IKEA successfully filled an essential void in the lives of almost every hip, budget conscious and do-it-yourselfers from all around the world, especially in both Singapore and Malaysia. And now, we are lucky to mention that there is one IKEA store available in Johor Bahru area. Easy reachable through the Pasir Gudang and also the Senai-Desaru Expressway, this IKEA store required approximately 30 minutes driving from Woodlands.
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Opened in Johor Bahru on 17th November 2017 and created a wave of large crowds flocking to the outlets during the year end holiday season. IKEA is famous for their modernist designs of appliances and furniture. They have their very own professional designer team.
With intentions to keep the interior design work clean and simple, you may be able to notice that almost all of their furniture designs are associated with eco-friendly simplicity. In addition, IKEA is also well know for its attention to cost control and continuous product development. This is the reason why all of their products are offered in a cheap and affordable price by normal family.
Below are some of the additional fun facts about IKEA and reasons why IKEA is one of the emporium that you must visit upon your visit in Tebrau.
- It is the largest IKEA shopping mall in Southeast Asia
- IKEA’s name origin
- Serves delicious Swedish cuisines
- Owns a bistro
- Separated into four areas
- Owns 54 non-repeating display rooms
- All IKEA’s products are named instead of numbering them
- Be aware of red color corner
- Kids Corner
- 100 days warranty
- FIKA Culture
- Great OOTDs and POTDs venue
- Free Tape Measures, Pencils and Notepads
- Free shutter bus
- IKEA Place App
- All Lists of IKEA Stores In Malaysia
Fun Facts about IKEA Tebrau and Why It Should Be Visited
1. It is the largest IKEA shopping mall in Southeast Asia
Considered as the largest IKEA shopping mall in Southeast Asia, IKEA Tebrau covers more than 502,815 square feet of operating space, or equivalent to 46,713 square meters of land. It is about 10% larger than IKEA Cheras and 70% larger than IKEA Damansara.
IKEA Tebrau owns more than 1771 parking slots in total of the indoor and outdoor parking. More amazing is that they even offer electric car charging stations in the mall too.
Besides just showcase and sells furniture, IKEA Tebrau also own their very own in-store restaurants and bistros too. Both of these venues are spacious enough to accommodate up to 800 diners and 500 people for quick snack respectively.
Also, IKEA Tebrau is proud to say that they are the first IKEA in Malaysia which comes with a Glass house too, displaying live and artificial plants. A small tip for you, it is highly recommended that you should grab yourself an IKEA Tebrau’s map as it is quite easy to be trapped in IKEA’s maze of aisles and departments.
2. IKEA’s name origin
Do you ever wonder why this shopping mall is named IKEA?
Well, when tracing back to its history, this Swedish founded multinational group that designs and sells ready to assembled furniture, kitchen appliances and home accessories is founded in year 1943 in Sweden. The founder, Ingvar Kamprad who is also a carpenter founded IKEA when he is just 17 years old.
He then named this company of him by using an acronym which consist of the initials of his name. The first two letter of IKEA, ‘I’ and ‘K’ stands for Ingvar Kamprad while the letters ‘E’ and ‘A’ stands for Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd. Elmtaryd is the farm that the founder grew up. On the other hand, Agunnaryd is his hometown in Smaland, Southern Sweden.
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3. Serves delicious Swedish cuisines
Whenever you are enjoying your shopping / window shopping at IKEA Tebrau, do remember to pay a visit to their Sweden restaurant available. This is the place where you can enjoy wide varieties of traditional Sweden delicacies for brunch, lunch and even dinner.
IKEA Tebrau’s restaurant is a family friendly restaurant that welcome both adults and children to have their meal. Provided with a mini indoor playground, this restaurant might keep your young children busy with some moment while offering you a quick relaxation time.
The restaurant offers wide varieties of traditional Sweden delicacies, both vegetarian and non-vegetarian. All of these dishes are prepared freshly upon order by using the most premium organic food ingredients of theirs.
Also, there are always something for everyone who visited IKEA Tebrau’s restaurant. You even can purchase their food, frozen and pre-packaged at their Swedish Food Market if you would like to bring them home.
Nevertheless, this Sweden delicacy is considered as one of the all time food among all foodies who have their visit to every IKEA stores. This representative food from Swedish is a savory dish served with juicy handmade beef meatballs, mashed potatoes and gravy, broiled mixed vegetables and sweet lingonberry jelly. This generous amount of food will surely keep you full throughout the day too.
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4. Owns a bistro
Besides the restaurant that serves delicious Sweden delicacies, IKEA Tebrau also own an in-house bistro too. The bistro mentioned here is not the common bistros like the outside that serves alcohol, but instead, it serves Halal certified snacks and grubs that makes a great quick grub for the day.
In order to promote healthy lifestyle among the communities, IKEA had banned all sugary fizzy beverages from their restaurant. They are proud to announce that they have replaced their limitation Pepsi and 7Up with a healthier fruit water with 50% less sugar.
