Tabe Aruki or Eating While Walking
What does your country think about eating while walking?
In Japan, eating while walking is not good and is considered a shameful behavior.
In tourist areas, skewered dumplings and fruits for sale are sold to people, so they are able to eat light snacks. This food culture of eating while walking is a pleasure of travelling. But doing the same act in the office is considered rude. Walking around town while holding a drink, eating a store bought shuumai or nikuman while walking to work, or even buying an onigiri at a konbini and eating while going home after work are one of these examples.
In addition, due to the increase of incidents of people who eat while entering a store, who touch products with dirty hands, and who litter on the road, towns that prohibit these manner violations are coming out. Even if it is not a violation, it is still unacceptable to enter a store while eating and touching products with dirty hands. Furthermore, let us make sure to throw our garbage in the trash can.
To avoid causing trouble to people around us, let us use the space for eating provided by the store. Let us refrain from eating while walking.
