Japan

• Comme des Garçons Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo / Online
  Rei Kawakubo’s republic — the Aoyama flagship behind the blue-dot glass tunnel, where clothing has argued with itself since 1969; enter curious, leave changed. store page → · open in the atlas →
• HOSOO Karasuma district, Kyōto
  Nishijin weavers since 1688 — twelve generations of obi looms now weaving for Dior walls and Hermès chairs; the flagship is a textile cathedral. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Isetan Tokyo
  Shinjuku department-store flagship known for fashion buying, beauty, home goods and its basement food hall, combining designer retail with Japanese department-store service. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kaikado Kawaramachi-Shichijō, Kyōto / Online
  The tea caddy perfected, 1875 — six generations hand-fitting copper and tin lids that sigh shut in seven seconds; café in an old tram depot next door. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Mitsukoshi Tokyo
  Japan’s original depachika dynasty — 1673 kimono-merchant roots, the lion statues of Nihonbashi. Bronze lion statues at the main entrance since 1914. Manager Hibi Osuke had them made after seeing the Trafalgar Square lions in London. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Onitsuka Tiger Japan
  Japanese sportswear brand founded 1949 in Kobe by Kihachiro Onitsuka; its Mexico 66 sneaker, worn by the Japanese Olympic team in 1968 and later by Bruce Lee, remains its signature design. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yohji Yamamoto Tokyo, Japan
  The master of black — Japanese avant-garde tailoring that redefined menswear. Yohji's draped silhouettes and anti-establishment elegance are fashion history. store page → · open in the atlas →

• Aimoriyama Yame (Hirokawa), Fukuoka / Japan
  Aimoriyama is a Kurume Kasuri workshop in Hirokawa, Yame County, Fukuoka Prefecture, tracing its founding to Ansei 5 — 1858, in the closing years of the Edo period — and currently led by Torao Moriyama. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Aizenkobo Kyoto / Japan
  Aizenkobo is a Kyoto indigo-dyeing workshop and shop set a few blocks from the Nishijin weaving district in Nakagyo Ward, near Nijo Castle. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Akafuku Okage Yokocho, Ise
  Akafuku has sold its mochi rice cake topped with sweet bean paste since 1707, its ridged white surface designed to evoke the Isuzu River flowing past Ise Grand Shrine. The main shop still stands along the Okage Yokocho approach to the shrine's inner sanctum, where it has served pilgrims for more than three centuries. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ame no Tawaraya Kobashi
  A historic Kanazawa confectioner specializing in jiro-ame malt syrup. Founded in 1830; its traditional syrup is a Kanazawa specialty. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Aritsugu Nishiki Market, Kyoto
  Founded in Kyoto in 1560, Aritsugu traces its roots to swordsmith Fujiwara Aritsugu and has long operated in Nishiki Market. The Kyoto shop sells handmade kitchen knives, pots and other cooking utensils to professional chefs and home cooks, and is distinct from the unrelated Tokyo Aritsugu business. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Baieido Sakai / Japan
  Baieido traces its roots to the Muromachi period, when founder Kakuuemon Yamatoya worked as a wholesaler of medicinal herbs in the port city of Sakai, just south of Osaka. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Baikundo Awaji / Japan
  Baikundo has operated on Awaji Island since Kaei 3 (1850), based in the Ei district of what is now Awaji City, on the island long responsible for most of Japan's incense output. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Bekkou-ya Tagawa Nagasaki / Japan
  Founded in 1944, this third-generation Nagasaki workshop hand-carves bekko (tortoiseshell) into necklaces, brooches, kanzashi pins and eyeglass frames. Pieces are sold at the Imahakata-machi shop and through the studio's online store, where the artisans also take in older tortoiseshell for repair and polishing. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Chin Jukan Kiln Miyama, Hioki, Kagoshima
  Chin Jukan Kiln has fired Satsuma ware in Miyama since 1598, founded by Korean potters brought under the Shimazu clan. Its 15th generation still uses a wood-fired climbing kiln, producing ivory-glazed, hand-painted nishiki-de pieces sold alongside an on-site museum and tea room. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Chiso Kyoto, Japan
  Chiso has dressed Kyoto's merchant and aristocratic clients since 1555, when it began supplying garments to monks and nobility before moving into yuzen-dyed kimono. Its Kyoto flagship now pairs made-to-order kimono with a gallery of dyed textile art drawn from the house's five-century archive. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Daimaru Japan
  Kansai department-store heritage since 1717 — kimono-merchant roots, modern luxury floors. 1726 Osaka store Matsuya opened on Shinsaibashisuji at the present Shinsaibashi location and began cash sales at fixed prices. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Edo Kiriko Kobayashi Tokyo / Japan
  Kobayashi Glass has cut Edo Kiriko glassware in Tokyo since founder Kikuichiro Kobayashi apprenticed under a Meiji-era craftsman in 1908, now in its fourth generation with a jewelry line called tokoba. The family workshop sells from its Koto-ward flagship store, which requires an appointment, and through a dedicated online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Fukujuen Kyoto / Japan
