EVERY VEGAN SNACK you can buy at convenience stores in Japan 

I became a Vegetarian eight years ago and it was a little difficult to find and prepare food for that kind of diet.. Now "Health food aisles" have sprung up everywhere.. I have never felt better.. Hanna I'm proud of you for doing what you are doing you will never regret it.. Keep it up.. Broccoli is my favorite snack food..

"Spreading the correct information is the best information." Well said, wise words! I only recently found your channel on my mad dash to find vegan, Japanese goodies. You seem incredibly friendly and laid back, and this video was most helpful. Thanks a bunch! :]

Going vegan is something I am all for, and I hope to slowly integrate myself into. Seeing videos like this and hearing people share their experiences definitely helps motivate me to get there!

Yessss! This video is amazing, really happy to see so many options. I'm planning on travelling to Japan soon so this video will be a massive help! 😄😄

I’ve moved to Japan (Inaka) recently and this video is so so so helpful thank you! 🙏 having access to these convenience stores makes travelling as a vegan in Japan so easy 🥰 thank you for taking the time to make this very helpful and informative video 🙏🌻

I’m so happy that I found this video! I’m vegan and soon going to Japan for a week and this was very helpful.

Came for the plant, stayed for the long cheeto

so happy that i found your channel! i'm traveling to Japan next week and was nervous about finding vegan friendly restaurants and snacks, so this is so helpful!

ごもくしらあえだよ tofu and salad dressed with white sesame and miso. it is Japanese traditional food!

Thank you so much for posting this! This is so helpful for my upcoming trip to Japan! 🌱🌱

thank you for posting this the literal day I moved to japan YOU'RE AN ANGEL 💕

This is so helpful thank you- I havent found much content about eating vegan in Japan so this was just brilliant

I'm so happy to see all of these options! Just found out I'm severely allergic to wheat, eggs and milk. I've been heartbroken because I didn't know how I would be able to manage Japan if I ever get the chance to go there. This made that dream of mine come back to life!

Yeah for Lawson's, my family loved it there when we were vacationing in Japan!!! Keep up the great videos Hannah!!! Cheers!!!

Yasss 🙌🏻 Lawson is my fave, and I love the new natural line too!

Stay safe from those earthquakes and typhoons! Love your vids!

First time to make a comment here! Thanks for the amazing video! Although I am not vegan/vegetarian myself but as a fellow RU-vidr, I make videos dedicated to people from my culture (including videos about food because we have our own restrictions on food as well) I can relate about how things are not clear on the label most of the time so honestly, before making any food video I always contact the factory to make sure of the ingredients before publishing that on the internet. That being said, from my humble experience I figured that most factories would list the probability of having dairy, eggs,animal products..etc JUST IN CASE IF the factory make other products that include those ingredients. WHY? because here in Japan customers are VERY picky and they may sue a factory even on the slightest mistake that's no.1, and no.2 because they can't assure you that all their workers stay in the same place working from 9 to 5 . There is a possibility that the worker in the pastry section for example being called to help workers in the meat section for an hour or so. so what if by mistake a tiny bit of meat has fell in the pastry he is making? As a big company/factory most of them would prefer to be safe than sorry and would just write that dairy,eggs or animal products ..etc are being used in the same factory so there is a possibility that your food may contain them in most cases the food doesn't contain these products it's just there for safety. Once again thanks for the amazing video it was reallllllly enjoyable

Thank you so much for this video!! 😊💕

Thank you so much for this video!!! I've been vegan for a few months now and will move to Japan in a few weeks, so I'm excited to check out some of the things you have shown in the video. Also: I really enjoyed the whole style of this video :) I'll definitely be back and watch more :) Greetings from Germany

Hannah, this vid is so informative! You could add Nattou and Kongnyaku, these are vegan foods^^ However almost all foreigners detest and avoid them because of their texture and or flavor^^

THANK YOU. I've seen so many discouraging videos, where they were like "you can only eat these 3 things from convinies", this makes me feel like i won't actually starve :)

Another great video... I love them! Living la vida loca ;P (and that middle finger clip too lol) - Would you do a video on the Costco store(s) in Japan? It'll be interesting to see and compare what they have versus what's available in the Costco's on Mexico and the U.S.

