Daily Grocery
List of shops and helpful tips for shopping for your daily grocery.
shops
Natural House
Organic, health food chain store selling produce including vegetables, fruits, bread, personal products, and household items. Here, you can find vegan bread, cereals, instant ramen noodles and curry block, soup base, mayonnaise, cookies and at some locations, vegan bento boxes*. Stores in 11 locations in Tokyo plus online store.
Address: Omotesando | 3-6-18 Kita-aoyama, Minato-ku | website (Japanese only)
*Important: At Natural House, bento boxes labeled as “vegetarian” are vegan except for some with honey. Look out for the word はちみつ (honey) on the ingredient label.
F & F
Another organic, health food chain store selling wider range of produce, bread, cereal, personal products, and household items. Stores in 15 locations in Tokyo plus online store.
Address: Hiroo | 5-15-20 Minami-azabu, Minato-ku | website (Japanese only)
Lima
A macrobiotic and natural food store and cooking school located in Shinjuku and Ikejiri-ohashi plus online store. The store offers great selection of groceries, personal products, household goods, supplements, books and other essentials. For cruelty-free household items such as soaps and laundry detergent, please check this page.
Address: Shinjuku | 2-23-1 Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku | website (Japanese only)
GAIA
A macrobiotic and natural food store located in Ochanomizu and Yoyogi-uehara plus online store. Ochanomizu location also has a restaurant on 3rd floor offering vegan lunch.
Address: Ochanomizu | 3-3-13 Kanda-surugadai, Chiyoda-ku | website (Japanese only)
Seijo Ishii
Chain supermarket with some vegan-friendly groceries such as bagel, soy yogurt, soy milk, pasta noodle and sauce, and cookies. Over 60 stores in Tokyo plus online store.
Address: Roppongi Hills | 6-2-31 Roppongi, Minato-ku | website
online store
Tengu Natural Foods
Good selection of domestic and imported organic and vegan food operated by Alishan Organic Center in Saitama Prefecture. They also have a shop and a vegetarian cafe next to the shop. | online store
KaRuNa
Vegetarian grocery shop offering variety of vegan goods including soy cheese, soy meat, vegan mayonnaise, and margarine. | online store
Yahoo! Japan
Surprisingly, Yahoo’s shopping site has a variety of vegan food including pizza with vegan cheese which is delicious, deep fried soy meat and “chicken” nuggets (frozen), soy ham, and vegan ice cream. Just do a search by the word ビーガン (vegan). | online store
Amazon Japan
Amazon Japan offers some vegan food such as vegan tuna, instant noodles, vegan meat sauce, soy cheese, and curry blocks. | online store
iHerb
I always get so excited shopping here because you can get so many vegan food not available in Japan directly from U.S. for a reasonable price. Free shipping for orders over 4,335 yen. | online store