Snacks in Japan

I would like to bring some Japanese snacks to my Relay for Life team and we want to sell Japanese candies/snacks. One question is where to get them. Another is what popular snacks there will appeal to the kids here?

Any info would be great :) thank you

Where is "here"? Do you mean buying Japanese snacks in the US for American kids? British kids? I think tastes are for the most part the same, but it would help if you gave a bit more detail.

I'm going to go ahead and assume you're American. You can get Japanese snacks a lot of places these days. Many/most big cities have at least one Japanese market that sells Japanese snacks. Sometimes even regular grocery stores have some in their international areas. I would do a google search for Japanese grocery/gift stores in your area and visit them. Sometimes if you need more than they have, they can order for you.

Another option is online. A quick google search will get you several places that sell Japanese candy online.

For popular snacks, Pocky is probably #1. Kitkats in special flavors, like green tea, is probably novel too. There's lots of gummy style candies, and I like the chocolate types like Kinoko no Yama. More traditional style is the pretty hard candies. For non-sweet snacks, pretz, senbei, jagarikko, kaki no tane and umaibo are all pretty popular with people.

Hope that helps.

Chinese and Korean grocery stores often have a few Japanese things as well. But I'm not sure how easy it would be for you identify an item as a Japanese.

Yeah I kinda left out the "America" part, sorry..

But yeah, Pocky is pretty popular here, I just have a hard time finding them in a large stock in stores, they're usually 3 or 4 boxes on a shelf... but thank you, I'm going to try online and see how that goes. Do the candies ship straight from Japan?

I've bought snacks from Mitsuwa online before: http://store.mitsuwa.com/storefront.aspx

They have stores in the US. Not sure if they sell bulk though.

There's also http://www.marukaiestore.com/

If you need some bulk Hi-Chew, there's Daiso USA. http://www.daisojapan.com/c-443-foods.aspx

Ah thank you :D