Japanese grocery stores in Australia, New Zealand, Pacific
Japanese grocery stores (or stores that stock Japanese food products) in Australia and New Zealand. If your favorite stores aren’t listed, let us know the details in the comments!
Australia
Adelaide (South Australia) area
- Little Tokyo! Japanese Food, Fashion & Culture
- 2a Victoria Square, Adelaide SA 5000
- (08) 8231 2255
- Comments: “A small shop, but stocks a small but varied range of food items, homewares, tableware, DVDs & books. They regularly stock the Urara, Putifresh & Clickety Click bento boxes, but usually only in sets, containing a box, bento bag & chopstick set. They also occasionally have cutters, sauce bottles, onigiri moulds & picks, the range depending what they can import, I suppose! This is the only place in Adelaide that I can reliably find bento supplies. The food range is great - all the items have a ticket on the shelf with both the Japanese & English name, which is a great boon to those who can’t read Japanese! You can get difficult to find items such as sakura denbu and tarako spaghetti sauce. There is a frozen range with croquettes, kamaboko etc, and tofu, noodles etc in the fridge. The staff are quietly helpful, and I’m sure would be happy to advise on how to prepare a particular ingredient.” -(alioc)
Brisbane (Queensland) area
- Formosa
- 102 Mary St, Brisbane
- Comments: “Mostly Chinese but a good Japanese section. Reasonable prices and sometimes good sales.” -(sherd)
- Koz Market
- 85 Elizabeth St, Brisbane
- Tel: (07) 3220 2677
- Comments: “Has a good range of Japanese & Korean food, reasonable prices. Not very big.” -(sherd) ####Melbourne area ####Perth (Western Australia) area
- Nippon Fare
- Crossways Shopping Centre
- Crnr Rokeby Rd and Bagot Rd
- Subiaco
- Comments: “They don’t carry any fresh veggies, herbs etc, but they have a massive range of frozen, dried, bottled, packaged etc. goods.”-(Hayley)
- Asian City
- Shop 2
- 369 Victoria Ave.(in Victoria Plaza)
- Chatswood, NSW
- (02) 9419 8088
- Comments: “Mostly Chinese goods, but they have a pretty large Japanese selection. Really, really good prices.”-(Dina)
- Jusco Asian Supermarket & Butcher
- Level 6, Westfield Chatswood
- 1 Anderson St, Chatswood
- Korean, Japanese, Asian groceries. See this page.
- VPlus Supermarket
- Shop 10-14
- Campsie Centre
- 14-28 Amy Street
- CAMPSIE NSW 2194
- Tel: (612) 9718 8699 Fax: (612) 9718 6670
- Open 7 days (check web site for hours)
- Chinese and English web site
- Also at
- Shop 1008-1010
- Westfield Shopping Centre
- Cnr Bathurst Street and Elizabeth Street
- LIVERPOOL NSW 2170
- Tel: (612) 9602 8688 Fax: (612) 9600 8300
- Also at
- Shop 42
- Metro Shopping Centre
- 34 Victoria Road
- MARRICKVILLE NSW 2204
- Tel: (612) 9550 3877 Fax: (612) 9550 5022
- Also at
- Shop 217
- Gosford Town Centre
- Cnr. Henry Parry Drive & Donnison Street
- GOSFORD NSW 2250
- Tel: (612) 4322 8699 Fax: (612) 4322 3099
- Comments: “I use the one at Liverpool regularly, They have a decent range of Japanese food items but you will have to often search through the isles for what you want as the staff don’t know the Japanese names of things as the store tends to cater more towards chinese.” (Becki)
Sydney (NSW) area
New Zealand
(none listed yet!)
Japanese grocery stores (or stores that stock Japanese food products) in Australia and New Zealand. If your favorite stores aren’t listed, let us know the details in the comments! (Once the information in a comment is incorporated into the main article, the comment is deleted.)
