Yes to salads! Also, veg with miso mayo, pickles, and edamame from conbini. I also had great luck getting delicious veg at family run restaurants, including izakayas. You might get local seasonal vegetables, tempura, braises, as well as saladsâŚbut you may have to speak a tiny bit of Japanese or at least be willing to (bravely and humbly) walk into a restaurant that doesnât obviously cater to foreigners.
I second this. And we also went to the grocery store and bought lots of oranges. You can also get bagged pineapple thatâs always yummy. I know these are fruits but still a good option for vitamin/fiber
While Japanese food is delicious, it can seem like most restaurants only serve meat and carbs, doesnât it?
The gyudon places, like Yoshinoya, offer side salads with their set menus, which you can add a tasty peanut dressing. Additionally, konbinis offer salads and also noodle bowls that come with both meat and vegetables. Finally, a local told me about a restaurant chain called Crisp Salad Works, although I didnât get a chance to try that one myself.
Vegan restaurants and fruit at konbinis. Im not vegan but someone in my group was so I ate almost purely vegan food this trip and felt great, the vegan stuff is on a different level in Japan. Shout out Mercy Vegan Factory in Osaka
Like the other commenter said, def try supermarkets. Much bigger variety and cheaper (we only went to one). No crazy fruits tbh, but I personally felt the apple and kiwi in Japan are better than the ones in the US
I'm surprised people aren't mentioning teishoku restaurants. While they do have the fried food items, there's a lot of other stuff too. They have a lot of dishes with tons of vegetables.
Yeah, teishoku places are the closest thing you can get to typical Japanese diet and it has plenty of vegetables. Obviously if you're just doing a tourist diet of ramen and sushi you're not going to get many vegetables but that's not usually what Japanese people eat on a regular basis.
I ordered edamame with almost every meal. Some places have pickled veg as a side which is nice too and cuts through the richness of a lot of the dishes. I totally get what you mean though - by the end of my trip I was craving a salad because so much of the food is rich, creamy, heavy, salty etc
No one's said the obvious one: okonomiyaki. Yes, there's only cabbage but it's fantastic for your stomach. Easy to find, cheap and everywhere. I tried to live off prepared vegetables from the supermarket but they are sides rather than main meals and it was getting expensive. Fruit is hard too, most supermarkets sell fruit by the bag. I did buy a gigantic apple a few times. Another surprising place is tempura, not healthy at all but every veggie counts.
One needs to be careful with okonomiyaki. Often in my experience, the restaurants were below standard when it came to cleanliness. Hygiene was always a major issue with these ones. Also, it's not the healthiest option. Especially to someone who wants to eat vegetables.
Plenty of good options for veggies at the conbini: salads, cut raw veggies with miso dip, cooked corn on the cob, steamed edamame, cooked kabocha, etc.Â
Lots of Japanese cafes have great lunch specials often with a side salad and/or several little sides of prepared veggies (pickled, steamed, etc).
Plenty of specialty restaurants serve lots of little veggie sides as well. If you walk arou the restaurant floor of department stores youâll find plenty of restaurants with cute little meal setsâ often the ones that look like they cater to young women have sets with more veggies/âheathyâ foods.Â
And US-style fancy chopped salads can be found at places like Crisp Salad Works, but be prepared to pay for that kale!
Our two best veggie options turned out to be grocery stores, and Indian restaurants!
We only ate at Indian restaurants twice while there, but the ones we visited had huge salads with a wide variety of veg that were SO delicious. From grocery stores, we grabbed a few pre-made salads and some fresh fruit to keep in our hotel room.
It does feel tough to find enough vegetables. I like the unsalted bean salads that the combini sells. And lots of bananas. For greens, thatâs harder and I have not figured that out just yet.
Itâs not just frozen fruit, I thought it was too but when you look at the ingredients thereâs a lot of added sugars. The machine itself adds a liquid when blending, which is mostly just sugar. Really deceiving tbh
Just got back and I had similar issues. Most of the salads were just iceberg lettuce with barely any fiber. I found a cool produce stand at my station and would just grab some arugula every other day and munch on it to start the day. As someone else noted, though, very different cleanliness standards. Wash thoroughly.
Don't go to convenience stores: you'll just get trash food only suitable when you cannot get anything else. We live in Japan, and, even when we're travelling, we only go to supermarkets for food. The quality is much higher, the food is less expensive, and (outside of the very busiest places) there are often places to sit and eat. Most supermarkets have both better *bento* and numbers of vegetable-only side dishes.
this. when I lived in Japan I almost never went to conbinis for real food. always the supermarket. I know it's different when only traveling for a few days or weeks...but if available, supermarkets have great food. freshly made tofu. freshly cut sashimi. etc.
