Japanese Supermarket Prices in Rural Japan | $0.082 Gum to $5 Eggs | Living Alone in Japan 🇯🇵
Rei | Daily Life in Japan
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Hello! I'm Rei, a Japanese woman living in Osaka 😊
Japanese supermarket prices in rural Japan — from $0.082 gum to a $5 egg dish. Plus grave visiting, the main ritual of Obon.
At the very end of this video I added something I'd wanted to say for a long time. Please watch to the end if you'd like.
This is my last day at my family home in Hida, Gifu.
Obon is when family members who have passed away are said to come back, so we clean the graves and pay our respects. They say the smoke from the incense is food for those who have gone. We pour water over the gravestone, offer flowers and incense, and report on how our lives are going. It isn't a prayer — it's an update, and a thank you.
The graves sit in a field, so we harvested myoga and eggplants on the way out. In Osaka three myoga cost about 200 yen. Here they're free.
I went shopping at the local supermarket for the first time in a while.
Small, cheap snacks are called dagashi — the ones Japanese children can buy with pocket change. Gum is 13 yen a piece. My favourite, "Kabayaki-san," was 17 yen.
The red stickers you see on the food are discount stickers, put on as closing time approaches. They go on around the same time every day, so plenty of people plan their shopping for exactly that moment.
The next day I took a highway bus to Nagoya and the shinkansen to Osaka. About 5.5 hours each way.
What's the minimum you need to buy a snack where you live?
Thank you for watching 🤍
▶ More from rural Japan — the full hometown series: Going Home to Rural Japan 🇯🇵
⏱ Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:30 Obon, and why everyone goes home
1:25 Visiting the family graves
3:12 Harvesting myoga in the field
5:24 Spring water from the mountain
6:50 Somen with a lot of cucumber
10:23 Baking shokupan with my mother
14:22 A rural Japanese supermarket
16:14 Red discount stickers, explained
17:19 The dagashi aisle, and 13 yen gum
20:07 The last dinner at home
21:37 Going back to Osaka
23:43 What I bought for the trip
25:17 A thank you
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12 Comments
Amazing video paired with the calming and relaxing atmosphere as always. ❤
I love your vlogs
Btw
We Assamese people are deeply connected with Japanese people
Not only culture but with same ancestry too 😊😊
Thank you for sharing your honest emotions at the end. I’m only new to your channel, but I’ve found you inspiring and grounding. It’s so heartwarming to see you connect with your commenters like that 😊 ❤
You asked if there’s a day we visit graves. There isn’t in Australia, but we visit on the anniversary of the loved one’s birth and/or death. I love the concept of Obon, or similar in other countries. I wish we had something similar here. It’s very easy to get caught up in the pace and stress of work and living in the city. It’s important to remember to come home, and visit with our ancestors. ❤
I should be doing shopping by myself... I'll do it later, in stead I'm watching this video
Have a nice day! (no matter when you read this)
Japanese Supermarket Prices in Rural Japan | $0.082 Gum to $5 Eggs | Living Alone in Japan 🇯🇵
Rei | Daily Life in Japan
4,037 views
Hello! I'm Rei, a Japanese woman living in Osaka 😊
Japanese supermarket prices in rural Japan — from $0.082 gum to a $5 egg dish. Plus grave visiting, the main ritual of Obon.
At the very end of this video I added something I'd wanted to say for a long time. Please watch to the end if you'd like.
This is my last day at my family home in Hida, Gifu.
Obon is when family members who have passed away are said to come back, so we clean the graves and pay our respects. They say the smoke from the incense is food for those who have gone. We pour water over the gravestone, offer flowers and incense, and report on how our lives are going. It isn't a prayer — it's an update, and a thank you.
The graves sit in a field, so we harvested myoga and eggplants on the way out. In Osaka three myoga cost about 200 yen. Here they're free.
I went shopping at the local supermarket for the first time in a while.
Small, cheap snacks are called dagashi — the ones Japanese children can buy with pocket change. Gum is 13 yen a piece. My favourite, "Kabayaki-san," was 17 yen.
The red stickers you see on the food are discount stickers, put on as closing time approaches. They go on around the same time every day, so plenty of people plan their shopping for exactly that moment.
The next day I took a highway bus to Nagoya and the shinkansen to Osaka. About 5.5 hours each way.
What's the minimum you need to buy a snack where you live?
Thank you for watching 🤍
▶ More from rural Japan — the full hometown series: Going Home to Rural Japan 🇯🇵
⏱ Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:30 Obon, and why everyone goes home
1:25 Visiting the family graves
3:12 Harvesting myoga in the field
5:24 Spring water from the mountain
6:50 Somen with a lot of cucumber
10:23 Baking shokupan with my mother
14:22 A rural Japanese supermarket
16:14 Red discount stickers, explained
17:19 The dagashi aisle, and 13 yen gum
20:07 The last dinner at home
21:37 Going back to Osaka
23:43 What I bought for the trip
25:17 A thank you
Instagram→ Instagram: rei_lifeinjapan
☕️ For those who would like to support this channel → https://buymeacoffee.com/reilifeinjapan
#japanvlog #lifeinjapan #livinginjapan #ruraljapan #obon #japanesesupermarket #dagashi #shoppinginjapan