Miscellaneous Goods Spots in Otaru Area

  • Hands on Toy's Kinderlieb
    Style / Fashion
    Hokkaido Otaru-shi Sumiyoshicho 4-4
    This European toy store is located just beside Marchen Intersection, which is always bustling with tourists. Inside the stone warehouse, customers can feel the history of Otaru and browse or buy toys that are appropriate for children from age 0. The store was named with the wish that children would decide which ones they wanted after playing with the toys, and this wish is realized by the play space on the second floor. Customers can play with toys made by famous brands such as BorneLund, NAEF and HABA free of charge for 30 minutes. There are also hammocks, a baby feeding area and a cafe available in the store.
  • Otaru Taishou Glass Palace Tonbodamakan
    Style / Fashion
    Hokkaido Otarushi Ironai 1-1-6
    One of the galleries located in the Otaru Taishou Glass Palace, a historic renovated warehouse. The gallery displays and sells tonbodama glass beads hand-crafted by glasswork artisans. In the second floor studio, you can try making your own glass beads and other glasswork crafts. Tonbodamakan offers a variety of glass crafting experiences, including glass blowing; glass hotworking, in which glass is heated to near-melting and shaped; and glass coldworking, in which cold glass is cut and shaved away to create a design.
  • OTARU il PONTE
    Style / Fashion
    Hokkaido Otarushi Ironai 2-1-19
    Located 10 minutes on foot from JR Otaru Station, this studio sells glass and leather goods and offers hands on workshops in glass and leather work. At their shop, you can buy unique, quality leather goods, glass work, vases, and more at outlet prices. They offer three hands-on classes: making leather accessories, glass blowing, and glass frosting. Glass frosting involves using a sandblaster to frost the glass and make drawings. If you're artistically inclined, you can use a design of your own creation, and for those who prefer, they provide a pre-made drawing. In their leather work class, you can choose from leather varieties unique to Hokkaido like native shika deer.
  • Otaru Irodoriya
    Style / Fashion
    Hokkaido Otarushi Sakaimachi 1-18
    Variety glass store in Otaru City that sells hand-made tomboy-dama glass beads and other colorful glass items. If you reserve in advance you can have hands on experiences with gel candles, glass engraving, and more. This classic Japanese shop was built in 1907 but has a modern grace about it.
  • mother goose garden AEON Otaru
    Style / Fashion
    Hokkaido Otaru-shi Chikko 11 AEON Otaru 3F
  • Marine Bell Wing Bay Otaru
    Style / Fashion
    Hokkaido Otaru-shi Chikko 11-6 WING BAY OTARU (Wing Bay Otaru) 6 Bangai Nai
  • Shimizu Store
    Life / Living / Hospital
    Hokkaido Otaru-shi Shintomicho 2-13
  • Shinkai Hardware store
    Life / Living / Hospital
    Hokkaido Otaru-shi Inaho 1-chome 3-5
  • Hainokanamono
    Style / Fashion
    Hokkaido Otarushi Mogami 1-23-5
  • Padrack
    Style / Fashion
    Hokkaido Otarushi Sakura 2-24-1
  • Hirao Hardware store
    Style / Fashion
    Hokkaido Otaru-shi Inaho 4-chome 7-9
  • Funahashi Hardware store
    Style / Fashion
    Hokkaido Otaru-shi Inaho 3-4-13

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Not just a prefecture but an island of its own, Hokkaido is the most northerly prefecture and island of the Japanese archipelago. Arriving in Hokkaido, which is rural and bursting with breathtaking nature, means entering a world where vast national parks, towering mountains, and natural hot springs can be found at every turn. Come December, these natural splendors freeze over and morph into a winter wonderland.

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