Illustration: At a Japanese railway platform kiosk, a vendor hands a traveler a shallow meal box while an open display box reveals rice, grilled fish, pickles, and neatly separated side dishes. Stacks of matching closed boxes fill the counter.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

駅えき弁べん

ekiben

boxed lunch sold at a station

Example sentences

  1. お昼ひるは駅弁えきべんにしよう。

    Let’s have one of those boxed lunches they sell at train stations.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 駅弁えきべんは、広義こうぎには「駅構内えきこうないで販売はんばいされる弁当べんとう」を意味いみする。

    Ekiben means "a box lunch sold within station precincts" in the broad sense.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 最初さいしょに駅弁えきべんの販売はんばいが始はじまった場所ばしょに関かんしては複数ふくすうの説せつがある。

    There are several theories regarding where Ekiben was started.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 駅弁

  • 駅stationOnエキ
  • 弁speech; distinguishOnベン・ヘンKunかんむり・わきまえる・わける

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