So there’s a lot of food to try in Japan. And with food comes drinks also. Here are some drinks you can expect to find in Japan.
I love milk tea! And there’s no shortage of selection of the stuff here. Different flavors, dosage of tea or milk, limited editions, and even ones that come with a cool collapsible straw.
Some of the more uniquely Japanese drinks. Lots of lychee stuff.
Can’t forget about tea also!
These drinks are more like dessert than drinks that helps with your thirst. Coffee and strawberry jelly. They were really sweet!
Of course… Can’t mention about drinks in Japan without mention Calpis and all the other yogurt drinks they have. Skal (earlier in the post) is also one of these sort of drinks.
This is probably the strangest drink I had so far. It is exactly what you see on the picture: a milky drink version of a daifuku (mochi with read beans and strawberry in this case). So it taste just like the real thing… but liquid form.Complete with the powdery aftertaste. What can I say? Curiosity got the best of me.
Lastly, tap water. I drink about a liter of tap water a day. The people of Osaka are very proud of their tap water and glorified how good and perfectly safe it is to drink. And I totally agree with them; tap water in Japan (or at least in Osaka) has no “tap water” taste to it so it feels very refreshing to drink unlike tap water in America (which you should definitely boil before drinking). That’s just what I think.
More in the future!
2013/01/21 at 9:43 AM
You seem to like red tea a lot. I quite like the design of the Lipton cup
Well, the drinks are certainly unique and have a lot of varieties. Almond caramel, cafe jelly, and Japanese’s original taste – matcha and daifuku? XD
Drinking tap water… by no “tap water” taste, you mean chlorine taste right? But I can’t really tell the taste myself. ^^;
Oh, just noticed you have a rotating banner now.
2013/01/21 at 6:03 PM
I love tea in generally actually. A sentiment not shared by almost the entire international student body.
Yea. No chlorine taste in Japan’s water. Maybe it’s just the water in America that has such a strong taste…
Yea… thought I make the banner rotate through photos to make it less boring ^^;.
2013/01/22 at 9:10 AM
I think it has more to do with the absence of fluoride than chlorine.
How much do these drinks typically cost?
Now I’m thirsty…
2013/01/26 at 5:11 PM
most are around 100 yen.
2013/01/24 at 10:23 AM
ah, you don’t have my favourite drink there!!! some friends who went to Japan on a karate trip to Okinawa brought me a bottle of it, it is called pokari (spelling may be off) Sweat. best drink ive ever tasted. gotta love the variety available in Japan though, you can get almost everything there
2013/01/26 at 2:45 PM
Oh I drank quite a bit of that back in the states so I didn’t bother with that here xD
2013/01/30 at 11:05 AM
I see haha. I couldn’t find it anywhere where I lived, and I sure as hell cant get it where I live now xD so when I go to Japan i’m sure getting a bottle or two
2013/02/01 at 3:14 AM
Ah I see. I like Aquarius more. The two is a Coke and Pepsi difference.
2013/01/31 at 1:27 AM
I like drinking milk tea, but whenever I went to japan I always end up drinking only milk (2-3L per day..lol)…. the milk there is too good! especially Hokkaido’s
2013/02/01 at 3:09 AM
Yup. I love Hokkaido milk. Now THAT is what I call real milk!
2013/02/01 at 3:33 PM
Which one’s your favorite? I love the Pungency milk tea (which is why I clicked on this lol), and was saddened when I couldn’t find it in other areas outside of the Tokyo metropolis for some reason.
2013/02/02 at 6:14 PM
All of the milk teas are really good :D Ditto on the pungency one. There was this awesome Glico Almond Chocolate latte that was here in the summer but it’s gone now D:
2013/02/03 at 11:39 AM
Super envious. Japan gets limited editions of drinks all the time, and their flavors are so crazy it makes me want to try them all, despite not being a soft-drink drinker.