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Finding a decent onigiri nearby?
school lunch duty means u can probably eat in the kyushoku room if u ask the teacher, and the onigiri from the school's own kitchen are way better than anything u'd buy nearby tbh. kindergarten kyushoku often includes a rice ball day once a week, usually tuesday or thursday, so time ur visits around that. other than that, the vending machine on the corner plus a pack of nori from the 100 yen shop gets u pretty far
The kindergarten detail matters more than people realize. A lot of them sit inside a danchi or a quiet chome with zero commercial street, so the closest food is whatever the local supermarket deli counter puts out that morning. My go-to in that situation is a package of three onigiri from a Seijo Ishii or a Peacock, the rice holds up better than konbini stuff and they usually have a decent umeboshi and a salmon. If you tell me the nearest station or the ward I can point you at something specific, otherwise you're just guessing at a map.
Depends on the ward, but if you're near a station there's usually a chain like Omusubi Gonbei or Kitchen Origin tucked into the concourse, and both do onigiri to go for around 150 to 250 yen. I'd pick Gonbei over a konbini any day, the rice is shaped to order and the salmon is actual flakes rather than paste. If you want something that eats more like a real lunch, look for a small soba shop, they'll sell you inari or a rice ball set without the ramen queue. Which station are you closest to? That'd narrow it down a lot.
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Where can I find crispy, pan-fried bacon similar to a certain international style?
if u have a costco membership the kirkland thick cut is the move, 4 packs of 500g for around 2500 yen and it crisps up proper in a cold pan. for smaller runs, precce in azabudai hills & the basement at isetan shinjuku both carry imported US & danish brands in the chilled case, just read the label for "thick cut" or "smoked" and not "loin". also worth knowing japanese bacon is often wet-cured so pat it dry before frying or it steams instead of crisping
kaldi coffee farm is hit or miss but their smoked bacon from denmark shows up pretty regular, the 200g pack runs about 600 yen. what actually works better for me is asking the butcher counter at peacock or life to slice the block bacon thick, like 5mm, they do it for free and it crisps way better than the pre-packed stuff. also fwiw cheap bacon crisps faster, the fatty supermarket kind at 300 yen a pack works fine if u cook it from cold in a dry pan and pour off the fat as it renders.
tbh the gyomu super store brand bacon is surprisingly decent for crisping up, its not thick cut but if you cook it low and slow it gets pretty crunchy. the key is the dry cure vs wet cure thing, wet cure steams. also check hanamasa if you have one nearby, they sell big packs of american style bacon thats actually smoked and firm.