Yaya Center Nairobi

This post is about Yaya Centre, the Nairobi mainstay. Let’s begin with its location and contacts.

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Yaya Centre Directions/Direction to Yaya Centre

If you want directions to Yaya Centre from your current location or any other specific location, you can easily find these on Google Maps.

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Yaya Centre Location: Where Is Yaya Centre Located in Nairobi? Is Yaya Centre in Kilimani?

Yaya Centre is located at the corner of Argwings Kodhek Road and Ring Road Kilimani in Kilimani.

Yaya Centre Location and Contacts
Argwings Kodhek Road, Kilimani
Tel: +254-(20)-2713360/1
Email: info@yaya.co.ke
Website:www.yaya-centre.co.ke

When I first saw Yaya Centre’s new slogan a couple of years ago, I thought: How pompous! No, there really is reason to go elsewhere.

That was back when the revamping of Yaya Centre had just begun, and Yaya’s greatest claim to fame, at the time, was that it had been one of Nairobi‘s first shopping malls.

A couple of years later, I see where Yaya Centre was coming from with its slogan – Y go anywhere else?.

I guess the management at Yaya Centre already knew what Yaya was about to become though it took us, its customers, a little longer to find out.

It’s easy not to notice how much has changed at Yaya if you go there regularly and never take the time to take it all in.

I recently had to stop and think about it all after a visit I made to Yaya in search of a Christian book that I desperately wanted to read.

A Recent Visit to Yaya Shopping Centre

As usual, I was in a bit of a rush and had squeezed this errand between a number of other items on my to-do list.

I drove to Yaya, found parking easily enough, then quickly rushed to the Christian bookstore, on the ground floor, that I had been to many times before.

I did all this absentmindedly, focusing entirely on the task at hand while paying very little attention to my surroundings.

That is…until I noticed…the Christian Bookstore I was rushing too had been replaced by a Nairobi Java House!

Wow! I was really surprised.

Granted, I hadn’t been to Yaya in a while, but when had all this change taken place?

I took a little more time to walk around Yaya, paying close attention to all that had changed (did I say I was in a rush? 🙂 ).

Although some of the changes at Yaya seemed to me to be simply superficial changes – stores that already existed at Yaya had just taken up new locations in the shopping mall – a lot truly had changed at the shopping complex.

Even the oldie-but-goodie stores had become newer and improved versions of their former selves.

Yaya Centre was truly becoming bigger and better!

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Are you a regular visitor of Yaya Centre? If so, what keeps taking you back to Yaya?

For me, it’s a long list of things that just keeps getting longer every time I visit the shopping mall.

What You Can Find at Yaya Center Nairobi

To give you an idea of the range of things that one can do at Yaya, let me share with you, floor by floor, what keeps taking me back to Yaya Centre.

On the ground floor, I buy airtime; I go to the hardware store; I check out new phones; I deal with my Kenya Airways reservations. I bank; I buy medication and toiletries; I buy really good baguettes; I shop at the supermarket; and occasionally, I buy gourmet meat cuts when I am entertaining.

When I am pressed for time, I meet friends at one of the coffee houses on the ground floor. I buy all my fresh produce almost exclusively at Yaya.

On Yaya’s first floor, I gaze longingly at beautiful gold jewelry, which I buy on very rare occasions.

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