Popular Japanese grocery store, Mitsuwa Marketplace, opens new location in Northridge

Mitsuwa Marketplace

三和マーケットプレイス

Type	Private
Manufacture	Retail, Food court
Founded	1998; 25 years ago  (1998) in San Jose, California[1]
Headquarters	Torrance, California
Number of locations	11
Area served	California Hawaii Illinois New Bailiwick of jersey Texas
Products	Japanese cuisine
Parent	Wanoba Group Inc.[2]
Website	mitsuwa.com

Mitsuwa Market place

(
ミツワマーケットプレイス
,


Mitsuwa Mākettopureisu

)
is a Japanese supermarket chain in America, with locations in California, Illinois, Texas, Hawaii, and New Bailiwick of jersey.

History

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As a subsidiary of Yaohan,
Yaohan USA
opened its first supermarket in Fresno in 1979. During its heyday, Yaohan operated 8 stores all over the States, as well as four Daikichi sushi shops.

Upon defalcation of Yaohan in 1997, Yaohan USA was subject to a management buyout past regional management, with rebranding equally
Mitsuwa Marketplace.

Mitsuwa continued to expand its stores, mainly within California. In December 2012, Kamei Corporation [ja], a Japanese trading company, caused Mitsuwa’due south stock.

Store locations

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California

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Mitsuwa has seven stores in four metropolitan areas in California:

San Francisco Bay Area

• San Jose

Los Angeles expanse

• Torrance
• San Gabriel
• West Los Angeles

Orange Canton area

• Costa Mesa
• Irvine

San Diego area

• San Diego

The Los Angeles location of Mitsuwa Marketplace in the Little Tokyo neighborhood closed in 2009.^[iii]
In 2019, Torrance closed their previous location in the Old Boondocks Torrance. The new Torrance location inside the Del Amo Fashion Eye opened in February 2020.^[iv]

Hawaii

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Honolulu expanse

• Honolulu

The 2d-floor Honolulu store is located in the International Market place Identify in Waikiki, Honolulu.^[5]
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Texas

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Dallas/Fort Worth area

• Plano

Mitsuwa entered the Dallas/Fort Worth area with a store in Plano, an upper-center-grade northern suburb of Dallas. The store, which opened in the spring of 2017, is near Northward Central Expressway and Legacy Drive.^[7]
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Chicago metropolitan expanse

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The Chicago expanse shop is at 100 E. Algonquin Route in Arlington Heights, Illinois — part of a number of Japanese businesses in Arlington Heights — and opened in 1991. The shop is open 365 days a year^[ix]
from 9 am to nine pm. Mitsuwa is the largest^{[
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Japanese marketplace in the Midwestern U.s.. The Chicago store is one of three that are east of the Rockies. This Mitsuwa location, like those in other states, was formerly known as Yaohan.

The food court has many traditional foods, such as sushi, tempura, noodles, etc. It is made of the Otafuku-tei (at present replaced by Gabutto Burger), Kayaba, Santouka Ramen, Releaf Matcha, Jockey Limited, Daikichi Sushi, Pastry House Hippo, and Mama House restaurants. Mitsuwa hosts the JTB travel agency. There are two amusement shops in Mitsuwa Chicago, JBC Video, a Japanese video rental store, and Kinokuniya, a Japanese volume shop that sells jotter, novels, manga, and other imported media. A cell phone shop, Milky way Wireless, is at the Chicago Mitsuwa.

Mitsuwa Chicago had a china store chosen ‘Utsuwa no Yakata’. This shop closed on April 1, 2006. Kinokuniya bookstore, which had expanded into the area previously endemic by a Prc shop, has been replaced by SanSeiDo.

The location has two personal care shops, Shiseido, a Japanese cosmetics store, and Super Health, a vitamin and other health supplement store.

New Jersey

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The Edgewater, New Bailiwick of jersey store is located on 595 River Route. Information technology has a food court, a bookstore endemic by Kinokuniya, a souvenir shop selling Bape clothing and golf clubs, a video store that carries DVDs and Laserdiscs of movies and a store selling Japanese ceramics and denki-gama, making Mitsuwa more than of a mini-mall than a traditional supermarket. It is a small taste of what current Japanese multi-story malls, or subway stations, are similar.

The supermarket section sells fresh produce and certified Angus beef, as well as Japanese drinks and snacks such every bit Yakult, Calpis, Ramune, Ikechi Shrimp Chips, Pocari Sweat, Pocky, Pretz, and Japanese liquor such every bit Sake and Shōchū.

The Books Kinokuniya bookstore section sells Japanese music CDs, novels, job applications, children’s books, manga, and imported magazines (including dozens of Japanese fashion magazines) such as Weekly Shonen Spring and Disney Fan.

In that location is as well a kiosk that sells Ito En tea and Minamoto Kitchoan that sells Japanese sweets such as manju, mochi, and Inja.

A Daiso “100-yen shop” location opened at the market in August 2019.^[10]

The New Jersey location used to run an exclusive shuttle bus betwixt the store and the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City. The bus transported Mitsuwa customers for a nominal fee and information technology did non make any stops forth its road. The service was terminated on December 31, 2014.^[11]

Run into besides

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• 99 Ranch Market
• H Mart
• Marukai Corporation UsaA.
• Nijiya Market

References

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External links

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• Official Mitsuwa Marketplace Site
• Mitsuwa Marketplace – NJ Store (in Japanese Linguistic communication) (Archive)