I went to Japan in 2017. Conbini were a nice break from the usual Clif Bars and Kettle Chips of American 7/11s, and in many ways I prefer them (speaking as a strict vegan). My favorite conbini snack (and one of the healthiest) is dried sweet potato strips. IDK how common it is, I found it in a 7/11 in Shimokita. You can also get fruit juice with pulp at some Family Marts, and regular fruit juice almost everywhere. And I practically lived on those Macrobio bars from Morinaga! Especially as they contain beet sugar (tensai satou) as opposed to white sugar.

Amazing, thank you so much for the effort. Muji has two vegan curries, the Chana Masala curry and the Baigan Till Masala curry (Apple Vegetable curry contains honey), as well as many snacks like Oats Sable Chocolate Cookies.

Hey Hannah! Thank you so much for this video ^_^

Hannah, thank you so much for this. Today after walking around a lot, as I am a tourist in Japan, I was coming back to the hostel and was starving, but had no strength to go someplace and wait for dinner, I also have no money, but the one thing I had was unlimited WiFi so I watched your video, got to the nearest Lawson and bought the weird but delicious side creamy salad thing, another salad and that vegan chocolate. Thank you for that! For the first time I didn’t look like a golden retriever trying to find something vegan at the store.

thank you, this will help a lot!

Thanks for this! I'm currently living in a not-so-major city in China and planning to make a similar type of video. I'm hoping to move to Japan soon. It definitely seems to be better in Japan for convenience stores!

love you for making this vid, vegan travel is my favorite! yesssss!!!!

I am not vegan and I am not planning of coming to Japan but I really enjoyed this video. It's really informative. Fun to see that there is such a variety of foods and snacks in convenience stores.

Thank you for this! ❤

Loooved this videoooo! I wanna live in Tokyo as soon as I can, and I'm vegan too. I've been researching abt vegan food in Japan so I won't go crazy once I'm there xD Even tho I study Japanese and will be able to read the ingredients and stuff, if it's hard to find food I can eat when it's written in my language, in other language will be even harder xD Also to know where to find everything, it's always good to do a research. Thanks for all the information! Greetings from Brazil ~ :)

Love this video! Wish u had still frames for the food bc it was hard to screenshot

Thank you! This will be so helpful! (:

So glad I found your channel! Was worried about staying vegan in Japan.

700th likeer! Im going in January and I cant get excited because im so anxious. Im going with all meat eaters. I hate being difficult im stressed. this has helped alot. Im going to print screenshots of the packets and just stock up.

Thanks Hannah! 💜

Hanna, nice to meet you! I can't understand English. But I is watching your videos. I am non meet eater. My recommendation at seven eleven is bananas, pineapple, Japanese pickles, tofu, sweet roasted chestnuts.

Thanks for the vegan list! It’ll be handy when we visit. I’m excited for the Meiji chocolate. Sounds like it’s worth having a bread machine while living in Japan :)

T’s tan tan 😍 take me back!!

Oh my god!! You made me remember all these snacks and appetizers sold in a convenience store over there... How dare you, I nearly cried haha. I'm buying a ticket to Japan

Super, super useful! I visit Tokyo frequently (moving semi-soon), go to conbini a lot, and my Japanese reading lags behind my conversational skills...so I struggle identifying vegan-appropriate foods from the labels. I'm spoiled, selection-wise (I live in Portland, Oregon...need I say more?). Thanks so much for this!

Your video saved me, thank you ❤️

Yum! I love Lawson’s!

Very very helpful, thank you Hannah

You seem like an awesome Vegan and shouldn't feel pressured by anyone to feel otherwise. As for not being sure about whether something is vegan or not I'm sure it's the same everywhere to some extent. Here in Australia we have fairly strict labeling but we still have to contact companies to be sure of a lot of products. Luckily it's not just up to one person though, and when people do it they often make a note somewhere on the net about it. Hopefully that becomes more common in Japan as more Vegans go there and live there and then google will help search out those answers.

