COCOLIA Tama Centre — Local services in Tokyo

I love the import food store in the 1st floor. It's got a great selection of sauces, spices, noodles, and pretty much anything you are looking for from Southeast Asia, as well as baking stuff and sweets from Europe and North America. I especially love their selection of Vietnamese, Thai, and Indonesian ingredients. Unlike Kaldi Coffee, they basically have all the spices you need to prepare a meal. And the prices are very reasonable. Today I bought 5kg of Barilla penne for 1000 yen! My only complaint is they didn't have a bag big enough to put it in.

My other go-to shop is Maruzen bookstore. It's got a good English section as well as great stationery, pens, ink, and bags. There is always a huge lineup at this store, but they always have enough staff to keep it moving quickly, so don't get discouraged.

Finally, I like to go back to the ground floor bakery for a rare cinnamon roll (or whatever else looks good) and a coffee or iced tea (Earl Grey iced tea! Classy!) for dinner energy before I go home. It's really delicious.

These are my main haunts, but overall the whole shopping center has good variety and...

That building layout placed the smoking room just next to the elevator hall so it leaks cigarette smoke to the whole building indoors. It is quite stinky anywhere in its indoors. Restaurants with vacant tables have no staff to seat customers waiting. Working staff also uses customer elevator for carrying dirty boxes around. It was lots of waisted time in a such unpleasant...

Not the greatest shopping mall since this area is not super popular. My favorite thing in the mall was the food court, lots of good options down there in the basement. It has a variety of shops and restaurants built nothing that interested me that much. This place is good if you live nearby but it’s not a place worth traveling to...