{"id":2636,"date":"2025-10-20T20:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2025-10-20T20:00:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:00:23","slug":"tokyo-bento-boxed-lunch-shop-charges-different-prices-depending-on-how-heavy-your-laptop-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=2636","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo bento boxed lunch shop charges different prices depending on how heavy your laptop is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-715397\" src=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/10\/fb-1.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>If you\u2019ve got a heavy laptop, it\u2019ll get you a hefty discount at this Tokyo Station pop-up<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pricing at <strong>bento boxed lunch<\/strong> shops usually works in one of two ways. At shops where you pick out the contents yourself, the price is based on how many items and which type you choose, and at others the price is fixed because the chefs have already arranged the contents ahead of time.<\/p>\n<p>However, there\u2019s a bento shop opening this month in <strong>Tokyo<\/strong> where the bento ingredients are set, but the price isn\u2019t, because<strong> the price depends on what kind of laptop you have<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Bento Shop Where You Buy Bento with Your Computer<\/strong> will be opening inside<strong> Tokyo Station<\/strong> on October 29. Its high-tech name comes from the surprising fact that the bento shop is operated by Japanese computer manufacturer <strong>Fujitsu<\/strong>. Fujitsu has just launched the newest, lightest version yet of its FMV Note laptop series, the FMV Note U (UX-K3).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-715398\" src=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/10\/fb-2.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"546\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to Fujitsu, the new FMV Note U is the world\u2019s lightest laptop with a 14-inch screen, weighing just <strong>634 grams<\/strong> (1.4 pounds). So to celebrate its release, <strong>Fujitsu has also created a boxed lunch with the same weight, filled with luxurious foodstuffs such as crab from Fukui Prefecture and sukiyaki with beef from Yamagata Prefecture<\/strong>. The ingredients are even arranged to resemble a series of edible business graphs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-715399\" src=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/10\/fb-3.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fujitsu calls it the <strong>FMVentoU<\/strong>, a pun based on how the Japanese language doesn\u2019t have a V sound and instead pronounces the letter like a B. The FMVentoU has a <strong>base price of 1,000 yen<\/strong> (US$6.70), with payment by cashless methods only. There\u2019s an unusual way you can get a discount, though. <strong>If you show up to the shop with your current laptop, the staff will weigh it<\/strong>. It\u2019s a given that your laptop will be heavier than the new FMV Note U (UX-K3), and<strong> the bigger the difference in weight, the bigger discount you\u2019ll be given for the bento<\/strong>, up to a maximum of 700 yen off.<\/p>\n<p>\u25bc The bento shop will also have a display space for the new Fujitsu laptop.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-715400\" src=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/10\/fb-4.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since the primary purpose is to promote the new laptop, the bento shop is a pop-up operation, and will be open from October 29 to October 31, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. It\u2019ll be located inside the JR Tokyo Station gates on basement level 1 of the<strong> Gransta Tokyo<\/strong> section.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source, images: <a href=\"https:\/\/prtimes.jp\/main\/html\/rd\/p\/000000092.000041345.html\">PR Times<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u25cf Want to hear about SoraNews24\u2019s latest articles as soon as they\u2019re published? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RocketNews24En\">Follow us on Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RocketNews24En\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve got a heavy laptop, it\u2019ll get you a hefty discount at this Tokyo Station pop-up. 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