Nakata Market of Japan

The atmosphere is very clean and they specialize in only Japanese products at great prices which is what I love!!! Employees here are very friendly also speaks Japanese and English.
I love the fact that they have A HUGE variety of supply here. I bought lots of goodies to satisfy me! Will definitely be back again! I recommend this cute Japanese market to everyone.

I was up at 2am watch a guy on YouTube make Onigiri. I got super hungry then and looked around for a local Japanese Market and found this one! I’m alway a little anxious going into different cultural markets but they were super nice and friendly! I had my 1.5 year-​old daughter with me and the kept calling her «So Kawaii» (which she is lol) and that is the only Japanese word I know. I got what I wanted plus some delicious candy and crackers! It’s an awesome place!

I’m in here about once a month stocking up on soups, teas, and other little things I fell in love with while in Japan. Doesn’t look like much on the outside, but it’s a nice little place.

I don’t really have a preference between this store and Japan Creek Market. They’re about the same to me. Both expensive. I go here because it’s close to my work. It does it’s job for me and gets me the various things I need for Japanese food.

My husband and I were in search of authentic matcha tea, and decided to look here.
We walked in to a very clean, and well organized store. The first thing that we found was the aisle with tea sets, beautiful bowls and utensils. We found our matcha whisk here.
There were three cans of official matcha powder, along with some others that included matcha or green tea blends. We chose the ceremonial matcha tea powder. Although the label was in Japanese, there was a sticker that listed the ingredients in English.
At check out, we were helped by one of the most polite people I have ever met. It was a great experience.

Great market and love the bath salts! A must go to ! The staff are very knowledgeable about their products and I wish there was more than one location otherwise you have to order all Japanese products online.

Friendly staff. Just explored the place recently. They got the mochi ice cream with kinds of flavors. Really LOVE the Mochi Ice Cream there!

It is your typical japanese market and offer everything most groceries store carry. It has a very small frozen food section, there are japanese candies and other goodies to see here. The main thing about this place that makes me go mehh. is that it’s expensive. I’ve been to tokyo discount, japanese creek market and this place is maybe a dollar or two more expensive and in a pretty dead plaza.

Nice size store. Well kept and clean. It had most of the stuff i was looking for but not everything. Staff was very friendly and informative. Location is easy to find and parking is easy to find. Living in Vegas i cant expect much like living in hawaii for finding asian products like back home but this place comes close to what i look for. If your looking for more house warming or gift things this isnt really the place, but if you are looking for more authentic japanese foods to cook this is the spot.

Well-​stocked and CLEAN Japanese market!
FOOD: No grocery or meat here, just a few refrigerator cases and deep freezers. Some noodles, soups, and a lot of fish here (sashimi quality, frozen and unsalted), but my favorite find is the black sesame mochi. Tiny section of ready-​made buns and sushi rolls, limited variety but would love to find out when they put the dishes out fresh.
GIFTS: Quite a few small gift items, from decorative magnet and eraser sets to some Hello Kitty merchandise and the Asian equivalent of bizarre «as seen on TV» products. Good items to grab to mail to a friend or tuck into a birthday or holiday gift bag.
DRY GOODS/​COSMETICS/​OTHER: noodles and seasonings, dishes and chopsticks, and tons of foreign hair dyes and magazines, mostly geared toward visitors and recent immigrants who have a particular brand favorite from back home.
There’s also a movie rental area, which is unique and cool, though I wasn’t clear on how it works. Small wine selection toward the back. Friendly staff.
$ 10 card minimum lost them a star: I’m not surprised by it but dislike that the info isn’t posted anywhere. Inconvenient when all I grab are small, cheap items. Pricing is all over the place: absurdly high on some items, average or normal on others, and suspiciously cheap on a handful, too.

Very friendly staff! They have a nice selection of products from a variety food products to some clothing, movies, hair and skincare products to ceramic figures. I will be a permanent returning customer.

I didn’t know this little Japanese store was in my neighborhood, but finally noticed the sign when I was driving by one day. I stopped in looking for green tea Kit Kats for a birthday gift, but the nice lady working there said they were out until the end of the month. I did find a few Hello Kitty items and got to look around. In addition to items like ramen, curry sauces, slippers, Pocky, mochi, sake, soy sauces, nori, etc., they have a section of the store with Japanese DVDs for rent. I don’t do a lot of Japanese cooking, but if you’re in the market for items like these, or green tea Kit Kats, go to Nakata.

