Tokyo Shopping Guide
I have visited Japan twice now and for our most recent visit to Tokyo, we made up an exhaustive itinerary of shops and places to visit, mainly for craft supplies and kawaii (and cake…). I spent a good few months researching the best shops to visit and I figured I should share this info for anyone else lucky to be visiting Tokyo. I tell you where to find them (with proper ‘next to the bookstore’ directions and not just ‘a short walk from exit 4 of the subway’ since directions like that drove us mental, especially when we were knackered and not in the mood for random wandering), what they look like, what they sell, what the prices are like and illustrated them with photos of my purchases. Can’t say fairer than that!
You can view the whole set of posts in backwards order (i.e. most recent post back to the first post) via the Tokyo Shopping Guide category or you can jump directly to the posts you’re most interested in, using the links below.
Fabric and Sewing Supplies
- Lucky Star
- Okadaya
- Tomato (and Fabric Town/Nippori)
Washi and Origami Paper
- Itoya
- Loft
- Nakamise Dori
- Tokyu Hands
- Paper Shopping Guide
Stationery and Print Gocco
- Daiso
- Loft
- Kiddyland
- Tokyu Hands
Kawaii and toys
- Akihabara
- Aranzi Aronzo
- Kiddyland
- Lemmon
- Sanrio Gift Gate
- Sunshine City
- Tama Depa
Homewares
- Daiso
- Lemmon
- Loft
- Sunshine City
- Tokyu Hands
Tokyo Extras
- Mori Art Museum
- Souvenir stampers
Photos and info
- My photos from Tokyo, October 2007
- My photos from Tokyo, Kyoto and Mt Fuji, March 2006
- Tokyo Shopping Guide Flickr Group
- Guide books and resources
Links
- Omotesando St Architecture, Harajuku (by PingMag)
- Top Ten Tokyo Shops (by The Guardian)
- Top Ten Tokyo Hotels (by The Guardian)
- Top Ten Cheap Eats in Tokyo (by The Guardian)
- Goat in a Coat (great fabric shopping guide)
- Tutti Frutti (good fabric/crafts shopping guide)
- Retro Mummy (good shopping guide)
- TripAdvisor Tokyo forum (info on everything)
Online shops
- Chocolate Swirl (craft books, fabric, notions)
- Felt Cafe (gocco, craft books)
- FromJapanWithLove (stationery, paper, fabric, notions)
- Good-ness (fabric, gocco, craft books)
- JapanCentre (food, homewares, kitchenware, stationery, books)
- Kitty-Craft (fabric, notions)
- Matatabi (fabric, notions)
- Mwendas (fabric, notions, craft books)
- Nuno Plus (fabric)
- Print Addict Japan (gocco)
- re:makeables (fabric, notions)
- Sakura Fabric (fabric, notions)
