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.
Ham with processed cheese slice and mayo on shokupan.
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.