Household Goods / Daily Necessities Spots in Japan

  • Today's Special (Jiyugaoka 1F/2F)
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    3.5
    4 Reviews
    Shopping
    Tokyo Meguro-ku Jiyugaoka 2-17-81 F/2 F
    An interior design boutique based on the question of, How shall we enjoy today? Here you'll find simple and unsophisticated lifestyle goods designed for enjoying today. The shop's selection mainly focuses on interior decorations, kitchen items, curtain implements, and healthcare goods. The shop carries a wide selection of original items, including simply designed white and ivory tableware and eco-friendly reusable bags. There's a cafe space on the third floor serving select foods.

    食べ物から生活雑貨まで色々と揃っています。私は植木鉢をここで買います。シーズンのオススメコーナーが好きです。

  • Arkestra
    Shopping
    Tokyo Shibuya-ku Uehara 1-7-20
    An antique furniture shop. The shop sells antiques from the 1930s to the 70s bought by the owner on the American west coast. Many of the shop's interesting furniture was made just prior to the age of mass production when things were made by hand in large quantities. Regardless of whether something is new or old, the shop's concept is to stock items which have been properly made, which can be used for many years, and which customers will fall in love with. The shop also works on developing new, original goods which will match well with antiques.
  • Paper Mint (Roppongi Hills Shop)
    Shopping
    Tokyo Minato-ku Roppongi 6-10-1 Roppongi Hills West Walk 4F
    This stationery shop is on the fourth floor of the Westwalk building in Roppongi Hills, Roppongi, Minato City. Based on the concept of 365 Memories a Year, they offer over 300 original greeting cards, as well as domestic and imported stationery and knickknacks.
  • Hyakunen
    Shopping
    Tokyo Musashinoshi Kichijoujihonchou 2-2-10 Murata Building 2F
    Relaxing second-hand book store in Kichijoji Honcho. Not just a second-hand book store where you can buy and sell books, but a place for the community where they sell individually published indie-works, hold talks, and have photo exhibitions. Pick up a points card that earns you one point for every 500 yen. Get a bonus point if it's raining. Second-hand books can even be ordered from their website.
  • Daikanyama Christmas Company
    Shopping
    Tokyo Shibuya-ku Sarugakuchou 29-10 Hillside Terrace C-13
    Christmas market based on the concept of 364 Days of Christmas Eve. Buy an array of Christmas items all year round, including Christmas trees, Christmas cards, wrapping paper, and Santa dolls. Their main products are shipped straight from Germany. Pick up original glass balls and Nutcrackers for the tree, as well as Christmas jewelry and many more items you won't see anywhere else.
  • Kanaya Brush
    Shopping
    Tokyo Taitou-ku Asakusa 1-39-10
    A shop located on the Senso-ji Temple's Denboin-dori Street which sells hairbrushes, toothbrushes, and other brushes. This long-standing shop was established in 1914 and has manufactured industrial and paint brushes since that time. Today, the shop carries a wide array of brushes for home use, such as brushes for cleaning clothing and makeup brushes. The shop's horsehair toothbrushes, known as the toothbrush used by one million people, are particularly popular. Offering a perfect balance of stiffness and flexibility, these brushes are said to not only clean the teeth but also massage and stimulate the gums.
  • Cloth & Cross
    Shopping
    Tokyo Meguro-ku Jiyugaoka 2-14-11
    A boutique located in 2 Chome Jiyugaoka, Meguro City. The shop carries a wide selection of daily life goods chosen based on the theme of crafts connected with food, clothing, and shelter, including original shuttle-woven kitchen cloths, linen and cotton dailywear, towels, candles, and more.
  • Manhattan Records
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Tokyo Shibuya-ku Udagawachou 10-1 Kiwa Building
    This record shop is located on Inokashira-dori Street in Udagawa-cho, Shibuya City. It opened in 1980 and moved to its present location in 1993. They sell new releases as well as used records and CDs with a focus on genres like hip-hop, R & B, soul, and club music.
  • Maito Design Works
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    3.0
    1 Reviews
    Shopping
    Tokyo Taitou-ku Kuramae 4-14-121F
    This variety shop is located on Kokusai-dori Street in Kuramae, Taito City. They offer a full line of knit wear from the Maito, which uses vegetable-based alternatives to chemical dyes. Visitors can observe the manufacturing process at the adjacent natural dyeing studio and take part in natural dyeing workshops as well.

