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The first sale of ekiben is generally believed to have been at the Utsunomiya Station in 1885 which opened when the Nihon Tetsudo line linked the station to Ueno Station in Tokyo. [2] In the beginning the ekiben offered were simple fare, the ekiben offered at Utsunomiya Station were simply onigiri (rice balls) wrapped in young bamboo leaves. [2 ...
Ekiben Hitoritabi (駅弁ひとり旅, "Train Lunch Solo Journey") is a seinen manga series by Jun Hayase, serialized in Manga Action.It focuses on the main character, Nakahara Daisuke, as he eats ekiben, bento meals sold at train stations, as he travels around Japan by rail.
Kamameshi is sometimes served in ekiben, or bento boxes purchased at train stations. A small-scale replica of the kama is used to create an individual serving of kamameshi. A well known example is Tōge no Kamameshi , sold at Karuizawa Station in Nagano Prefecture , using a Mashiko ware kettle.
The act itself is named after the box that is filled with food that is sold by vendors walking around train stations or sporting events, ekiben. [2] The term was first popularized by Japanese male actor, Chocoball Mukai .
From the Meiji period onward, makunouchi has become a common convention for bento boxes called ekiben sold at train stations. [1] Convenience stores also sell a bento under the makunouchi name. Though the selection and number of items in a makunouchi bento vary from store to store, it often contains more items and costs more than other bento.
Shibuya is the fourth busiest station on the Tokyo Metro network and a major interchange with Tōkyū, Keiō, and JR East trains. List of Tokyo Metro stations lists stations on the Tokyo Metro, including lines serving the station, station location (ward or city), opening date, design (underground, at-grade, or elevated), and daily ridership.
Tsukemen at a Rokurinsha restaurant in Tokyo. As of January 2017, eight ramen restaurants are located at Ramen Street, [1] [9] and in 2011 it had four restaurants. [10] All restaurants use a ticketing system, where consumers purchase a ticket from a central vending machine to select their order, after which the ticket is given to wait staff to order food.
Taiwan Railway Bento (Chinese: 台鐵便當; pinyin: Táitiě Biàndāng) are a type of ekiben (bento boxed meals) manufactured and distributed on Taiwan Railway at major railway stations and in train cars. It is estimated that, with five million boxed meals sold per annum, the annual revenue from bento distribution is 370 million NTD (approx ...