Asahi sells hot bottled water as coffee or tea alternative in Japan

Asahi began selling their Oishi Mizu Tennensui Sayu in convenience stores and supermarkets in Japan as an alternative to grabbing a bottle of green tea or a can of coffee from the heating rack.

Oishi Mizu Tennensui Sayu isn’t a clear, non-carbonated soda-style flavored water that started gaining popularity

The piping-hot bottles are simply filled with the same mineral water that Asahi usually sells at cold or room temperature.

According to Asahi, a growing number had been craving hot water on late-autumn and winter mornings as a way to warm themselves up without caffeine’s side effects brought by coffee or tea.

Orange caps on the Asahi bottles indicate that the drink, under Japanese beverage-handling regulations, is only to be sold hot.

Asahi Oishi Mizu Tennensui Sayu is priced at 105 yen.