Olympic Supermarket Kita Shinjuku — Local services in Tokyo

A great supermarket which is a little up market. Think Waitrose or Edeka.

Keep an eye out for discounted ready meals and wagyu beef at the end of the day.

The ready meals are great, especially the fires rice. Get that with a small pack of mixed vegetables and some cheap wagyu and you e got a great meal in your hands.

Don't buy eggs here though, much cheaper at a Lawson's or smaller store. This is a good place to get large bottles of water cheap and a good range of cereals.

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A supermarket with a good (while expensive) fruit and vegetable selection and good hours. There are many snacks from overseas available to cater to the forighners who live around and work there. The prepared food in the evening when they get the discount stickers on them is a bit of a frenzy most nights I have been there. Forighners seem to love the discounted bentos more than...

Great local store. Edible products on first floor and non-edible (clothes, homeware) on second floor. Opens from 10am-11pm. Food look fresh and the shop looks very tidy. Price wise is cheaper than convenience stores but more expensive than discount supermarkets, even aeon for the food products. For the homeware, the price is very competitive. I don’t think it...