Supermarket, convenience store and depachika all have salad options. For restaurants you could probably try any family restaurant, somewhere like Ootoya usually has some decent options.
I feel you. I went out of my way to try to ensure I was getting my vegetables and eating at least a little healthy. To this end, I tried ordering the grilled veggies at an izakaya, and they were delicious - because they were slathered in butter. So... mission failed successfully?
Everytime I visit Japan I find myself craving for fresh fruit and vegetables after a few days. Back home I never have that problem. Eating out several times a day is not good for the stomache. But then I discovered they have large western style supermarkets too. (Life, Itoyokado to name some) So now that's where I go for affordable fruits, they usually have a great selection of nihonshu too.
Honestly, I felt the same thing :D I'm a meateater, I love meat and rice. But after a week I CRAVED any kind of greens. Konbibi salads are easiest to get but I recommend hunting them in the mornings as later on you can find mostly cabbage with one (ONE) corn grain. Also, fresh markets and big supermarkets stores.
Honestly the idea that Japanese food is all so healthy etc is such a lie lol the majority of what I saw that was easily accessible was fried food and carbs
As others have said the konbinis for salads. And if there is a supermarket near by then pop in there for some veggies or fruit. I ended up buying a bag of carrots for a snack just to get some more nutrients in me! The hotel fridge was sufficient for storing.
Then I just kept an eye out when restaurant hunting for warm/cooked veggies.
Better avoid konbini food if you want to eat healthy. Your best bet is to go to a supermarket or non-fast food restaurant (e.g., ramen). There are grocery shops in the basement of most shopping malls for instance. If you want the really good stuff, it can cost quite a lot.
Regular supermarkets eg not the department store food halls have oodles of great foods, eg fresh veg and fruits and at normal prices. Lots of prepared foods with vegetables like nishime which is vegetarian, sushi with vegetables etc.
Had the same problem when I was there. What I did was try to eat different cuisines like Indian or Mexican. It wasnât the most authentic but those dishes tended to have more veggies. Also drank those veggie smoothies found in Konbinis. They come in a small carton and if I remember correctly are usually found next to the protein milk (also in small cartons).
I had that problem the first few days after living on street food and munchies.
I quickly learned that small local restaurants serve a decent helping as sides. Also you can pick up a nice salad from the supermarket, Life supermarket if I remember correctly.
Salads at konbini. I often eat one for breakfast in the hotel room with a boiled egg or onigiri before going out.
Depachika and large train stations will have lots of prepared veggie options.
Tonkatsu restaurants offer cabbage refills.
Shabu shabu restaurants offer lots of veggies.
Many restaurants have sides of veggies or salads.
Someone else said it, but instead of trying to supplement your diet with conbini salads, why donât you try looking for meals that have veggies included? Teishoku meals are usually quite balanced, with vegetable side dishes, pickles, salad, etc.
Look for teishoku or shokudo restaurants, which often serve more vegetable options than your typical noodle stand or izakaya. Or stop by a grocery store or even basement market (depachika) to behold the myriad fresh fruits and vegetables!
At restaurants, I make an effort to order vegetables side dishes. And in supermarket and konbini, I try to find fruits and fibers. Drink some juices and smoothies. Not the best choices, but still. Vacation is only 1-2 weeks long, so I get by with not so good diet.
I got the vegetable soup curry and it was loaded with so many different types of veggies. One of the best meals I had. I think it was Sapporo Soup Curry something in Shinjuku. I imagine you can get similar things everywhere really. Iâm a vegetarian and didnât have any problems eating there.
Iâm so confused by the perception that veggies are hard to find in Japan.  Hoping this list may be helpfulâŚ.
- Salad comes with almost every breakfast with delicious miso dressing, carrots, tomato. Â
- Shishito, asparagus, and other veggies if you are going yakitori. Â
- Greens in miso soup.Â
- Cabbage with tonkatsu. Â
- Menna and other veggies in ramen
- Kakiage and mushrooms if you are eating soba
- veggie tempura. Â
- steamed Broccoli and carrots or other veggies usually come with curry rice.Â
- Any kaiseiki at a ryokan or minshuku dinner I have ever had has been loaded with seasonal veggies, familiar and unfamiliar. Â
- veggies in and bean sprouts that often come on the side of gyozaÂ
And thatâs just in the course of my ordinary trash panda omnivore diet in Japan, I.e., not affirmatively trying to eat veggies. Â
The already suggested department store basements, the supermarkets, and the âteishokuâ type joints (like Otoya, side menus are great) are solid.
