New exhibition at Tokyo National Art Museum comes with excavated chocolate souvenirs

There’s so much to love about Japanese customer service. Whether you’re shopping at an expensive department store or perusing the shelves at the local supermarket, you can rest assured that everything has been thought through and tailored to meet your needs and desires.

The same attention to detail will be there for visitors to the upcoming National Treasures of Japan exhibition at the Tokyo National Art Museum in Ueno this month. Clearly aware that visitors will want to dig up a national treasure of their own after viewing the exhibition, the gift shop has some unusual souvenirs for customers to take home – including chocolate artefacts.

The exhibition, featuring 120 prized items pertaining to the theme of “prayer”, opened on Wednesday and runs through Dec 7.

A lot of the items featured in the exhibition are made from clay. While the actual artefacts are stunning, replicating the hard, brown figures for a market obsessed with cute goods is not an easy task. No design challenge is too great in Japan though, which explains why the ancient figures have been born again in the form of stationery, like the little set of sticky notes below.

One of the upcoming best sellers is the excavated chocolate for 1,200 yen (photo). Buried under a mound of tiny chocolate balls, you can unearth a Jomon period Venus figure and then eat her up immediately.

History never tasted so good!

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