Thanks, that was very helpful!

Very useful and informative video especially for anyone who is vegan or vegetarian. It's too bad about all the bread containing either eggs or dairy. That vegan plant in the background is a nice touch👌

I agree Lawson is great they got the “Natural Lawson” products. There is another konbini called Sunkus.

wow thank you! that was really helpful

Yaaas 🙌🏼 Thankyou!

"May contain..." I'm pretty sure is labeling for cross contamination and not actively putting in it the food which is acceptable for most of us vegans.

I love FamilyMart, personally. Their green smoothies are the best of the big 3. 7-11 doesn't even have house brand green smoothies. Muji food is incredibly good. Which is funny since as you said, they're known for furniture and homewares. I haven't tried their curries, just their non-vegan butter chicken, and tom yum soup potato chips which are amazing.

Thank You Sooooooooo MUCH!!!

Nice video, your new outro music is good 👍. By the way, when did you decide to become a vegan and the reason for it. Thanks for all the videos, loved them.

Thanks for sharing! Not a vegan, but I am trying to start eating more ethically. Lawsons is my least favourite! I only went once and got food poisoning! Ironically from meat 😂. But looks like their vego/vegan options are great!

Thank you for the video ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Very very useful, thank you. I can speak some Japanese but I think I would really struggle with ingredients lists haha (Kanji is not my strong point)

Hi I'm a japanese girl and kinda vegan lately🍅 I finally could buy some stuffs at convenient stores cause japanese convenient store's stuffs always includes animal products.. thanx💗

a 2024 update would be awesome :)

Agree completely, Lawson is bae!

Thanks for sharing this video 😆

Your face impressions smile 😍

Super helpful video!!🤙

We also have the sometimes-misleading allergen warnings here in the USA, referring to potential cross contamination rather than actual ingredients. Obviously being fluent in a language that's on the package makes it much easier, but it can still make it much harder to quickly rule things out for those of us not too fastidious to eat things processed in the same place as non-vegan foods.

Were the conbini employees alarmed by the white girl in aisle 4, flipping off the cup noodles!? 🤣 Great video (with special guest expression from Jess), very informative, even for non-vegans. It’s good to know you won’t actually starve and that there’s quite a wide selection available.

I think the konbu onigiri at 7/11 actually has dashi mixed into it, but I'm not 100% on that. Thanks so much for this video!

Mochi is also my fave!!!

I was vegan in America for 4 years before moving to Japan. I don't live in Tokyo so there's not as much available, and my husband is very against the idea of veganism even if only for me, so I want to at least eat vegan when I'm eating alone for dietary reasons and to cut down on animal suffering at least somewhat so I'm happy for this vegan snack video. Thank you!

With natural disasters popping up all around Japan lately (I know that Tokyo is about 2 1/2 hours away from Osaka by Shinkansen, and even farther away from Sapporo and other parts of Hokkaidō) it’s still good to see your post.👍🏻

Thank you SO much.

“You and mochi” soooooo cute

Thanks for the vid! I’m going to Tokyo and I have a feeling I’m going to live on white rice for the week

I wonder if the hash browns and fries from Family Mart is fried in separate oil than their fried meat products (fried chicken, etc).

Nice! Very helpful。

thank you for this video.. I am vegan and I am planning to visit Japan

I am allergic to strawberries, what would you recommend when shopping for snacks at a convenience store or just eating out in Japan in general?

Adding the finger to the non vegan products was quite amusing 😄

Hannah, thank you! I am a vegan about to go to Japan for the 26th trip and this may be the easiest foodwise thanks to my notes I just took.Great info! But about the Familymart hash browns and fries: Are you sure they are cooked in vegetable oil? Inany case the same oil the meat is cooked in, right?

