Tiramisu Sando (ティラミスサンド)
A dessert sando that rebuilds tiramisu in the shokupan-and-cream format: bread soaked in sweet coffee instead of ladyfingers, mascarpone cream between the slices, cocoa on top, chilled until it sets.
An Pan & the Sweet Kashipan
Sando Cake (サンドケーキ)
Cake designed to look like a sandwich; trompe l'oeil dessert.
Sakura Sando (桜サンド)
Cherry blossom flavored cream sandwich; spring seasonal.
Raisin Butter Sando (レーズンバターサンド)
Japan's raisin butter sando sets cold whipped butter cream and rum-soaked raisins between trimmed shokupan. The flavor traces from a bar snack to Rokkatei's 1977 Marusei cookie.
Peanut Butter Sando (ピーナッツバターサンド)
Japan's pīnattsu kurīmu swaps peanut oil for sugar and starch syrup: paler, glossier, and built for soft shokupan rather than a savory lunch spread.
Naporitan Pan (ナポリタンパン)
Naporitan pan loads ketchup-fried spaghetti into a split koppepan roll: starch on starch from the Showa bakery case. The yoshoku noodle whose New Grand original, by chef Irie, ran on tomato puree.
Matcha Cream Sando (抹茶クリームサンド)
Whipped cream has to carry matcha's real bitterness, catechins and all. Grade decides the color and the bite, and the green fades fast, so the good ones are mixed close to serving.
Marusei Butter Sandwich (マルセイバターサンド)
Famous Hokkaido souvenir: raisin butter cream between cookies; Rokkatei brand.
Jam Sando (ジャムサンド)
Fruit jam (ichigo/strawberry most common) on shokupan; simple sweet sandwich.
Ice Cream Sando (アイスサンド)
Snap a Japanese ice-cream monaka and the wafer cracks dry and clean against cold cream. The whole feat is keeping a centuries-old rice wafer crisp against the ice cream it holds.
Hot Sando - Anko Butter (あんバターホットサンド)
Hot pressed red bean paste and butter sandwich; sweet.
Hokkaido Butter Sando (北海道バターサンド)
Sweet sandwich cookies with Hokkaido butter cream; souvenir item (like Marusei butter sandwich).
Cream Sando (クリームサンド)
Whipped cream sandwich on shokupan; simple sweet sando.
Cream Pan (クリームパン)
Soft roll filled with pastry cream (custard); distinctive glove shape.
Cream Pan - Chocolate (チョコクリームパン)
The cocoa branch of a 1904 Tokyo bun built to carry custard like a French choux shell. Read it by the glove: five slits that vent the bake, and a seam crimped tight to hold a looser chocolate cream.
Chocolate Cream Sando (チョコクリームサンド)
Chocolate cream sandwich.
Choco Pan (チョコパン)
Chocolate-filled soft bread; various forms.
Choco Cornet (チョココロネ)
Cone/horn-shaped bread filled with chocolate cream.
Butter Cookie Sando (バタークッキーサンド)
Butter cream sandwiched between cookies; omiyage item (like Tokyo Banana, Marusei Butter Sandwich).
Anko Sando (あんこサンド)
Sweet red bean paste (anko) on shokupan; traditional Japanese sweet as sandwich.
Anko Butter Sando (あんバターサンド)
The anko butter sando braces red-bean paste, the oldest sweet filling in Japanese baking, with a cold slab of salted butter, so each bite carries sweet bean and salty fat as two separate things.
An Pan (あんパン)
Soft roll filled with anko (sweet red bean paste); invented 1874 at Kimuraya bakery, Tokyo.
An Pan - Tsubuan (粒あんパン)
An pan with tsubuan (chunky red bean paste with whole beans visible).