  Fukujuen was founded in 1790 by Iyemon Fukui in Kamikoma, in what was then Yamashiro Province and is now Kizugawa City on Kyoto's southern edge — a location that sat directly on the trade routes linking Osaka and Kobe to the Yamato and Iga highways. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Fukumitsuya Higashi Kanazawa
  A directly managed shop and tasting bar of a long-established Kanazawa sake brewery. Fukumitsuya’s brewing history exceeds 390 years. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Fukusaya Nagasaki / Japan
  Fukusaya has baked its hand-mixed Nagasaki castella since 1624, keeping the crunchy layer of zarame sugar at the bottom of every cake. Alongside the flagship sponge, its Nagasaki head office and shops sell Hollander cake, handmade monaka wafers and seasonal Fukusaya Cube gift boxes. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Fundokin Shoyu Usuki / Japan
  Fundokin has brewed soy sauce and miso in Usuki, Oita since 1861, still relying on live fermentation cultures alongside modern production for its dressings, sauces, and seasonings. The company sells its full range through its own online shop and offers factory tours at the Usuki plant. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ganso Mori Karashi Renkon Kumamoto City
  Karashi renkon, lotus root stuffed with mustard-miso paste and fried in a turmeric batter, traces its origin to 1632, when this shop's ancestor Heigoro is said to have presented the dish to feudal lord Hosokawa Tadatoshi. Mori still fills each root by the traditional hand method and sells it fresh from stores around the city as well as by mail order. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ginza Kimuraya (銀座木村家 / 木村屋總本店) Ginza, Tokyo / Japan
  Ginza Kimuraya traces its origin to 1869, when a former samurai left unemployed by the Meiji Restoration, Yasubei Kimura, met a baker who had trained under a Dutch resident of Nagasaki's Dejima trading post and opened a Western-style bread shop, first called Bun'eido and renamed Kimuraya the following year. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Gion Tsujiri Gion, Kyoto, Japan
  Gion Tsujiri traces its family's Uji tea-growing ties back over 800 years, though the shop dates to 1860 and its Gion storefront to 1948. Its 1978 tea room, Saryo Tsujiri, built the Tsujiri Parfait and other matcha desserts on the same leaf. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Goldsmithing Matayoshi Naha
  A Naha goldsmith workshop in Shuri practicing kuganizeiku, Okinawa's Ryukyu-era metalwork tradition dating to a 1509 craft mission to China; now run by seventh-generation master Kenjiro Matayoshi, making traditional ji-fā hairpins and cord ornaments. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Goncharoff Higashinada-ku
  Goncharoff was founded in Kobe's Kitano district in 1923 and is credited with making Japan's first whisky bonbon chocolates. The company still runs factories in the city's Higashinada and Mikage districts, selling its chocolate and cookie assortments through its own shop network and website. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Goromaruya (Usugoori Honpo) Oyabe / Japan
  Goromaruya has made wagashi in Oyabe's Ishido district for over 260 years, famed for its 'Usugori' thin-ice sweets first created in 1752. The confectionery sells its dry sweets and seasonal cakes at its Chuo-machi shop and through an online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Gujo Honzome Watanabe Dyeworks Shimadani, Gujo Hachiman
  Watanabe Dyeworks has dyed with natural indigo in Hachiman-cho, Gujo, since around 1580, now run by 15th-generation dyer Kazuyoshi Watanabe. It hand-paints kachin-zome koinobori carp streamers rinsed each winter in the Yoshida River, and dyes noren, happi coats, scarves and bags in fermented natural indigo. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Gyokushodo Osaka / Japan
  Gyokushodo has made incense in Osaka since 1804 (Bunka 1), a run of more than 220 years centered in the city's Higashinari ward. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hamadaya (濱田屋) 444 Koyasan, Koya-cho, Ito District, Wakayama, Japan
  Hamadaya has hand-made goma-dofu (sesame tofu) in Koyasan since the mid-Meiji era, now in its fifth generation. Made from hand-peeled sesame, Yoshino kuzu and local spring water, it's sold fresh daily plain, in matcha, or with wasabi-soy. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Haramo Wine Katsunuma, Koshu, Yamanashi
  Haramo Wine grew out of a 1924 cooperative winery in Katsunuma village and became a private company in 1973, taking its name from a family tradition of successive generations using the given name Moemon. It uses only Koshu grapes grown within the Katsunuma region alongside Chardonnay, Merlot and Syrah from its own 1.7-hectare vineyard, producing 6,000 to 7,000 cases a year for tasting in a preserved traditional building. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hataman Touen Okawachiyama, Imari, Saga
  Hataman Touen began in 1926 when Hata Ishimantaro opened a kiln in Okawachiyama, and the workshop later became known for ink-wash mountain-and-water landscapes painted on porcelain under the third generation. The fourth-generation owners still work from the same valley, adding doll figures and Nabeshima-series pieces to the classical repertoire. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hirado Tsutaya Hirado, Nagasaki
  Founded in 1502 and calling itself the oldest confectioner in Kyushu, Hirado Tsutaya has made Casdous, castella dipped in egg yolk and simmered in sugar syrup, since Portuguese traders brought sugar to the port and once supplied the ruling Matsuura family. The Kihikida-cho shop also makes gobo-mochi, a burdock-imprinted rice cracker, from its Hirado kitchens. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hiyoshiya Kyoto / Japan