Also known as the Nordic Fruit Water, this beverage is more healthier than sugary fizzy drinks as it contains real fruit slices. IKEA even offer different types of fruits to be included in this drink like lemon, pear, raspberry and lingonberry. And you know what? These Nordic Fruit Water can be refill for free!!!
IKEA’s Soy Ice Cream, which is also their signature soft serve comes handy here with an affordable price of RM1 per cone. This smooth, icy and sweet dessert will just cool off the heat from you, offering some cool moments.
Taking concern towards vegan food, IKEA had replaced their Vanilla Ice-Cream flavored soft serve with soya that is 100% plant based, gluten free and also dairy free. Options of frogurt with natural fruit jams are available too if you demand for something sweet.
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5. Separated into four areas
IKEA Tebrau is separated into four different areas, the showroom, marketplace, self service warehouse and also checkout.
Showroom
Located at the top level of IKEA Tebrau, this is the place where you can view assembled IKEA’s furniture. These showrooms of theirs can be considered as a huge home furnishing exhibitions.
It allows every of their customers to make themselves at home like enabling them to stretch out on the beds, fit on the sofas, and even take pictures with these furniture too. Every of their showrooms setting are built entirely with IKEA’s products, and providing you an inspirations for lighting, decorating and furnishing for your home.
Marketplace
Just as its name stated, IKEA Tebrau’s marketplace is a market hall with wide selections of home products from specialty shops gathered together.
This is the venue you can find everything you need to decorate your home, from rugs to linens, clocks and even picture frames. Kitchen wares and soft plushies are available here too, making a great gift to give to others or just keep for yourself.
Besides that, you will be able to find uniquely designed home lighting with affordable price in the lighting session. This time, IKEA is cooperating with RIGGAD and they are proud to introduce their honor iF Design Awarded work lamp and lights.
These newest technology of theirs is the kind of light that is focuses, powerful and adjustable. It also offers a wireless space for the user to charge up the phone wireless too.
Self Service Warehouse
On your way to the check-out, you will surely pass through the self-serve area. This is where you pick up the flat-packed furnishing items you saw earlier in the showrooms. Picking up your purchases is an important part of the IKEA’s approach to customer involvement.
Upon arriving at this section, you will be amazed with the tall, numerous amount of boxed and packaged furniture available on the wide array of displaying rack.
What you need to do is just trace for the serial umber that you jot down earlier and grab them before proceeding to the checkout point. Of course, you need a trolley as well. There are plenty of trolleys and carts available in IKEA Tebrau that helps you to bring your selected furniture to your car too.
Specifically, if you can do simple things like pick up your purchases and assemble them at home, IKEA Tebrau will always keep their prices low. Have a deal? Of course, there is always someone available to give you a hand if you need it.
Checkout
This is the last section of IKEA Tebrau where you can pay for your choices of goods and furniture. Options of self check out is available if you find out the staffs are busy.
6. Owns 54 non-repeating display rooms
With a whopping 54 non repeating showrooms with different designs and styles available in IKEA Tebrau, it will surely help you to gain some inspirations for sprucing up your home.
Whether you are a minimalist, Scandinavian, modern chic, rustic metallic lover, there are always something for you at IKEA Tebrau. It myriad of showrooms covers all the areas in your home, from the living room to the bedrooms, kitchen and also the bathroom.
Every area in IKEA Tebrau’s showroom has a sales desk where a specialist is always available there to assist every of the customers regarding their questions or to offer some useful home furnishing advice.
And if you are thinking about furnishing a whole room, or even your entire house, you can make an appointment with one of IKEA Tebrau’s home friendly furnishing consultants and let them help you in designing your dream home too.
Everything at IKEA Tebrau has a price tag. These tags are helpful and they have important information about size, color, craftsmanship, measurements, features and care of the furniture. Tags on large items tell you where to pick them up in the self-serve furniture area.
7. All IKEA’s products are named instead of numbering them
Do you ever noticed that almost all the furniture and products of IKEA are named instead of pre-numbered? This is because the founder of IKEA, Ingvar Kamprad was suffering from dyslexic and the special naming on these furniture do ease him in remembering them better.
8. Be aware of red color corner
In IKEA Tebrau, you can be alert to the red colour corner if you would like to have some furniture shopping. They normally place the furniture and products on sales on these red coloured corner.
Although there are also some discounted products of IKEA offered at almost every of its corner, but it is guaranteed that there are bigger and more valuable discounts are at this red corner.
9. Kids Corner
You Shop, Kids Play.
Drop your young children at IKEA Tebrau’s supervised playground and let them play in the play area and ballroom. Perhaps this will helps you to enjoy some shopping moments while they busy around there. This way, everyone’s happy. If you would like them to join you during the IKEA shopping, then you can grab yourself a stroller at the entrance too.
Also, children can participate themselves in furniture choosing and furnishing decisions along with their parents. IKEA Tebrau do own plenty of colorful and playful products that are specially designed for kids’ room. And of course, there are lots of toys in the store.