    蔵前の環境ふれあい館の裏手にある店です。 草木染めなど、ナチュラルがキーワードのようで、ワークショップも開催されています。

  • COTSWOLDS (Kichijoji Shop)
    Shopping
    Tokyo Musashinoshi Kichijoujihonchou 4-13-2
    This import variety shop is located in the Kichijoji Nakamichi-dori Shopping Arcade in Kichijoji Honcho, Musashino City. They sell British vintage goods such as crockery and tableware, clothing, stamps, rubber ducks, and Beatles memorabilia.
  • Tsukushi Bunguten
    Shopping
    Tokyo Kokubunjishi Nishimachi 2-21-7
    This stationery store is located in 2 Chome, Nishicho, Kokubunji City. Along with offering stationary with original designs along the theme of Connecting Work and Life, they also hold stationary themed exhibits and workshops. Once a month they hold what they call the Little Design School and students assist in the shop.
  • Nomad Books (Tabinohonya Nomado)
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    5.0
    1 Reviews
    Shopping
    Tokyo Suginami-ku Nishiogikita 3-12-10 BUILDING 1F
    This is the only bookstore in Japan dedicated to travel. This bookstore was created to allow people to experience travel through books, and to stir up one's imagination for traveling. Conceptually envisioned around the word, travel, it houses a large variety of periodicals and books of multiple genres that relate to travel. It also carries rare old books and merchandise only sold here. The bookshelves are arranged by genre, so that both new books and old books are mixed together, and books by the same author are arranged together, which makes it easy to find books on the subject of your interest. They also sell a variety goods with that inspires that travel.

    JR西荻窪駅北口から徒歩5分程度、有名な喫茶店物豆奇の近くにある。 旅に専科した書店で雰囲気が良く、ゆっくり本選びできる。 一般書店では取扱いのない個人出版の書籍まで取り揃えているので、マニアックな旅の情報がゲットできる。 バックパッカーにお勧め。

  • Kojien
    Shopping
    Tokyo Shinjuku-ku Akagimotomachi 3-4
    A florist located a two minute walk from Kagurazaka Station on the Tozai Line in Akagimoto-machi, Shinjuku City. The shop provides flower bouquets matched to a variety of budgets, creates floral arrangements, coordinates with wedding halls to provide arrangements and bouquets, and offers garden design services. The shop also holds a flower arranging class once a month (reservation required no later than one week prior).
  • Luff
    Shopping
    Tokyo Koutou-ku Kiyosumi 3-3-27
    A florist located in Kiyosumi Nagaya standing along Kiyosumi-dori Avenue in Kiyosumi, Koto City. In addition to selling flowers and plants and creating bouquets and floral arrangements, the shop also provides a garden design service as well as a live floral arrangement service periodically delivering fresh flowers to your office, home, or store.
  • Rhythm & Books
    Shopping
    Tokyo Shibuya-ku Tomigaya 1-9-15 Star Building 1F
    This store is about three minutes away from Yoyogihachiman Station and two minutes from Yoyogi Koen Station. This secondhand bookstore in Shibuya City's Tomigaya area also carries mushroom-related odds and ends. They offer an assortment of unique books, starting with books about ethnic tribes, the occult, overseas photo books and mushroom picture books. The store has an especially large number of mushroom-related books from throughout the world, such as mushroom-themed picture books, novels, fairytales and photo books. A secondhand bookstore always trying to be interesting, they also have a selection of nostalgic subculture, records, CDs, and picture books from foreign countries such as the Czech Republic and Hungary.
  • Rikashitsu
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    4.0
    11 Reviews
    Shopping
    Tokyo Koutou-ku Hirano 1-9-7 Fukada-so 102
    This shop specializes in scientific sundries and experiment utensils. They have items like beakers and flasks, like you often see in labs, cleverly decorated to be stylish decorations. Their terrariums made from medicine bottles, and flask flower vases, are quite popular. Of course, they also sell these items unmodified, for actual use. They also offer their original Rikaroma series of freeze-dried herbs for home aroma oil making. They have regular workshops, and offer commercial facility consulting as well.

    建物自体が個性的な深田荘の中でもユニークなお店の一つです。いわゆる実験器具を扱っている会社ですが、小売のお店を持っているのが面白いです。化け学だけでなく、生物(生き物)とコラボしているのもユニークでした。

  • BOX&NEEDLE (Futakotamagawa Branch)
    Shopping
    Tokyo Setagaya-ku Tamagawa 3-12-11
    A five minutes' walk from Futakotamagawa Station. This cardboard container specialist is run by Kyoto's venerable paper goods maker Marushige Kamiki. Their thick paper boxes are carefully covered by craftsmen with patterned paper at the Kyoto workshop. The paper they use includes original Japanese washi, as well as that imported from America, Europe, India and elsewhere, offering a wide variety of patterns and styles. You can also buy the paper by the sheet. They offer workshops twice a month in the studio on the second floor (reservations required).
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    Shopping
    Tokyo Minato-ku Daiba 1-7-1 Aqua City Odaiba 3F
  • Flying Tiger Copenhagen Futakotamagawa Store
    Shopping
    Tokyo Setagaya-ku Tamagawa 2-27-5 Tamagawa Ko Shimaya SC Marronnier Coat 1F
  • Unsodo Corporation Tokyo Store
    Shopping
    Tokyo Bunkyo-ku Yushima 1-3-6

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