  Hiyoshiya has made kyo-wagasa, Kyoto's traditional oiled-paper-and-bamboo umbrella, since the late Edo period — over 160 years — and describes itself as the only Kyoto workshop still carrying the technique through five unbroken generations. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hombo Shuzo Kagoshima
  Hombo Shuzo has operated in Kagoshima since Hombo Kyoemon and his son founded the company in 1872, moving from cotton and rapeseed oil trading into shochu production in 1909. The family-run maker now distills sweet potato shochu alongside whisky and wine at sites across Kagoshima, including Yakushima, selling its Sakurajima and Kishogura labels directly. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Horii Shichimeien Uji / Japan
  Horii Shichimeien's roots reach back to the Muromachi period, when the third shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu formally recognized seven tea gardens in Uji known as the Uji Shichimeien. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ichirikido Matsue / Japan / Online
  Founded in Matsue during the Edo-period Horeki era (1751-1764) as official confectioner to the Matsue domain, Ichirikido still makes wagashi shaped by the tastes of 18th-century tea lord Matsudaira Fumai, preserving 1847 wooden molds alongside its shop and online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ichiwado Kogei Takamatsu / Japan
  Ichiwado Kogei has made Kagawa lacquerware since its founding in 1917, when its founder trained in the Yamanaka lacquerware district of Ishikawa before opening a Takamatsu shop that relocated to Yashima after the war. The workshop applies traditional zokoku-nuri and goto-nuri finishes alongside brighter, contemporary color-lacquer designs. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ikesho Lacquerware Shop (池庄漆器店) Kainan (Kuroe), Wakayama / Japan
  Ikesho was established in 1876 in Kuroe, the Kainan City district that is the historic heart of Kishu lacquerware, one of Japan's three major lacquerware production regions alongside Wajima and Aizu. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ippodo Teramachi, Kyōto / Online
  Ippodo has sold tea from the same Teramachi Street address in Kyoto since 1717, when Rihei Watanabe opened it as Omiya; it was renamed Ippodo in 1846. Its Kaboku Tearoom serves matcha, gyokuro and sencha from roughly 30 varieties sold at the counter. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ippodo Tea Teramachi-Nijo, Kyoto, Japan
  Ippodo has sold tea in Kyoto since 1717, blending sencha, gyokuro and matcha in-house across more than 40 items, including hojicha, genmaicha and seasonal Uji-Shimizu releases, with tastings at its Kyoto Main Store counter. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ishigaki no Shio Nagura Bay area, Ishigaki Island, Okinawa
  About eighteen islanders hand-produce this sun- and kettle-dried sea salt from seawater drawn at Nagura Bay, continuing a salt-making tradition on Ishigaki that the brand traces back to 1717. The shop sells the plain salt alongside nigari and a salt-flavored cookie line made without synthetic additives. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Juzushi Shirobei (珠数屋四郎兵衛) Koyasan, Koya-cho, Ito District, Wakayama, Japan
  Twelve generations of the same family have run this prayer-bead specialist on Koyasan since the Shotoku era of the early 1700s, stringing juzu from crystal, sandalwood, and semiprecious stone to the conventions of each Buddhist sect. The shop also repairs and restrings beads brought in by pilgrims completing the mountain's temple circuit. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kaga-nui embroidery IMAI Kanazawa
  Kaga embroidery workshop in Kanazawa founded in 1912 by Sutaro Imai; now run by his great-granddaughter Sachiko Yokoyama, a nationally recognized traditional craftsperson, producing hand-stitched silk, gold and silver thread work. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kagiya (Kani Shoyu) Usuki / Japan
  Kagiya has brewed soy sauce and miso in Usuki for over four centuries, tracing its craft back to 1600 and still fermenting in the traditional way at its shop on the town's old merchant street. The full range of soy sauces, dipping sauces, and miso is sold through the shop's own online store with nationwide shipping. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kagizen Yoshifusa Gion, Kyoto, Japan
  Documented in Gion since at least 1695 across 15 generations, Kagizen Yoshifusa reopened in 1955 and turned its chilled kuzukiri - kudzu-starch noodles in black sugar syrup - into a nationwide dessert draw by the 1970s. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kaihara Denim Mill Fukuyama, Hiroshima / Japan
  Kaihara is a Fukuyama denim manufacturer whose roots date to 1893. It developed Japan’s first rope-dyeing machine for denim in 1970 and now integrates dyeing, weaving and finishing within its denim-production system. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kakuman Shikki Naha
  Kakuman traces to the prewar Kadena Lacquerware Shop and is called Okinawa's oldest Ryukyu lacquerware shop, with over 120 years of history. It sells lacquered tableware, boxes and incense containers, plus a lacquer jewelry line, Nui Mun, from its Shuri workshop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kamakura Ham Tomioka Shokai Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
  Founded in 1900 and rooted in ham-making techniques introduced to Kamakura by British trader William Curtis in 1874, this house still cures loin ham, boneless ham, sausage and canned specialties by hand. It has supplied hotels and Olympic events in Tokyo and Sapporo while keeping its original Kamakura workshop running. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kameman Shuzo Tsunagi, Ashikita, Amakusa region, Kumamoto
