The World’s Best Candy Stores

The World’s Best Candy Stores

Travelers with a sweet tooth weakness, do not proceed any further in this post. What follows is Spot Cool Stuff’s selection of the 6 most interesting-looking, diabetes-inducing candy stores. A trip to any one for these shops (well, except for the last one) is likely to result in a sugar overdose. Ye be warned.

Note: These are all primarily candy stores. We’ve reviewed our favorite chocolate stores in a separate post.

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Candylicious

Dubai

This shop in the mammoth Dubai Mall is probably as close as you can come to a real-life Willy Wonka candy experience without wrangling some umpa lumpas and creating one yourself. The Candylicious flagship is 1,000 square meters (10,000 sq ft.) making it the largest candy store in the world. Before you even get to the store you’ll likely see the Candylicous Car circling about. Highlights inside the store itself: a lollipop tree, a Candylicious Airplane kids can ride and an old-timey soda fountain.

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Papabubble

Toyko

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Chutter’s

Littleton, New Hampshire USA

Chutter’s claim to fame is the world’s longest candy counter. It’s 112 feet (34m) long, which is the entire length of the store. Jars of gum, sugar fruit slices and candy knickknacks are stacked three deep the entire length of the counter. So . . . let’s see . . . each jar is about 5 inches wide . . . multiply by 112 feet long . . . multiply by 3 jars jars wide and you get . . . a whole heck of a lot of candy.

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Het Oud-Hollandsch Snoepwinkeltje
(The Old Dutch Candy Shop)

Amsterdam

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Jelly Bean Factory

Fairfield, California

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The Jelly Bean Factory also offers free 40-minute tours, an enormous candy store and a cafe where you can order, among other items, a jelly bean shaped pizza.

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Hello Kitty Sweets

Taipei

Depending on your point of view, it’s either Hello Kitty heaven or hell. (Who are we kidding? It’s hell.) Hello Kitty Sweets offers a culinary experience inspired by Japan’s famous cartoon cat. At the walk-in counter a selection of candies and chocolates are for sale. Beyond that there’s a dinning area where the store’s customers—comprised primarily of single middle-aged women and surprisingly unpopulated by any children—can feast on Hello Kitty cakes, pastries and even a few entrees. None of it is particularly tasty. But then what do you expect from an eatery inspired by a cat with no mouth?

In case that’s not enough of a cute overload for you, stay in one of the shop’s Hello Kitty-themed hotel rooms. Picture a room full of Hello Kitty products surrounded by pink. Lots and lots of pink.

When you go: Hello Kitty Sweets can be a bit hard to find. It’s on Da An Road near the intersection with Zhong Xiao, around the corner from Bistro 98. If you are looking for Hello Kitty merchandise head to the nearby Sogo department store.

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published: 10 Dec 2010
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Related posts & Pages:
New York’s Pop Tarts Store
Family Travel Ideas (That are Fun For Adults Too)
The World’s Best Bookstores
The World’s Best Toy Stores

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There were lots of runners up for this post—enough that maybe we’ll do a Best Candy Stores Part II in the future. Know of a store you’d like up to include. Share your sweet thoughts in the comments section:



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  1. Trudy says:

    You have to check out this Candy Store in Canada! It’a huge – Candy from all over the world, the staff sing and laugh. It’s in this small town along Hwy 2 in Alberta. I think the town is Nanton. The theme of the town is old and antiques. The Candy Store is huge and has an antique store in the back and an Ice Cream store beside it. Check it out.

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    Spot Cool Travel Stuff Reply:

    Thanks, Trudy! Will make sure we check it out and test some of their product — you know, for research purposes — next we’re in Alberta.

    ~ SCS

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  2. Michelle says:


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    Great article! I wish there was something closer to Florida. There’s an M&M World Store here at our Florida Mall in Orlando – it was pretty cool but overpriced, in my opinion.

    There is a FANTASTIC little candy store called Sassafrass Sweet Shoppe in Winter Park, that has a great variety of candies…and some unique ones from childhood. If you’re in town, it’s worth the visit: http://sassafrassweetshoppe.com/

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    Spot Cool Travel Stuff Reply:

    Excellent! Thanks for the tip, Michele.

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  3. aditia says:


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    wow one day I really wanna go there

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  4. Lori says:


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    Wow – nice article and photos. Of course it made me wanna eat a candy or at least a cookie.

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  5. Mia says:


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    The shop in Dubai is by far one of the best 🙂 i feel like a kid all over again.

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  6. Milan Accommodation says:

    Very exciting to see these pictures!!!!!kutties will love to come here….

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  7. Kerry-ann says:


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    I am very jealous – not one of these sweet places is any where near me!

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  8. Traci says:


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    I can’t believe the world’s longest candy counter is only 4 hours from my house…ROAD TRIP! I’ll have to check it out for my blog of world’s largest things.

    The M&M World store in Times Square is pretty amazing, even though it’s focused on just one candy. They have the world’s largest wall of chocolate, I’ve heard!

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