100 Yen Shops (Japanese: hyaku en shop) sell a wide range of products for 105 Yen per item (100 Yen plus 5 percent consumption tax) and they are very common in Japan. This corresponds to roughly 1,00Usd per item or 1,00Eur, making the shops a great source for travelers and residents on a budget.
There are thousands of 100 Yen Shops across Japan, ranging in size from multi-storey "department stores" to small corners in shopping malls. Market leader Daiso operates over two thousand stores nationwide and pursues an aggressive expansion policy.
The 100 Yen Shops are able to offer an amazing range of products at a price that is often below the product's actual value. You can find products such as: plates, rice and miso soup bowls, tea cups, sake sets, forks, kitchen knifes, dippers, microwave containers, coffee filters, detergents, aluminum foil, hammers, measuring tapes, pliers, screw drives sets, cutter knifes, boxes, report pads, memo pads, pens, pins, calligraphy brushes, ping-pong sets, swimming goggles, English-Japanese dictionaries, etc... The garden variety 100 Yen store consists of mountains of plastic baskets and buckets in lurid shades of grossness, make-up for kids, and Christmas stocking-stuffers and a lot of things!!
If you live in Japan, especially in Kobe area, I will help you to find a 100 yen shop close to your house. Here you will find the stores that I’ve been already. I will inform you how to get there and also I will describe a little bit what each one of them has.
Enjoy your time here and if you have some information for another 100 Yen shop, please let me know and I write it in the Blog! Tchuss
3 comments:
hi,... i really like 100 yen shop its nice and unique very affordable and cute, actually i have plan to have daiso business, a small business c'oz the location is near in school and not in malls. ^_^ my dreams
Not sure if you still monitor this blog. Anyway, no doubt Daiso rocks! 2 months ago I was regularly shopping at Daiso Sannomiya and i am hooked on one of the Japanese songs that is on the store's music playlist and i've been dying to find out the artist and song title! Are you still in Kobe by any chance?
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