Top 3 popular souvenir shops in Tokyo that you must visit this year

“Another Japan” where students from rural areas promote local products

Another Japan, located about a 5-minute walk from the Nihombashi exit of Tokyo Station, is a select shop run by current students. Current students from the region handle everything, including business negotiations with artists and producers from all over the country, creating sales areas, and serving customers. It's a lively and fun shop with a lot of enthusiasm for product knowledge and exhibition planning.

``Another Japan'' divides the country into six blocks, and the featured areas change every two months. After a year, you'll be able to find famous products from all over the country just at this store.

Food, alcohol, tea, tableware, folk crafts, rare accessories, and other products that students select with their youthful sensibilities include many hidden gems that cannot normally be purchased in Tokyo. Shopping is so much fun as we have everything at affordable prices!

Website: https://another-japan.shop/
Instagram: @another_jpn_tt
Zenigame Place, 1st floor, Zenibecho Building, 2-6-3 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo TOKYO TORCH
Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/HhaonTv2BJe3awpXA
Nearest stations: Tokyo Station, Otemachi Station, Mitsukoshimae Station

``Lemon Gasui'' is a stationery store that anyone interested in architecture should visit at least once.

``Lemon Gasui'' in front of JR Ochanomizu Station is not just a stationery store, but a very unique and interesting store that carries stationery and miscellaneous goods from all over the world, as well as all kinds of materials and tools related to architectural design.

``Lemon Gasui'' has a total of 5 floors from the 1st basement floor to the 4th floor. If you are interested in architecture, please take a look around the 2nd to 4th floors. It's a famous design office, and it has all kinds of architectural model materials and design tools, so much so that students from all over Japan who aspire to study architecture visit the store, and it's so much fun just looking at it!

If you want to buy souvenirs, the first floor is where painting materials and miscellaneous goods are sold. We also have all types of COPIC pens, which are very popular among illustrators. It's definitely cheaper to buy it in Japan, so I highly recommend it!

Masking tape, which comes in a wide variety of varieties, is particularly popular with customers. The stationery, memo pads, and letter sets designed by Japanese artists are also wonderful. Be sure to visit Lemon Gasui, which is so charming that you will forget the time once you enter the store.

Website: https://lemongasui.co.jp (Japanese)
English Website: https://lemongasui.co.jp/?lang=en
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lemongasui/
2-6-12 Kanda Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Google Maps: https://g.page/lemongasui
Nearest stations: Ochanomizu Station, Shin-Ochanomizu Station

``Mizuno Dye Factory Hibiya OKUROJI Store'' where you can experience Japan Blue dyeing

``Mizuno Dye Factory'' is a dye specialty store. Founded in Asahikawa, Hokkaido in 1907, this long-established store manufactures dyed items such as big fishing flags, hanten, festival costumes, and noren curtains. The Tokyo store is located in Hibiya OKUROJI, a commercial facility that opened under an elevated brick structure with a history of over 100 years. Here, we sell original colorful tenugui towels, clothing and accessories dyed deep blue. Indigo dyeing can create a chic or pop impression depending on how you dye it, and is loved by many people in Japan. Perfect for souvenirs and presents.

At the shop, you can request custom-made print-dyed products or indigo-dyed remakes of your clothes. If you can no longer wear your favorite clothes due to sunburn or stains that cannot be removed, you can have them re-dyed indigo, so please ask the staff at the store.

On weekends, indigo dyeing experience sessions are held at the store (reservations required). You can dye things we have in the store, or you can bring in your clothes and other items to be dyed!

Website: https://www.hanten.tokyo
Indigo dyeing experience reservation site (English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean): https://www.hanten.tokyo/experience/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mizunosomekoujyo_okuroji/
1-7-1 Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/hPgLxkA7ZW6a9UVs6
Nearest stations: Yurakucho Station, Hibiya Station, Ginza Station, Uchisaiwaicho Station

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