A-Price, Japan’s largest cash-and-carry food wholesale chain, has landed in Singapore.
A-PRICE, Japan’s leading cash-and-carry food marketplace with over 80 outlets across Japan, has opened its first-ever overseas store right here in Singapore.
What Is A-PRICE?
A-PRICE is a brand developed by TOHO Co., Ltd, a wholesale food distribution group. They have been operating in Japan since 1947 and now sit on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Prime Market.
The Singapore outlet is the first A-PRICE store to open outside Japan. A-PRICE arrives at exactly the right time, with F&B operators across the city squeezed by rising ingredient costs and supply chain unpredictability.
Why This Japanese Grocery in Singapore Is Different
Most Japanese grocery stores in Singapore cater to the retail shopper with imported snacks, premium condiments, and the occasional wagyu cut. A-PRICE is built from the ground up for professional kitchens. This means the stock runs deeper and the formats are larger.
What you’ll find on the shelves includes
- Cooking oils
- Japonica rice
- Sustainably farmed salmon (air-flown from Norway)
- Sustainably caught live Canadian lobsters
- Air-flown seasonal seafood direct from Tokyo’s Toyosu Fish Market
- Fresh fruits and vegetables
- Sauces
- Daily kitchen staples
EAST BEE, S.E.A LION, Bread ‘N Better and FRESHdirect are in-house brands at A-Price. These cover everything from Japanese-style mayonnaise and sesame dressing to freshly baked pastries made with real butter and zero preservatives.
Prices:
- eggs at under $6 for a tray of 30
- avocados at $2.07 each
- potatoes at $0.98 per kg
- Kewpie egg yolk mayonnaise at $11.80 per litre.
For home cooks who go through these ingredients regularly, or anyone supplying a family that eats Japanese food often, the savings add up quickly.
F&B professionals who register as corporate members get additional savings on top of the already competitive shelf prices, making the case for membership a fairly easy one.
The Coffees at A-Price
Toho Coffee has been supplying hotels, restaurants and cafes across Japan since the 1950s. Japan has been serving this coffee at the best dining rooms for decades, roasted at TOHO’s dedicated facility on Rokko Island in Kobe.
In Singapore, it’s available in whole beans ($24 for 500g), ground powder ($5.40 for 100g), and drip packs ($25 for 30 pieces), and you can try it first as a ready-to-drink cup at the store. An Americano will set you back $1.50. A cappuccino or latte, $1.80.
The Bread Counter at A-Price
Fresh pastries from Bread ‘N Better are baked daily and available in-store. The croissant and pain au chocolat are made with real butter rather than margarine, no added preservatives, and are priced at $3.80 for both.
Swiss rolls in black sesame, chocolate and pandan round out the baked range at $33 for a box of five pre-cut rolls. They’re aimed at food service customers who want dependable, consistent quality without the premium pastry-shop pricing.
Who Should Make the Trip
For F&B operators and hawker stall owners, this is the most straightforward reason to visit: professional-grade Japanese ingredients at wholesale-adjacent prices, available without minimum orders, in a location that’s accessible from most parts of central Singapore.
For home cooks who shop for Japanese ingredients, A-PRICE fills a gap that Singapore’s existing Japanese retail options don’t quite cover, particularly for staples like rice, condiments, oils, and seafood. This is where quality-to-price ratios at A-PRICE look significantly better than what’s available elsewhere.
For the generally curious food person, the combination of toho coffee, Bread ‘N Better pastries, and fresh air-flown seafood makes this worth a browse even if you weren’t planning to stock up. It’s the kind of place where you go in for cooking oil and leave with a bag of coffee beans and a very good croissant.
The Details
A-PRICE Singapore 120 Tanjong Pagar Road #01-01, Singapore 088532
Opening Hours: 11am – 8pm, Monday to Saturday Closed Sundays and Public Holidays
Tel / WhatsApp: +65 8977 8873
Website: www.a-price.com.sg Instagram: @APriceSGstore Facebook: APRICESingaporeOfficial
All prices subject to change and seasonal fluctuation.
Japan has been perfecting the art of feeding professional kitchens since 1947. Singapore finally gets a front-row seat.