Sunny Hills Aoyama

Go for the aesthetics, stay for the cake and tea

If you've ever wandered around the backstreets of the Minamiaoyama area, it's likely that you've seen a building that I refer to as "the matchstick building" - the facade seems to be made up of a bunch of sticks precariously stacked upon each other. It's very cool from a design standpoint if you're into unique architecture, but if you're after a bite to eat, the building itself houses a Taiwanese Pineapple cake shop called Sunny Hills. The store usually does free tastings of their cake and tea, but sell boxes of the product as an omiyage style thing - 5 individually wrapped cakes for 1500 yen, 10 for 3000 yen. There are also box sets that sell the pineapple juice they also have there with some of the cakes as well. The staff are friendly and they're not pushy at all so you won't necessarily feel obligated to make a purchase, but they are tasty if you like pineapple!