Bread

The Japanese bakeries have HUGE bread slices! Who'd have thought that, in this rice-centric and petite, individually packaged cuisine that the bakeries would bake loaves of bread with 1-2 inch sized slices. Makes Texas toast look short and small! The loaves are labeled according to the number of slices per loaf. We stop by daily (sometimes, multiple times) in the Japanese bakeries throughout the city to buy loaves of bread or an adzuku-filled sweet roll. (Adzuki are big sweet red beans and are found frequently in Japanese desserts, along with green tea). White bread predominates, but we're able to find sesame seed and occasionally some wheat or rye bread. The bread is delicious- soft, slightly chewy crust, and creamy crumb. Cafes serve slices for breakfast, but we don't see it served any other time of the day. The ubiqitous convenience shops (Family Mart, 7/11, Lawson Natural, etc.) sell packaged sandwiches with thinner slices of white bread with mayonnaise-based salad fillings or tonkatsu (fried meat). The sushi is always the first to go though.

 

Japanese Bread- thick slices!



The most popular

Loaves packaged and priced according to slice count

An occasional raisin bread

Grain and sesame seed loaves are sometimes available