Sides Dishes / Lunch Boxes / Ekiben Station Lunch Boxes Spots in Japan

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Groceries

Ekibenya Matsuri (Gransta Shop)

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Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Marunouchi 1-9-1 JR East Tokyo Station B1F inside the ticket gate GRANSTA

With a history of nearly 140 years, ekiben boxed lunches are a part of Japanese food culture as popular as the railways. Ekibenya Matsuri is Japan's largest ekiben boxed lunch specialty shop, selling over 200 varieties daily across the nation and fueling travelers wherever they go. Choose from a huge array of products, like their popular ekiben boxed lunches, boxes available only at Tokyo Station, turn of the century boxes, and more.
Nakamuraya

4.0

84 Reviews

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Osaka Osaka-shi Kita-ku Tenjinbashi 2-3-21

Small shop with long queue so probably unlikely to miss it. Think we waited ten plus min or so. Queue is generally quite fast unless the order is big. We bought two croquettes to try. Reasonable...
Asakusa Imahan Tokyo Station Gransta Store

3.5

2 Reviews

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Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Marunouchi 1-9-1 JR East Tokyo Station B1F inside the ticket gate GRANSTA

This is the take-out shop of the trademark suikiyaki restaurant in Asakusa operating since Meiji era. The distinguished premium sukiyaki is offered in a bento box at an affordable price. Among the favorite bentos is the Beef Bento, in which beef slices, marinated in an original secret recipe, are arranged atop white rice packed into a historic koban coin shaped oval box. For those who want a little extravagant bento, the Delux Sukiyaki Bento is offered. In addition to the bentos, the specially marinated Beef can be purchased and packaged for gifts.

すき焼きと言えば今半が有名なのは知ってたが、食べた事も見た事もなかった。ふと旅行前にネットでみかけて美味しいそう。とこれが今半か！って思って、『弁当は売り切れ次第終了』とあり。予約はしておきましょう。的なコメントが書いてあった。記事はグランルーフ店ですき焼き弁当2000円上すき焼き弁当2700円とあって、2000円のすき焼き弁当を家内に予約してもらった。検索した電話番号は、グランスタ店で...
Asakusa Teppantei Tokyo Station Gransta

4.0

4 Reviews

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Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Marunouchi 1-9-1 JR East Tokyo Station B1F inside the ticket gate GRANSTA

This is the Tokyo Station take-out shop specializes in grilled meat bentos. It's run by Asakusa's famed Sukiyaki shop Asakusa Imahan, with a history going back to the Meiji period. In addition to sukiyaki, they bring their skill with high grade beef to make bentos with juicy, tender thick cuts of beef. They only serve grilled beef bentos, but you can choose the volume and style of meat for a variety of bentos. Their most popular is the Roast Steak Stack of steak on white rice.

日曜日の東京駅で19:00着の新幹線から在来線への乗り換えが10分程しかなく在来線も乗っている時間が1.5時間程かかるためすぐに弁当を購入して乗車したく東京駅地下にあるGRANSTA内にある浅草鉄板亭の弁当を初めて購入しました。ロースステーキ重¥1295、生姜焼き弁当¥1190の２つを購入。知人とシェアしました。浅草今半がプロデュースしているので肉は美味いです。まだ温かい弁当でお腹も心も満たされま...
Tsukiji Takewaka Gransta Store

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Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Marunouchi 1-9-1 JR East Tokyo Station B1F inside the ticket gate GRANSTA

This is the take-out sushi shop of Takewaka, headquartered in Tsukiji. This store caters to the neighboring shops and has no dine-in area. It primarily sells Sushi bowls topped with fresh seafood. There are some deluxe Chirashi-sushi meals on display, that are limited in number. The popular seafoods served include tuna, scallop, eel, and more. The sushi can be observed being prepared behind a glassed-in area, where the freshly made pieces are lined up on display.
eashion Tokyo Gransta Store

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Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Marunouchi 1-9-1 JR East Tokyo Station B1F inside the ticket gate GRANSTA

This is the Tokyo Station take-out shop of the western deli, eashion. Envisioned with the concept of providing a selection of dishes, eashion offers western dishes created from discriminatingly selected produce. Anticipating that their meals will be eaten in the train, the Tokyo Station shop menu is all bento box style dishes. The Iberian pork bento is especially popular with sweet and spicy pork slices arranged atop a large portion of white rice. They also offer an ample variety of fresh salads.
Date no Gyutan Honpo (Tokyo Station Gransta Branch)

3.5

3 Reviews

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Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Marunouchi 1-9-1 JR East Tokyo Station B1F inside the ticket gate GRANSTA

This is a Tokyo Station take out branch of the Sendai beef tongue specialty shop. Their specialty is luxurious, thick slices of Shintan, the tenderest part of the tongue, scored before cooking. They serve it with special toothsome rye rice, instead of simple white rice. It comes with Sendai's famed shisomaki fried shiso wrapped miso, and miso nanbanzuke. In addition to their big-portioned bentos, they also have packs of slow-cooked tongue stew.

