What Food Delivery Looks Like in Japan

When visiting Japan, since there are so many restaurant options, and places to get take out, you may never have had the experience of ordering for delivery. Although some places do deliver the standard North American way, many places do it slightly differently.

Here's an example of a delivered meal in Japan (pot and rice scoop included):

The North American way is to deliver the food in styrofoam, plastic or aluminum containers that are disposable. In Japan, they may use glass dishes, bento boxes, thermos pots and plastic chopsticks, things that are meant to be reused and not thrown away. You may be wondering how this works.

You do not have to wash them yourself as that would defeat the purpose of the convenience of delivery food. You just stuff the dishes in the plastic bag provided and put it outside your door. A delivery person will come and pick up the dirty dishes sometime during the next day!

The meal in the pictures is from a delivery food service called Kamatora 釜寅. The dish I ordered was 「釜寅」五目 (1390 yen, plus tax), it's basically flavoured rice and toppings cooked in a kama, a special pot that cooks over a flame).
Restaurant's Website: https://www.kamatora.jp/