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Jusco in Chatswood (NSW) is
Jusco in Chatswood (NSW) is no longer there, sadly. :(
There is another one in Mandarin Centre, actually, but I forgot its name. I will be in Chatswood today so I’ll try to check. :)
Update!
I have located the other good Asian grocery in Chatswood - it’s Miracle Supermarket at Shop G01 65 Albert Ave Chatswood NSW 2067 (that’s on Level 1 of Mandarin Centre). It’s a bit pricier than Asian City but a bit bigger. Tends toward Chinese food, but has a decent supply of Japanese stuff as well.
Places in New Zealand!
Hello! ^_^ I live in New Zealand and I accidentally found your site! Please keep up the good work!
In:
Auckland -
Japan Mart (Retail Shop)
75 Anzac Ave. Auckland, New Zealand
http://japanmart.co.nz/
Wellington -
Unit K, 175 Rongotai Rd. Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand
Christchurch -
56 Newtown St. Bromley, Christchurch, New Zealand
Hope that helps with the update!~ ^_^
Some more places in (Auckland) New Zealand!
Hello again! ^_^ I found some more places in Auckland.
In:
Auckland -
オークランド/Made in Nippon
オークランドの目抜き通りQueen Streetにあり、買い物に便利なメイド・イン・日本。各種調味料はもちろん、お米、お菓子、納豆、お漬け物、お茶の葉、各種お酒など種類は豊富です。たいていのものを購入することができます。その他、日本人形やのれん、食器類なども購入できるので、親しくなった地元ニュージーランド人へのプレゼントの際にも便利です。
また、メイド・イン・日本では豊富な品揃えの日本食材をインターネットで注文できる、オンライン・ショップ「日本屋」を運営しており、そこで購入するとニュージーランド国内へ配送してくれます。
住所:313 Queen Street, Auckland
オークランド/Japan Mart
オークランドにある日本食材店です。各種調味料からお米やお菓子、和/洋のお菓子、豆腐、納豆、お漬け物、各種お酒など種類は豊富で、自炊をする際に必要となるほとんどの日本食材を購入できます。日本人が好む冷凍の食材や冷凍食品も多く、日本食が欠かせない人も問題ないでしょう。また、Japan Martの取扱商品一覧のデータをE-Mailで請求できます。
住所:75 Anzac Avenue, Auckland
オークランド/Takano Food
日本人経営のパン屋さん。懐かしい日本の味のパンを各種販売しています。店舗はなく原則的に配達のみですが、Made in NippoonやJapan Martなどといった日本食材屋でも購入できます。カレーパンや焼きそばパンなどの総菜パンもあります。
住所:Belmont, Takapuna, Auckland
オークランド/Ellie’s Sweets
オークランド北部にある日本人女性が作っているケーキ屋さん。店舗を持たず個人で経営し受注生産しているため、自分で取りに行くか配達してもらうということと、最小注文個数に制限があるというのが条件となります。概して大雑把な甘さであるニュージーランドのスイーツとは違い、日本の繊細な甘さを懐かしむ日本人滞在者に人気です。
住所:Belmont, Takapuna, Auckland
~Lena
Melbourne, Australia
Hi~ I really love this site cause I get to try all sorts of new recipes and they taste delicious!
Anyway I made a few holiday trips to Melbourne before and I did try to find some major stores that sell Japanese food. I failed cause I couldn’t find any, but hopefully this small piece of information will help! ^__^
I haven’t found any major stores that sells heaps and loads of Jap food, but you can find SOME ingredients such as buckwheat noodles [Soba in Japanese], thick egg noodles [Udon in Japanese], dipping/sauce/soup for soba or how ever you can call it [Tsuyu in Japanese], and some tools used to make sushi; they’re usually found in Melbourne’s major grocery stores, like Coles and Safeway, and most of them would have an Asian Grocery section, so that’s where you get it. Really simple food to get, but it’s still better than nothing.
