School Days: Lunch Boxes

Here are examples of Japanese lunchboxes. Big Sister used the pink one in kindergarten. I used to put a cherry tomato or mini tomato in the little pink plastic star so it wouldn't roll around. Little Brother uses the yellow and green lunch box for elementary school outings and Sports Days. We got it as a gift from Baskins & Robbins. (The ice cream shop is called "31" here). The little green container that has Pluto on it is for onigiri or rice balls. Little Brother prefers to have several onigiri along with other things. Sometimes I need to put an extra onigiri in this container. He has school lunch service so he doesn't need this lunch box every day.

The other picture shows Little Brother's lunch box in its carrying bag. The black box is the lunch box Big Sister used in junior high. The long thin black container is for chopsticks or ohashi . Someday I'll show you full lunch boxes. Hopefully, I'll be a better photographer by then!

Kids Web Japan--lunch boxes

Setsuko Watanabe's site

Bento Box