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Categories: Home Decor, Kitchen & Bath [Edit]
3000 184th Street SW
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I don't remember the first time I came here but this place is the greatest. Their quality on cookware, cups, dishes are the best I've seen. The best thing to buy here are the white sponges. They work exactly like the Mr. Clean brand but cheaper.
If you're a huge fan of Daiso, go to the Vancouver BC store. 2 levels of goodness! They also opened up a small location next to Uwajimaya in Chinatown. Just an FYI that store only takes cash so make sure you stop by the ATM .
EDIT: My sister told me yesterday they moved the Daiso across the street, so it's not in the same complex as Uwaji.
This was the first Daiso I've ever walked into. I think the first time I was there, I wouldn't leave until I've browsed every aisle and looked at every item they were selling. They sell everything from hardware, school supplies, cookware, gift wrapper and boxes, toys, plates and cups, hair accessories, and makeup! Everything!!!
Okay, sure, some of the stuff looks a little cheap, but the thing is, everything IS cheap here! That cute hair clip you bought may break if you drop it, but hey, it's only $1.50. Go collect some bottle caps, and you can buy a new one! :D
Love it! I admit it - I'm cheap and I don't go out often. So, walking out with several bags of junk in my hands for $20 made me feel like a shopaholic!
A delightful wander through a forest of dense shelving filled with all manner of colorful plastic gadgets and lidded tubs. Most items are $1.50 for some reason, and many are complete mysteries as to intent/use/mission.
This store has a much larger inventory than the Seattle International District location. Pop in when next in Lynnwood and be overwhelmed!
I could spend hours in this store filling my basket with cutesty gifts and knick knacks, and such. I love this place for getting school supplies, glitter combs, cookie cutters, toys, and gift wrapping. This is a fun place to shop for inexpensive gifts and personal items.
Good For: party
If you are looking for something unique and cheap you will find it here! It has the most random thing! My favorites are the Japanese Candies.
I only give it 3 stars though, because it's hard to find specific items you are looking for, and when you are ready to pay, the cashier is never easy to find.
Yay for Daiso!!
I love cheap, decent quality stuff. I am a bargain shopper. That being said, there are all types of super happy fun inexpensive things in this store. I love the selection of dishes, but ive found that its a little hard sometimes to find matching sets for what you want. I like to come in here for interesting stocking stuffers around christmastime. Last year i got my little sister a little wooden dairuma doll. So cute! They sell origami paper here too... every time i see it, i wish i remembered how to make paper cranes!!!
They have an excellent selection of Sake accoutrements, from cups to decanters, to the japanese-style ceramic storage containers.
SAKE IT TO ME BABY!!!
Do you dream that someday the Oompa Loompa's Container Store and the Munchkin's Home Depot will cram their inventory into the Cost Plus store in Lilliput and write all their labels in Engrish?
Well dream no more my friend.
Welcome to the Daiso!
Where you'll find tiny hammers to pound your miniature nails with joy and dreaming. Teeny pens to write on teenier notepads for your heart of lovingness. Medical face masks and paper urination cones can be found on aisle 12.
About 99% of everything is priced $1.50. I think the most expensive thing I found in the entire store was a knock-off Star Wars Light Saber replica toy for 10 bucks. Yes, I bought it.
I buy fake lashes here by the case: style #9 in the pink box that says "voluminous type". Screw Ardell's 6-dollar natural-looking styles. Give me the polyester tranny lashes!
Domo Arigato Daiso!
I have to wonder about the "greeting" you get at the front counter has you move up the line to pay. In Engrish: "Ha-row, no takey backs, all sails finals, okay?" Uh...well I guess so, since I have yet to figure out why I need a handful of assorted "Japanese" household items that look, well, like they'll last about a week or two, on the outside.
Granted most of the stuff here is sold for about $1.50, the stuff is far better quality than you'll find at any Dollar store. The selection was a bit mind numbing. I also like the fact that they sell Japanese dish ware, which just ask any sushi-love'n dish washer, those darn little dishes always chip.
