Taking a bite from an ekiben while absorbing the view from the window of the train as it rocks us back and forth; Packed meals from railway stations (called ekiben) are something special, to be ...
Japan Railway Group companies and ekiben makers are joining forces to have the boxed meals sold at train stations across Japan registered as an intangible cultural asset. Ekiben makers are facing the ...
Travelers to Japan will almost certainly encounter the ekiben, a portmanteau referring to the ubiquitous bentō boxed meals sold at train stations, or eki. They are so popular that Japan Railways ...
KIRISHIMA, Kagoshima Prefecture—Despite being unmanned and out of service, Kareigawa Station on the JR Hisatsu Line draws flocks of visitors on weekends and holidays. Even an active volcano can’t ...
HOKUTO, Yamanashi Prefecture--A boxed feast offered by a company here brought home the bacon from the Ekiben Grand Prix 2021 contest as the best “ekiben” lunch sold at train stations and on ...
On the morning of November 5, 2021, an unfamiliar scene unfolds in Paris’s famed Gare de Lyon, on the banks of the Seine. In front of one platform, crowded with passengers waiting to board ...
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