Growing up I used to live across the street from Daimaru.
For all intents and purposes, it's a fully fledge department store. They have brand names on one floor, clothing for women one, clothing for men, household goods. But most importantly in the basement.... food.
You have fresh cut fish, and it's sushi grade.
There's fish and fish for several counters.
There's meat and salad too.
There's prepared food, cooked and ready to eat.
Or even lazier, they have prepared bento boxes. From looking at it, it's pretty big and definitely good for couple of meals for me.
But hey, there's more! There's dessert and they do a damn good job with all kinds too.
Not to mention, they have fresh squeezed juice and smoothie. So dinner is taken care of.
Why is it significant enough to deserve a post? I think those of us who lived in Asia understand that this is an important part of daily life there. Yes, you have supermarket, but we don't have say a store like Central Market where you have fruit/veggie/fresh fish/meat/dessert/ prepared foods and gazillion of sparkling water in one place. Grocery store typically are small, which means it's limited in some ways; either it's limited in variety or limited in the number of offerings. That is where department store basements are for. For families with 2 working parents, it's hard to prepare meals and get your family in order in the short time you have at night. That is no different than families here in the States. Since their living space is small, meal prep for the entire week for multiple people in the family is not as easy as here. To make up for that, you buy less but go to the store more frequent, and on occasion you can afford a bit more, you can buy better quality and still have a good meal at hone with your family. It's very unique kind of setting.
Daimaru
inside Tokyo Station
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