Kakigori Afternoon Tea

A hot destination for those looking for a little punch in their shaved ice, the 26th-floor restaurant at the Strings by Intercontinental Hotel in Shinagawa is also serving up summery kakigori during afternoon teatime. A wide variety of sorbets are topped with ample fruit and snow-like white ice, or alternatively given some more innovative treatment – what else can you say about the Yasai Tropical (¥1,944), consisting of asparagus and banana sorbet flavoured with ginger and topped with roasted beets, purple sweet potato, nata de coco and coconut-flavoured pineapple syrup? If you're looking for a step up in class from the likes of Ice Monster, then this should be your destination.