  Founded in 1916 on the Amakusa coast, Kameman calls itself Japan's southernmost natural sake brewery and packs its fermenting moromi with ice rather than mechanical refrigeration to manage the subtropical climate. The fourth-generation brewery draws spring water from Mount Ozekinuma and Yamada Nishiki rice for its Manbo and Tanshu labels. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kanbayashi Shunsho Honten Uji / Japan
  Kanbayashi Shunsho Honten traces its founding to the Eiroku era (1558-1569), when its first generation, Kamon no Jo Hisashige, moved to Uji from Kanbayashi Township in Tanba and entered the tea trade. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kansou Osaka / Japan / Online
  Founded in 1781, Kansou is an Osaka purveyor of shio-konbu (salted kelp) and tsukudani, prized as gifts and Osaka souvenirs and made by traditional methods. Its Yodoyabashi flagship pairs a shop with a small cafe, and products are sold online and at department stores nationwide. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kashiho Maruendo Nakatsu / Japan
  Founded in 1927 by Iwao Harada, this Nakatsu, Oita confectioner still makes matcha gateau, uguisu-bean Warai-ekubo, hand-crafted maru-boro cookies and Hokkaido red-bean monaka from its Okinodai shop, three generations later, shipping nationwide through its online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Katsuyama Sake Brewery Sendai / Japan
  Founded in 1688 as the official sake purveyor to the Date clan of Sendai, Katsuyama still brews in Izumi-ku using techniques passed down through the centuries. The brewery sells its awarded junmai and ginjo sakes through its own online shop and a network of directly listed retail partners. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kawakamiya Magome / Japan
  Founded in 1864 in the Nakatsugawa post town, this confectioner is credited with originating kuri kinton and works chestnuts into seasonal wagashi, steamed yokan, and monaka. Sweets are sold at its main shop and Magome branch and shipped through its online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kawazoe Seizan (Aoyama Kiln) Okawachiyama, Imari, Saga
  Kawazoe Seizan traces its lineage to a painter at the Nabeshima domain's official kiln and was refounded as a private workshop in 1883 by Kawazoe Hansaburo after the han system was abolished. The fifth-generation family kiln still fires celadon and indigo Nabeshima ware in Okawachiyama, the valley once reserved exclusively for the clan's potters. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kenbishi Sake Brewing Higashinada-ku (Mikage)
  Kenbishi traces its brewing lineage to before 1505, making it one of Japan's oldest continuously used sake brands, and has worked from Higashinada-ku's Mikage district for generations. The brewery rebuilt its wooden kura after the 1995 earthquake and still sells its flagship Kuromatsu Kenbishi through its own site. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kikkodo Honmachi, Bikan Historical Quarter, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
  Kikkodo is the Honmachi confectioner credited with inventing murasuzume, the folded sparrow-shaped castella-and-red-bean sweet, in 1877 after Kurashiki's mayor named the confection. The shop still sells murasuzume alongside its baumkuchen and offers hands-on baking sessions from the same Bikan-quarter storefront. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kiku-Masamune Sake Brewing Higashinada-ku (Nada-Gogo)
  Kiku-Masamune has brewed sake in Kobe's Nada district since 1659, building its name on kimoto-method dry sake and marking more than 350 years in business. Its brewery museum in Higashinada-ku displays historic brewing tools and sells the house style direct from the kura. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kiso Urushi (Yoshihiko) Kiso-Fukushima, Kiso-machi, Nagano, Japan
  Operating since the Bunkyu era of 1860, this Fukushima workshop turns honoki magnolia and hinoki cypress into cutting boards, ohitsu rice tubs, steaming boxes, and wooden bath stools and buckets, alongside lacquered pieces. The business was incorporated in 1990 but keeps producing the same everyday kitchen and bath woodware it has made since the 19th century. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kobaien Nara / Japan
  Founded in 1577, Kobaien is one of Japan's oldest makers of Nara sumi, hand-producing calligraphy ink sticks by traditional methods passed down sixteen generations. Its ink is sold from the head shop in Tsubaicho, Nara and a branch in Kyoto. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kobe Beef Tatsuya Kobe / Japan
  Tatsuya is a Kobe beef specialist meat shop in the Motomachi district of Kobe that identifies itself as operating since 1900, now run by a fourth-generation owner. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kobe Fugetsudo Motomachi
  Kobe Fugetsudo has made its layered Gaufre wafer sandwich on Motomachi-dori since 1897, marking its 120th anniversary in 2017. The Chuo-ku honten still bakes and sells the confection that remains the company's defining product after more than a century. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kobe Shu-shin-kan (Fukuju) Higashinada-ku
  Kobe Shu-shin-kan has brewed the Fukuju label in Nada since 1751, drawing on the district's Miyamizu spring water, and gained wider recognition after Fukuju was served at the Nobel Prize banquet. The brewery runs an on-site restaurant and shop selling sake tastings alongside its own craft beer. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kohchosai Kosuga Kyoto, Japan
