This is easily my favorite grocer for ingredients to cook Japanese food! I go here every other day, its so convenient and easy to shop at and they always have everything I need! Being able to read Japanese will help a lot.Great for cheap and high quality sushi during lunch. They get it from Musashi in Berkeley, I think!

One of few places to shop for Japanese items. Store is always clean. Clerks are very courteous.

They have a great inventory where you will be able to get most Asian market items, particularly sushi grade fish. The only thing I wish they had was a small bakery. Sometimes I prefer to brave the crowded Ranch 99 because of this reason.

Great quality Japanese food and beverages. There are a variety of Japan-imported seasonings, snacks, drinks frozen food, and appliances. I made some really tasty and fancy ramen noodle with the ingredients purchased at this store.

Nice Japanese grocery store !I forgot my bag and they put it in a box for me.

Great place for produce and grocery needs. Great Japanese food selection, and frozen items.

Piece of Japan its like a Mini Market but with super fresh products. There are a good selections of pre-made meals, fresh produce, section full of kitchen and bathroom appliances and also good selections of snacks. Super friendly and helpful employees! (Love making PokiBowls with their fresh ingredients)

A Really great store for Japanese produce. Well stocked and very well managed with friendly helpful staff/owner

Small Japanese grocery store with a decent inventory. Good selection of sake as well. Staff is always friendly and accommodating. Bento box prices are getting a little expensive, however.

Amazing selection. Thank goodness they have miso here.

A very high quality Japanese neighborhood market, with an excellent selection of everything you could want.

Excellent Japanese market. Good selections and friendly help.

Bout as good as it gets for sushi selections and the prices are better than the shops in Berkley.

I love shopping in the newly designed space! The Japanese grocery selection is awesome- Mahalo for the Aina selection of Zippy’s Chili and Ono Foods LauLau!Musubi’s would be welcomed as well!I love coming here as it supplies all what I need for Japanese ingredients on the fly.

I love this grocery store - they always have exactly what I need, and it’s usually a great price (even compared to some of the large chains, which is pretty impressive for a small grocery)

Been coming to this market since I was a kid. Great family owned small business that I hope will make it through the pandemic for years to come.

Small but its got all the essential, authentic Japanese stuff. Very cool place to visit and good price!

I like this place, BUT their prices are super high. Everything there is priced at least 150% higher than what be considered a normal price. Example: cornstarch can be bought for 99 cents in a one pound container. And a container of salt.... outrageously priced.

A great little Japanese grocery store.

Great small Japanese store! Love the selection.

They have great eggs, fish & bento. A family owned store greets everyone with friendly atmosphere.

Great selection of Japanese goods. Fresh produce and delicious prepared food.

Excellent selection and fresh foods! Lovely staff.

Love this store! Hope you like seaweed! Good selection if many hard to find foods - including guava jelly!

When Im too lazy to go to Tokyo Fish Market, I go to Yaoyo-San because its closer to me. They dont have quite the selection as Tokyo Fish and their prices are a bit higher. A 12-pak of Sapporo beer is $10 at Tokyo Fish; at Yaoya its $13. Yamamoto Tea is $2.19 at Tokyo fish, $2.39 at Yaoya. Perhaps because of the higher prices and smaller selection, its less crowded to shop at Yaoya which makes for a faster shopping experience.

Authentic Japanese grocery store. It got everything I want!

I love this store japanses is awesome i come here a lot to get my favourite Goodies all the staff is so nice 😊👍.

Courteous employees, large diversity of hawaiian and Japanese products not easily found elsewhere at a reasonable price.

My favorite japanese market! They have everything you could ever need to make delicious cuisine at home!!! They even have amazing candies and instant foods, desserts and drinks! I love this place!

Love it ❤🇯🇵🗻

The store is very clean and has done a great job of heeding cdc guidance during Covid. The best place for authentic Japanese products. They also have really good bento and pre packed food to go

Love this mom and pop store!

I always find something new that I want to try every time I stop here. I wish I lived closer so I could stop in more frequently.

Love this place! Excellent, small little traditional Japanese grocery store. Feel like Im being transported to another world.I also appreciate the very respectful, and stringent pandemic protocols they enforce. Limited capacity, sanitizer, masks, gloves...all the trimmings!So glad to find this little gem amidst the bustling commerical strip on San Pablo st.

I enjoy their premade suchi take out for lunch ...