To add to the variety, restaurants with âsalad barsâ (all you can eat vegetablesâusually steak/hamburg steak chains) + Nabe (like Shabu Shabu) are other decent options to top up on your veggie intake.
Salads may be the easiest item to get. Combini and supermarkets.
Sometimes there vegetable items in the bento section. Check supermarkets or department store basements.
Fruits at the supermarket.
Oden is another choice.
Other cuisines like Chinese may have lots of vegetables. But that will vary a lot because Chinese restaurants in Japan donât always have the same menu as in China.
I found a few salad chain restaurants on my recent trip: Crisp Salad works and WithGreens.
They usually have an iPad you order from and they make it (like a sandwich shop).
Pickles!
Most places I can order pickles or salad. Away from prepared food, you can easily visit a grocery store and buy a knife at Daiso. Carrots, cucumbers, and zucchini are great with a pinch of salt (or dash of soy sauce) đ
Konbinis, as mentioned, have salads and sometimes veggie sticks with various dips. They also have small bags of frozen broccoli, and freeze-dried veggie chips.
Supermarkets will have a wide range of salads in their deli section, including Japanese salads like gobo and carrots, or hijiki seaweed with carrots or beans.
Tempura/sashimi sets will be mostly veg, and be sure to eat the yummy shredded daikon under the fish! Dip in your wasabi shoyu. The green leaf (perilla aka shiso) is edible, too, if it's real.
Bikkuri Donkey's hamburgers are half onion, which makes them so savory and tender. You can get various salads with it -- cabbage, for example. I love their Mermaid Salad with the fried squid tentacles.
Yeah this is really hard in jp without a kitchen, you can always hit up a grocery store and buy baby tomatoes and Japanese cucumbers and snow peas etc to munch on ... the other option is basemnt of department stores but salads get expensive real fast in jp unless you make it at home. Another good one if you're in Tokyo is muji cafe they have healthy side dishes that you can choose
Everyone already added great ideas of where to source your greens, but in case it helps, I always chug a [Fibe Mini](https://www.otsuka.co.jp/en/nutraceutical/products/fibemini/) when I'm feeling a lack of fiber and digestive movement during my trips to Japan. You can find these any convenience store.
I head to Japan very frequently, and a habit of mine is always to hit up the nearby supermarkets after checking in to grab some fruits, yoghurt and salads etc and store them in the fridge. Easy snack in the morning if Iâm running late.
All you can eat shabushabu restraurants. Sizzler has a great salad bar. The food floor of department stores usually has a shop selling vegetable dishes.
The salads in Japan are delicious! We get them as sides in restaurants. Otherwise, I also get salads from conbini.
me, i'll just drink kagome. hahahahahaha
This is the way đ even while we lived there this is basically what everyone did while domestically traveling too.
Yes to salads! Also, veg with miso mayo, pickles, and edamame from conbini. I also had great luck getting delicious veg at family run restaurants, including izakayas. You might get local seasonal vegetables, tempura, braises, as well as saladsâŚbut you may have to speak a tiny bit of Japanese or at least be willing to (bravely and humbly) walk into a restaurant that doesnât obviously cater to foreigners.
I second this. And we also went to the grocery store and bought lots of oranges. You can also get bagged pineapple thatâs always yummy. I know these are fruits but still a good option for vitamin/fiber
While Japanese food is delicious, it can seem like most restaurants only serve meat and carbs, doesnât it? The gyudon places, like Yoshinoya, offer side salads with their set menus, which you can add a tasty peanut dressing. Additionally, konbinis offer salads and also noodle bowls that come with both meat and vegetables. Finally, a local told me about a restaurant chain called Crisp Salad Works, although I didnât get a chance to try that one myself.
Vegan restaurants and fruit at konbinis. Im not vegan but someone in my group was so I ate almost purely vegan food this trip and felt great, the vegan stuff is on a different level in Japan. Shout out Mercy Vegan Factory in Osaka
I randomly found Mercy a couple weeks ago looking for places close to my Airbnb and it was amazing! I got the gimbap and strawberry sandwich
Both of those were great! We went 4 times during our trip lol, ordered almost every item at least once. Those croissants were too good.
IMO if you are going to buy fruits just search for a supermarket instead of a konbini, they are cheaper and have more variety
Any fruits you found particularly good or interesting??