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10. 100 days warranty
IKEA Tebrau enable every of their customers to have free trial of 100 days of their mattress that they bought. Return of the mattress is allowed if the customer is not satisfied with it or the mattress product of theirs consist of deficiencies.
11. FIKA Culture
Fika, a Swedish culture where people gather to drink, eat and talk, is a welcoming workplace tradition around the country now. This culture is also be practiced in every of the IKEA stores, mandatory to all of their staffs. They have designed time during the day to sit down together and enjoy some fika moments.
During fika moments, the employees will be provided with free hot or cold beverage and some common snacks. It is all about spending time with every of their colleagues, enjoying some lovely baked goodies and drinking some good coffee, just like going to pubs or stalls by the road in Malaysia.
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12. Great OOTDs and POTDs venue
Nevertheless, a trip to IKE would not be completed without taking any insta-worthy pictures at their warehouse. Almost all of the corner of IKEA Tebrau could be the photo taking venue, as there are plenty of showrooms and you are allowed to have a seat on their sofas. Taking photos by using the trolleys as equipment could be a great idea too.
If you like to have some industrial style photo, you may head to the warehouse area to have your typical IKEA photo taken. But keep in mind that some of the areas in the warehouse are not allowed to be trespassed.
13. Free Tape Measures, Pencils and Notepads
These tape measures, pencils and notepads are always available in almost every corner of IKEA Tebrau.
They are purposely prepared and put by the staffs there to ease every of the customers to jot down the location numbers of their selected items that would like to purchase. These helpful stationery also helps in drawing a quick draft on their preference items too.
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14. Free shutter bus
Need not to be worried about your transportation and also traffic problem as IKEA Tebrau. This newly operated shopping mall provide every of their customers with free shutter bus services from almost all shopping malls in Johor Bahru to their IKEA’s outlets.
Do remember that these free shutter bus service of theirs do have a 2 to 3 hours intervals in between. So, please be punctual and note down its schedule upon every of your visit or you might need to wait forever for their bus.
From KTMB Muzium (near to JB Sentral) to IKEA:
9am, 11am, 2pm, 4pm, 7pm, 9pmFrom IKEA back to KTMB Muzium:
10am, 12pm, 3pm, 5pm, 8pm, 10:30pm
The pick up point to IKEA Tebrau commonly is at the bus stop located in front of KTMB Muzium, which Is also used to be the old Johor Bahru Railway Station. In order to reach this point, you are required to walk through the JB Sentral and head to its entrance facing City Square Mall, go down the escalator and walk down another short distance of 300 meters down the road. The KTMB Muzium is just at the left of it.
Alternatively, if you would like to take their free shutter bus back, you need to exit the IKEA Tebrau’s building and walk towards the AEON Mall Tebrau City. There would be an eye catching bus stop located next to its wide open space car park of IKEA Tebrau. It is the place where you can wait for their shutter bus to arrive.
15. IKEA Place App
Also, not to forgot about IKEA’s Place app that is specially introduce to enable every customers in viewing the furniture in their homes before purchasing them. This incredible augmented really app can be downloaded on the Apple App Store or Google Play store without any additional charges.
After downloading and register the account, you are allowed to have a quick browse at their collections and place them in your rooms. Photo snapping of non IKEA items you like is available if you activate their camera function. This app will help you to identify the most related and similar items they have in their stores after analyzing the picture too.
All Lists of IKEA Stores In Malaysia
1.IKEA Cheras
State: Kuala Lumpur
Address: No. 2A Jalan Cochrane, Taman Maluri, 55100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Contact: +603-7952 7575
Opening Hours:
Monday to Thursday: 9:30am – 10:00pm
Friday to Sunday & Public Holidays: 9:30am – 11:00pm
Date of Establishment: 19th November 2015
Store Floor Area Size: 42,000 square meters
2.IKEA Damansara
State: Selangor
Address: No.2, Jalan PJU 7/2, Mutiara Damansara, 47800 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
Contact: +603-7952 7575
Opening Hours:
Monday to Thursday: 9:30am – 10:00pm
Friday to Sunday & Public Holidays: 9:30am – 11:00pm
Date of Establishment: Year 2003
Store Floor Area Size: 27,000 square meters
3.IKEA Tebrau
State: Johor Bahru
Address: 33, Jalan Harmonium, Taman Desa Tebrau, Johor Bahru, 81100 Johor, Malaysia.
Opening Hours:
Monday to Thursday: 9:30am – 10:00pm
Friday to Sunday & Public Holidays: 9:30am – 11:00pm
Date of Establishment: Year 2017
Store Floor Area Size: 46,713 square meters
4.IKEA Batu Kawan
State: Penang
Opening on 28th March 2019
Address: Aspen Vision City, Lebuhraya Bandar Cassia, 14110 Batu Kawan, Pulau Pinang.
Opening Hours:
Monday to Thursday: 9:30am – 10:00pm
Friday to Sunday & Public Holidays: 9:30am – 11:00pm
Date of Establishment: Year 2019
Store Floor Area Size: Nil
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