Mitsuwa Marketplace
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Mitsuwa Marketplace (ミツワマーケットプレイス?) is a growing Japanese-American supermarket chain, with locations in Santa Monica, California, Torrance, California, Little Tokyo, San Diego, Costa Mesa, San Gabriel, San Jose, New Jersey, and Chicago.
[edit] Supermarket Features for Edgewater, NJ Location
Mitsuwa is virtually unique among Japanese and Asian supermarkets in New Jersey in that it has a food court (including an Italian Tomato restaurant and a sushi bar called Daikichi-zushi), a bookstore owned by Sanseido company, a gift shop selling Bape clothing and golf clubs, a video store that carries DVDs and Laserdiscs of movies such as Karate Kid II[citation needed], and a store selling Japanese ceramics and denki-gama, making Mitsuwa more of a mini-mall than a traditional supermarket. It is a very tiny taste of what current Japanese multi-story malls, or subway stations, are like. The marketplace is usually also open on holidays.
The supermarket section sells plenty of fresh produce and certified Angus beef, not to mention Japanese drinks and snacks such as Yakult, Calpis, Ramune, Ikechi Shrimp Chips, Pocari Sweat, Pocky, Pretz, and Japanese liquor such as Sake, Soola, Booshi, Chooba, and Shōchū.
The Sanseido bookstore section sells Japanese novels, job applications, children's books, manga, and imported magazines (including dozens of Japanese fashion magazines) such as Weekly Shonen Jump and Disney Fan, and localized versions of American magazines such as National Geographic.
There is also a kiosk that sells Yama Moto Yama tea and another that sells Japanese sweets such as manju, mochi, Inja, and other foods.
[edit] See also
Mitsuwa Marketplace (Chicago Store)
