Matsuya Ginza

High end department store. Just went in for a sticky beak. I didn't need any tyre cases for the Hilux.

Matsuya Ginza is a major department store located on the main shopping street in Ginza. It features eight floors above ground, a rooftop terrace, and two basement levels dedicated to food. The store offers a wide range of products, including cosmetics, clothing, and shoes for women, men, and children, as well as jewelry and more. Most items are from well-known Japanese and international brands. It's a great destination for those who love to shop …

Fabulous day! Awe Man! Great shopping and food. Omgoodness.

If you’re looking for Japanese brands — especially those made in Japan — this shopping center is a must-visit. The selection is huge, and the quality of the clothing is absolutely fantastic. Plus, you can enjoy tax-free shopping right in the store. Highly recommended for fashion lovers!

Today, my wife experienced extremely rude treatment from a female staff member in the store. My wife was only looking around, not asking anything, and the staff suddenly told her no clothes for you here while making a rude gesture, then told her to go away to another store.This completely ruined our day. We immediately reported the incident at the information desk, but the staff member refused to apologize and tried to blame her colleagues, even though we know it was clearly her who behaved this way. Japan is known for its excellent customer service, so this experience was truly shocking and disappointing. On our previous visit, we bought many items from this mall, and my wife planned to buy a lot again today but after this unacceptable behavior, we decided not to purchase anything and to avoid this mall altogether. We sincerely hope the mall addresses this issue so no other customer has to experience such disrespect.

Very nice department store. My recommendation is to go downstairs to the grocery section. There is one floor for grocery store and another for take away ready foods. Very nice selection of Japanese as well as other Asian foods. Also some western foods.

I had great experience shopping here. There's a lot of famous brands here from cosmetics and skincares, household item, clothing, shoes, sands designer brands. For tourist you can claim your tax refund at level 3, tax refund will be made in cash though, so just be aware of that.

This location is a well-known meeting point for tourist buses traveling from Ginza to other parts of Japan. If you book an online tour package, it is most likely that this will be your designated meeting point. One important thing to note is that, despite the various tour booking platforms, the tours are often managed by the same agency. As a result, you may find yourself grouped with tourists from other tour packages.

This is my first time in this smaller department store in Ginza. It's smaller relative to its neighbors but it is very mighty. The level B1 and B2 food emporiums have lower ceilings and not as busy, but the specialty coffee roaster and tea stalls in there sets it apart in my opinion. Please come visit and create your own experience.

Matsuya Ginza: Whenever Jamie W. and I find ourselves in the Ginza, we face that "Sophie's Choice" moment where we have to decide to explore Mitsukoshi Ginza or Matsuya Ginza. OK, I didn't go all Meryl in an emotional meltdown. We ended going to both legendary department stores, but there was the choice of which one to browse first. And by browse, I mean spending 90% of our time in the basement food hall. Sure, the bows of the unfailingly polite female employees in their matching suits continued to impress, but who am I kidding? I ain't gonna buy no Armani suit on my vacation. I just want to see the impeccably presented food. And samples would be nice. Best deal: the 100-JPY sashimi bento boxes they normally sell for well over ten times the price (photo: http://bit.ly/2G7Mw0P). Just go about 45 minutes before they close and have a sashimipalooza. RELATED - Traveling to Japan? Here's a collection of places I've visited and reviewed: http://bit.ly/2qrUBZo

More understated and less flashy as the neighbor Mitsukoshi, Matsuya's food hall, nevertheless, is replete with content. All I needed to see to prove me that was Pierre Herme. There are a wide-variety of options with food here, and like most department store food halls around, you'll have a difficult time deciding what to get. Prices aren't actually all that bad for the selections. Although the hall isn't as fancy as Mitsukoshi, Matsuya's still clean and organized. The Pierre Herme macarons are like ones you'd get in other locations. Outstanding.

You don't have to break the bank to eat well in Tokyo. If you've done your research on Tokyo before traveling, you know that you can go to the basement floor of any of this city's department stores and find a food hall that will nourish and astound you! Matsuya Ginza's food hall definitely astounds. You'll encounter a plethora of gourmet eats and drinks here--from Japanese food to Dim Sum to Italian charcuterie. You'll also see French patisseries, Belgian chocolatiers, and wine, tea and coffee purveyors. I really like that there is a lot more room to walk and move around in this food hall compared to let's say Odakyu's in Shinjuku. We walked around and after surveying our options, we ended up getting a few things to take back to the hotel. We had just had afternoon tea at Mariage Frères and we thought we'd eat a light dinner. The ladies at the Karaage stand were giving away free samples of the two types of Karaage they were selling, so we bought a package that ran in the ¥800+. Their Karaage was really good, so nicely seasoned and crunchy. We also ended up getting some noodles from the Chinese food vendor to go with our karaage. If you're taking the subway or the Yamanote Line to your next destination, you can get to your gate via the underground walkway. We just followed the signs to our subway stop from the food hall and we were able to get to our train without getting drenched as it was raining outside. I wouldn't mind coming back to Matsuya. Their food hall is really fantastic!

Matsuya is basically Japan's Bergdorf Goodman. Whereas Mitsukoshi is more like Saks Fifth or even Bloomingdales, Matsuya is definitely on the higher end of the spectrum. It was so nice walking through the department store - but it was so expensive - definitely not on my salary! The B1 level with all the prepared foods as a dream house for foodies - you name it, they probably have it! I think the selection in Matsuya was definitely better than the selection in Mitsukoshi.

Value for your $. We has the fish breakfast and the egg breakfast with cold tofu! The tofu was super soft and silky. The egg is just a whole raw egg with shell - we didn't know what to do with it. I took it home and made an omelette for dinner.

Came here after a morning of sight-seeing for some lunch. Ended up in the 8th floor restaurant city area, in a soba and udon shop. We ordered the tempura cold soba, a tamago (egg) udon, and a yama (grated radish) udon. The food was ok, but not as filling or tasty as one would expect for the price. I also found the inside to be too warm, and made it rather difficult to eat hot udon. I wished I had ordered the cold soba instead, even if the portion was small. The waitress spoke a lot of English, and was very helpful with navigating the table settings and little dishes of green onions that came with each order. I found the entire shopping center a bit inaccessible for a normal tourist like me. I know Ginza is high-end, but I suppose I was thinking of Hong Kong high-end, where one can walk and browse though a department store like Matsuya Ginza without feeling out of place.

Beautiful department store with high end and unique merchandise. The downstairs food market is amazing. Employees are helpful and friendly.

I remember my mother taking me to this place. I always liked nice things in my life and you can find it here. If you visit Ginza, you must visit here.

Though this department store has some great brands, it mostly has mediocre brands on most of its floors. Definitely wouldn't compare it to a Barney's. And its basement food court is ghetto compared to the ones I've been to at Isetan. I haven't explored enough department stores in Japan in order to recommend a better one, but this one certainly isn't worth visiting.