So mainly if you want to find most Japanese ingredients in Melbourne, try to find SMALL convienent chinese, japanese and korean, and sometimes vietnamese grocery stores, which you can find in the CBD [Central Business District] itself you can find some around the city and also Chinatown [Located on Little Lonsdale St.], also some suburbs right near the city you can find some stores selling jap food, such as Richmond.
Usually most asian grocery stores have quite a variety of groceries which specialises in Asian groceries, and you can find quite a bunch of Japanese ingredients and tools. The only problem with shopping for food in the city itself, that it’s quite expensive! Don’t get me wrong, it’s usually much more expensive to shop for things in the city rather than the outer suburbs. But then again, Melbourne’s things are not cheap…
For cheaper and more variety to shop for Japanese food, you will have to go to the outer suburbs of Melbourne. As for me, I stayed at the southern eastern suburbs, so I did my shopping at suburbs which are mainly asian suburbs, due to the fact that those suburbs was populated with asians. You will find more asian grocery stores in suburbs like these, and they’re cheaper to buy compared to buying in the city, and also they have more variety.
So, the main suburb which I used to do most of my asian shopping is Box Hill, and also in Box Hill you can also find vietnamese and korean and chinese groceries, since Box Hill is mainly a chinese suburb. Some other suburbs near Box Hill would also have asian grocery stores, but I prefered Box Hill cause there was much more to shop for.
I hope you find this helpful. Happy shopping!
Melbourne
There are a few places in Melbourne. I got this from the Japanese consulate page in Melbourne:
Oriental Merchant, Head Office, 10 Westgate Drive, Laverton North, Victoria, 3026, 92508133, Freecall: 1800 806 842 (within Australia only), www.oriental.com.au
does not sell direct to public
Great Eastern Grocery, 185 Russell St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 96633716
Tokyo Deli, 418 Glenhuntly Rd Elsternwick VIC 3185, 9523 6200
Suzuran Japan Foods Trading Pty Ltd, 1025-27 Burke Rd Hawthorn VIC 3124
9882 2349
Sushi Bar, 31 Chambers St (shop 16/210 Toorak Rd), South Yarra, 9804 7396
Omuro Japanese Take Away & Grocery, 9 Church St Brighton VIC 3186, 9591 0633
Fujimart 34A Elizabeth St, South Yarra, 3141, 9826 5939
Also I recently found this online. They deliver Australiawide (I think). I do not know the standard of service (I am still in Japan), but they sell shouchu, which is what pleased me when I was looking for suppliers when I eventually return! www.ichibajunction.com.au/
Canberra, Australia
Top Bargain in Canberra Centre stocks Putifresh bento boxes, 2 tiers and singles. However, they only have the ‘apples’ range. Other bento boxes are also available, all are priced at $2. What a bargain!
The shop also sells a wide variety of Japanese kitchen products like Tamagoyaki pan, sauce containers, rice containers etc.
Sydney
There is a Japanese Supermarket in the Sydney CBD area. It’s called Maruyu Japanese City Supermarket and is located in 283 Clarence St.
I believe they also have stores in Perth, Gold Coast and Cairns.
PERTH JAPANESE SUPERMARKETS
Hello, First of all I would like to say how much I love your website. Keep up the good work! I would just like to know if anyone knows of some good supermarkets selling a wide variety of japanese foods in Perth. I know some of the Asian supermarkets sell them but there’s no variety and they only devote 1 shelf to japanese products not alot. Is there like a whole shop devoted to japanese foods in Perth? Thanks in advance.
Melbourne
Tokyo Deli at 418 Glen Huntly Road Elsternwick is a good Japanese specialist in Melbourne, they also have a kitchen where they prepare fresh food to eat in or takeaway.
Sydney - Tokyo Mart
Tokyo Mart
Northbridge Shopping Centre
Sailors Bay Rd, Northbridge
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