Ryokan, a Japanese style Inn usually serves unique breakfast.  As you can see in the picture, there are about 10 to 15 dishes for breakfast.  Each dish is served neatly in a small dish and they are all low calories.  Even if you eat all of them, the total intake calories will not exceed 500 calories.

This Ryokan started to serve breakfast way back in Edo period, about 300 years ago, when it was the greatest pleasure for the people to travel between Tokyo and Osaka on foot.  The Ryokan master served each guest breakfast and dinner set on a portable small table individually.  Even back in those days, breakfast had 5 dishes at least.  It seems that the Ryokan has added dishes to the menu during the past 10 years. 

Rice, miso soup, pickled vegetables, small pot dish with vegetables and meat, grilled fish, octopus Carpaccio, vegetable sticks, Japanese style omelet, boiled vegetables with soy sauce, shrimp paste dumpling, 3 more small dishes, yogurt for a dessert, and a glass of apple juice.

It may be hard for foreign people to understand.  But I really recommend that many foreign people to try this cool Japanese culture when they visit Japan.