Features : Ekiben (Lunch box) at Ichinoseki Station on the Tohoku Honsen Line. It contains a golden-rated hamburg from Kakunoshin, which is based in Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture, and has many branches in Tokyo.

Ekiben available : Shinjuku Station

Price (incl. tax) : Yen 1,280

Nutritional Information

Calories (kcal) : 814.0
Protein (g) : 33.4
Fat (g) : 44.5
Carbohydrate (g) : 70.7
Salt equivalent (g) : 2.8

Main ingredients

Rice (domestically produced rice)
Hamburger steak
Sauteed onions
Beef stir-fry
Braised mushrooms (shimeji mushrooms, eringi mushrooms)
Braised beef tendon
Sauteed nozawana
Red ginger
Paprika
Salted kelp

Features : Ekiben (Lunch box) at Sendai Station. Ekiben made to pray for the recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake. Popular ekiben contains about 30 specialties from six Tohoku prefectures. The Japanese sandfish with sweet and spicy malted rice was selected by the MAFF as one of “Our Regional Cuisines.” A total of more than 500,000 units have been sold.

Ekiben available : Shinjuku Station

Price (incl. tax) : Yen 1,200

Nutritional Information

Calories (kcal) : 661.0
Protein (g) : 21.2
Fat (g) : 19.6
Carbohydrate (g) : 98.6
Salt equivalent (g) : 4.4

Main ingredients

White rice (domestically produced rice)
Chameshi (Rice boiled in tea flavored with sake and shoyu, domestically produced rice)
Fried and simmered chicken
Simmered ball konnyaku
Boiled salmon with miso
Sauteed cabbage
Deep-fried kamaboko
Fried eggplant with yoghurt and tomato sauce
Omelet
Simmered burdock after frying
Simmered taro
Tempura of sweetened scarlet runner bean
Nori tsukudani (boiled down in soy)
Simmered scallop
Simmered sweet apple
Lotus root pickled in ume vinegar
Deep-fried wakame seaweed with onion
Simmered young peach
Ostrich fern in soy sauce
Simmered carrot
Grilled mackerel with krill
Grilled pork
Braised beef
Miso paste with shiso leaves
Preserved artichoke in sake cake
Thin omelette cut into strips
Japanese parsley
Krill tsukudani (boiled down in soy sauce)
Japanese sandfish with sweet and spicy malted rice

Features : Ekiben (Lunch box) at Yonezawa Station, Yamagata Prefecture. Developed to coincide with the opening of the Yamagata Shinkansen. A popular ekiben with a high national profile.

Ekiben available : Shinjuku Station

Price (incl. tax) : Yen 1,350

Nutritional Information

Calories (kcal) : 852.0
Protein (g) : 26.5
Fat (g) : 32.3
Carbohydrate (g) : 114.0
Salt equivalent (g) : 4.4

Main ingredients

Rice (domestically produced rice)
Simmered beef (Japanese beef)
Simmered minced beef (Japanese beef)
Omelet
Kamaboko (deep-fried fish paste)
Boiled taro
Simmered carrot
Rolled herring with konbu
Pickled radish

Features : Ekiben (Lunch box) at Mito and Katsuta Stations. Nutritious ekiben using Okkuji shamo (fighting cock) from Okkuji in the northern part of Ibaraki Prefecture.

Ekiben available : Shinjuku Station

Price (incl. tax) : Yen 1,150

Nutritional Information

Calories (kcal) : 585.0
Protein (g) : 18.0
Fat (g) : 13.6
Carbohydrate (g) : 97.6
Salt equivalent (g) : 5.1

Main ingredients

Rice seasoned and cooked with various ingredients (Ibaraki rice)
Grilled shamo (Japanese fighting cock)
Soboro-stuffed egg
Shamo minced meat
Pickled wild vegetables in soy sauce
Kinpira gobo (burdock root)
Grilled leek
Pickled cherry blossom

Features : Ekiben (Lunch box) at Yokokawa Station on the Shinetsu Line. One of Japan’s leading ekiben, with some 170 million sold to date.