  Kohchosai Kosuga began in 1898 as an Imperial bamboo purveyor in Tokyo, relocating to Kyoto in 1949 and taking its current name in 1971. Its Kyoto flagship, opened in 2011, sells hand-woven baskets, trays and tea-ceremony utensils alongside contemporary redesigns. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Koshiyama Kanseido (越山甘清堂) Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
  Koshiyama Kanseido has made handmade Kanazawa wagashi since 1888, including Kaga Goshiki Namagashi, the five-colored Edo-period wedding confection, and kikatou sugar sweets for Hinamatsuri. The shop cultivates its own bean paste in-house. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kosugi Shikki-ten (小杉漆器店) Murakami, Niigata / Japan
  A fourteenth-generation Murakami merchant house, Edo-period origin and a former imperial purveyor, working the carved-relief kibori-tsuishu technique unique to the region. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kungyokudo Nishi Hongan-ji, Kyoto, Japan
  Founded in 1594 by apothecary Riemon Ōno directly across from Kyoto's Nishi Hongan-ji temple, Kungyokudo has traded aromatic wood, incense and sachets from the same spot for more than 430 years, making it Japan's oldest incense supplier. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kunjudo Awaji / Japan
  Kunjudo was founded in October 1893 (Meiji 26) on Awaji Island, when Heiichiro Fukunaga opened it as Fukunaga Senkoten — a starting point the company still dates its history from, more than 130 years on. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kurabo Mills Kurashiki, Okayama / Japan
  The textile conglomerate — one of Japan's oldest mills (1888), produces everything from medical textiles to premium denim, and the Okayama institution that underpins the region's textile economy. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kurashiki Igusa Imayoshi Shoten Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
  Founded in 1897 in the rush-grass district that gave Kurashiki its Japan Heritage igusa designation, Imayoshi Shoten still weaves tatami-grass mats and bedding sheets prized for their air-purifying scent. The shop's goods have been recognized under Japan's Wonder 500 program for regional craft exports. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kyūkyōdō Teramachi, Kyōto
  Kyūkyōdō has traded incense, calligraphy brushes and washi paper since 1663, when it opened in Kyoto as a pharmacy. In 1877 it received the Imperial Household's own secret incense formulas from chancellor Prince Sanetomi Sanjō. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Marufuji Winery (Rubaiyat) Koshu, Yamanashi
  Marufuji Winery has been run by the Omura family since Jisaku Omura built a small winery in his garden in 1890, and now spans four generations of winemaking under the Rubaiyat label, a name suggested in 1956 by poet Konosuke Hinatsu after Omar Khayyam's verses on wine. The estate grows the native Koshu grape alongside Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Chardonnay for its dry red, white and rosé bottlings. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Marukyu Koyamaen Nishinotoin, Kyoto (mill in Uji), Japan
  Marukyu Koyamaen has grown and stone-milled matcha in Uji since about 1704, supplying grades from culinary to ceremonial. Its Nishinotoin flagship in central Kyoto, a renovated machiya, includes the Motoan tea house and garden. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Maruya Shoes Motomachi
  Maruya Shoes has sold and repaired shoes from the same block of Kobe's Motomachi shopping street since founder Okitsugu Katayama opened it in September 1919. The shop calls itself the oldest in Kobe's shoe trade and has also collaborated on leather sneakers made from Hyogo cattle hide. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Masuichi Ichimura Sake Brewery Obuse / Japan
  Founded in 1755, the Masuichi-Ichimura sake brewery in the small town of Obuse crafts junmai sake using selected rice and old wooden-vat methods, its platinum-leaf sign marking the timber storefront. Bottles sell through the online shop and at the brewery's direct store, where the 'teppa' counter offers tastings and a chat with the toji. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Matsuya Ginza Ginza, Tokyo / Online
  Trading since 1869 and on Ginza since 1925, Matsuya is the design-minded one of the great Tokyo stores — its Design Collection floor a pilgrimage, its depachika a museum of edible craft. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Matsuya Riemon Hakata, Fukuoka
  Matsuya Riemon has made keiran somen since 1673, spinning sweetened egg yolk into fine golden threads counted among Japan's three great confections. The Hakata house sells the delicate sweet in boxed skeins from its Fukuoka shops. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Miyawaki Baisenan Nakagyo, Kyoto, Japan
  Miyawaki Baisenan has sold Kyoto folding fans since 1823, when a fan seller from Mino province took over an existing shop stocked by Omiya Shinbei. The current name, added by the third-generation owner in 1887, honors a rare local wood and reflects the shop's long ties to Kyoto's fan-making trade. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Morihachi Ote-machi, Kanazawa
  Kanazawa confectioner founded 1625, official sweets-maker to the Kaga domain's Maeda clan; known for its Choseiten sugar sweet. Its main store, in Owari-cho since founding, relocated to Ote-machi in 2011. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Moritaka Hamono Yatsushiro / Japan
  Moritaka Hamono is a bladesmithing house at 434 Miyaji-machi, Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture — not one of the Sakai or Seki forging towns, but a continuously operating smithy the company's own English site traces to 1293, when its founder made swords for the Buddhist priesthood at Mt. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Myochin Honpo Himeji, Hyogo