I found everything I needed to make my Japanese meals, but I wish there were more bento selections… and maybe a little bigger (if I can be greedy). The staff was very friendly, which made my first-​time visit enjoyable! This is going to be my go-​to place for Japanese groceries!

This place is a little bit out of the way for me, but I will happily travel out of my way if it means green tea kit-​kat. The cashier told me they have it right now seasonally and may be running out soon, but they gave me my fix. She also helped me find barley tea and matcha green tea powder (when I try to recreate Bachi Burger’s matcha green tea milkshake at home). She also told me they do sushi and bento boxes regularly, but sell out fast. I will definitely be headed back here (and crossing my fingers that another addict hasn’t drained their supply of green tea kit-​kat).

Found this place a while back while looking for bonito flakes and after a few visits have always had everything Ive needed for japenese cooking. Now I have had to look for a ton of things but everything I have gotten here have been great.
During all the visits the staff has been really friendly and more than willing to help and speak English very well which has been a problem in trying to find other items in Asian markets. I don’t know if they are priced well or not most the items Ive gotten here have been purchased for the first time.
In then end great service and have all the goodies I am looking for.

This small, yet well-​stocked market is great! As soon as you walk in, the owners readily greet you in Japanese, English, or both. That is a really nice habit other places need to get in the habit of doing, and it really makes me feel welcome.
Despite it being on the small side, don’t let it’s size fool you. This place has just about everything one might need out of a Japanese market… And then some!
This place has food, candy, gifts and… Awesome movies!!! I still plan on renting «Oldboy» from here someday. I plan on conning my oppa Tetsuro P. into watching it with me the next chance we get. I also plan on renting all the Miyazaki films I have yet to see from here. The fact that here at Nakata you can even rent Japanese movies, alone, makes this place really cool.
Probably, the most special thing about Nakata is… Drumroooollllllll… They sell ViVi magazines here!!! AHHH!!! I die. I die!
If you guys don’t know, let me fill you in. I am a Fashion major, and this is my second go at school. The first «go,» I attended Indiana University in Bloomington, and I was an Apparel Merchandising major. My best friend at the time (and still is, actually) was named Jackie Brown. Being half Korean, half white, she was very into Asian culture. She introduced me to my first Japanese fashion magazine, and life was never the same.
We both would sit for hours, dreaming about how we could try to re-​create the outfits we saw on those glossy pages, because at that time, fashion trends didn’t just originate in France. Japan and Korea were also ahead of the curve, and many cool things I saw in ViVi and other magazines had simply not reached the States yet.
To this day, I still love to pick up a Japanese fashion magazine and get lost in the pages. Japan’s fashion mags put ours to shame, and they are so inspiring to me, as someone who wants to make a career out of it.
Any place that sells Vivi, or any other Japanese fashion magazine, automatically gets five stars in my book.

The first time I came here, I was pretty disappointed. The store is tiny and prices are high. But, when you don’t have Marukai or Mitsuwa in Vegas, where else can you go? Japan Creek Market is also another option, but I don’t live in Henderson.
Greenland is my home for asian grocery shopping, but once in a while, I come here for a few items that I can’t find anywhere else. Sadly, they don’t always have the brands that I want, but again, what can I do when there are no other options? It gets the job done. You can find your ramen, miso, ume, furikake, soda, snacks, mochi, etc. here, but the selection is pretty small.
Nicely organized store and the employees are friendly. Located behind Buffet @ Asia and McDonalds. I’m surprised this place has been in business for over 10 years!

