Mega Don Quijote Matsubara

Ok, as you may know about people that travel from Hawaii to other places, us Hawaii people love to bring back Omiyage which usually means a local product of a place that i went to and whenever me and my other half go to Japan, we always go crazy on the omiyage part because everything in Japan looks so intriguing and neatly packed and everything that we get in Japan are a lot cheaper if we get it here as opposed to buying the same Japanese products in Hawaii where they are usually three to four times more than they are in Japan and i don’t know if it’s because it cost a lot to ship here but we could never understand that and we just make sure we purchase those same products whenever we make our annual trip to Japan.
Enter the Mega Don Quijote in the Osaka Matsubara area. This Mega Don Quijote dwarfs the Don Quijote we have in Hawaii and is two levels here in Osaka and very well organized. When i first walked in here, my jaw just dropped looking at all the Japanese snacks and sweets they have and the Sake and Whisky selections here were a sight to behold and at a fraction of the price that you would find in Hawaii. What i love about this Don Quijote is that the prices here in the Matsubara area of Osaka for products such as sweets and other stuff are a little bit cheaper because we are on the outskirts of Osaka and not directly in the heart of Osaka where prices for certain items at local grocery stores are fairly priced but not as cheap as this store here. I guess you pay the price for location here in Osaka and we thank on of my wife’s friend’s who took us here to do some Omiyage shopping and let me tell you, the next time i’m gonna do my one stop shopping for everything from Japanese Sweets. Snacks, and Household items, this is the place i’m going to go and pick everything up right here.
The household items here are really cheap here and you would think they have most of the things that they have here in Hawaii but they don’t. I was surprised to see Hello Kitty Toilet Paper here on sale for under three dollars and cosmetic items that my wife uses at a really good price here. We are just lucky that the U.S. dollar is very strong right now so it’s even a bigger bargain to purchase things here in Japan.
I could literally spend the whole day here at the Mega Don Quijote just looking at everything that they offer here. The smell of grilled sweet corn was making my stomach growl and they were selling it for under a dollar and all the Fruits and Vegetables look so fresh and the Meats, what can i say? The Japanese Beef with all the marbling they have just makes my mouth water. Even the Bento Boxes look extravagant too.
So here’s my advice for you travelers from Hawaii or from any other place. If there is a place for your one stop shopping for goods to bring back to wherever you are traveling from, you have to make a stop at this Mega Don Quijote and go hog wild because i can assure you, i am gonna go crazy the next time i come here next year and buy everything i can get my hands on because there is definitely great value here at the Mega Don Quijote here in the Osaka Matsubara area. Arigato Asuka for taking us to this place i call «The Happiest Place in Japan »