Why are Japanese Convenience Stores the most popular in the world?

Convenience store (KonBiNi コンビニ) are located in almost everywhere in Japan and operating 24 hours. There is over 10,000 convenience store in Tokyo city and over 51,000 in whole country today, these TOP 3 brands accounted for most 7-Eleven, Family Mart and Lawson. You might not know Japanese have the best convenience store culture in the World and they always take seriously in product quality control.

1. Remarkable Food & Beverages

Convenience stores in Japan are famous in variety of cheap and tasty foods such as Onigiri, Sandwich, Roasted Chicken/Fish/Pork/Shrimp Rice, Soba, Udon, Benton, Curry Rice and more. I could literally come here every day for an entire week and find something new to eat every single time. Do not forget to heat up your food, normally the staff will ask you “Heat up?”, just say “Yes”.

For most office workers in Japan they always go convenience store and buy food as breakfast, lunch or dinner and take it on the go. By the way not only limited to takeaway but some convenience store also provide a dine-in area normally located in front of store or leaning against the glass window.

Beside the main course, there is a lot of options for yummy side dishes and dessert available like fried minced chicken meat ball, ice cream, smoothies, cakes, pudding and more! Generally you have the advantage of picking what you want in the convenience store. Other than selling branding products, there also supply their own store-brand unique food products at reasonable price so that customers can have more choices and it can also increase their competitiveness.

Most convenience stores will also have quite the selection of the hot and cold drinks from crowd favorite Japanese green tea to alcohol. They also have exclusive drinks of their own to have some sort of only you can buy here branding consider since they’re relatively cheaper than typical non-exclusive brand.

Convenience stores have a lot of things to offer as I have said they’re essential for japanese social infrastructure but they also play a huge role for tourists in Japan.

2. Hygiene Products & Services

Convenience stores are essential for Japanese social infrastructure and also playing a huge role in tourism of Japan. They have your hygiene products covered as well with a lot of options available. One more interesting service is they usually have a clean and free-to-use bathroom for customer sometime even allow non-customer to use it, can you imagine that? That’s why people are so love to visit Japan because they are backed by 50,000+ high quality convenience stores 24 hours, so they are worry-free when walking around in the country.

3. Free WIFI 24 Hours

Free WIFI is also available in every stores, it’s one of the most important thing that travelers always looking for, nothing is more important than staying connected while on the road for travelers. In Japan many convenience stores offer free internet services in which is super easy to connect to. One day, if you are in emergency and you need WIFI/Prepaid phone sim-card to contact somebody, you should look for convenience store instead.

4. Post Card & Parcel Delivery Services

If there is no post office around the place you are staying, some convenience store are equipped with postboxes and you can go directly to the counter to buy some stamps, and straight away drop off your post card to send it out.

Document and Parcel Delivery service is also available.

5. Ultimate 18+ Magazine & Book Section

There have a HUGE selection of magazines in the convenience store and you might be surprised by what you can pick up from the store. One of the most attractive and popular magazine category is R-18, many up-to-date and hottest sexy photo album and AV girls items available on racks. This kind of humanized KiMoChi sales section will only appear in Japan and you won’t see it in any other countries at all.

6. One Minute Instant Ticketing

Purchase a ticket at convenience stores? This is so cool to allow anyone to purchase tickets for transportation, concert, universal studio, sport events, museums and more. There even provides with store payment service to purchase flight tickets!

7. Pay Bills, Photocopy & Scanning Services

Many bills can be paid at convenience stores in Japan fast and easy. What you need to do is just show your bill to the staff, after scanning the barcode on the bill and they tell how much you need to pay, very straight forward.

In-store also provide photocopy and scanning service!

8. International ATM Service

Lastly there’s almost every convenience stores here in Japan you are safest bet to get money out of an international ATM or credit card. Will be known to many travelers for a reliable way to make international withdrawals, cash deposit and even make money transfer at their ATMs. By using these machine, users can select their preferred foreign currency and do have English menu, very convenient.

Conclusion: Japanese Convenience Stores are providing a lot of useful and ease to use services that make our daily living more easy. If you are planning a trip to Japan, I highly recommend you to discover their stores there is a lot of fascinating items waiting for you.

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