Roadside store offers items for babies, children Kodomo Beams in Daikan-yama is an affiliate of Beams that sells infant’s and children’s products. The store is 150㎡ and frequently changes its layout due to its movable fixtures, offering a fresh impression for each visit. Since Kodomo Beams handles delicate children’s products, it emphasizes safety for the interior of the store and uses healthy and environmentally...
Japanese sneaker brand opens flagship shop in Ginza Founded as a manufacturer of split-toe socks in 1873, Moonstar later entered the sneaker market. This long-established company has always aimed to make sneakers that are easy to wear and walk in. The company is a major player in vulcanized shoe construction, which involves baking shoes in a kiln, and is done well by only a...
From fashion to craft to culture, store introduces modern Japanese products Beams opened the Beams Japan store in Shinjuku in April 2016 to display the various attractive aspects of Japan. From the first level to the fifth floor, this shop has fine regional items, select fashion brands, Beams’ goods made in collaboration with other brands, pop culture, fine art, and traditional craft. It has...
Warm textile products, modern lifestyle goods Nakagawa Masashichi Shoten was founded in Nara Prefecture in 1716 as a wholesale store of handwoven hemp fabrics. This long-standing house even exhibited hemp handkerchiefs at the Paris Exposition in 1925. Although machines are now used for some processes of the products, some of its hemp fabrics are still handspun and handwoven. These products place an emphasis...
Experience tasting high-quality Japanese sake in Roppongi Yaegaki Sake & Spirits,Inc. has been making sake in Hyogo Prefecture for more than 350 years. Its finest brand, named after its founder, Hasegawa Eiga, was launched in 2018. These sakes are carefully crafted using Yamada Nishiki, the best sake-brewing rice. They are made using traditional methods, such as fukuro shibori, a manual extraction process that captures...
From boots to denims, discover the best in Harajuku After working as a designer at an internationally recognized brand, Hiroki Nakamura launched his own label in 2000, with shoes as the first step. In 2013, he expanded his brand to include a menswear line, VISVIM, and a womenswear line, WMV. His boots are his signature design, constructed with the highest-quality vegetable-tanned leather from Horween...
Discover products made by Kagoshima craftsmen in collaboration with Lanscape Products Landscape Products, a retail, design, and event production company with roots in 1940s to 1960s styles, owns Play Mountain. It is a home accessory shop that carries crafts and objets d’art from Japan and abroad, as well as its own original furniture. The store is designed in a nostalgic manner and has many...
Fabulous fashion items from around the world Founded in 1989, the multi-brand fashion group United Arrows opened its flagship store in Harajuku in 1992. It renovated the store for its 25th anniversary in 2017. It integrates women’s and men’s clothing in one building. United Arrows & Sons, on the first floor, is a shop-in-shop concept store, which features a mix of classic style and...
The gelato store Gomaya Kuki is run by Kuki Sangyo, a sesame products company that was founded in Mie Prefecture in 1886. Being a sesame specialist, the store offers a range of gelatos with the world’s highest concentration of sesame seeds, up to about 4,500 seeds per gelato. Its menu includes rich and super-rich black sesame gelatos, white sesame gelatos, and salt sesame gelatos,...
Pioneer of concept store in fashionable district Harajuku A concept store pioneer, Beams was founded in 1976. Its leadership position – and popularity among young shoppers – is not only because of its clothes, but also due to cultural aspects such as books, art, music, and interiors. Currently, it accounts for approximately 30 product categories and about 160 branches in Japan. Beams Women Harajuku...
