Hanamasa is my favorite supermarket chain in Tokyo. The company mainly caters to the numerous small restaurants in the city, with most products packaged in quantities that Japanese consumers would consider "bulk," but anyone can shop there.
Hanamasa gets many of its products from China, and the Japanese are frightened about the quality of products from that country due to a recent incident involving tainted imported dumplings. Thus Hanamasa has closed a large number of stores, including the store nearest my home. That store was clearing stock during my last visit, and, to pick an example, I bought 3 Kg of frozen cooked boneless chicken for 1020 yen.
I can still get to a surviving Hanamasa store on bicycle, but it's much less convenient. So now I'm trying to figure out grocery shopping alternatives.
