Japanese "ekiben" box lunches sold at railroad stations will soon be making the long journey to Switzerland for train commuters to try there. Three long-established train lunch makers in Japan ...

“Ekiben” culture may be dying out, but a leading Tokyo department store is doing its level best to help operators find new sales channels for their products featuring delicacies from all over ...

In Nagaoka, there's an ekiben shaped by layers of tradition, featuring chicken meatballs with local chili, 100-year-old abura-age, thrice-pickled eggplants in miso and more, each with their own story.

Ekiben (a word that combines the Japanese words for station and boxed meal) are sold at stations and on trains throughout Japan. Unfortunately, the coronavirus pandemic, which affected ridership ...

Yuka Kiryu, a Japanese national in her 50s who lives in Zurich, said she had missed her home country's ekiben culture. "For lunch, to buy something at Zurich main station, there are not so many ...