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This is a list of Japanese snacks (お菓子, okashi) and finger foods. It includes both brand name and generic snacks.

Types

Anko, or sweet bean paste

Anko is a kind of sweet bean paste. Anko is mainly eaten during the afternoon green tea time in Japan. School students eat it after school, at home.

Bean

Beans with salt are mainly taken with beer in the evening.

Bread/Wheat Flour

generic
brand

Candy

generic
  • Amezaiku - Japanese candy craft artistry
  • Aruheitō [ja]
  • Konpeitō
  • Ramune candy - compressed tablet candy
brand
  • Botan/Tomoe Ame
  • Calpis Candy
  • Chelsea (candy) [ja] – made by Meiji Confectionery in Japan
  • Cubyrop
  • gumi 100
  • Hi-chew
  • Milky (candy) [ja]
  • Pinky
  • Poifull [ja]
  • Puccho [ja]
  • Puré gumi candy - gummy candy with fruit purée made by KANRO Co., Ltd.
  • Fujiya Milky

    Milky (candy) [ja]

  • Puccho Soda

    Puccho [ja]

Cake

Chewing gum

  • Black Black
  • Fuwarinka
  • Kiss Mint and Watering Kissmint
  • Let's
  • Plus X
  • Poscam
  • Pure White
  • Sweetie
  • whatta – chewing gum by Meiji Confectionery
  • Xylish
  • Yuzu

Corn

  • Curl (Japanese snack)
  • Kyabetsu Taro

Chocolate

generic
  • Matcha chocolate - chocolate containing matcha
brand
  • Apollo (chocolate) [ja] - chocolate in shape of Apollo command module
  • Choco Baby [ja]
  • Choco Ball [ja]
  • Crunky [ja]
  • Crunky kids
  • DARS (chocolate) [ja]
  • E-Royce'
  • Every Burger
  • Kinoko no yama - known as CHOCOROOMS in US
  • Koara no māchi
  • Ghana
  • Pocky – known as Mikado in Europe
  • Pucca Chocolate
  • Takenoko no sato [ja] - known as CHOCOCONES in US
  • Toppo
  • Meiji Apollo (3592302545)

    Apollo (chocolate) [ja]

  • Meiji - CHOCO BABY

    Choco Baby [ja]

  • Morinaga Chocoball

    Choco Ball [ja]

  • DARS002

    DARS (chocolate) [ja]

  • Kinokonoyama

    Kinoko no yama

  • Takenoko No Sato

    Takenoko no sato [ja]

Ice cream & shaved ice

generic
brand
  • Morinaba Choco-monaka-jumbo

    Choco Monaka Jumbo [ja]

  • Yukimi Daifuku sliced

    Yukimi Daifuku

Potato

generic
brand
  • Bōkun Habanero
  • Jagarico, manufactured by Calbee.
  • Kara Mucho and Suppa Mucho
  • Kataage Potato
  • Pote Long [ja], manufactured by Morinaga & Company.
  • Wasabeef [ja] - wasabi & beef flavoured potato chips
  • Ototo [ja] - potato snack in shape of seafood.
  • Kara-mucho

    Kara Mucho

  • Potelong

    Pote Long

  • Wasabeef of Yamayoshi Seika

    Wasabeef

Rice

generic
  • Onigiri, or rice ball can be eaten both as a snack and as a meal, by modern Japanese people. In Sengoku period, samurai ate large rice balls as a field ration during the war.
  • Japanese rice balls (onigiri)

    Small onigiris convenient for snacks

  • Aoonigiri01

    In Sengoku period and Edo period, onigiris were often wrapped in bamboo skin when they were carried. Bamboo skin has an antibacterial effect and keeps rice balls longer.

  • Onigiri at a convenience store by typester in Kamakura

    Modern onigiris wrapped in a small, transparent plastic bag

Rice based snacks are known as beika (米菓).

See also: Wagashi
brand
  • Bakauke
  • Olive no Hana
  • Onigiri senbei

Seafood

Street foods

Cooking yakitori
Grilling yakitori

Mixed and other

Producers

See also

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