Pizza Hut Japan Debuts A New Matcha Pizza
Japan’s love for matcha just took a wild turn—now it comes in pizza form.
According to SoraNews24, Pizza Hut Japan has teamed up with Kyoto’s historic tea shop Gion Tsujiri (founded in 1860!) to launch its first-ever Japanese-style sweet pizza: the Handy Melts Matcha Shiratama Kuromitsu. And yes, the name is as significant as the pizza itself.
The “Handy Melt” isn’t your typical green tea dessert. Pizza dough gets infused with Gion Tsujiri matcha, then topped with rich matcha paste, chewy shiratama rice dumplings, mozzarella and cream cheese, and finished with a drizzle of kuromitsu syrup for a sweet-but-not-too-sweet kick. It’s a mashup of Japanese and Western flavors that somehow works, perfectly timed for tsukimi, Japan’s moon-viewing season—the white shiratama evoking the full moon.
You can snag the Handy Melt alone for 790 yen (~$5.38 USD delivery, 550 yen takeout), or add it to a special pizza set for 395 yen on top of the pizza’s 2,195 yen price. But act fast: both are available in limited quantities through October 26, while supplies last.
Pizza Hut Japan is also running a giveaway: 30 lucky winners can score a set of Gion Tsujiri single-use tea bags by following and engaging with Pizza Hut’s Twitter or Instagram posts between September 1–10.
