As a follow up to my Japanese house post, I am now going to post about Japanese grocery stores. You will notice some things are similar, and some are very different. Take a look:

Giant tofu section

Pre-made onigiri (rice balls) section

Cute pokemon and other anime characters on sandwichesBottled soft drinks section

"Daily foods" section

Iced desserts

Eggs (not just chicken eggs)

Huge noodle section

Cheeses

Soymilk section (with awesome flavors, like strawberry, banana, green tea)

Decadent desserts

Juice section

Soybean section

Natto (fermented soybean) section

Meat section

Fish and sea food section (it is actually bigger than it looks in this picture)

Ume (plums) I believe these are pickled

Seaweed section

Miso section

Tea section (I could not capture it all because it was too big!)

Ramen and cup of noodles (it is a huge section)

Candy section (all the processed foods sections are pretty much the same as in the U.S., so I only this picture)

Fruit section (pretty much the same)

Vegetable section (also pretty much the same)

Konyaku (yam noodles) section

Pre-made bento (pre-made lunch)

Other pre-made foods

Pre-made sushi section

Pre-made tempura

Bakery (normal except they have strange things like pre-made hotdogs and green tea bread)

Pre-made pizzas with strange toppings

I left out pictures of the packaged food aisles, because they were very similar. The only difference is they offer some strange products like freeze-dried fish chips and other Japanese “goodies”. So, that pretty much concludes a Japanese grocery store! In some ways they are the same, but in many ways, Japanese grocery stores are very different.