This is one of the largest shopping mall that has more than 153 retailers such as clothing, shoes, kimono store, cosmetics, variety store, restaurants, coffee, food court, movie theatre, amusement centre, bowling, photo studio, Toyota car dealer, realtor's office, cell phone store, travel agencies, insurance broker, rental video store, cultural centre, and etc. This is pretty much big enough to spend a whole day and live around. In addition, there is a big glossary store in the mall.
Daiei
This is what I ate. The name is "Maguro Goma dare don". It is soaked tuna in a special sauce (It is perhaps soy sauce and dashi) with sesame.
It comes with smaller sized rice and tuna, miso soup, and tsukemono (pickled vegetable). The price is \609. I think it is reasonable.
Today, I would like to introduce how Narita International Airport, also known as Tokyo International Airport, looks like.
There are many stores of many kinds. For example, some of them sell Japanese traditional craft as souvenir, English person's name stamp written in applied kanji and even Japanese original tastes of Kitkat. Needless to say, there is variety of restaurants as well. Here are the pictures of the stores and restaurants.
Muji is one of the largest Japanese retailer that sells simplicity designed clothing, food, kitchen utensil and even furniture. They do business world widely from Europe through Asia to USA.
This is their philosophy that is posted on their web.
MUJI is not a brand whose value rests in the frills and “extras” it adds to its products.
MUJI is simplicity - but a simplicity achieved through a complexity of thought and design.
MUJI’s streamlining is the result of the careful elimination and subtraction of gratuitous features and design unrelated to function.
MUJI, the brand, is rational, and free of agenda, doctrine, and “isms.” The MUJI concept derives from us continuously asking, “What is best from an individual’s point of view?”
MUJI aspires to modesty and plainness, the better to adapt and shape itself to the styles, preferences, and practices of as wide a group of people as possible. This is the single most important reason people embrace MUJI.
MUJI - in its deliberate pursuit of the pure and the ordinary - achieves the extraordinary.
This is one of the largest Japanese clothing companies that does business world widely with simplified designed clothes. They run their business in USA as well.
Below two are stores that sell Japanese traditional craft. They might become a small accent that has Japanese taste.
Oriental bazaar
They sell Japanese traditional craft souvenir.
Amita: They sell Japanese traditional crafts as well.
Toy Park:
As you can see, they sell name stamps, called "hanko" in Japanese. You might find your name hanko written in Kanji.
Foods Shop Omori: They sell food that is packed and good to make them souvenir. One of remarkable things might be variety taste of Kitkat that you can get only in Japan.
Here is the picture of the Kitkat.
ITS'DEMO, variety store
You can buy yukata if you can't find good yukata at local retailer.
Omori, drug store
These are restaurants at Narita. Before introducing ordinal food that average Japanese person would like, I gonna introduce North American food for the people who want to get back to North American food.
Starbucks Coffee
McDonald's
If you miss bagel, here this is.
Soup Stock Tokyo is a soup chain restaurant that sells hearty and healthy soup. You can warm up yourself with variety of soup.
The restaurants below have tastes that most of Japanese people like.
Ebisu-tei: Ramen noodle restaurant
En: Ochazuke restaurant. Japanese people have ochazuke when their stomach is heavy and burned. It is slow food for Japanese people who have got tired a lot by their long trip.
Na no sato: Japanese restaurant
Sushi Tomi: Sushi restaurant
Royal Coffee Shop: You can get westernized Japanese dish. I can't remember what exactly they had but I guess they probably have omelette, pizza and spaghetti. The reason why I said westernized Japanese dish is because the menu is originally from western countries but it is tasted with Japanese flavour like shiso and some seafood, soy sauce and so son. .
Keisei Yuzen restaurant: Variety Japanese restaurant that has sushi, tonkatsu, tempura and so on. This is where I had my dinner on the first day of staying in Japan.
These are menu that they have. The difference from North America is that they show you what you get in the display case in Japan.
This is what I got. It is called "Sanshoku don" that means three colours and rice. It comes with tororo, ikura and tuna that make three colours with miso soup.
I also had matcha ice cream. Sorry for missing one bite XD I couldn't wait to eat before taking the picture.
Hope this can help you know Narita Airport.
This is the web site of Narita International Airport by the way.
The air plane was supposed to departure Toronto at 12:10 PM on November 21, 2010, but it delayed for three hours due to computer trouble. It reminds me of a trip to Japan in February, 2007 that delayed about for 6 hours and I had to stay overnight at hotel around Narita Airport.
Now I am hoping that the returning trip will be safe and punctual.