東京駅の駅ナカ地下、グランスタにある伊達の牛たん。焼き立ての牛たんを店内で食べるのも美味しいですが、テイクアウトすることもできます。牛たんのお弁当のほかにジャーキーやせんべいも売っており、牛たんチーズせんべいはビールにぴったりの旨さでした。
Food Plaza

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Ota-ku Hanedakukou 3-4-2 Second Passenger Terminal 3F Marketplace

The Food Plaza is inside Marketplace one on the third floor of Haneda Airport Terminal 2. You can get fresh made deli foods, sweets, souvenirs and more here. The fresh baked croissants at PAUL are particularly popular, with lots of repeat customers even among airport staff. You can also find Airplane Chou at Dalloyau, with its airplane-shaped cookie decoration, and Haneda souvenirs available nowhere else at Gomajo Muhoan, with their rich, sesame-covered mochi Gomadango.
Artisan Sushi Restaurant Takimoto, Daimaru Tokyo Store

4.0

4 Reviews

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Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Marunouchi 1-9-1 Daimaru Tokyo Store B1 Hoppetown

Takimoto is an artisan sushi restaurant in the Hoppe Town food court located on the B1F of the Daimaru Department Store in JR Tokyo Station. Takimoto is frequently featured on television for its mille-feuille sushi bowls and maki sushi rolls. Their sushi rolls stuffed with mackerel and conger eel are the perfect commuter food. Their most popular item is the Deluxe Mille-feuille, an exquisite square box of rice stuffed with layers of fresh seafood such as salmon and herring roe, shrimp, crab and salmon. You will be amazed at the variety of flavors.

仕事帰り新幹線で食べたいものは。。それはしっかり〆られたサバ棒鮨。そしてわさびの効いたサバの巻き寿司。
Tsukiji Shoro Main Store

4.0

62 Reviews

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Tokyo Chuou-ku Tsukiji 4-13-13

Omelet specialists in Tsukiji Fish Market in Tsukiji, Chuo City. Originally established as a sushi restaurant in 1924 it became an omelet restaurant after World War II. Try their Shore omelet made with fresh and thoroughly sanitized Miyakoji eggs and dashi stock.

築地を訪れ、手土産をとぶらり。あいにく三時前でシャッターを閉める店が多い中、店頭で対応いただきました。
Le Jardin Gaulois (Higashinakano Shop)

4.0

8 Reviews

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Tokyo Nakano-ku Higashinakano 3-1-17

A French side dish and sweets shop located in 3 Chome Higashinakano, Nakano City. Here you'll find side dishes like quiche, terrine, salads, and gratins, as well as sweets such as cakes, tarts, choux cremes, puddings, and marshmallows. The shop's original chouquette rusks, which combine traditional French chouquette with rusk cookies; are particularly popular.

夕食、あるいはワインのお供に食べる美味しいお惣菜がたくさんあります。一つ二つと買って帰りたくなります。
Dateno Gyutan Honpo Kitte Granche Restaurant

4.0

22 Reviews

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Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Marunouchi 2-7-2 JP Tower KITTE B1

味はいつもの如く安定している。牛タンは、やはり厚切りでないと美味しくないと思う。金曜日の夜だったので、お客がたくさん。
Matsujo

3.0

8 Reviews

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Aichi Toyota-shi Showamachi 4-49

This Japanese deli is in 4 Chome, Showa-machi, Toyota City. Their chicken croquettes made with a fried mix of Hokkaido-grown Irish cobbler potatoes and minced chicken have been a local Toyota favorite since the shop started over 50 years ago.