From chopsticks to hammers of assorted sizes, they seem to have it all. I almost felt I was back in Japan with all the stuff crammed into this tight space. Japanese-Indy pop blasting away over head made the evening...
This place is AWESOME! I'm so proud of my wife for finding this store. There are so many SKU's (products), the prices are unbelievable, the quality is superb, and it as a deep selection! This place beats Walmart and the Dollar Store!
My first time actually buying more than one thing from there today.
I would say it's like a Japanese dollar store but definitely better. They have just about everything you could use around the house & even school supplies at a very very affordable price and great quality.
Most things are $1.50 unless otherwise stated but even then it's definitely something just about everyone can afford.
They have such a unique and great variety to choose from too! I spent about an hour in there because I literally wanted to buy the whole store (SERIOUSLY?!?)
I definitely recommend going here even just to check it out (:
It's like a $1.50 store with higher quality than a dollar store. perhaps 150% better quality? Items such as their dishes are legit. There are so many random things you can get here, from mini staplers to seat cushions to shaped ice cube trays, tools, snacks, and false eyelashes. It's just a fun store to browse through even if you don't get anything. Check it out! (They also have a location in Westlake)
Ah, Daiso is a bargain shopper's dream come true! Also, if you like interesting gadgets and little innovative housewares and other miscellanea, this is your spot! Daiso is essentially a Japanese Dollar Store, ported over to the states. You can find all manner of great Japanese (as well as Chinese, Korean, and other Asian) gadgets, gifts, and gizmos, mostly all costing $1.50! This place is great to get kitchen items, esp things you may have never wanted, but get excited to find out somebody made it! Dishes here are great and you can get full sets of matching sets in nice-looking patterns. Great chopsticks, stationary, sake sets, and so much more will keep you browsing this small location for hours! Man, in Richmond, up in BC, there's a HUGE location that can entertain you for a day or two!
Before I found it had much closer locations- I journeyed up to Alder wood for my Daiso- and the store is good. Compared to the Westlake and other branch (which location it is escapes me) this is the best. It has a wide variety of EVERYTHING...Japanese and then some.
If you have ever wanted to eat a shrimp-flavored Cheetos puff- you are in the right place. It's the best dollar store ever basically. It' a portal into the must-haves of another continent and culture. Like individual sheets of wrapping paper ( not just for stingy grandma's apparently), and cheap pillows and mats for tables about five millimeters from the ground.
It's a great place to waste fifty dollars and have everyone you know stepping on shattered plastics or ceramics for weeks.
I go there for Bento though, and the myriad of tiny paper cups, lactic picks and tiny pastel plastic lunch boxes (bento) with little matching bags and Onigiri wrappers ( which I have no idea how to use) and laughingly inexpensive specialty cooking items is great. Cake decorating stuff for less than four dollars is a deal. They've got it all ( but egg molds I think) they have tart pans, cookbooks, the works.
Foodies who don't have a big budget can cut their teeth on Daiso cookware.
I put moderate ont he price because I spend at least forty dollars whenever I go in and I'm sure most people buy more than they need when they go in.
Yay cheap Japanese stuff! Kitchen supplies, school supplies, and plastic containers galore. Nothing in the store more than $3, and it's all decent quality. My main problem with it is that the aisles are so incredibly small. Otherwise, a great place to buy gifts for your coworkers.
My little sister was raving on and on about how awesome this store was. Well I went to check it out for myself. I was looking for B5 notebook paper, which is found in Asia. I was happily surprised to see that they had it at Daiso! Whoohoo! They also have the plastic envelope-type document holders along with other stationary/office supply goods. Everything is priced well and they have all kinds of stuff, especially very random stuff. Now I'm a Daiso fan!
The first time I entered this place I thought I had died and gone to Ten (heaven in nihongo).
