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Veggie Bento Boxes at Train Stations in Japan / Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka

If you get a Japan Rail Pass and plan on using it, you’ll end up at the train station a lot like I did… and well, vegans rejoice, there is food for you hidden in there somewhere, and its surprisingly tasty!

They came with a nice little assortment of white and purple rice balls, veggie tempura, assorted steamed veggies, a knot of kombu seaweed, sweet beans, and a yummy pickled plum (kind of an acquired taste).

To track them down I started by asking the lunch box shops in broken japanese which one had no meat and no fish, then after a couple times I recognized the outer packaging as having veggies printed all over it…  Then I just ordered it by pointing or by number.

This probably isn’t grammatically correct, but it should be enough preceded by a “sumimasen” and some pointing:

Dore wa niku nashi desu ka? (Which one no Meat?)

Dore wa sakana nashi desu ka? (Which one no Fish?)