I tried those soy nuggets! So unusual they even made them when so many restaurants don't even have vegetarian options. I heard a lot of people didn't like them, so I guess that's why they were discontinued.

Great video!I just wanted to ask if the oreos in Japan are vegan?

Hi Hannah, Thanks for another video. I noticed this before, but I just thought I wanted to give you some information that's more accurate when you describe mochi. You might already know this, but your favourite 3-coloured dumplings aren't exactly mochi, but they're called 'dango' (だんご or 団子). Because they're three-coloured, they're named 'Sanshoku Dango' (three-coloured dango) or 'Hanami Dango', which were my favourite snacks too when I was a child. The packet of dumplings you picked at 11'15" are also dango called 'Mitarashi Dango' with sweet brown sauce on them. I know that mochi and dango are similar, because both of them are sticky, similar texture, made from rice etc., but they're made in different ways. They use different kinds of rice too (even Wikipedia (English) on dango is giving incorrect information on the flour for it, so don't quote them on that). Sorry to be a pain in the arse, but I thought you'd probably like to know about them correctly, because mochi & dango are your favourite food?

thanks for this. i am planning to visit japan for three months (at least a third in tokyo) and feel like i'm pretty screwed as a vegan once i leave tokyo. at least in europe and the US most vegan items have an easy to spot vegan logo on them!

Thank you so much I was thinking of visiting or Evan moving to Japan but wasn't sure if its imposible to be vegan in japan

Muchas muchas gracias!!! :)

I love you hannah ❤️

Noice! It seems that i'm now watching your videos hoping to get a laugh… Intro yep, the eye roll when you started on the ingredients thing (also most youtubers have those pixie lights in the background) that time you actually flipped an inanimate object hehehe! (ohh multiple times hope they learned their lesson hehehe) The one thing i found out from my little experience with japan is that they are in a constant flux of changing the foodstuffs and even if they're popular they might still discontinue it. Mmmm looks like cat food but i'll give it a shot if i come across it. Hmmm i wonder if you might know why it's called a "rice ball" but it's shaped like a triangle/pyramid… Anyway hope the storm isn't too bad in tokyo.

Thanks for that!! Keep "Ffiving ffe foog ffiggt!!"

everyone is a big kid at heart :)

Another really informative vlog! thanks so much for making this! Im pretty sure udon and soba are vegan but some ramen noodles MAY contain chicken egg. I'm allergic to whey protein in milk and proteins found in egg whites. It really sucked as a kid. So, My question...Are there any options for NON dairy ice cream in Japan? I really enjoy the options here with Soy milk, almond milk and cashew nut milk ice creams are so delicious. Since I cannot read Japanese this vlog is really helpful!! Thanks again!!

the middle finger at the soy cream was great

I’m just tying to help but some types of soy sauce like ‘だししょうゆ’ contain bonito=fish & some others contain Kombu kelp for your information. And many of cooked food available at convenience stores contains MSG for those who care.

In their ice cream section at Family Mart they have these little fruit sorbet balls in packages. Do you know if they are vegan?

Is vegan an actual "thing" in Japan? In North America there are a lot of vegan restaurants or menus just for vegans. Has this started to take in Japan as well, or is it up to you to find out what is or isn't on your own before ordering?

0:08 plant cameo Very informative!

Hi Hannah :) OK, I think 'butter-oil' = ghee aka clarified butter. Yep, the steamed red-bean paste buns are vegan, they're the same as Chinese 'pau'. Other vegan options would be black bean paste, lotus seed paste. I don't think you'll find sweet coconut ones though; I think that's more a Singapore thing... NO VEGAN BREAD?!? GASP!!!

What is the name of the vegan ramen place you ate at in Tokyo Station?

I'm nor in japan or vegan, but I'm still loving your videos!

I'm a flexitarian but I don't like to eat meat mostly, I only eat it when I really want to. And yeah, I hate seafood, I can't with the smell. so I guess it was a helpful guide for me, next year japan, I'm coming for ya.

Good