honey. Caramel. Espresso. ¥690. Sticker while they last. Bottles and cards in two queues. Wednesday morning is the start. Thursday 8 October is the drink’s printed dusk.