There is no doubt that this is the best Japanese Market in Clark County. Japan Creek Market is great and all but it actually has nothing on this place. The selection is almost 2 and a half times bigger than Japan Creek, and the customer service if far superior.
They have a giant selection of DVDs, including every Miyazaki film, and many classic animes which are unknown in America yet had a significant influence in Japanese society.
The prices here are almost half the price of Japan Creek. I love coming here for the fresh uni which is only $ 6.00. They also have more variety of products such as Buckwheat Soba Noodles. At Japan Creek, they only got 2 brands, but here at NAKATA they have like 10 different brands. They also got this specific brand of Wasabi powder which I can’t find anywhere else in Clark County.
One of the biggest reasons I prefer NAKATA Market of Japan is that it’s a Japanese business where the owner appreciates and loves ALL of his customers. Believe me, there are many Japanese owned businesses where the owners considers non-​Japanese Asian customers and Nisei/​SanSei to be «2^nd Class Customers». They act all nice to you upfront but will talk sh! t behind your back (FYI Urusawa in Beverly Hills is the worst at this). Do you really want to give business to prejudice jerks who view your money as pockets full of sh! t? And believe it or not many of your favorite Japanese restaurant have this nationalistic mentality, including many of those overrated multi-​million dollar bankrolled restaurants that all the bandwagon Unilocal elites meet up at.
Perhaps my favorite thing is that they have all the varieties of East-​Asian candy, including the Thai and Chinese brands that are extremely popular in Japan. They also got this brand of instant Miso Ramen that actually tastes shockingly similar to real Sapporo Style Miso Ramen (You won’t find that at Greenland aka the instant Ramen capital of Las Vegas).
My Mom is Korean and has been married to a full-​blooded Japanese man, but for some reason she doesn’t really know a thing about Japanese food. It’s moments like today that make me wonder why my dumbsh! t Dad never bothered to ever explain even one thing about Japanese cuisine to her. My Mom came in NAKATA MARKET today and had no idea what anything was, and she had to ask the owner a million questions, and even attempted to describe the characteristics of the food items she was looking for. The owner was very nice to her, and went way out of his way to help her find all the things she needed. The coolest thing about one of the workers here is that he immediately could tell I was half Japanese and half Korean. I’ve never met a person that sharp. Being from Arcadia/​Pasadena area of California, there was a large Japanese-​American population because the internment brought us there. And many of Japanese-​Americans in the area are only half due to large population of Whites, Koreans and Filipinos in the area. When I left the area, I had to deal with a lot of issues from full blooded Japanese people who considered me «not japanese» but the best thing was that the workers here at NAKATA viewed me as being one of them. I really appreciated their kindness.
This place is a 5-​star establishment. The only reason it gets low reviews is because of that thing I always rant about regarding Unilocalers and their bandwagon mentality. Most Unilocalers are nothing more than nonsensical Yes-​men who do nothing but hang out at the Talk forums all day, while writing pointless 5-​word messages over 100 times a day that look just like text messages from some 13 year old girl. You know who you are, the same Unilocalers who COPY AND PASTE each other’s reviews to «fit in» with the crowd, and the same Unilocalers who actually make a List for their ROTDs (Now that is total douchbaggery). In conclusion, the moral of my rant is that NAKATA is the greatest, and I am f*cking awesome for some reason.
Sorry, the endings of my reviews usually get really bizarre and violent…

I’ve shopped here for a few years and I do have to agree that the prices are high. The selection is also not that big and the store is small but what other Japanese options do you have in Vegas? If a Marukai opened here this store would not exist, sad to say. But I don’t want it to close because it is a great store and the employees are so nice. They have a large DVD selection of Japanese movies and I have bought a few for my son who is 4. I can’t even find children Japanese shows or movies on Netflix! They also have a shoppers card that you get stamped when you shop but the rules are insane. You have to spend at least $ 50 to get a stamp and I think there are about 30+ spots to get stamped. Wow, that’s a lot of gohan.
I do like this store and I hope it stays around for a long time.

I found out about this place at a Sake Session event I recently attended. One of the tables was serving a cocktail made of lychee syrup and Asahi beer. I pretty much love lychee anything and so I kept coming back. When I asked who sold the syrup, the lady pointed me in the direction of Nakata.
I can’t really say too much about the store. I was extremely single-​minded in my visit. I found the bottle of Nagomi lychee syrup, grabbed a couple of 22oz bottles of Asahi, and headed for the register. From what I did see, it seems like your standard Asian market, but with an obvious Japanese bias. It looked like they even have an entire endcap of Hayao Miyazaki stuff.
Anyway, they get four stars because the people there just seem so nice. One of the guys told me that the lychee syrup is a new product and he mentioned mixing it with other things, like soju. Now that sounds like a grand idea.