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I can 2nd https://www.airalo.com/ for an ESim that works on phones with that functionality. I have done this recently in Japan.
I was often buying breakfast and the occasional lunch from convenience stores and got a bit fed up with it. They do sell good quality food but remember it's in small portions. Even a bag of peanuts is quite small, expensive and designed for nibbles rather than serious energy supply. This also applies to chocolate.
I have a Trangia. For travelling I think the benefit is you can get fuel from any DIY store rather than having to obtain a certain sort of gas bottle. Might need to figure out the words for meths in Japanese though.
You probably know this already but some people are suprised that Kyoto is a big fairly industrial city. It's not all like the images of temples and shrines we see online. Infact, travelling by train I was amazed at how the cities from Tokyo to Osaka and beyond all seem to merge together without much green in between.