Onigiri

My favorite inexpensive lunch to have over here is onigiri. You can get them at the supermarket or local 7-Eleven (they're all over the place in Japan) for around 100 yen, which is about a dollar.
Each one is sticky rice with something like fish or egg stuck in the middle, and then wrapped in nori (seaweed). The one above, for example, has a bit of egg in the middle. Two of them make a pretty filling (and inexpensive) lunch.

My posts may be slowing down since classes started and I'm getting a bit busier, but hopefully in the near future, maybe this weekend, you should see entries about the Ofuro, our visit to Jomon Archaeological Site, and how I accidentally described my brother, Tim, as my older sister.