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Turns out I was just not looking in the right direction\u2026err, language. If I had searched for \u98df\u54c1\u914d\u9054 (food products delivery) I would have seen there are a number of these services available, usually through the major supermarket operators themselves. The three biggest, Co-op<\/a>, Ito-Yokado\u00a0<\/a>and Seiyu<\/a> advertise this service all over the place but only in Japanese\u2026<\/p>\n [spacer height=”20px”]<\/p>\n Enter The Game-Changing Smartphone<\/strong><\/p>\n If you’ve read our restaurant delivery services<\/a>\u00a0article, you already know where we\u2019re headed here. As of this writing, there are at least three apps and services that can be used to order food items from supermarkets. Let\u2019s start with the 900lb gorilla in the room, Amazon.<\/p>\n Amazon Fresh<\/a> is a section of Amazon\u2019s online empire that handles groceries. Operating in many markets around the world, the Japan version offers same-day delivery.to most of Greater Tokyo. The service is not ala carte however; you must have an Amazon Prime membership, and there\u2019s a monthly fee for the Ordering is straightforward and just like ordering a book, or a pair of shoes from Amazon. In the checkout section, you\u2019ll be asked to reserve a time slot for your delivery as they will be sending a refrigerated truck to you with the items directly. Their service area as of now (March 2018) covers most of the 23 wards of Tokyo, Kawasaki and Yokohama in Kanagawa and perhaps even wider; you\u2019ll know if you aren\u2019t in their service area when you log in and your address doesn\u2019t match up.<\/p>\n Many grocery stores also have same-day delivery (\u5f53\u65e5\u914d\u9054\u30b5\u30fc\u30d3\u30b9) for already paid-for groceries. This means you\u2019ve already gone to the market and done the shopping yourself and simply need a way to get it all home without involving a taxi. I\u2019ve used this to snag items I know won\u2019t be there (like certain fresh veggies) when I get off from work later in the evening, or when I have a set of errands to run and can\u2019t be bothered hauling a bunch of bags all over Tokyo. You can select a delivery window later on in the day. Check at the service counter of your local store to see if they offer it; the vast majority will at the very least contract with a delivery service and get it to you.<\/p>\n I know there are other services out there, so if you feel like letting the rest of the community in on your secret, drop a comment and let us know!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2013 By Jason L. Gatewood<\/a> When I moved to Tokyo proper last year, I made sure to position myself in between two 24 hour grocery stores so even if I\u2019ve run out of sugar at 3 am, I can take care of it. That extremely rare condition notwithstanding, the bigger reason is that I tend to wind up trudging home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,54,59,103,37],"tags":[47,45],"class_list":["post-2843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-and-dining","category-japan","category-life-in-japan","category-shopping","category-tokyo-2","tag-tokyo-city-2","tag-tokyo-metropolis-2"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50790,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions\/50790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/h5>\n
Fresh<\/q> service on top of that. This does not count the delivery fee which is normally about \u00a5500 yen or so.<\/p>\n
If All You Need Is To Get Your Groceries Home\u2026<\/h5>\n
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