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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. :)

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!~ ^_^

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!

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.

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.

Tokyo Mart
Northbridge Shopping Centre
Sailors Bay Rd, Northbridge