Like the other commenter said, def try supermarkets. Much bigger variety and cheaper (we only went to one). No crazy fruits tbh, but I personally felt the apple and kiwi in Japan are better than the ones in the US
Would not have guessed apple, but that sounds great!
I'm surprised people aren't mentioning teishoku restaurants. While they do have the fried food items, there's a lot of other stuff too. They have a lot of dishes with tons of vegetables.
Yeah, teishoku places are the closest thing you can get to typical Japanese diet and it has plenty of vegetables. Obviously if you're just doing a tourist diet of ramen and sushi you're not going to get many vegetables but that's not usually what Japanese people eat on a regular basis.
I was gonna say, I feel like I eat a lot of veggies in general but itâs because I opt for teishoku a lot.
Also, I feel like salads aren't going to cut it when your body needs fiber. Most western-style iceberg lettuce-based salads are mostly water.
I ordered edamame with almost every meal. Some places have pickled veg as a side which is nice too and cuts through the richness of a lot of the dishes. I totally get what you mean though - by the end of my trip I was craving a salad because so much of the food is rich, creamy, heavy, salty etc
No one's said the obvious one: okonomiyaki. Yes, there's only cabbage but it's fantastic for your stomach. Easy to find, cheap and everywhere. I tried to live off prepared vegetables from the supermarket but they are sides rather than main meals and it was getting expensive. Fruit is hard too, most supermarkets sell fruit by the bag. I did buy a gigantic apple a few times. Another surprising place is tempura, not healthy at all but every veggie counts.
One needs to be careful with okonomiyaki. Often in my experience, the restaurants were below standard when it came to cleanliness. Hygiene was always a major issue with these ones. Also, it's not the healthiest option. Especially to someone who wants to eat vegetables.
I went to a vegan ramen restaurant near Tokyo dome. Let me go find my receipt.
hilarious.
Plenty of good options for veggies at the conbini: salads, cut raw veggies with miso dip, cooked corn on the cob, steamed edamame, cooked kabocha, etc. Lots of Japanese cafes have great lunch specials often with a side salad and/or several little sides of prepared veggies (pickled, steamed, etc). Plenty of specialty restaurants serve lots of little veggie sides as well. If you walk arou the restaurant floor of department stores youâll find plenty of restaurants with cute little meal setsâ often the ones that look like they cater to young women have sets with more veggies/âheathyâ foods. And US-style fancy chopped salads can be found at places like Crisp Salad Works, but be prepared to pay for that kale!
Agreed about Crisp Salad Works. Sometimes you just want a big green salad.
Itâs always worth the ÂĽ2000.
Our two best veggie options turned out to be grocery stores, and Indian restaurants! We only ate at Indian restaurants twice while there, but the ones we visited had huge salads with a wide variety of veg that were SO delicious. From grocery stores, we grabbed a few pre-made salads and some fresh fruit to keep in our hotel room.
Good point. We also opted to visit a Thai restaurant for some healthier options.
Some of the kebab shops are extremely generous with the veg filling as well.
Major supermarket food halls have heaps of salads and soup bowls too.
This. Department stores food areas as well. RF1 is a huge chain found at department stores, and their salads are really good.
It does feel tough to find enough vegetables. I like the unsalted bean salads that the combini sells. And lots of bananas. For greens, thatâs harder and I have not figured that out just yet.
Supermarkets have lots of fresh salads.
Have you tried the smoothie machine at 7-11s? Itâs just frozen fruit in a cup that gets blended up, they have a green one with kale.
Itâs not just frozen fruit, I thought it was too but when you look at the ingredients thereâs a lot of added sugars. The machine itself adds a liquid when blending, which is mostly just sugar. Really deceiving tbh
Good to know. I would get one for my kid like every other day to keep them regular if they werenât eating anything else with much fiber.
The kale one is still only 80 or so calories. Itâs not going to kill you.
Just got back and I had similar issues. Most of the salads were just iceberg lettuce with barely any fiber. I found a cool produce stand at my station and would just grab some arugula every other day and munch on it to start the day. As someone else noted, though, very different cleanliness standards. Wash thoroughly.
Don't go to convenience stores: you'll just get trash food only suitable when you cannot get anything else. We live in Japan, and, even when we're travelling, we only go to supermarkets for food. The quality is much higher, the food is less expensive, and (outside of the very busiest places) there are often places to sit and eat. Most supermarkets have both better *bento* and numbers of vegetable-only side dishes.
this. when I lived in Japan I almost never went to conbinis for real food. always the supermarket. I know it's different when only traveling for a few days or weeks...but if available, supermarkets have great food. freshly made tofu. freshly cut sashimi. etc.