  The Myochin family forged armor for the Himeji domain before turning to fire tongs, and in 1965 the 52nd-generation smith tuned a pair of them into the clear-ringing hibashi wind chime the workshop is now known for. Hand-forged pieces run from the signature iron chimes to titanium bells, letter openers and vases, still made at the family's Himeji forge. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nagatani-en Marubashira, Iga
  Nagatani-en has fired Iga-yaki pottery at its Marubashira kiln since 1832, using local clay drawn from a four-million-year-old lakebed prized for its heat resistance. The kiln is best known for the Kamado-san donabe, a direct-fire clay rice pot built under the workshop's principle that its makers should also be the product's daily users. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nakamura Hamono Nakatsu / Japan
  A Nakatsu blacksmith since 1900, when founder Nakamura Eiji opened the forge, Nakamura Hamono still hand-forges kitchen knives, sickles, hoes, cleavers and pruning shears across the full smithing process. The shop beside the workshop sells the blades and also sharpens, re-handles and repairs tools. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nakamura Tokichi Honten Uji / Japan
  Nakamura Tokichi founded his tea firm on January 1, 1854, on Byobugaura, the river-facing ridge that gave Uji its centuries-old reputation as Japan's foremost matcha-growing district. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nakazen Sake Brewery Kiso-Fukushima, Kiso-machi, Nagano, Japan
  Established in 1868 in Fukushima, a former Nakasendo post town, this small brewery has kept sake production a hands-on, family affair across generations rather than scaling into mass production. Its two labels, Nakanorisan and Zenkichi, are built on the idea that sake-making starts in the rice paddy, and both are sold from the brewery's own shop and tasting room. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nanawarai Sake Brewery Kiso-Fukushima, Kiso-machi, Nagano, Japan
  Founded in 1892 in the former post town of Fukushima, this brewery draws on Kiso mountain water to make a sake line built around a clean, dry profile with a full-bodied finish rather than pushing hard toward sweet or dry extremes. Alongside its junmai and ginjo sake, the family business also makes shochu, liqueurs, and pickled vegetables from local produce. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nippon Kodo Kōbe & Tokyo, Japan
  Japan's largest incense manufacturer, with a history dating to 1575 when the Kōjū family began serving the Imperial Court. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nishiyama Hasami (Mimatago), Nagasaki, Japan
  Founded in Hasami's Mimatago district in 1865, Nishiyama makes porcelain tableware that has ranged from everyday dishes to Japan Airlines business-class service ware and pieces for Mitsukoshi and Printemps Ginza. The family company pairs long-established forming and glazing techniques with contemporary design collaborations. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nosaku Lacquer Ware Hirosaka, Kanazawa
  Founded in 1780 in Kanazawa's Musashigatsutsuji district, Nosaku has sold Kaga maki-e lacquerware alongside Wajima and Yamanaka lacquer pieces across eight generations. It also runs hands-on maki-e gold-inlay workshops for visitors at its Kanazawa shops. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ogasawara Toemon Kiln Okawachiyama, Imari, Saga
  Ogasawara Toemon Kiln is run by an eighth-generation potter descended from the workshop's founder, who set up independently in Okawachiyama once the Nabeshima domain kiln system was dissolved. In 1999 it became an early adopter of lead-free glazes in Japanese ceramics, a change it still cites as central to how it makes Nabeshima ware today. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ogiso Shoten Shimoda / Japan
  Ogiso Shoten has cured dried fish (himono) in the port town of Shimoda since it was founded in 1900, with craftsmen still hand-splitting and drying mackerel, horse mackerel, and other local catch each morning. The shop ships its himono nationwide through its online store and keeps a full retail location for visitors. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ohi Chozaemon Kiln / Ohi Museum (大樋長左衛門窯) Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
  The Ohi kiln has fired Ohi-yaki tea bowls in Kanazawa since 1666 and is now led by its 11th generation. Its compound holds a Michelin-starred museum, a Kengo Kuma-designed gallery, named tea rooms, and a garden by Hiroshi Teshigawara. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sailor Pen Kure, Hiroshima / Japan
  Sailor traces its name to a chance encounter: in 1911, Kyugoro Sakata was introduced to the fountain pen by a visiting British sailor, and the pen so impressed him that he and his brother built a company around it in Hiroshima the same year. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sakenunoya Honkin Shuzo Suwa / Japan
  Sakenunoya Honkin Shuzo brews its Honkin and Taichi sake lines at its brewery at 2-8-21 Suwa in Suwa, Nagano Prefecture, a business now run by its ninth generation. Orders for the full range, from the everyday Honkin to the prize-winning Junmai Daiginjo, can be placed by phone, fax or the site's order form. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sakurai Kanseido Obuse / Japan
