# List of Japanese snacks

This is a list of Japanese snacks(お菓子, okashi) and finger foods. It includes both brand name and generic snacks.

## Types
### Anko, or sweet bean paste

Anko is a kind of sweet bean paste. Anko is mainly eaten during the afternoon green tea time in Japan. School students eat it after school, at home.
* Botamochi
* Daifuku
** Ichigodaifuku [ja] - Daifuku with strawberry
* Dorayaki
* Manjū
* Monaka
* Imagawayaki
* Kusa mochi
* Taiyaki
* Yōkan
* Botamochi
* Daifuku
* Ichigo daifuku
* Dorayaki
* Imagawayaki
* Taiyaki
* Cut surface of taiyaki
* Yōkan with chestnut

### Bean

Beans with salt are mainly taken with beer in the evening.
* Edamame
* Soramame - boiled broad bean
* Ikarimame [ja] - fried broad bean
* Edamame
* Soramame
* Ikarimame [ja]

### Bread/Wheat Flour
#### generic

* Karintō – deep-fried brown sugar snack
* Monjayaki
* Okonomiyaki
* Takoyaki
* Karintō
* Karintō in bottles
* Monjayaki
* Okonomiyaki
* Takoyaki

#### brand

* Hello Panda
* Kappa Ebisen
* Koala's March
* Pocky – known as Mikado in Europe
* Pretz
* Yan Yan
* Kappa Ebisen
* Pretz
* A package of regular Yan Yan

### Candy
#### generic

* Amezaiku - Japanese candy craft artistry
* Aruheitō [ja]
* Konpeitō
* Ramune candy - compressed tablet candy
* Amezaiku
* Konpeitō
* Ramune candy

#### brand

* Botan/Tomoe Ame
* Calpis Candy
* Chelsea (candy) [ja] – made by Meiji Confectionery in Japan
* Cubyrop
* gumi 100
* Hi-chew
* Milky (candy) [ja]
* Pinky
* Poifull [ja]
* Puccho [ja]
* Puré gumi candy - gummy candy with fruit purée made by KANRO Co., Ltd.
* Milky (candy) [ja]
* Puccho [ja]

### Cake

* Tokyo Banana

### Chewing gum

* Black Black
* Fuwarinka
* Kiss Mint and Watering Kissmint
* Let's
* Plus X
* Poscam
* Pure White
* Sweetie
* whatta – chewing gum by Meiji Confectionery
* Xylish
* Yuzu

### Corn

* Curl (Japanese snack)
* Kyabetsu Taro

### Chocolate
#### generic

* Matcha chocolate - chocolate containing matcha

#### brand

* Apollo (chocolate) [ja] - chocolate in shape of Apollo command module
* Choco Baby [ja]
* Choco Ball [ja]
* Crunky [ja]
* Crunky kids
* DARS (chocolate) [ja]
* E-Royce'
* Every Burger
* Kinoko no yama - known as CHOCOROOMS in US
* Koara no māchi
* Ghana
* Pocky – known as Mikado in Europe
* Pucca Chocolate
* Takenoko no sato [ja] - known as CHOCOCONES in US
* Toppo
* Apollo (chocolate) [ja]
* Choco Baby [ja]
* Choco Ball [ja]
* DARS (chocolate) [ja]
* Pocky
* Kinoko no yama
* Takenoko no sato [ja]

### Ice cream & shaved ice
#### generic

* Green tea ice cream
* Kakigōri
* Mochi ice cream
* Green tea ice cream
* Green tea kakigōri (left) and strawberry flavoured kakigōri (right)
* Mochi ice cream

#### brand

* Choco Monaka Jumbo [ja], manufactured by Morinaga & Company.
* Panapp
* Yukimi Daifuku
* Choco Monaka Jumbo [ja]
* Yukimi Daifuku

### Potato
#### generic

* Ishiyakiimo　- roasted sweet potato
* Kenpi
* Ishiyakiimo
* Kenpi

#### brand

* Bōkun Habanero
* Jagarico, manufactured by Calbee.
* Kara Mucho and Suppa Mucho
* Kataage Potato
* Pote Long [ja], manufactured by Morinaga & Company.
* Wasabeef [ja] - wasabi & beef flavoured potato chips
* Ototo [ja] - potato snack in shape of seafood.
* Jagarico
* Kara Mucho
* Pote Long
* Wasabeef

### Rice
#### generic

* Onigiri, or rice ball can be eaten both as a snack and as a meal, by modern Japanese people. In Sengoku period, samurai ate large rice balls as a field ration during the war.
* Small onigiris convenient for snacks
* In Sengoku period and Edo period, onigiris were often wrapped in bamboo skin when they were carried. Bamboo skin has an antibacterial effect and keeps rice balls longer.
* Modern onigiris wrapped in a small, transparent plastic bag
Rice based snacks are known as beika (米菓).
* Agemochi
* Arare
* Botamochi
* Daifuku
* Dango
* Kaki no tane
* Kaminari okoshi [ja]
* Kusa mochi
* Mochi
* Senbei
* Arare
* Hanami dango
* Kaki no tane
* Kaminari okoshi [ja]
* Senbei

#### brand

* Bakauke
* Olive no Hana
* Onigiri senbei
* Bakauke
* Onigiri senbei

### Seafood

* Big Katsu
* Ebi senbei
* Gyoniku soseji, a surimi fish sausage
* Miyako Konbu
* Surume
* Yotchan Ika

### Street foods

* Dorayaki
* Korokke
* Nikuman
* Ōbanyaki
* Taiyaki
* Takoyaki
* Yakitori

### Mixed and other

* Ajigonomi
* Don Tacos

## Producers

* Calbee
* Glico
* Kameda Seika
* Koikeya
* Kuriyama Beika
* Lotte
* Meiji
* Morinaga
* Tohato
* Yamayoshi