Food Picture Tour

By Emma Heverly

I have spent my fair share of time in Japan both visiting family and being a typical tourist. Naturally, that includes lots of eating! Join me on this Food Tour as I show you some of my favorite things I have eaten in Japan over the years:)

(p.s. I’m not good at taking photos, so I apologize for the lack of artistic sense you’ll see in these photos)

Pancakes at Cafe Hygge in Hokkaido: We liked the syrup container so much, we ended up buying the same one a few days later.

Neapolitan-style pizza: All pizza should come with a soft egg on top!

A family sushi night

Left to right: rare-berry cheesecake, tiramisu, and mont blanc with iced black tea at a cafe somewhere in Shizuoka-ken

Fruit and dessert popsicles being sold near Oshiage Station

Assortment of ice cream desserts and milkshakes

The cutest animal macarons!

Decadent Eggs Benedict: It was very different from what I was expecting and used to from the US!

Hiroshima style okonomiyaki in a food court in Tachikawa

Injeolmi sulbing with Injeolmi toast: perfect snack for a hot summer day in Harajuku!

Some buffets in Japan give you these sections off plates so you can get small portions of many different things. It makes the experience much more fun!

A kids curry rice lunch set at the Tokyo Sea Life Park

Some Japanese supermarkets have freshly made items for you to pick up. Here features kushiage (skewered meat and vegetables) and deep fried items like tonkatsu and korokke!

Omurice lunch set and mackerel lunch set in Tachikawa Station

The dessert displays are always so beautiful!

Wasabi ice cream: Tastes nothing like what you might imagine. It just tastes like grass fell into your ice cream :/

Sukiyaki: one of the many courses of the traditional Japanese ryokan restaurant

Breakfast at this ryokan also has those sectioned off areas for maximizing buffet potential!

Mozuku and shumai: Part of another multi course menu at a tofu restaurant in Kokubunji

Berry kakigori: Shared with fellow J-Cafe member Haruna!

Finally, breakfast by my grandma: She likes to feed me way beyond what I would normally eat. But nothing is better than homemade food made with love!