  Sakurai Kanseido has made chestnut sweets in Obuse for seven generations and two hundred years, from kuri-kanoko and kuri-yokan to marron financiers and frozen Mont Blanc. Its confections are sold at the honten and several directly run shops and cafés, as well as through the company's online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sawanotsuru Nada-ku
  Sawanotsuru has brewed sake in Nada-ku since 1717, one of the older houses in the Nada-Gogo district that today supplies roughly a quarter of Japan's sake output. Its former brewhouse near Shin-Kobe Station now operates as a museum and shop selling junmai and seasonal releases straight from the kura. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Seki Kanetsugu Seki / Japan
  Seki Kanetsugu forges kitchen knives in Seki, Japan, a blade town where the company was founded in 1949 as an outgrowth of a firm making knives since 1918. Its knives carry the convex hamaguri edge derived from Japanese sword cross-sections. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shibata Tamaki (Hakata Magemono) Shime Town, Kasuya-gun, Fukuoka
  Shibata Tamaki is the 18th-generation maker of Hakata magemono in Shime Town near Fukuoka Airport, bending cedar and cypress and binding it with cherry bark, no metal. The craft became a Fukuoka Intangible Cultural Property in March 2025, with her named its holder. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shibata Toku Shoten Maidashi, Higashi Ward, Fukuoka
  Shibata Toku Shoten has shaped Hakata magemono for close to 300 years in Maide near Hakozaki Shrine, sealing scored cedar and cypress with cherry bark. Founder Shibata Tokugoroji was designated a Fukuoka City Intangible Cultural Property holder for the technique. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shibori Hisada Nagoya / Japan
  Shibori Hisada has sold Arimatsu shibori tie-dye since 1913, when it branched off an older house on the old Tokaido road; the wider Arimatsu shibori tradition dates back some 400 years. Now run by a fourth generation from two stores in Nagoya, it makes yukata, kimono, clothing and accessories in resist-dye patterns. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shitsurindo Sabae, Fukui / Japan
  Shitsurindo has made Echizen lacquerware in Sabae City, Fukui Prefecture since 1793, trading under its former name Owanya Uchida before adopting its current one; the company store still operates from its long-held address at Nishibukuro-cho in Sabae. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shooken (Castella Ganso Shooken) Nagasaki / Japan
  Founded in 1681, Shooken has spent over 340 years perfecting Nagasaki castella, including the rich gosan-yaki and a chocolate-layered Chocolatte created by its eighth-generation master. Its cakes are sold across several Nagasaki and Fukuoka shops and an online store, with a cafe above the Uonomachi main store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shoyeido Karaku Incense Co., Kyoto, Japan
  Shoyeido has made incense in Kyoto since 1705, spanning twelve generations of the same family business. Its incense is still handcrafted there using traditional recipes and aged raw materials, including aged agarwood and sandalwood in the Xiang-do Master's line. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shunkōdō Nagoya / Japan
  Shunkōdō opened in 1921 (Taishō 10) in Nagoya's Osu district, when Eijiro Ogawa — who had apprenticed at a Chinese herbal medicine wholesaler — set up his own herbal medicine business there. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sinano Wine Shiojiri / Japan
  Sinano Wine has crafted wine, juice, and brandy from Kikyogahara grapes in Shiojiri since its founding in 1916, now run by the fourth generation of the same family. The winery sells its full lineup through a dedicated online shop and takes phone and fax orders directly from its Nagano address. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Susumuya Kagoshima
  Susumuya grew from a century-old Kagoshima tea-wholesaling family into a retail shop in 2012, adding a Tokyo Jiyugaoka café in 2016. It sells single-origin Chiran and Kirishima sencha sourced and roasted in-house, and runs its own tea school. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Suzuzen (Aizu Lacquerware Heritage Museum) Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima / Japan
  Suzuzen traces its founding to 1832, when it operated as Suzuki-ya Lacquerware Shop, an official merchant to the Aizu domain's ruling household. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Takashimaya Tokyo
  Japanese department-store aristocracy since 1831 — rose emblem, impeccable service, Nihonbashi grandeur. The 1933 Nihombashi main building was designated a national Important Cultural Property in 2009 — the first department-store building so listed. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Takayasumi Lacquerware Shop Uozu / Japan
  Takayasumi Lacquerware Shop has sold Uozu-crafted lacquerware for more than 100 years and is now run by fourth-generation proprietor Masato Takayasumi. It carries everyday soup bowls, chopsticks, and trays alongside ceremonial gift boxes for weddings, longevity celebrations, and memorials. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tatsumura Textile Nishijin, Kyoto, Japan
  Tatsumura Textile has woven brocade in Nishijin since 1894, when founder Heizo Tatsumura began reconstructing textile patterns held in the Shosoin imperial repository. The house went on to weave ceremonial cloth for imperial enthronements and collaborated with Christian Dior, work still referenced in its current jacquard collections. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tonami Seimen (Okado Somen) Tonami / Japan
