JW Marriott Hotel Tokyo (2-21-2 Takanawa, Minato-ku, Tokyo; General Manager: Jacob Helgen), located on the upper floors of TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY in Tokyo's Takanawa area, is opening reservations on Thursday, October 1, 2026, for its "Celebrate Together"-themed Christmas Collection 2026, a lineup crafted to brighten a Christmas spent with loved ones, sharing in the joy of the season.
This year's Christmas Collection includes a shortcake made generously with strawberries from Murata Farm, last year's most popular Lamington-inspired cake, and a colorful chocolate cake layering chestnut and caramel. Also joining the lineup are two limited-quantity specialty cakes called "Éclat," each built around black or white truffle, along with a Christmas cake made with a fragrantly baked croissant dough base topped with custard cream, strawberries and Japanese chestnut.
Executive Pastry Chef Shigeru Nojima shaped all seven cakes with close attention to the aroma and texture of each ingredient and the balance of flavor in every bite, creating a distinctive lineup meant to bring color to a Christmas shared with loved ones.
The collection also includes a stollen fragrant with rum-soaked dried fruit, a Gingerbread Man cookie tin filled with six kinds of baked treats, and a limited-edition Christmas croissant made generously with pistachio.
JW Marriott Hotel Tokyo Christmas Collection 2026
Christmas Cake Collection
Christmas Strawberry
Price: ¥8,000 (12 cm diameter) / ¥10,000 (15 cm diameter)
A classic Christmas shortcake layering strawberries from Murata Farm between a fluffy sponge and fresh cream made with Jersey milk.
The cream draws out the milky richness distinctive to Jersey milk while keeping the aftertaste light, and the strawberries' juicy sweet-tartness and rich aroma set off the cream's mellow flavor. As the cake contains no alcohol, it can be enjoyed by the whole family, from children to adults.
Christmas Lamington
Price: ¥8,000 (12 cm diameter)
The most popular cake from last year's Christmas lineup, this is Executive Pastry Chef Shigeru Nojima's signature creation, transforming the Australian classic lamington into a vibrant Christmas cake built around strawberries.
A sponge soaked in raspberry-flavored chocolate sauce is layered with a special cream blending custard cream and clotted cream, balancing raspberry's refreshing tartness with a mellow richness.
The strawberries are left whole rather than sliced, so their juicy, full flavor comes through generously.
Christmas Caramel Marron
Price: ¥12,000 (15 cm diameter)
A striking, elegant cake designed to evoke a tree stump standing in a Christmas forest, well suited to a Christmas gathering with family or friends.
Smooth chocolate mousse is layered with chestnut bavarois, a lightly bitter caramel mousse, caramelized hazelnut and chocolate biscuit, finished with a matcha-flavored chestnut cream on top.
The chocolate's deep richness meets the chestnut's gentle sweetness, the caramel's toasty aroma and the hazelnut's texture, creating a cake that stays rich yet light through the very last bite.
Two Éclat Cakes
Éclat — Black Truffle (Limited to 10 Cakes)
Price: ¥25,000 (15 cm diameter)
A fragrant, limited-quantity cake layering bitter chocolate, hazelnut and black truffle.
Inside a lightly bitter chocolate mousse, a crème concentrating the toasty aroma of roasted hazelnut is layered with a black truffle bavarois. The deep flavor of cacao and hazelnut melds with black truffle's rich, distinctive aroma for a lingering finish.
Éclat — White Truffle (Limited to 10 Cakes)
Price: ¥35,000 (15 cm diameter)
A limited-quantity cake that lightens the rich flavor of white chocolate and white truffle with the tartness of fromage blanc and tropical fruit.
Inside a smooth white chocolate mousse, a white truffle bavarois, fromage blanc mousse and tropical fruit gelée are layered together. The mellow sweetness of white chocolate and the aroma of white truffle are set off by fromage blanc's refreshing tartness and the juiciness of tropical fruit.
Rich yet light in its aftertaste, it lets the delicate lingering notes of white truffle come through.
Croissant Noël & Croissant Noël Mont Blanc
Price: Croissant Noël ¥6,000 (15 cm diameter) / Croissant Noël Mont Blanc ¥5,500 (15 cm diameter)
Born from the idea of "what if a croissant became a Christmas cake," the playful "Croissant Noël" series showcases the chef's sense of fun.
In place of sponge, the base is a fragrantly baked croissant dough made generously with French AOC butter. Two versions are available: "Croissant Noël," layered generously with custard cream and topped with strawberries and berries, and "Croissant Noël Mont Blanc," made generously with Japanese chestnut.
Christmas Limited-Edition Items
Stollen
Price: ¥4,000 (approx. 17 cm length)
Made with several kinds of dried fruit steeped in rum and spices, with raw marzipan kneaded into the dough for extra richness. Brushing the finished bake with butter brings out a rich aroma and moist texture.
Gingerbread Man Cookie Tin
Price: ¥4,000
This festive-season-only cookie tin brings together six kinds of treats, starting with Gingerbread Man cookies whose faces the pastry team hand-paints one by one, alongside oatmeal raisin cookies, coconut galettes, florentines, almond sablés and chocolate sablés. It also makes a fitting gift.
Croissant Noël Pistache
Price: ¥2,000
A festive, Christmas-only croissant with rich pistachio custard cream and berry gelée tucked inside the croissant dough, topped with pistachio Chantilly cream, raspberries and blueberries.
Reservations and Pickup for Christmas Collection 2026
Christmas Cakes
Reservation period: October 1 (Thursday) to December 10 (Thursday), 2026
Pickup period: December 23 (Wednesday) to 25 (Friday), 2026
Reservations: Christmas Collection reservation page
Christmas-Related Products
Reservation period: From October 1 (Thursday), 2026, until 7 days before pickup
Pickup period: December 1 (Tuesday) to 25 (Friday), 2026
Reservations: Christmas Collection reservation page
Advance reservation and advance payment are required. Please check the reservation page for details on changing or canceling a reservation, and for the pickup location. Prices include tax.
