Vegetable Sando (野菜サンド)
Mixed vegetables (lettuce, tomato, cucumber, carrot) with mayo on shokupan.
Mixed vegetables (lettuce, tomato, cucumber, carrot) with mayo on shokupan.
Vegan sandwich options; growing trend in urban areas.
Canned tuna mixed with Kewpie mayo on shokupan; konbini staple.
Tuna with sweet corn and mayo; popular with children.
A cold poached-shrimp salad bound in kewpie on soft shokupan, where the shrimp's clean spring is the only firm note in an otherwise wholly soft bite. A salad sando in the tamago family.
Smoked or grilled salmon on shokupan.
Japanese potato salad (with cucumber, carrot, ham, Kewpie mayo) on shokupan; popular at bakeries.
Assorted mini sandwiches sold together—typically egg, ham, and one other; konbini/bakery staple.
Japanese macaroni salad with mayo on shokupan.
Convenience store tuna sandwich; consistently good quality across chains.
Convenience store mixed sandwich pack; usually 3 half-sandwiches with different fillings.
Convenience store ham sandwich; thin ham, mayo, sometimes lettuce.
Sandwich featuring komatsuna (Japanese mustard spinach); Tokyo regional vegetable.
Coffee shop mixed sandwich set; usually egg, ham, cucumber, served on a plate.
Hokkaido salmon sando frames the island's prized autumn chum the way the region knew it first: cold-smoked or cured, folded in silky sheets onto soft shokupan.
A Hokkaido crab sando starts with which crab: snow, king, or hairy, each a different sweetness and price. Picked leg meat in kewpie mayonnaise on soft shokupan, a real-crab splurge, not a surimi one.
The plainest sando on the konbini shelf: thin folded press-ham, a film of Kewpie, and crustless shokupan. No cooking step, so its whole quality is freshness and proportion.
Japan's ham-and-cheese sando: crustless shokupan, mild loin ham, and a margarine seal, cut into two triangles and kept cold end to end by a temperature-zoned delivery system.
Thin cucumber slices with mayo on shokupan; light, refreshing.
Crab meat (often canned or kani-kama imitation) with mayo on shokupan.
Cheese (often processed) on shokupan; simple.