Using panasonic alkaline water, the health benefit is pseudoscience, but there is definitely a difference in cooking vegetables and rice, taste better.

No really, its quite easy to measure, you have one alkaline no 2 water rice and another filtered water, each to rice cooker with same amount, the one with alkaline water will be definitely softer.
Even with vegetables, you boiled them via A/B test, there is definitely a difference.

True, water is water, the difference is just the alkaline level.

For normal drinking, I really feel no difference to normal filtered water in terms of health benefit, the only benefit is in terms of cooking vegetables, boiling soup and rice etc.

I don't recommend this overpriced unit, you can just try any cheaper panasonic mdoels that work just as good.

Even in Japan I use filtered water, unless the building is less than 10 years old, no matter how good the water system is, you can't trust the piping of older buildings.

I didn't meant in health, sure body will self regulate it's alkaline level, but for cooking it changes the texture of vegetables for example, and make tea taste smoother.
This is measurable in A/B test, it wasn't that hard to find alkaline water to try it yourself.