If you’re not heading to Japan to catch the cherry blossom season, here’s how you can experience a slice of Japanese spring—Isetan is back once again with its popular Hanami Matsuri food festival, and there’s even an exclusive Pokémon Mart pop-up store too!







The Isetan Hanami Matsuri features over 15 different vendors, each offering seasonal spring specialties and street eats. Prices for food and snack items start from $1.50 each, and some items to expect include assorted braised seafood, taiyaki, soymilk fruit puddings, takoyaki, gelato cookie sandwiches, ramen, warabimochi, jumbo fish cake skewers, fried croquettes, gelato and more.

Assorted Jumbo Fish Cakes, $18/3pcs

Hashimaki Cheese Skewer, $6

Deep Fried Crab, $8.50/100g

Takoyaki with Shredded Cheese, $12
While most of the food items are not new to Isetan’s food fair, there are a couple of new additions. Takoyaki lovers can look forward to unique takoyaki stuffed with octopus or scallops (from $10), and topped with unique toppings like shredded cheese or onion mayonnaise. There’s also various Hashimaki skewers ($6), which is a popular Japanese street food item made with okonomiyaki rolled up using chopsticks.

Golden Cookie Sand Gelato, $5

Double Scoop Gelato, $9

Green Tea Warabimochi, $13.50

Dango Mix, $6

Kumamon Pancake, $5
For dessert, don’t miss out on gelato-stuffed Cookie Sandwiches ($5) in various flavours like pistachio, matcha, milk and more. There’s also popular sweet treats like the Kumamon Pancake ($5), Warabimochi ($13.50) and Dango (from $3).



For Pokémon fans, there’s also something exciting here for you, brought to you by the official Pokémon Center SINGAPORE. There’s also a Pokémon Mart pop-up store happening right next to the food festival, featuring exclusive Pokémon merchandise. Pokémon merchandise starts from $6 each.





Some of the Pokémon merchandise items you can find at the pop-up include:
Pokémon Shopping Bag, $6
Assorted Hand Towel, $8
Embroidery Brooch, $18
Washable Plush, $25
Plush Pokémon Dolls, $25
Drawstring Tote Bag, $34
Cosy Plush (various characters), $68
Pokémon GO Plus+, $79
…& more.
Pokémon Mart & Isetan Food Festival
Dates: Now till 15th April 2025
Address: Tampines Mall, L1 Atrium
Opening Hours: Sunday-Thursday, 11am-8.30pm; Friday-Saturday, 11am-9pm Instagram