What Japanese chain stores spring to mind?

For a bet, I want to know what five Japanese chain stores spring to mind (a chain has more then 3 stores)? Doesn't matter if you live in Japan or not, but the chains must be Jaoanese in origin so no KFC

For me it is

Hard off
Uni Qlo
Lawson
Yellow Hat
Taito Station

 

for me :

Tsutaya

that's it for now

ow yea ,and mos burger and animate

 

Super Potato
Family Mart
Sofmap
Yodobashi Camera
Bic Camera

 

Millions of famiresu and ramen shops etc.

Gusto
Jolly pasta
Saizeria
Johnathan
Bikkuri donkey
Bronco billy
Ken
Bikkuri sushi
Kappa sushi
Sushiro
Kura sushi
All monte Rosa group izakayas
Etc.

 

Yeah, i know i should learn how to read :biggrin-new:

So they wouls probablt be:

Hard off/book off
Saizeria
Tsutaya
Warawara
Geo

 

Coco Ichiban Curry, the ultimate hangover food!

 

Bikkuri donkey (stake / hamburger house)
Hard Off (games / video / hardware)
Manga Soko (blows Hard Off away with ease especially in the games software and hardware department)
Yoshinoya (Lovely yet very cheap beef on rice)
Autobacks / Super Autobacks (car shop. Sell everything you'll ever need from mechanical parts to Audio/Video to washing stuff)

I have loads more but since we are limited to 5 these will have to do since they are the places I most frequently visit.

 

Don Quijote (or just Donki)
Tsutaya
Dotour
Lawson
Royal Host

 

man, that’s the worst of the "Family Restaurants". Or maybe that's Jonathans?

 

Yoshinoya, bah! Everyone knows its all about TOKYO CHIKARA MESHI these days....

 

If you live in Tokyo maybe. Never heard of that place.

 

For me it's:
Animate
Gamers (I think they closed down recently)
Mos Burger
Mr Doughnut
Hard Off

 

nope. There's one doing well in the Anime complex in Kokura. I go there to visit Mandrake.

 

Lawson
Mos Burger
Tsutaya
Book Off
Sofmap

I wish I had tried Mos Burger when I was in Japan! The ads looked delicious, but somehow I never went.

Lawson is so strange. A Japanese chain with a name that looks/sounds like a Texan general store? The only place outside Japan I have ever encountered a Lawson was Honolulu. Does is even operate outside Japan (usually)?

 

They're all turds.

 

well, your not wrong there.

 

Sukiya it is. At least it was until they canceled their
taberaamenmagyuudon :moody:

 

Really? I thought I'd read an article about the company going bankrupt.

We have Mos Burger in Australia now, there's none in your country?

 

My deepest condolences.

 

You don't like Mos Burger? Their okonomi rice burger is great! Granted, most of their menu is not really any different from what you'd get at Micky D's