Ekiben available : Shinjuku Station

Price (incl. tax) : Yen 1,200

Nutritional Information

Calories (kcal) : 756.0
Protein (g) : 21.6
Fat (g) : 9.1
Carbohydrate (g) : 143.0
Salt equivalent (g) : 4.9

Main ingredients

Chameshi (Rice boiled in tea flavored with sake and shoyu, Koshihikari rice)
chicken meat
Burdock root
Shiitake mushroom
Bamboo shoots
Quail egg
Chestnuts
Apricot
Green peas
Red ginger
Pickles (separate container)

Features : “Ekiben (Lunch box) at Tokyo Station. Seasonal bento from Nihonbashi Omasu. It contains chirashi-zushi and a variety of side dishes, including seared and cooked conger eel. Currently, ‘Ryo’ is no longer on sale and ‘Kinshu’, an autumn ekiben, is on sale.

Ekiben available : Shinjuku Station

Price (incl. tax) : Yen 900

Nutritional Information

Calories (kcal) : 487.0
Protein (g) : 16.4
Fat (g) : 11.3
Carbohydrate (g) : 76.8
Salt equivalent (g) : 4.2

Main ingredients

Vinegared rice (domestically produced rice)
Deep-fried and simmered eggplant
Chicken Tsukune (chicken ball)
Omelet
Simmered ganmo (deep-fried tofu mixed with thinly sliced vegetables)
Simmered konnyaku
Simmered konbu
Kamaboko
Seasoned conger eel
Sweet pickled ginger
Simmered young corn
Vinegared shrimp
Simmered lotus root
Thin omelette cut into strips
Edamame (soy beans)
Seasoned wasabi
Simmered carrot
Pickled Japanese ginger
Sugar flavoured kidney beans
Laver

Features : Ekiben (Lunch box) at Yokohama Station. A hearty ekiben in which the white rice in the shumai bento is replaced by fried rice. Shumai has been selected as “Our Regional Cuisines” in Kanagawa Prefecture.

Ekiben available : Takadanobaba Station

Price (incl. tax) : Yen 890

Nutritional Information

Calories (kcal) : 742.0
Protein (g) : 26.2
Fat (g) : 21.7
Carbohydrate (g) : 110.1
Salt equivalent (g) : 6.6

Main ingredients

Fried rice (topped with green peas)
Siu Mai (Chinese dumplings)
Fried chicken
Salted fried noodles
Vinegared crab-flavoured kamaboko, jellyfish and broiled egg
Braised bamboo shoots
Red ginger

Features : Ekiben (Lunch box) at Yokohama Station. In addition to Kiyoken’s famous shumai, it contains many side dishes such as pork cutlet and fried prawns.

Ekiben available : Takadanobaba Station

Price (incl. tax) : Yen 1,080

Nutritional Information

Calories (kcal) : 923.0
Protein (g) : 33.2
Fat (g) : 24.8
Carbohydrate (g) : 141.5
Salt equivalent (g) : 5.0

Main ingredients

Rice (with small plums, black sesame seeds)
Siu mai (Chinese dumpling)
Grilled Pacific ocean perch with teriyaki sauce
Pork cutlet
Fried prawns
Deep-fried chicken
Simmered bamboo shoots
Simmered vegetables (carrot and taro)
Kamaboko (deep-fried fish paste)
fried egg
pickled vegetables

Features : Ekiben (Lunch box) at Ofuna, Fujisawa and other stations. Sukeroku sushi derives from the Kabuki play Sukeroku Shoroku Edozakura (Sukeroku place record Edo cherry tree).

Ekiben available : Shinjuku Station

Price (incl. tax) :

Nutritional Information

Calories (kcal) : 572.0
Protein (g) : 18.6
Fat (g) : 13.1
Carbohydrate (g) : 94.8
Salt equivalent (g) : 3.6

Main ingredients

Inari sushi (domestically produced rice)
Nakamaki (domestically produced rice)
Dried gourd rolls (domestically produced rice)
Cucumber roll (domestically produced rice)

Features : Ekiben (Lunch box) at Shonan and Kamakura Stations, containing four types of oshi-zushi (pressed sushi). The ‘traditional horse mackerel oshi-zushi’, made from half a small horse mackerel, is a Shonan-Kamakura speciality, as it was when it was first sold in 1913. The ‘Odawara horse mackerel’ has been selected as a “PRIDE FISH” in Kanagawa Prefecture.

Ekiben available : Shinjuku Station

Price (incl. tax) : Yen 1,350

Nutritional Information

Calories (kcal) : 452.0
Protein (g) : 22.1
Fat (g) : 9.4
Carbohydrate (g) : 69.6
Salt equivalent (g) : 2.1

Main ingredients

Vinegared rice (domestically produced rice)
Vinegared horse mackerel
Vinegared prawn
Miso-glazed trout salmon
Vinegared crab
Vinegared ginger and kelp