Ebisu Mini Japan — Attraction in Towson

Eh.

It’s alright I suppose, this is certainly the most unique store in Towson, however there are quite a few things about this store worth nitpicking about.

First of all, the prices. A lot of the stuff here is a relatively expensive, and I can’t really blame them too much for that, given the fact that Trump is picking fights with other countries and putting tariffs on everything. However, a lot of the prices just felt plain outrageous to me. I found a cool keychain plush of Bandana Waddle Dee—$26. I could pretty easily find something similar on Amazon for nearly half the price of that. Additionally, some people have reported that some items are rung up at higher prices than their displayed prices, which may be accidental, but regardless, it feels kind of deceptive given the prices are already somewhat high.

Even though these high prices might seem normal for a brick-and-mortar store consisting of imported products in 2025, the quality control on some products, mostly food, make the high prices a lot less justified. I bought some seemingly birthday cake flavored Oreos from some very clearly displayed shelves in the front of the food section a couple of weeks ago, however when I went to eat them today they were very noticeably long beyond expiration. I checked the date on the package, and I’m pretty sure it said it expired in March earlier this year, even though I bought them in July. These Oreos were in the DISPLAY shelves of the food section, so I’m pretty pissed to find that these expired months before I even bought them.

Aside from these glaring issues, the selection of products is pretty cool—it’s a nice variety of pop culture, food, stationery, beauty products, and whatnot. It’s a whole lot of Sanrio and Chiikawa, so if that stuff is up your alley this store might be worth a visit.

Overall, it’s just okay—I’ve only went here twice and neither experiences were that bad, however I’m just kind of disappointed that one of the only store like this that’s super close to where I live is as...

My Aunt brought me 4 boxes of blind box for my birthday and i was in my tutor Language Class

She brought for me but i asked her for return bc that was not what i like

She got me 2 Sonny Hipper blind boxes for $76 2 Lulu The Piggy Vintage Teddy Shop Vinyl Face Plush Pendant Blind Boxes for $50 Total $126

But my Aunt was shopped on Black Friday s night and spend over $250 over there on Black Friday s night, today On the store receipt saids exchange (7 days ) so my Aunt came in for exchanged for my favorite Sonny Angel x Wasa Limited Edition Space Rabbit Series Collection's Figurines ( Rocket Rabbit and SpaceCraft Rabbit ) for $240 which she has to pay an additional over $130 and some cents

The store manager was the Asian lady, her age was like between 28-35 years old reminded , i let you know these items not available for another exchange bc of we do not accept Sonny s or Blind Box exchange l, i make it today exchange for you bc of i know you

My Aunt came home gave me my birthday gift and told me she has never know the lady at the Japanese but the lady saids so that she know my mom and family

Hello mam you can have her birthday gift Aunt spend in your store total almost $400 but you guys treated her as a beggars, and threatened her that you wont take care

So disappointed, my family not someone that you can just threatening like that

Your receipt saying that available for 7 days of exchange policy

I have never touched the Blind Boxes My Aunt she was only face time to me and show to Mr Dam

I mean i have no more exciting to receive a gift from her the way you treated my Aunt

Its such as a terrible customer service

Never want to recommended your store to anyone

You are not successful doing business in my local area and threatening local customers who bring business for you

Such and low and disrespectful to customers and people

I like a gift but do not like the gifts from your store due to your attitude, customer service and the way you threatened my Aunt 👎

Never shop in your...

Most of the snacks are unpriced in the freezers and shelves or have incorrect prices shown like the ice creams, cookies and candies. The young lady at the register told me ‘it’s wrong’ when I pointed out the price of my cookies rang up differently than what was shown on the shelves. She had no means of verifying when I told her it was showing $3.99 on the shelves and she just asked me ‘so you still want them?’. She also didn’t greet me when I walked up to checkout at the register, she and her colleague were busy chatting and smiling at each other and I felt like I was interrupting them when I placed my items at the counter for checkout. She turned to me with no greeting or eye contact or smile before starting to ring my items. The gentlemen on the sales floor in snack section was also reluctant to answer me when I first asked him ‘hi how are you?’ To get his attention before I asked him ‘how much are the ice creams in the freezers?’ because they had no price tags showing. He was busy on his tablet seemingly about inventory, it took him a good amount of silence before ignoring my ‘how are you?’ And just asked me ‘what ice creams?’ Again, I felt like I was interrupting his work but shouldn’t the staff be friendly enough to respond to a ‘hi, how are you?’ Or greet with a hi/smile with eye contact at the register? Also possibly be flexible and pivot to assist customers’ questions when the staff member is on the sales floor? I guess it was a slow quiet Monday evening after thanksgiving break and most of them didn’t want to be there working the evening. There were also snacks that have expired or close to expire soon. Plenty of chips on the shelves were about to expire at the end of this month, pretty old inventory that I would not...