Well, being an incredibly fussy eater, and a vegetarian there wasn’t much in the way of food that I felt like eating in Japan. In fact most days usually ended in me filling a basket full of junk in the AMPM store and then going back to the hotel room to stuff my face. Japanese junk food however, isn’t as junky tasting as it’s western counterpart and for someone with an incredibly sweet tooth like me then it turns into a very very yummy trip.
A few things I miss terribly on a daily basis from Japan are:
I do not drink pop, I’m not a fizzy pop drinker. I never have been, however I had more than one of these every day of the trip. It can be found pretty much everywhere in Japan, most vending machines have it. It tastes like sweets, sweets with a hint of grape, incredibly yummy sweets with a hint of grape. And I’m hoping that one day they’ll decide to release it over here. I’ve been hunting for it since I came back and the closest thing i’ve found is a grape drink called ‘cool light grape’ that’s in an asian supermarket near where I go to college.
Again on the drink’s front is this, which i admit I only bought this because the carton lookedincredibly cute and i love anything strawberry. It was super sweet though, and very yummy. It did not, (as I kept having to tell everyone) taste like strawberry milkshake. It tasted like milk with a very sweet edge to it, it had the consistency of milk too but with a cute pink tint.
Relax Bear doriyaki! 
Basically as soon as I saw it I had to buy it, however the entire trip I only saw them in Lawson stores and I’m pretty sure it’s the only place you can get them. It’s like normal doriyaki, two pancakes with filling except the filling isn’t red bean paste. It’s a thin sweet honey and a creamy white substance, both together tasted so yummy and as soon as I bit into it it made me smile.
The thing I miss the most from the entire trip, is probably this ice cream mochi. Again I only found it 
in Lawsons, in the freezer section but it was so tasty I wish i could have bought 50 of them and brought them home without them melting. Basically the outside is like normal mochi/daifuku, it’s soft elasticy, sweet and hard to describe to someone thats never had mochi before but it’s tasty and sweet but not like convetional western sweet things.
What sets this apart though is the filling, once you’ve bitten into it it’s filled with cold vanilla ice cream that is so creamy and yummy and goes really well with the outside. It was so yummy I went into a state of sugar shock.
Some other food nice food I had and miss are a steamed bun that was green and tasted of melons that I only found in one place and never saw again. A flat, round, giant red bean paste daifuku that was in AMPM and was very much worth the 70p. Super super hot crisps that again were in AMPM and were like flaming hot monster munch meets hula hoops except much hotter.
And if you’re wondering, yes I did just live on sweets while I was in japan.