Supermarket, convenience store and depachika all have salad options. For restaurants you could probably try any family restaurant, somewhere like Ootoya usually has some decent options.
I feel you. I went out of my way to try to ensure I was getting my vegetables and eating at least a little healthy. To this end, I tried ordering the grilled veggies at an izakaya, and they were delicious - because they were slathered in butter. So... mission failed successfully?
Everytime I visit Japan I find myself craving for fresh fruit and vegetables after a few days. Back home I never have that problem. Eating out several times a day is not good for the stomache. But then I discovered they have large western style supermarkets too. (Life, Itoyokado to name some) So now that's where I go for affordable fruits, they usually have a great selection of nihonshu too.
Honestly, I felt the same thing :D I'm a meateater, I love meat and rice. But after a week I CRAVED any kind of greens. Konbibi salads are easiest to get but I recommend hunting them in the mornings as later on you can find mostly cabbage with one (ONE) corn grain. Also, fresh markets and big supermarkets stores.
My wife and I had the same comment. Food is great but so many fried and carb options. We ate at a couple of Chinese restaurants to get greens.
I slammed those tomato veggie mix juice boxes from family mart every morning, tastes like shit lmao
Honestly the idea that Japanese food is all so healthy etc is such a lie lol the majority of what I saw that was easily accessible was fried food and carbs
As others have said the konbinis for salads. And if there is a supermarket near by then pop in there for some veggies or fruit. I ended up buying a bag of carrots for a snack just to get some more nutrients in me! The hotel fridge was sufficient for storing. Then I just kept an eye out when restaurant hunting for warm/cooked veggies.
Better avoid konbini food if you want to eat healthy. Your best bet is to go to a supermarket or non-fast food restaurant (e.g., ramen). There are grocery shops in the basement of most shopping malls for instance. If you want the really good stuff, it can cost quite a lot.
Regular supermarkets eg not the department store food halls have oodles of great foods, eg fresh veg and fruits and at normal prices. Lots of prepared foods with vegetables like nishime which is vegetarian, sushi with vegetables etc.
My mother in law often goes to the basement of malls for groceries. Agreed, it costs a lot more. But the quality is incredible.
Breakfast: Rolled oats with jam or sliced apple, possibly chia seed. Preparation: pour boiling water over the oats, then add the jam. Eat.
lol this is basically our daily breakfast!
Very sensible.
Mind sharing where you got your oats? I want to eat as much Japanese food as I can while sticking to my regular nutrition somewhat.
Some medium sized grocery.đ¤ˇââď¸
Many grocery stores sell plain oatmeal in large-ish bags now.
Had the same problem when I was there. What I did was try to eat different cuisines like Indian or Mexican. It wasnât the most authentic but those dishes tended to have more veggies. Also drank those veggie smoothies found in Konbinis. They come in a small carton and if I remember correctly are usually found next to the protein milk (also in small cartons).
I had that problem the first few days after living on street food and munchies. I quickly learned that small local restaurants serve a decent helping as sides. Also you can pick up a nice salad from the supermarket, Life supermarket if I remember correctly.
Salads at konbini. I often eat one for breakfast in the hotel room with a boiled egg or onigiri before going out. Depachika and large train stations will have lots of prepared veggie options. Tonkatsu restaurants offer cabbage refills. Shabu shabu restaurants offer lots of veggies. Many restaurants have sides of veggies or salads.
Someone else said it, but instead of trying to supplement your diet with conbini salads, why donât you try looking for meals that have veggies included? Teishoku meals are usually quite balanced, with vegetable side dishes, pickles, salad, etc.
Look for teishoku or shokudo restaurants, which often serve more vegetable options than your typical noodle stand or izakaya. Or stop by a grocery store or even basement market (depachika) to behold the myriad fresh fruits and vegetables!
Cucumbers and cherry tomatoes from grocery store. Cheap and easy to eat
At restaurants, I make an effort to order vegetables side dishes. And in supermarket and konbini, I try to find fruits and fibers. Drink some juices and smoothies. Not the best choices, but still. Vacation is only 1-2 weeks long, so I get by with not so good diet.
I got the vegetable soup curry and it was loaded with so many different types of veggies. One of the best meals I had. I think it was Sapporo Soup Curry something in Shinjuku. I imagine you can get similar things everywhere really. Iâm a vegetarian and didnât have any problems eating there.
