"Bread Village," an event featuring eight popular bakeries, will be held from October 31st to November 6th at the food section on the second basement floor of the main building of Odakyu Department Store Shinjuku Branch.


This marks the second time the event has been held, following the first in May this year, and this time a total of eight bakeries will be participating, offering a wide variety of breads, from sliced bread to bagels, sweet buns, and savory breads. In addition to each store's specialty breads, there will also be Odakyu-exclusive items.

MAISON ICHI, known for its chewy bread made with carefully selected Hokkaido wheat and liquid natural yeast, will be selling a "Sandwich and Deli Lunch Box" (648 yen), limited to 30 sets per day. This Odakyu-exclusive set includes the popular tuna and corn sandwich, smoked salmon trout and cereal sandwich, as well as deli items such as homemade pickles and Greek salad.

As the name "rare" suggests, bakery Dune L'Arte offers a unique menu, and is offering a rich bean bun "Matcha" (238 yen) made with Uji matcha bean paste and fresh matcha cream, limited to 70 per day (5 per person). Also available are the 27-layer croissant "Renko" (290 yen) and "Mutsukoro" (250 yen), made with layered Danish pastry baked in a mold.

Dune L'Arté
Le Pain de Joël Robuchon creates unique breads, including typical French breads, using carefully selected ingredients, advanced techniques, and a wealth of imagination. The restaurant will be selling its "Fougasse of Iberian Pork Chorizo and Prunes Braised in Red Wine" (378 yen), an exquisite combination of salty chorizo and prunes that makes it a great snack, with only 70 pieces available each day, exclusively at Odakyu.

Bonjour Bon, where you can enjoy professionally made homemade bread with classic and nostalgic flavors that have been given a little something extra by professional artisans, will be introducing the "Big Egg Curry Bread" (190 yen), a dish that has won the gold medal at the Curry Bread Grand Prix and is an exquisite match of spicy curry and boiled egg.

Bonjour, bon

The Bread & Butter Factory offers flavorful bread made with natural yeast, unique butters from around the world, and sweets made by pastry chefs. They offer "Shokupan" (white bread) (475 yen), which can be toasted and buttered to enhance its flavor and sweetness, as well as "Grand Fermage Bio Salted Butter" (2,700 yen), and "Sel de Mer Coarse Salt" (1,080 yen).

Tokyo Bakeru Baguli, which will be open only from October 31st to November 2nd, will offer bagels made with carefully selected ingredients, using only flour, sugar, salt, and water as the base dough. The baguettes include the "Kinako Anko Baguette" (370 yen), in which the mildly sweet bean paste made from red beans from Tokachi, Hokkaido, matches perfectly with the soybean flour dough, and the "Hojicha Azuki Baguette" (420 yen), in which fragrant roasted green tea dough is filled with plenty of Hokkaido-grown azuki beans.

Tokyo Bakeru Baguette
Guruatsu, a shop specializing in tofu muffins and soy milk scones, will only be open from November 3rd to 6th. The store's products are free of eggs and dairy products, and are also free of trans fats such as shortening and margarine. The "Spicy Carrot Cake" (421 yen), made with raisins, walnuts, and spices kneaded into carrot cake dough and topped with soy milk cream cheese, and the "Matcha, Chestnut, and Walnut" scone (345 yen), made with matcha, chestnuts, and walnuts, are Odakyu-exclusive items, limited to 30 per day. The "Purple Sweet Potato & Soy Milk Double Cheese" (388 yen), made with purple sweet potato dough and two types of soy milk cheese, will also be available.

Penny Lane, a popular bakery in Nasu Highlands, Tsukuba, and Utsunomiya, will be selling its products in front of the stairs to the central entrance on the second basement floor of the main building for two days only, November 2nd and 3rd. The "Penny Lane Recommended Set" (1,400 yen), which includes the popular blueberry bread, made with jam and kneaded blueberry dough, apple star, and butter sugar rusk, will be available for purchase for 60 sets per day (limit one set per person).