DAISO — Local services in Tokyo

"The Daiso" store in Shinjuku is no longer there. Associated with this location are two photographs. The Daiso sign shows up on the sign from Panoramia in 2012. However, the Google Street Map of 2014 shows that same ground floor building location with the Daiso sign removed (and another business there).

I walked on this street in Shinjuku last night (March 2015), and couldn't find the Daiso, despite remembering the sign from prior trips to Tokyo. I then took the train down to Harajuku, where the store on Takeshita Dori still exists (and opens...

Quite confusing to figure out how to get there, google maps isn’t the most accurate. You need to go downstairs as if you are going to the train line and there is a whole floor of shops available. Daiso was so much better than what is available in Australia and everything we purchased was either 100 or 200 yen. Tax free isn’t available for tourists but everything is so cheap anyway. It is also a self serve checkout where you scan your items and there is an English...

It was tricky to find at first as it was inside the subway. I had to go back the following day and tried looking for it, as it was the nearest Daiso from our place. Although there were relatively a lot of lanes, still not as plenty choices as the usual Daiso branches. And it would have been nice if the staff at the counter could've been friendlier. One of the rare encounter that I had in Japan where staff...