19時前という閉店間際の時間に訪問。当然品数は限られました。しかしながら、購入した揚げ物は温かくおいしかったです。ごちそうさまでした。
Gochisobansho Komegin Sakana-machi Main Shop

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Ibaraki Koga-shi Chuocho 3-1-43

A bento boxed lunch shop and Japanese deli on Sakanamachi-dori Street in Chuo-cho3-Chome, Koga City. It's also a long-established rice shop that has operated for 190 years. They're particular about all of the ingredients in their bento boxes and deli items, including the vegetables, meat, salt, etc.
Kobishiya

4.5

9 Reviews

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Gifu Takayama-shi Hatsudamachi 1-64

This deli is a five-minute walk from Takayama Station on the Kokubunji-dori shopping street. They specialize in handmade onigiri rice balls, and also sell sushi, fried foods, salads, stewed items, and more. They've been in business for over 60 years and are very well known locally. Their onigiri include everything from standards like ume plum and salmon to creative ones like soy-boiled clam and eel with sauce mixed in with the rice. Using neither machines nor artificial seasonings, their rice balls resemble sushi in that they aren't too compressed, and taste delicious even when chilled.

息が長いんですね、このお店。自餅に根付いたお店です。この日、買ったのは(価格は税込)「えび天むす 190円」「飛騨牛天むす 190円」「ねぎみそ 150円」。ここの名物は言わずと知れた、飛騨牛天むすです。こびしやでこれを買わずして何を買うのか、と言って過言なし。ねぎみそも美味しかったな-。高山でおにぎりといったら、こびしやさんです♡
Saito Sozaiten

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Miyagi Sendai-shi Aoba-ku Chuo 4-3-27

This delicatessen is located in Sendai Asaichi shopping district in Chuo 4-Chome, Aoba Ward, Sendai City. The venerable shop has been a beloved part of the Sendai Asaichi for more than fifty years. It sells a wide variety of fried foods including croquettes, mince cutlets, fried seafood and vegetable, and more. Their freshly-fried croquettes using whole Irish Cobbler potatoes from Hokkaido with the skin are the shop’s hallmark product.
Bensaitei

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Hokkaido Sapporo-shi Kita-ku Kita 6-jo nishi 4

This venerable shop, founded by Higoya (now Sapporo Station Standing Sales), a follower of the first person to sell bento boxes at Sapporo station, Bunzo Takada. The food is all made by hand every morning at the head plant, about a five-minute walk from Sapporo Station for delivery and sales at all the shops in the station. They make more than station lunchboxes, they also offer delivery bentos and hors d'oeuvre delivery, and manage standing soba shops. The plant also has an eat-in space where you can enjoy over 10 varieties of bento box, as well as meal sets like ginger pork, tonkatsu pork cutlet, and more.
Bishoku Sensai

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Hokkaido Chitoseshi Bibi New Chitose Airport Domestic Terminal Building 2F

A bento box lunch shop on the second floor of the New Chitose Airport's international terminal building. The sells a variety of seafood and meat-based bento box lunches using select ingredients from Hokkaido and other areas, such as the three crab lunch box with red king crab, snow crab, and Ibara crab; a variety-rich makunouchi lunch with Tokachi beef, sea urchin, and ikura salted salmon roe over rice; and a sea urchin and ikura lunch. In addition to being able to order your lunch made fresh, you can also ask for customizations.
Kitanomikaku Suzuhana (Gate Lounge Shop)

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Hokkaido Chitoseshi Bibi New Chitose Airport Domestic Flight Terminal Building 2F

A bento box lunch shop located on the second floor of the New Chitose Airport domestic departures terminal building. Menu options include a sea urchin, ikura salted salmon roe, and crab bento box, all Hokkaido favorites; the airport-exclusive kanimeshi made with salty sweet snow crab mixed with rice; and the airport-exclusive salmon, crab, and Pacific saury sushi-style bento box. There's also meat-based bento box lunches line zangi fried chicken and jingisukan lamb barbecue.
Niku no Hariyoshi

3.0

10 Reviews

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Kyoto Ujishi Uji Ichiban 14-2

Niku no Hariyoshi is a delicatessen located in the city of Uji in Kyoto Prefecture. Its main products are croquettes, breaded ground meat patties, and packaged meat. Uji's reputation for matcha green tea ensures that the shop's matcha croquettes are popular, especially when just out of the fryer and still hot. The shop sells other varieties of croquettes, too, such as croquettes filled with meat or corn.

宇治駅の近くにお店が有ります。以前にも宇治を観光したときに抹茶コロッケの看板を見て気になっていました。お店は普通のお肉屋さんで注文して３分ぐらいで揚げてくれました。二つに割って見ると緑色でした。抹茶の味はそんなに感じませんでしたが美味しいコロッケでした。私は宇治らしくて良い商品と思いました。