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Is Tokyo Station’s startlingly expensive wagyu bento boxed lunch worth its high price?[Taste test]

SoraNews24
Mar 3, 2026
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The Yukifuri Wagyu Obanazawa Sirloin and Rib Loin Steak Rice Box has a long name, a high price, and our stomach’s interest.

Japan
(beef • bento • boxed lunches • COK • Ekiben • expensive food • food • Japan travel • meat • SNJO • steak • taste test • Tokyo Station • tourism • travel • Wagyu)

Take a look inside the Future Train, a unique new restaurant diner and cafe in Kyoto

Oona McGee
Sep 13, 2025

A retired Thunderbird gets a pink facelift and futuristic interiors that’ll whisk you away to another world.

Japan
(cafe • cool • Ekiben • food • Future Train • Future Train Kyoto Diner & Cafe • Japanese food • Japanese trains • Kyoto • pink • restaurants • Sebastian Masuda • themed restaurants • Thunderbird • trains)

Tokyo Station staff share their top 10 favorite ekiben

Elliot Hale
Aug 17, 2025

Gransta Tokyo have selected the best travel lunches for your next long train ride.
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Japan
(Anji Tabata • bento • COK • dining • Ekiben • food and drinks • gourmet • Gransta • Gransta Tokyo • Japanese food • ranking • survey • Tokyo • Tokyo Station • Top Ten • travel)

Musical ekiben adds a tune to your train station bento meal

Oona McGee
Jun 6, 2025

Japan’s only musical ekiben lets you sing for your supper.

Japan
(beef • bento • bullet trains • dining • Ekiben • food • gourmet • Japanese food • Japanese trains • local specialties • shinkansen • SNJO • trains • travel • Wagyu)

Ekiben vending machine adds new excitement to bullet train travel in Japan

Oona McGee
May 10, 2025

A new way to enjoy ekiben on the Shinkansen.

Japan
(bento • bullet trains • crab • dining • Ekiben • food • Fukui • gourmet • Japanese food • Japanese trains • local specialties • red snow crab • shinkansen • trains • travel)

Traveling with taste: Try one of Tokyo Station’s top ten ranked ekiben

Krista Rogers
Jan 15, 2025

Next time you’re passing through, keep an eye out for one of these station bento to treat yourself during your travels.

Japan
(bento • dining • Ekiben • food • gourmet • Monoqlo • ranking • Tokyo Station • Top Ten • travel)

Tokaido Shinkansen Sushi Journey Bento takes your taste buds on a trip from Tokyo to Osaka

Oona McGee
Oct 15, 2024

Bullet train travel gets a tasty new ekiben upgrade.

Japan
(bento • bullet train • COK • Ekiben • food • japanese snacks • Japanese trains • shinkansen • snacks • SNJO • sushi • Tokaido Shinkansen • tourism • train • train travel • trains • travel)

Epic cutlet sandwiches in Osaka are the best Shinkansen bento

Oona McGee
Aug 11, 2024

A tasty way to travel on the bullet train.

Japan
(bento • big eats • bullet train • cutlet sandwich • Ekiben • food • Japanese food • katsu • katsu sandwich • Osaka • sandwiches • shinkansen • train stations)

Famous train station bento boxed lunches, but in a can? Taste-testing canned ekiben【Taste test】

Casey Baseel
Oct 5, 2023

There’s only one station in Japan where you can find these canned versions of famous boxed lunches.

Japan
(bento • boxed lunches • canned food • COK • Ekiben • food • kochin • SNJO • stations • Tajima beef • taste test • trains)

Cute ekiben station bento looks like it’s from Japan but it’s from a different place entirely

Oona McGee
Sep 19, 2023

Similar in so many ways, except one which sets them apart.

Japan, Taiwan
(bento • boxed lunch • bullet trains • COK • cute • drinks • Ekiben • food • kanahei • lunch box • lunch box foods • shinkansen • SNJO • Taiwan • tourism • trains • travel • Yui Imai)

This ekiben train station bento is filled with surprises

Oona McGee
Jun 19, 2023

Join us on the bullet train as we uncover hidden treasure from Niigata.

Japan
(bento • COK • Ekiben • food • gourmet • Japanese food • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • Masanuki Sunakoma • Niigata • seafood • Shrimp • SNJO • taste test • train stations • trains • travel)

The 5 best Japanese bento to buy at Kyoto Station

Oona McGee
Nov 28, 2022

These ekiben are a feast for the eyes as well as the taste buds.

Japan
(bento • COK • Ekiben • food • gourmet • Japanese food • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • K. Masami • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • train stations • trains • travel)

Japanese train becomes a restaurant at this sleepy countryside station

Oona McGee
Nov 19, 2022

A very unique place to eat.

Japan
(COK • Ekiben • food • gourmet • Gunma • Japanese food • Japanese restaurants • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • restaurants • SNJO • train stations • trains • travel • weird)

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu bento sold for 10th anniversary tour

Master Blaster
Jan 31, 2022

Waiter, there’s kawaii in my food.

Japan
(bento • Ekiben • food • Gunma • Kyary Pamyu Pamyu • Kyary Pamyu Pamyu 10th Anniversary Japan Tour 2022 Candy Wave • music • Oginoya • Toge no Kamameshi)

This sandwich bento with 120-year history from Kamakura is a masterful example of how less is more

Dale Roll
May 21, 2021

Don’t be fooled by its simplicity, because that’s what makes it shine!

Japan
(bento • COK • Ekiben • ham • history • Kamakura • Kamakura Ham • Ofuna • sandwiches • Shinagawa Station • SNJO • trains)

Shinjuku Bento surprises us with historic ingredient from the samurai era

Oona McGee
May 19, 2021

Unusual ekiben takes us back in time with a hot ingredient.

Japan
(bento • boxed lunches • COK • cool • Edo • Ekiben • food • shinjuku • SNJO • station bento • stations • taste test • trains)

Hungry and on the go? Top 10 ranking of ekiben at Tokyo’s Shinagawa Station

Krista Rogers
Jul 30, 2019

A definitive ranking of the 10 best-selling bento boxes at one of Tokyo’s major travel hubs.

Japan
(bento • Ekiben • food • gourmet • ranking • Shinagawa Station • shinkansen • Tokyo • top 10 • trains)

Godzilla: King of the Bento, now with limited King of the Monsters packaging

Master Blaster
Jul 12, 2019

Octopus, eel, vegetables, and rice all in the same bowl? Let them fight.

Japan
(Awajiya • bento • Ekiben • food • Godzilla • Godzilla: King of the Monsters • Kansai • movies)

This beautiful beefy bento is one of the best meals you can have on a train in Japan

Casey Baseel
Jun 4, 2019

Kobe beef’s fiercest rival is the star of this sukiyaki ekiben that not only tastes amazing, but sounds great too.

Japan
(bento • boxed lunches • COK • cool • crazy • Ekiben • food • Matsuzaka beef • meat • Mie • SNOJ • station bento • stations • taste test • trains)

Should strong-smelling foods be banned from bullet trains? Japanese citizens debate

Dale Roll
Mar 23, 2018

A popular snack for the trip home from Kansai is an Osaka-specialty pork bun, but some commuters think they should be banned.

Japan
(551 Hourai Pork Bun • bullet trains • Ekiben • nikuman • Osaka • shinkansen • steamed bun • takoyaki • train etiquette)

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