Finding Halal Food in Japan

Posted on 12/13/2022 Last updated on 01/11/2024

Living in Japan as a person from a different culture can sometimes be hard, especially when it comes to dietary restrictions or requirements. For Muslims, the most basic of these are not eating pork and not drinking alcohol.

A lot of Japanese food has pork in it, and soy sauce also contains a very small amount of alcohol. In Utsunomiya where I live there are no halal shops, or places to buy halal meat. For people who live outside Tokyo like me, it will be necessary to buy halal food online, because eating fish all the time can get a little boring.

Here is my quick list of places where you can buy halal food online:

Amazon

No surprise here! Amazon offers a selection of halal food such as sausages, curry, ramen, chicken and soy sauce. Searching for whatever you want to buy by including ‘halal’ (ハラール) will bring up a variety of food you can buy.

Nasco Halal Food

You can buy all kinds of halal food, here including meat. They also sell food from Africa and South Asian countries and deliver to all prefectures in Japan. The site can be navigated in English.

Photo by cheetahさん

Shinjuku Halal Food

This online halal shop sells a variety of halal food including frozen foods. They also deliver everywhere in Japan. They have a physical shop in Shinjuku, Tokyo as well.

Shop.ajinatori.jp

This online shop mainly sells frozen foods. They sell ham, sausages, chicken, and gyoza which are all halal-friendly.

Moving to a new country can be daunting even if you have always dreamt of doing so, but eating food should not be amongst the things that we find hard to do. Hopefully, this list makes it easier for people who want to meet the halal requirements but weren’t sure how to do so. Good luck, and good eating!

Photo Credits

Top photo by セカイの歩き方さん on PhotoAC

Additional photo by cheetahさん on PhotoAC