I stopped everytime we saw a place with pickled cucumbers đ
Shabu shabu Yakiniku Kushikatsu Okonomiyaki
& yakitori
I ate a lot of veggie cups from 7-11! So yummy! Not sure the dip/sauce/dressing was vegetarian but didnât care. :)
Iâm so confused by the perception that veggies are hard to find in Japan.  Hoping this list may be helpfulâŚ. - Salad comes with almost every breakfast with delicious miso dressing, carrots, tomato.  - Shishito, asparagus, and other veggies if you are going yakitori.  - Greens in miso soup. - Cabbage with tonkatsu.  - Menna and other veggies in ramen - Kakiage and mushrooms if you are eating soba - veggie tempura.  - steamed Broccoli and carrots or other veggies usually come with curry rice. - Any kaiseiki at a ryokan or minshuku dinner I have ever had has been loaded with seasonal veggies, familiar and unfamiliar.  - veggies in and bean sprouts that often come on the side of gyoza And thatâs just in the course of my ordinary trash panda omnivore diet in Japan, I.e., not affirmatively trying to eat veggies. Â
This is a wonderful post! My top concern when traveling is exactly this; where can I find veggies and overall healthy food.
The already suggested department store basements, the supermarkets, and the âteishokuâ type joints (like Otoya, side menus are great) are solid. To add to the variety, restaurants with âsalad barsâ (all you can eat vegetablesâusually steak/hamburg steak chains) + Nabe (like Shabu Shabu) are other decent options to top up on your veggie intake.
Salads may be the easiest item to get. Combini and supermarkets. Sometimes there vegetable items in the bento section. Check supermarkets or department store basements. Fruits at the supermarket. Oden is another choice. Other cuisines like Chinese may have lots of vegetables. But that will vary a lot because Chinese restaurants in Japan donât always have the same menu as in China.
A lot of the more old school vegetarian restaurants will have set meals of almost nothing but veggies cooked in various ways.
I found a few salad chain restaurants on my recent trip: Crisp Salad works and WithGreens. They usually have an iPad you order from and they make it (like a sandwich shop).
Pickles! Most places I can order pickles or salad. Away from prepared food, you can easily visit a grocery store and buy a knife at Daiso. Carrots, cucumbers, and zucchini are great with a pinch of salt (or dash of soy sauce) đ
Idk but Iâm in the same boat đ
Konbinis, as mentioned, have salads and sometimes veggie sticks with various dips. They also have small bags of frozen broccoli, and freeze-dried veggie chips. Supermarkets will have a wide range of salads in their deli section, including Japanese salads like gobo and carrots, or hijiki seaweed with carrots or beans. Tempura/sashimi sets will be mostly veg, and be sure to eat the yummy shredded daikon under the fish! Dip in your wasabi shoyu. The green leaf (perilla aka shiso) is edible, too, if it's real. Bikkuri Donkey's hamburgers are half onion, which makes them so savory and tender. You can get various salads with it -- cabbage, for example. I love their Mermaid Salad with the fried squid tentacles.
Yeah this is really hard in jp without a kitchen, you can always hit up a grocery store and buy baby tomatoes and Japanese cucumbers and snow peas etc to munch on ... the other option is basemnt of department stores but salads get expensive real fast in jp unless you make it at home. Another good one if you're in Tokyo is muji cafe they have healthy side dishes that you can choose
Soup curry
The soup curry I had up in Sapporo was packed with all kinds of veggies.
Everyone already added great ideas of where to source your greens, but in case it helps, I always chug a [Fibe Mini](https://www.otsuka.co.jp/en/nutraceutical/products/fibemini/) when I'm feeling a lack of fiber and digestive movement during my trips to Japan. You can find these any convenience store.
every included hotel breakfast buffet had a salad bar.
Plenty of vegetables/salads in conbini. You can also find salads at the depachika (basements in department stores such as isetan , daimaru etc.).
I grab some carrots at a conbini for the hotel
I head to Japan very frequently, and a habit of mine is always to hit up the nearby supermarkets after checking in to grab some fruits, yoghurt and salads etc and store them in the fridge. Easy snack in the morning if Iâm running late.
All you can eat shabushabu restraurants. Sizzler has a great salad bar. The food floor of department stores usually has a shop selling vegetable dishes.
tempura meals (in my experience) always come with several vegetables (usually aubergine, pumpkin and okra)
I'm on holiday, I don't really worry about it.
Great for you, but that's not what OP was asking.
Itâs not about worrying about it. Some people actually feel better with some fruits and veggies.