In this special episode, we present a heartwarming drama of how a factory worker fell in love with a woman working at the company cafeteria and how the two eventually got married!
Our story is about a woman who has two very different jobs at two very different locations, with two very different lunches! Tune in to find out more!
We visit a farm run by a couple and their three sons in Chiba Prefecture that produces a vegetable called "okahijiki." Come lunchtime, the whole family sits down together for a tasty okahijiki meal!
We head to a well-known theme park in Osaka Prefecture to explore the cafeterias serving a staff of 10 thousand. We chat with staff members handling diverse roles to delve into the delightful lunches they enjoy.
A special episode on Toyama Prefecture. Photographer Abe Satoru captures the lunches of glass shrimp fishers. Also, meet a temple bell artisan, and lastly, take a ride on the Kurobe Gorge Railway.
The craftspeople at a golf club factory in Sakata City, Yamagata Prefecture, produce quality golf clubs for players across the world. At lunchtime, almost all the employees have tasty meals at the cafeteria.
In this special episode devoted to the lunches found in the prefecture of Gunma, we visit a daruma doll factory, a national park and an old-school theme park that the children just love!
Itsuki, a third-grade boy, loves his swimming school coaches. He wrote to us wishing to join them for lunch. His wish came true; he had lunch with them after a special tour of their room.
This episode features two new recruits at places known for delicious food: a trainee at a renowned Chinese restaurant in Tokyo and a chef at a hotel buffet!
We tag along with a soba shop delivery person to ask if we can do a lunch story on the people who order in for lunch in the busy Higashi-Ginza district of Tokyo.
Take a trip to Kakegawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, home to one of the world's leading piano factories, where skilled artisans carefully craft each instrument through specialized processes.
In Shizuoka Prefecture, a unique workplace serves spicy curry as staff meals three times a day. This practice started for the Indian employees at the Japanese subsidiary of an IT company headquartered in India, but it has since become a favorite among the Japanese workers as well. Curious about the taste? Watch and find out! In the Lunch ON! Overseas segment, we have correspondents from Mozambique and Benin in Africa, and the Republic of Fiji, give us a taste of the lunches they enjoy.
