The Royal Park Hotel's 30th anniversary is just around the corner; to get ahead of the curve, they've teamed up with one of Nihonbashi's oldest and most well-regarded confectioners to produce a celebratory parfait of absolute decadence.

Available for ¥1,425, the Anmitsu Parfait can be ordered from the hotel's first-floor lounge Fontaine. The hotel released this curious creation in August as part of a collaboration with Eitaro Confectionery, which also just celebrated its 200th anniversary this year.

Anmitsu is a classic Japanese dessert consisting of boiled sweet beans, agar-agar cubes, and other delicacies in a sugar syrup, topped off with extra sweet bean jam. This Anmitsu Parfait blends Western and Japanese confectionary styles by incorporating panna cotta (a gelatin and cream dessert), vanilla ice cream, and fresh fruit with Eitaro Confectionery's traditionally procured bean jam, agar-agar and black molasses. A definitive highlight of the parfait experience, the black molasses is sourced from sugar cane of the Kohama and Iriomote islands in Okinawa and refined into a rich, pure syrup through age-old techniques. Together with agar-agar from the Izu Peninsula and sweet beans from Hokkaido's Tokachi region, this unique concoction is guaranteed to delight.