{"id":280452,"date":"2025-10-05T22:58:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T22:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/280452\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T22:58:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T22:58:21","slug":"japanese-retailer-teso-life-opens-first-san-antonio-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/280452\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese retailer Teso Life opens first San Antonio store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 Japanese retailer Teso Life opened its first store on San Antonio\u2019s Northwest Side on Friday, drawing large crowds eager to explore its unique offerings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Teso Life CEO Ethen Wang told KSAT the company was prepared for the busy opening day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe experienced this before. So, you know, we\u2019re always ready for this,\u201d Wang said.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese retailer Teso Life opened its first San Antonio location on Friday, October, 3, 2025. The store is located at 12720 Frontage Road on the Northwest Side. (Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The store offers a variety of Asian products, including beauty items, home goods, toys such as blind boxes and snacks, Wang said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cI think people can get what they never had before here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese retailer Teso Life opened its first San Antonio location on Friday, October, 3, 2025. The store is located at 12720 Frontage Road on the Northwest Side. (Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">San Antonio resident Brianna Harvey said she was excited to hear that the store was opening in San Antonio, as it was her first time visiting Teso Life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe don\u2019t have, like, a lot of, I guess, like Asian stuff here, so whenever I heard this was opening, I got really excited,\u201d Harvey said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">San Antonio resident Alexander Manubag, who has visited Teso Life stores in Houston and Dallas, said the new San Antonio location offers a unique experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cThis is probably the biggest Teso Life store I\u2019ve been to. They have a lot of food and everything,\u201d Manubag said. \u201cSo it\u2019s just fun to explore if you\u2019ve never been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Japanese retailer Teso Life opened its first San Antonio location on Friday, October, 3, 2025. The store is located at 12720 Frontage Road on the Northwest Side. (Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">He added that the store also adds to the city\u2019s cultural diversity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of like Filipinos, a lot of every culture here, so it\u2019s just adding more culture to San Antonio,\u201d Manubag said. \u201cI think just having more options is better for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Wang said the company is planning to include at least two more stores in the San Antonio area, with a total of six new locations across Texas anticipated in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Teso Life, located at 12720 Frontage Road, is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese retailer Teso Life opened its first San Antonio location on Friday, October, 3, 2025. The store is located at 12720 Frontage Road on the Northwest Side. (Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>Read also: <\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Japanese retailer Teso Life opened its first store on San Antonio\u2019s Northwest Side on Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":280453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,64,18477,7202,7203,144964,358,1072,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-280452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-northwest-side","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-sanantonio","13":"tag-teso-life","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-things-to-do","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115324040276244804","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}