List of Japanese snacks

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.^[1] Anko is mainly eaten during the afternoon green tea time in Japan. School students eat it after school, at home.

• Botamochi
• Daifuku
  • Ichigodaifuku [ja] - Daifuku with strawberry
• Dorayaki
• Manjū
• Monaka
• Imagawayaki
• Kusa mochi
• Taiyaki
• Yōkan

• 
  Botamochi
• 
  Daifuku
• 
  Ichigo daifuku
• 
  Dorayaki
• 
  Imagawayaki
• 
  Taiyaki
• 
  Cut surface of taiyaki
• 
  Yōkan with chestnut

Bean

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

• Edamame
• Soramame - boiled broad bean
• Ikarimame [ja] - fried broad bean

• 
  Edamame
• 
  Soramame
• 
  Ikarimame [ja]

Bread/Wheat Flour

generic

• Karintō – deep-fried brown sugar snack
• Monjayaki
• Okonomiyaki
• Takoyaki

• 
  Karintō
• 
  Karintō in bottles
• 
  Monjayaki
• 
  Okonomiyaki
• 
  Takoyaki

brand

• Hello Panda
• Kappa Ebisen
• Koala's March
• Pocky – known as Mikado in Europe
• Pretz
• Yan Yan

• 
  Kappa Ebisen
• 
  Pretz
• 
  A package of regular Yan Yan

Candy

generic

• Amezaiku - Japanese candy craft artistry
• Aruheitō [ja]
• Konpeitō
• Ramune candy - compressed tablet candy

• 
  Amezaiku
• 
  Konpeitō
• 
  Ramune 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.

• 
  Milky (candy) [ja]
• 
  Puccho [ja]

Cake

• Tokyo Banana

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^[2]
• 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

• 
  Apollo (chocolate) [ja]
• 
  Choco Baby [ja]
• 
  Choco Ball [ja]
• 
  DARS (chocolate) [ja]
• 
  Pocky
• 
  Kinoko no yama
• 
  Takenoko no sato [ja]

Ice cream & shaved ice

generic

• Green tea ice cream
• Kakigōri
• Mochi ice cream

• 
  Green tea ice cream
• 
  Green tea kakigōri (left) and strawberry flavoured kakigōri (right)
• 
  Mochi ice cream

brand

• Choco Monaka Jumbo [ja], manufactured by Morinaga & Company.
• Panapp^[3]
• Yukimi Daifuku

• 
  Choco Monaka Jumbo [ja]
• 
  Yukimi Daifuku

Potato

generic

• Ishiyakiimo　- roasted sweet potato
• Kenpi

• 
  Ishiyakiimo
• 
  Kenpi

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.

• 
  Jagarico
• 
  Kara Mucho
• 
  Pote Long
• 
  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.

• 
  Small onigiris convenient for snacks
• 
  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.
• 
  Modern onigiris wrapped in a small, transparent plastic bag

Rice based snacks are known as beika (米菓).

• Agemochi
• Arare
• Botamochi
• Daifuku
• Dango
• Kaki no tane
• Kaminari okoshi [ja]
• Kusa mochi
• Mochi
• Senbei

• 
  Arare
• 
  Hanami dango
• 
  Kaki no tane
• 
  Kaminari okoshi [ja]
• 
  Senbei

brand

• Bakauke
• Olive no Hana
• Onigiri senbei

• 
  Bakauke
• 
  Onigiri senbei

Seafood

• Big Katsu
• Ebi senbei
• Gyoniku soseji, a surimi fish sausage
• Miyako Konbu
• Surume
• Yotchan Ika

Street foods

• Dorayaki
• Korokke
• Nikuman
• Ōbanyaki
• Taiyaki
• Takoyaki
• Yakitori

Mixed and other

• Ajigonomi
• Don Tacos

Producers

• Calbee
• Glico
• Kameda Seika
• Koikeya
• Kuriyama Beika
• Lotte
• Meiji
• Morinaga
• Tohato
• Yamayoshi

See also

• Japanese instant noodles
• List of Japanese dishes
• List of snack foods by country
• Snacking
• Wagashi
• Sakana

References

External links

• Media related to Snack foods of Japan at Wikimedia Commons