Local Japanese market with quite a bit of selection, fresh prepared sushi and other dishes. Used to be smaller it they expanded to the next door property giving them a bigger space to offer more variety of items. There sushi selection is nice and hood for takeout. They also have onigiri by checkout but you have to go early to get it because they sell out super fast!. They also have fresh pastries now and again, you have to go early to get it before it runs out.

I am forever grateful for this wonderful shop because I no longer drive all the way to SF to get the Japanese food.I appreciate the fresh product, affordable prices and helpful employees. Keep up the great work.

If you like Japanese food, this is a good place to find almost everything.

All this for $24! They just expanded, too. So go check it out

Always have what I want!!

One of the best little supermarkets you can find! Amazing Japanese food, fresh bento and very kind people! Less selection than Nijiya in SF or a ranch 99 but for a little local store... Amazing!

This is the real deal, a nice big Kombini with fresh Japanese groceries, appliances and bento. Their sashimi and raw seafoods are fantastic

Excellent Japanese grocery store. Well stocked and very clean and well run operation. The staff are friendly and polite.

This local market is a gem, full of Japanese delicacies and some standard fare. Great eggs often, good ones always. Exceptional though limited selection of fruit. Sushi to go, of course. Lots of interesting frozen and dried foods.

My first visit. Great selection of Asian foods and sundries. Friendly staff.

Great store friendly staff. Japanese and Hawaiian goodies

A convenient sized market specializing in japanese products. A good selection of items and quality looked good on produce/meat

Great customer service. They have sashimi grade fresh fish, bonito katsu-o and takaki. They are doing great to protect customers too.

Well stocked and always spotless

Yaya-San expanded into the Ichiban Kan space to make a spacious shopping experience. They offer you gloves at the door... you can bring your own bags and you have to pack them yourself outside the store

Great place anything you need to cook a nice Japanese meal you can find here, I was looking for the ingredients to make sushi at home and I found everything I needed and more haha I even got some snacks, in addition to having everything you would need for a nice Japanese meal also great helpful staff and very secured places when it comes to COVID-19 the care they maintain the place clean and not too many people inside plus gloves wearing OR sanitizer

Great little local Asian market. They have a great selection and good prices and everyone there takes social distancing and wearing a mask seriously

Great place for to go sushi and anybody your Asian ingredient needs. Small butcher shop is great as well!

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Great store for a descent variety of Japanese groceries.

This has been our go to store for Japanese staples for years. However, they have recently doubled in size, physically, but they dont appear to have doubled their product line. The store looks like they cant afford to fill the shelves? I sure hope this recent expansion doesnt become their downfall.

Affordable sashimi grade fish! Also love the assorted food they provided.

This tiny store is so awesome! They have hard to find things that you cant find at places like seafood city. And they have ready made treats and meals in the fridge by the front.

Love this place

I’ve always been curious about Japanese food. Never did I imagine a store so close by. So excited to see so many essentials! Much more than I had thought! Hidden gem for me. New fav store 🤩. Oh and the staffs are unsurprisingly super polite and pleasant😇.

Very cute little place, friendly staff, great selection of food and ingredients.

Only if you like REAL Japanese food. Fresh fish & meats & veggies you cant get elsewhere. Good people work there. Full service, with lots of specially items. Like being in Japan. The Hammachikama is excellent.

Unfortunately dint have what I needed & still spent over my budget paying $21 for stuff I really dint need. My bad. Very clean store.

Great little grocery, not as extensive as Tokyo Fish, but not as crowded and a lot closer to home!

Lots and lots of variety and quality at reasonable prices.

A quaint neighborhood Asian market. Helpful staff and excellent inventory.

Great selection of imported products with helpful staff.

Yaoya-San sells mostly Japanese food products. We go there for their excellent raw fish for making sushi at home. Never had a bad experience. The owner is friendly and eager to help you. He will even explain how to prepare some food dishes.

For its size, it fits what it can. The prices are good, not always the best, but Ive been able to reliably find the Japanese grocery items Ive wanted/needed without trouble. Their prepared food is yum too. The people working there have also always been very nice.

This my go to mama son for all my asian accessories fix.Mama son is always polite.WARNINGThis is not a Dollar store!Yes the prices are cheap but dont get carried away. I always get the soda that has a marble in the cap that drops into the neck.Reminds me of a rodent feeder lol .