When I lived in Osaka I had a pad without a shower or bath tub, infact my toilet was basically a porcelin rectangle in the floor. So I went to the Sento (public bath) down the street. Here I was able to purchase what we like to call a Sento Rag. Basically a very textured plastic rag that scrubs your skin right off your body. I GLOWED in Japan. They have Sento Rags in EVERY COLOR IMAGINABLE at Daiso. Yay for my skin!
Not only that, you can get a whole set of killer dishes for around $50. Not a couple of place setttings or a set of plates - the whole thing. Matching tea pot, serving platter. Everything. And the quality is great, this is a lot of the same stuff they have a World Market and, yes, Uwajimaya. Housewares abound here - I LOVE IT.
The Janglish ([Encycopedia Galactica] Janglish: horribly poor product literature translations from Japanese to English) quotient is very high here - very entertaining. Totally worth the trip, and you can hit it up at Westlake Center too (bottom floor next to Express).
Totemo Sugoi Ya! (Very Cool Store!)
OOOOHHH!! A 100 Yen Store!!!
This is a crazy place! Everything is really cramped, really bright, really fun! Plus there's nothing over, oh, five bucks or so. Most things are $1.50 and you can get it ALL here.
You're always bound to find some bizarre Japanese item to make you giggle. That alone is worth a visit. On my last trip in, they were selling peel and stick toilet seat cozies and perhaps the largest wire hangers I have ever seen in my entire life. Man, Joan Crawford could really do some damage with one of those suckers!!
What makes this place even better is that they play the most obnoxious J-Pop EVER here. My husband loves it!
So much fun! You MUST go at least once!!!
Everything's $1.50 unless labeled otherwise. Be careful of what you buy and don't get carried away by the individual price point - you can end up paying more for certain items than if you just shopped at specialty stores.
I'm usually overwhelmed when I go to Daiso, because there's so much stuff crammed into such a small corner in the mall. Though, if I think much on it, I usually walk away with very little.
With those aside, I love the fact that I can find storage items at varying sizes for a good price (and since I don't really abuse them, they do last me a while). I love that I can find bento items. I like that I can find cute kitchen stuff, which I almost never buy (you do get what you pay for), except for when I feel that I need more ohashi. I wish they'd sell some shikishi in this location, but they generally don't. Some of the tableware are at about the same quality as you would find in Uwajimaya for a lot less (Some, says I).
It's amusing that they always play a lot of popular j-pop overhead (though, they don't sell those CDs - just to let you know).
It's pretty fun to explore once in a while. Just go easy on the shopping. It's one of the first places I think of when I want small containers or organizers for my place.
P.S. I can't review Canadian stores on Yelp at this time... but, with BC not being TOO far away for an occasional visit (even once a year), there's a two-story Daiso in Richmond - that does have QUITE the selection.
Totemo Lame-o.
I don't get this place. I know it's a Japanese version of a dollar store, so in a way it is a little exotic. But it's still mostly junk - even if you understand what it is.
Since I'm cheap and I generally get Japanese culture (as much as a westerner ever will), I thought I'd enjoy at least going there. Instead it was a waste of about ten minutes before a movie. Ah well.
OMG, I love Daiso. It reminds me of the Asian dollar stores that they have on Guam... all sorts of useful/useless items, and an unapologetic love of KAWAI. It takes a lot of willpower for me not to buy tons & tons of stuff in this store.
Daiso is a chain of Japanese dollar stores, and the Lynnwood store (in the Alderwood Mall) is their first USA location. If the idea of Japanese crap for $1.50 captivates you, then you must make the trip. Keep in mind that $1.50 means the stuff is cheap and fairly crappy, BUT, if you are into gift wrap and related gifty accessories, and your loved ones have a sense of humor about receiving such wonders, this place is fantastic. You can get packs of paper bags, individual plastic bags or little cards with kittens, puppies or cute characters and plenty of cheerful engrish sayings (imagine: elephants wearing party hats, each one exclaiming "HAPPY!"). I also found some cute obento accessories (tiny sauce bottles shaped like animals, mayonnaise containers shaped like animals, little dividers shaped like--also!-- animals) and a bath sponge in the likeness of a hamster. Get the idea now?
