Stay like a resident in this town This is not your usual hotel. The reception area is on the second floor of the smallest cultural complex, Hagiso, created from the renovation of a traditional Japanese house. The guest rooms comprise separate renovated living units. Guests use the public baths and restaurants around their rooms. Hanare’s unique concept of an entire town as a big...
Stylish, reasonably priced vessels This retro-style shop offers ceramic, glassware and wooden tableware. Regardless of the production area or age, the shop stocks a wide range of these items, which have a refined touch, form, and color. Most of these products are easy to use and affordable. The products include those created by artists with touches of interesting material, wood-grain and unique shades such...
Lovely everyday items: From tin cans to aromatic goods A lifestyle concept store, Syuro sells products that stimulate all five senses. It is located in Kuramae, a town whose atmosphere is an intriguing blend of current art and culture, and traditional Japan. 60% of the items are original and artisanal, made by craftsmen according to traditional techniques. In addition to these craftworks, you will...
Café offers fresh baked bread, home-made curry on 1st floor A former toy company warehouse from the Edo period (1603−1868) was stylishly renovated and transformed into a guesthouse, Nui. Hostel & Bar Lounge, which welcomes tourists from around the world. The most eye-catching part of this guesthouse is the bar and lounge on the first floor, which is open to even the non-resident guests....
Great variety of humorous items in Komagata flagship store Koncent is a design store run by H Concept, which produces design sundries under the motto of “make things that create fun and joy in life through design.” The flagship store moved to Komagata in 2020, a few minutes’ distance from Kuramae. The store is filled with unique products made in Japan, such as those...
Place your order for notebooks, ink This stationery store celebrates the fun of writing. The store was moved to its current location, with an area more than twice that of its original location, in 2017. Kakimori mainly sells paper items and has a range of original and curated notebooks, fountain pens, and ballpoint pens. It also offers original notebooks on order, which take a...
Husband operates chic product design, wife cuisine Founded by Yuto Yamazaki, Alloy is a designer boutique that creates products and interiors by combining engineering—material knowledge and processing technology—and design. Alloy sells metal furniture parts, coffee accessories, flower vases, and other products, such as mini cutlery made of leather and metal as well as glassware that fits into your hand. The cutlery, cash trays, and...
Independent house type store in Nakameguro displays popular women’s line In December 2019, VISVIM opened WMV VISVIM TOKYO in Nakameguro, which mainly sells the women’s line WMV. The store is in a fully renovated house built in the 1970s along the Meguro River, with the pillars, beams, and roofs intact. The designer Hiroki Nakamura worked on the interior design. There are many highlights in...
Selected books that stimulate intellectual curiosity Daikanyama T-Site is a lifestyle-focused commercial facility centered on the Tsutaya Bookstore, and with several other facilities, such as a bakery. Every time you come here, there is something new happening. Tsutaya Bookstore, the focal point of T-Site, hosts a wonderful selection of Japanese and English titles, new and old. The display, featuring stationery, food, and sundries among...
Designer creates graphic textile design While fashion designers and apparel companies usually buy ready-made textiles from manufacturers, Minä Perhonen’s designer, Akira Minagawa, always creates collections starting from textile design, often drawing inspiration from nature, with a chic color palette that nods to Scandinavia and adds graphic patterns. The simple silhouette emphasizes the textile patterns. The mood is poetic and tender, not unlike a fairytale....