It is very reliable store. I have been going to this place since I was a child, the workers are very nice. They also have a vast amount of asian products from japanese snacks to cookware. The prices might be high, but then again, a lot of the items there are most likely imported from japan.

Surprising stuff here. Love it. Got my bulk food containers (actually bought the whole stock they had at the time). Some stuff better priced than Amazon. Really honest owner. If he gets complains about a product he pulls it off the shelf and doesnt restock it.

My husband and I just came from your fantastic market and we are in 7th heaven!! We are loving everything we bought!! Pickled vegetables, tofu, miso, nori, ume, prepared foods, mochi, POI and so much more!! Everything is fresh and tasty. Thank you. Well be back

Awesome, little, well-stocked market. Im so glad theyre still in business. Has a very homey feel.

Excellent well laid out Japanese grocery store in El Cerrito with Japanese speaking staff, all of whom are very helpful. Vegetables, fruit, dry goods, and wide selection of tōfu, miso, meats and fish. Good lunch ready selection of bento, many from Musashi in Berkeley, but katsu made in house and very fresh. Small selection of pastry and sandwiches from Andersons in the city. Easy parking.

Charming shop with an extensive selection of Japanese groceries and household goods; its the best around! The staff are always helpful and friendly. True Japanese quality and service.

Prices on most of grocery items sold here are approximately 10% cheaper than Nijiya (S.F.) and most of the other. Asian grocers in Marin and Sonoma Counties.Added; 09/19/19, brought home and noticed half of the items bought were expiration dates were expired and/or not fresh. No wonder there groceries are cheaper than others.Would not recommend this grocer.

Great Japanese market and its bigger now, they expanded!

Good selection of Japanese grocery items, including prepared sushi and sashimi. At least a dozen types of rice. Good range of alchohol. Small, yet high-quality produce section. The staff speaks Japanese, and English, and will help you if asked. One of our stand by places. The fish is not quite as good as the Tokyo Fish Market in Berkeley.

Tiny local shop, with a surprisingly great selection. We found all of the spices and seasonings we were looking for, as well as a few tasty new treats. The staff are incredibly kind and helpful, and they have a really great choice of prepared foods like bento boxes and sushi plates, as well as fresh mochi and pastries. If you want a fresh sushi dinner without the hassle of cooking or eating out, their prepped plates are a cheap and tasty solution. They also stock all of your favorite cooking staples!

They have all of my favorite things: melon pan, pocari sweat, puffy bread, sausages, baum kuchen, and more!

They just expanded, the store looks fantastic. Can not wait for them to expand there inventory.

Local Japanese grocery and produce store. Meat, vegatables and food preparations are very fresh. Staff available and helpful.

Good prices, friendly staffThey have 6-10 multi packs of a large variety of ramen

Great place to pick up Japanese snacks and beauty products

Our local Japanese market has tons of amazing groceries and fresh made grab and go items made both there and from a number of outside proveyers. The staff is incredibly knowledgable and the selection of fresh seafood and meat is not incredibly diverse, but solidly consistent. I love taking folks from out of town here.

Nice mom and pop Japanese Mini Market. Friendly, clean, many items from dinner ingredients to candy. Small produce section, small fish and meat section, lots of frozen things. Lots of condiments and spices.

Go to Japanese store open 7 days unlike that other place. Japanese essentials at a reasonable price. Nice location beside Japanese dollar store. Stock up!

Love to stop by to look for simple japanese comfort foods to reminisce the wonderful time I had in Japan. If Im lucky, there will be some sashimi left for me.

Small but lovely. Reasonable pricing.

Very nice people, could find anything you could be craving. Nice small find very homey

They are expanding! Many Japanese goodies await your shopping!

Nice little spot to grab various Asian groceries, prices are low and selection decent.

Nice little Japanese grocery store. Limited premade bento section including sashimi. Small sashimi grade fish section also. All the standard Japanese restaurant supplies for cooking a nice meal can be found here in a small local store.

Small premises but excellent selection. Nice products. Bargain out of date items. Friendly staff.

This well stocked little Oasis has everything you need to make an authentic Japanese meal. From rice to rice cooker, sashimi to sake, nori to sticky potato, come out and support this locally owned and operated gem of a market.

Really friendly people! Got groceries and other house products

Cute little Japanese grocery store. Its no mitsuwa, but its got a lot of great seafood and meat and all the essentials.

Great store!

Good Japanese grocery store. Has pretty much everything you need to cook a Japanese meal.