I wouldn't compare this to Uwajimaya, it's definiteley a lower tier shopping experience but quite amusing in itself. I would make the trip from Seattle again for the type of stuff I mentioned above, but I wouldn't brave the Alderwood mall on a regular basis.
HOLY CRAP!! There is a lot of stuff in this store and random too. They sell everything and anything that you need. I love buying those loofa style towels here b.c anywhere else they charge you too much. I love just reading the funny Japanese labels. Somethings you just have to stare at in order to figure out what it's used for.
You can easily spend a day there but it can get overwhelming. So a good plan of attack is
1) do a walk through to get familiar with what they sell- just look
2) leave before your head explodes
3) go walk down to the food court and eat - maybe a Cinnabon
4) come back to Daiso
5) get your shop - ON!!!
Enjoy!!
Move over Uwajimaya!
You and your ridiculously high prices can take a leap, I'm going to Daiso for all my Japanese shopping needs. Ok, not for produce, or fish, or anything perishable, but for everything else go to to Daiso!
This is Japan's version of a dollar store. I think they simply picked up the store, put it in a box, and set it down in Lynnwood, at the Alderwood Mall, next to Sears. If you think the location is odd, wait until you hear that items in a Japanese dollar store will cost you a buck fifty! Huh? International tariffs...I dunno sounds good.
There is a kitchen section that has sake sets, sushi sets, and some mugs like the one I got that says "coffee, coffee, good smell." I couldn't have said it better myself. The laundry section is awesome, they have these things called bra balls (girls, you put your bras in them so they don't get all stretched out in the wash, brilliant!) and the best space saving hang dryers ever. The school/office supply section has erasers in every shape of food imaginable, and the notebooks and business card holders will make you proud to be an American - an overwhelming number of them have American flags and bald eagles on them, strange. But not as strange as some of the things you encounter in the health and beauty section. I would advise you to use caution when choosing these items cause unless you can read Japanese you aren't going to know if that's really an eye cream, or for somethin' else. I played it safe and bought some little packs of travel tissues that have birds and hippos (which are apparently the same size in Japan) gathered around a piano exclaiming "Let's Singing!"
Yes, Let's Singing, To Daiso!
This place can't compare to Richmond,BC but at least we have one in the states! Since the dollar is so weak, I haven't had a day trip to Canada for a while. I am daiso-deprived. So I come here to stock up on my wrapping paper (washi), candle holder (make sure it's made in Japan not China!), and notebook stuff. This place temporary fills my daiso void but I am not sure for how long.
Daiso in Lynnwood is awesome! Well worth the drive out of the city - I know they opened one downtown but I still think this one is best! I have gotten super cute glasses, mugs, stickers, folders.. love it love it love it. Cheap/adorable bento box accessories - what more could you want!? This place is great! (-:
I love Daiso! Almost nothing more than 2.00!! Check out the new holiday and wrapping section. Excellent storage ideas and containers of all shapes and sizes.
Considering that the Japanese live in a space-premium country they've had to come up with household items that utilizes small spaces for maximum efficiency. This little store has your daily needs at inexpensive prices. Need house slippers, the small circular air-drying racks, or items to make an obento? They've got the stuff. How about craft paper, notebooks, pens, storage boxes, square pillows, or the stools and buckets for the bath? Gottem, gottem, gottem! Got it all! Around every corner is something to discover. It's easy to spend a few hours, and a few bucks.
This is a great place to pick up everyday Asian goods for the home. For those of us who live in apartments that grow smaller all the time, the items sold in this Japanese-style dollar store are efficient, useful and compact. Inexpensive but not cheaply made, the products range from bowls and teapots to miniture shelving for storage. I love wandering through this store in Alderwood Mall because for just a few minutes, I can imagine I'm across the Pacific Ocean visiting Japan.
Give yourself plenty of time to explore this store. There's tableware, kitchenware, food, stationary, cleaning supplies, gardening supplies. You name it and they have it for a few dollars.
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Category: Home & Garden
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