Only 2 cafes have it so far.
Fewer than 5 Canberra cafes have it, or the first review we have is under 120 days old. It also covers anything on a small share of cafes that is holding steady.
The stages run Emerging, Rising, Peaking, Mainstream, Fading. A trend can skip a stage or move back.
A tall, very soft milk bread loaf, served as thick toast or as the bread for sandos.
Drawn as a shokupan toast, the way Canberra cafes most often serve it.
It's emerging: early days yet.
Canberra's figures come from Google reviews and cafe menus (223 Canberra cafes with a review or menu in the last 90 days). We don't read Canberra cafes' posts yet, so this is a small sample and a drink shows up here later than it would in posts.
Canberra searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
First Canberra review in our data.
Tap a number for what changed then.
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Cafe menus listing it now, Canberra.
1 cafe menu
We started reading cafe menus in late 2026. Cafes adding and dropping it each month show here once the first whole month of menu reads is in.
Searches in Oct 2026, circles sized to match.
2suburbs with cafes that have it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Canberra cafes with a customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
1 suburb is known only from a menu, which we can't date, so it counts in the last month.
Data updated 15 Nov 2026.
Too early to quote: 2 cafes have had it so far. A quote will appear here once 5 cafes have.
A tall, very soft milk bread loaf, served as thick toast or as the bread for sandos. In all our data to 15 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 2 Canberra cafes across 2 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 1 in "Where to get one" are the cafe with it on its current menu.
It is on 1 Canberra cafe menu right now, including Highroad in Dickson. The "Where to get one" list on this page has every one, with the price where the menu gives one, links to the menu or post, and directions. Menus change, so check with the cafe before you go.
There were 170 searches for shokupan in Canberra in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 80 searches (Feb 2025) to 220 (Jun 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Canberra.
It is on a bigger share of Melbourne cafes: 1.4% against Canberra's 0.9%, over the last 90 days.
The earliest Canberra customer review about shokupan that The Froth has is from 4 Aug 2026. We only see what we collect, so that is when we first saw it, not when it started: it may have been sold earlier, here or elsewhere.
A typical shokupan toast, drawn from Canberra cafes' menus and reviews, is built from the top down with butter (a knob, melting in), honey (poured over; some use jam) and milk bread toast (a slice about 4 cm thick, tall, soft and fluffy inside). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical plate, not one cafe's recipe.
A cafe counts for shokupan from the first Google review we found that mentions it, and while it is on the cafe's current menu. Shares are of the cafes we see well: those with a current menu in the same 90 days, a chain counting once. A change compares the same cafes in the last 90 days with the 90 before, only among cafes we have followed through both, so newly added cafes never look like growth. The 90 days end on the latest day with new reviews or menus (15 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Canberra with all of a trend's names added up. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.