Boxed Lunch

Here is a store that sells boxed lunches. You choose from many different kinds of dishes to fill up a disposable plastic box. Convenience stores and grocery stores sell lunches that are pre-packed. These boxed lunches are called obentou. Big Sister and Little Brother needed an obentou when they were in nursery school. They had their own heavy duty plastic lunchbox that I prepared each morning. Their elementary school has a school lunch service. Big Sister had to take an obentou the first two years of junior high, but this year her school started a school lunch service. She will need to take an obentou to high school.

Note: The word obentou is spelled with a "u" in Japanese romaji. The "u" makes the "o" long. So, if you were learning or writing romaji in Japan you would spell it with a "u" at the end.


Setsuko Watanabe's site

Bento Box