Daimaru Tokyo

1-chōme-9-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda City, Tōkyō-to 100-6701, Japan

Sooner or later if you’re visiting Tokyo you’ll find yourself in the kinda-confusing Tokyo Station. Navigate your way through the complex to the Daimaru department store and head all downstairs to a mammoth food hall as upscale as Harrod’s first floor and as bizarre as Willy Wonka’s factory. Irrashaimase! the vendors shout at you. Don’t worry, they’re just welcoming youj. Amazing food and free samples abound, if you dare.

More Recommendations

Graze Your Way Through the Daimaru Food Hall

Sooner or later if you’re visiting Tokyo you’ll find yourself in the kinda-confusing Tokyo Station. Navigate your way through the complex to the Daimaru department store and head all downstairs to a mammoth food hall as upscale as Harrod’s first floor and as bizarre as Willy Wonka’s factory. Irrashaimase! the vendors shout at you. Don’t worry, they’re just welcoming youj. Amazing food and free samples abound, if you dare.

Give into your sweet tooth

Seeing Tokyo can be exhausting. One solution? Sugar! The basement level of fancy department store Daimaru, called the depachika, has a mesmerizing candy factory. Stop by for free samples while you watch the candy makers transform huge blocks of sugary goo into delicate candies with perfectly shaped images in the center. Character Street and Ramen Street are right around the corner.

Creative melons

Everyone knows about Japan’s watermelons shaped like hearts, cubes, the Great Pyramid of Giza and all sorts of other things. That doesn’t make them any less impressive in person. Go ahead and gawk. There are always a few at two spots in Tokyo Station, both accessible from the basement level Yaesu central exit. As you’re exiting the turnstiles, take the hallway to the left to a fruit shop on the left side across from Character Street. Or from the turnstiles, go straight past the Glico snack store and find Daimaru’s depachika, which has a fancy fruit section.

Information on this page, including website, location, and opening hours, is subject to have changed since this page was last published. If you would like to report anything that’s inaccurate, let us know at notification@afar.com.

Nearby highlights
Sign up for our newsletter
Join more than a million of the world’s best travelers. Subscribe to the Daily Wander newsletter.
More From AFAR