Buying butter in Japan is not as easy as it seems. Be aware that butter-flavored or butter margarines can sometimes look misleading with “バター” labels, but are obviously not the real thing if what you’re looking for is real butter. Real butter will typically have only two ingredients: 生乳 (seinyu; raw milk) and salt (if you prefer salted butter). Here’s a list of vocab to save for your next trip to the supermarket: 🧈無塩バター (musen bataa; “unsalted butter”) 🧂有塩バター (yuuen bataa; “salted butter”) 🌱マ