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Osaka is a prime destination for shopping for electronics. Throughout the city, tech lovers are happily surprised to find a glorious range of stores selling all sorts of gadgets — from state-of-the-art home theater systems to ultra-modern laptops and mobile phones.
We’ve listed the 4 best Osaka electronics stores that are known for their quality, dazzling variety of products, and attractive prices. Have a look below!
Joshin is a large electrical home appliances store founded in 1948. There are more than 200 Joshin stores in Japan, three of which are outlets located in Osaka — the Kita-Hanada branch, the Ikeda branch, and the Nippon-Bashi Ichibankan branch.
There, you’ll find an amazing variety of electronics, such as digital cameras, fridges, televisions, kitchen appliances, electronic beauty items hair dryers, and razors by well-known brands like Panasonic, Sony, and Phillips. In addition to older and out-of-date models, the Joshin outlet stores also sell brand-new models whose boxes may have been damaged, as well as products with minor defects such as scratches or dents.
The Kita-Hanada outlet store is a short walk away from the Osaka Station, while the Ikeda branch is a 10-minute drive from the Osaka International Airport (Itami Airport). The Nippon-Bashi Ichibankan branch is in the very center of Nihombashi Denden Town, the area in Osaka where many wholesale electronics stores are located.
Yodobashi Umeda is a massive 13-story department store located right across from the north side of Osaka Station. Six floors of this giant building (from B2 to 4F) are occupied by the Yodobashi Camera Multimedia Umeda, which has one of the largest sales areas among electronics stores in Japan.
If you are looking for electronic goods and digital appliances at budget-friendly prices then the Yodobashi Camera is ideal.
While browsing through Yodobashi Camera’s six stories, you’ll come across a wide range of electronic items of different categories. Home appliances include refrigerators, washing machines, rice cookers, toasters, and ovens. There are also beauty and wellness gadgets such as hair dryers, hair curling irons, electric shavers, and electric toothbrushes.
Yodobashi Camera also sells computers, mobile phones, watches, cameras, toys, and video games.
The remaining upper floors of the department store are occupied by clothing stores, restaurants, and a parking garage.
Yamada Outlets
Located at the center of Minami, one of the major downtowns in Osaka, Yamada is a huge outlet store spread with an expansive selling space of 24,000 square meters. The outlet displays as many as 800,000 items spread across five floors, making it one of the largest stores of Yamada Denki in Japan.
There’s a great variety of items to choose from in this Japanese store. The “mobile device counter” (2nd floor) displays an abundance of products, from smartphones to cases, while the “digital camera counter” (2nd floor) features authentic digital single-lens reflex cameras, replacement lenses, compact cameras, and more.
Other items on sale include beauty products for both men and women, such as instruments for hair and facial treatment, on the first basement floor.
Visiting Yamada with the kids? No worries. The store has a dedicated activity area on the four, where the little ones can play safely while the adults shop.
Address: 1-1 Ofukacho, Kita Ward
Kojima Outlet
Kojima Outlet is a popular Osaka electronics store known for its affordable prices. There, you’ll find display products, older models, and products with damaged boxes at about 20 to 50% cheaper than the original price.
The electronics available at Kojima are divided into 5 different categories: electro-domestic, video, cameras, audio, and pc. Under these categories, you can find items like refrigerators, washing machines, ACs, digital cameras, TVs, home theaters, computers, and printers, to name a few.
