Household Goods / Daily Necessities Spots in Tokyo Area

  • Tsukushi Bunguten
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    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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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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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    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)
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    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).
  • FlyingTigerCopenhagen Aqua City Odaiba Store
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    Tokyo Minato-ku Daiba 1-7-1 Aqua City Odaiba 3F
  • Flying Tiger Copenhagen Futakotamagawa Store
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    Tokyo Setagaya-ku Tamagawa 2-27-5 Tamagawa Ko Shimaya SC Marronnier Coat 1F
  • Unsodo Corporation Tokyo Store
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    Tokyo Bunkyo-ku Yushima 1-3-6
  • Kyo Tohto Tokyo Sky Tree Town Soramachi
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    Tokyo Sumida-ku Oshiage 1-1-2 Tokyo Solamachi (R)
    An embroidery brand from Kyoto that fuses Japanese tradition and modernity, dealing in a variety of embroidered goods with motifs such as Rakuchu Rakugaizu, Yokai (Japanese monsters), and otogi-zoshi (fairy tales), etc. A wide variety of goods such as wappen (patches), tenugui hand towels, gamaguchis, daily necessities such as towels, and fashion items such as scarves and socks.
  • Sumida Edo Kiriko Museum
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    3.0
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    Tokyo Sumida-ku Taihei 2-10-9

    近くのラーメン屋さんに行く途中で見かけました。 外からも少しみることができます。店内はかなり狭いです。

  • ATELIER MUJI GINZA
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    Tokyo Chuo-ku Ginza 3-3-5 MUJI Ginza 6F
  • JOHNNYJUMPUP
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    Tokyo Shibuya-ku Daikanyamacho 18-31F
    A select interior design boutique located in Daikanyama, Shibuya Ward. The shop carries a wide selection of cute and fun knickknacks from across Japan and around the world. The boutique's selection of matryoshka (Russian nesting dolls) and Soviet era knickknacks is particularly large. The shop's array of matryoshka range from unique dolls which are just a little different from the ones normally sold in souvenir stores, to story- and celebrity-themed dolls. The shop's Soviet era knickknacks were purchased by the owner from Russian flea markets and include rare pieces sure to tickle the hearts of collectors, such as Soviet era Cheburashka and Misha the Bear Cub merchandise.
  • The Conran Shop Marunouchi Store
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    Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Marunouchi 2-4-1 Marunouchi Building 23F
    This home furnishings store is located inside the Marunouchi Building, known to locals as the Maru Building. Dedicated to enhancing the quality of your daily life, the shop carries furniture, interior decorations, and other choice, charming items from around the world. The white-based store has stairs right inside, making it possible to freely move between its first, second, and third floors. The shop's highly stylish items are sure to make daily life more fun and not only make great gifts but are also perfect for you own home. The shop also sells furniture personally designed by English interior designer Terence Conran, the store's founder.
  • Bohemian's Guild
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    Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Kandajinbocho 1-1 Kinoshita Building 12F
    This rare and antique bookstore is located in the Kanda Jimbocho Bookstore Area, a mecca for old, used, and antique books unlike almost any other place else in the world. The store has dark brown wood floors and similarly-colored tables, and is lit by incandescent lamps which give it a gentle, soothing atmosphere. The store has been in business since the Taisho period and is divided into two floors, each of which has its own collection of books and facilities. The first floor is designed to be a veritable forest of books and here you'll find publications spanning such diverse genres as art photo collections, illustrated books, and art critiques, as well as design, architecture, photo, and performing arts books. The second floor has a book gallery where you can also see works of art by a variety of artists and casually browse paintings and woodblock and art prints. The store also irregularly holds special exhibitions and events.
  • The Isseido Booksellers
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    Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Kandajinbocho 1-7
    This secondhand and rare bookstore was established in Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture in 1903. For years, the store has kept its general texts and academic books on the first floor, and its Japanese, Western, and art books on the second floor. The longstanding establishment's list of principal clients includes domestic universities and libraries as well as major universities and libraries in Europe and North America. Some of Japan's most celebrated authors, including Seicho Matsumoto, Naoya Shiga, Yasunari Kawabata and Yukio Mishimaz are also said to have been customers. The store also seeks to publicize the charm of secondhand bookstores and takes the initiative in launching events which will get more people interested in used books.
  • Komiyama Shoten
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    Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Kandajinbocho 1-7
    "This secondhand and rare bookstore was established in 1939, and it is said to be the top destination for books concerning Yukio Mishima. The longstanding establishment's selection of materials relating to Mishima is the best in the Kanda Jimbocho Bookstore Area in terms of both quality and quantity, and includes first editions, manuscripts, and original photographic prints. The current, third-generation owner is seeking to make it a new kind of secondhand bookstore, and its four floors are divided into six areas covering a wide variety of publication genres. The store is also famous for its ""garage sales"" it holds in the parking lot behind the store on weekends, and during these sales the lot is filled to overflowing with books and people looking for bargains and hidden treasures."
  • Don Quijote Shinjuku Kabukicho
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    Tokyo Shinjuku-ku Kabukicho 1-16-5
  • MEGA Don Quijote Shibuya Main Store
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    Tokyo Shibuya-ku Udagawacho 28-6

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