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Yuta Takahashi's Miltos Botchan Ressha

A collaborative product and package between a locomotive with more than 130 years of history and an up-and-coming, well-acclaimed chocolatier. The package's form has a sense of luxury reminiscent of perfume, with precise train drawings that would make fans groan reproduced with foil stamping. The deep green of the package symbolizes the trade color of the train and the color of matcha chocolate. The chocolates are decorated with the motif of an actual route map, adding a touch of playfulness.

It has been manufactured with accuracy, artistry, and entertainment. The trains are drawn with respect for railroad fans and its history, based on photographs of the actual trains taken by the designers themselves. The printing uses matte black foil stamping to express the train's calm texture. The line width seeks maximum tenuity through repeated trial production. The lines and logos engraved on the chocolate are designed to have a depth measurable in microns, so that beautiful shadows appear.

The project started in Japan in July 2019 and ended in February 2020. It was announced in September 2020.

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