Frommer's Review
Once the nation's largest department store -- and still one of the biggest -- Seibu has 47 entrances, thousands of sales clerks, dozens of restaurants, 12 floors, 31 elevators, and an average of 170,000 shoppers a day. Two basement floors are devoted to foodstuffs -- you can buy everything from taco shells to octopus to seaweed. Dishes are set out so that you can sample the food as you move along, and hawkers yelling out their wares give the place a marketlike atmosphere. Fast-food counters sell salads, grilled eel, chicken, sushi, and other ready-to-eat dishes. The rest of the floors offer clothing, furniture, art galleries, jewelry, household goods, kitchenware, and a million other things. Loft, Seibu's department for household goods and interior design, and Wave, Seibu's CD department, occupy the top four floors of the main building. Many of the best Japanese and Western designers have boutiques here; Size World (on the third floor) and Queen's Size (on the fourth floor) specialize in petite and large women's sizes, respectively. Open Monday to Saturday from 10am to 9pm; Sunday and holidays from 10am to 8pm. Closed some Tuesdays.
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planning your trip.