  Tonami Seimen has hand-stretched Okado somen noodles using a technique passed down for over 160 years, alongside yuzu-infused udon made with citrus from Toyama's Shogawa Kanaya district. Orders ship from its Gorōmaru facility in Tonami through its BASE-powered online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Toraya Ichijo, Kyoto, Japan
  Toraya has made wagashi since the early 16th century, when it began supplying confections to the imperial court in Kyoto before following the court to Tokyo in 1869. Its Kyoto Ichijo shop, near the old Imperial Palace, still occupies ground tied to that founding relationship and sells confections shaped to the season. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Toundo Hakata, Fukuoka
  Toundo has baked Niwaka-senpei since 1906, crisp egg biscuits shaped like the half-mask of Hakata Niwaka street comedy. The family firm sells the senpei boxed with a paper mask from its Hakata base. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsuboya Kashiho (つぼや菓子舗) Matsuyama / Japan
  Founded in 1883 near Dōgo Onsen, Tsuboya is the originator of the three-colour Botchan dango immortalised in Sōseki's novel, still hand-rolling each skewer in small batches. Buy them at the little Matsuyama shop or through the online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsuda Chokoku Takayama, Gifu
  Tsuda Chokoku is run by sixth-generation carvers continuing the ichii ittobori tradition founded in Takayama by Matsuda Sukenaga. The shop carves yew wood without applied color into netsuke, zodiac figures and tea utensils, sold from its Honmachi storefront. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsuen Tea Uji / Japan
  Tsuen Tea dates to 1160, when its founder — a retainer who had left service to build a hermitage at the eastern end of Uji Bridge — began offering tea to travelers crossing it. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsujikura Kyoto / Japan
  Tsujikura traces back to 1690, when Yamashiro-ya Jinshichi began making and selling umbrellas in Kyoto; the shop is now in its 17th generation and describes itself as Japan's oldest working wagasa maker. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsuruya Hachiman Osaka / Japan
  Tsuruya Hachiman has made wagashi at Osaka's Koraibashi since 1863, carrying on the recipes of an older Kyoto-style confectioner. The shop mills and cooks its own bean paste in house, selecting materials for each sweet from decades of experience. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ueba Esou Kyoto / Japan
  Ueba Esou has made and sold natural pigments for Japanese-style painting from the same corner of Kyoto's Shimogyo Ward since 1751. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Victoria Tokyo
  Spain’s sneaker of the people since 1915 — Gregorio named them for his wife in a Rioja village; vulcanized canvas that shod every Spanish summer since the seventies. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Watanabe Shuzo Honten Tsurajima, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
  Founded in 1909 in Kurashiki's Tsurajima district, Watanabe Shuzo Honten brews using Bitchu toji craftsmanship handed down through the region's brewing guild. Its Yume Kurashiki and Sasa labels span junmai daiginjo to kimoto-method junmai. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yamadamatsu Kōbokuten Kyoto / Japan
  Yamadamatsu began as a wholesaler of medicinal ingredients in Kyoto during the Kyōhō era, then shifted its focus to aromatic woods in 1772 (Meiwa 9), the point the house marks as its transition into incense. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yamaka Ogimura Lacquerware Kiso-Hirasawa, Shiojiri, Nagano, Japan
  Yamaka Ogimura Shikkiten has sold lacquerware from its Kiso-Hirasawa storefront since founding in 1912, now run by third-generation proprietor Ogimura Minoru. The shop stocks everyday pieces such as cylindrical cherry-blossom-lacquered cups and red-rubbed cups and plates. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yamanashi Meijo (Shichiken) Hakushu, Hokuto City
  Yamanashi Meijo has brewed sake under the Shichiken name in Hakushu since 1750, drawing on subterranean water from the Southern Alps that also supplies the area's whisky distillers. The heritage brewer has since added sparkling sake and whisky-cask-aged spirits alongside its traditional junmai lines, sold through its own site and Hakushu tasting room. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yonezawa Gyu Oki Yonezawa, Yamagata / Japan
  Yonezawa Gyu Oki traces to 1923, when founder Yoshimasa Oki opened a small butcher shop (seinikuten) in Yonezawa and, alongside it, a hibachi-grilled beef hot-pot restaurant — the same pairing of retail butchery and prepared food that still defines the business a century later. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yukawa Sake Brewery Yabuhara, Kiso Village, Nagano, Japan
  Yukawa Sake Brewery has fermented rice with water filtered through the mountains around Yabuhara since 1650, making its Kisoji and Juroku-dai Kurouemon labels near the trailhead into the Ontake range. The sixteenth-generation family still relies on slow-starting yamahai and kimoto methods that depend on wild airborne lactic bacteria rather than added acid. store page → · open in the atlas →

• AGEMATSU WOOD LIFE MAKING (A.W.L.M.) Agematsu, Kiso District, Nagano, Japan
  AGEMATSU WOOD LIFE MAKING is a woodcraft workshop run by young furniture makers trained at the Agematsu vocational school. They produce furniture and small goods from Kiso hinoki cypress using traditional joinery such as arare-gumi. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Aguni no Shio (Okinawa Kaien Kenkyusho / 沖縄海塩研究所) Aguni Island, Okinawa, Japan
  Aguni no Shio is the natural sea salt hand-made on Aguni Island by the Okinawa Kaien Kenkyusho. The salt is produced by traditional bamboo-branch tower evaporation and kettle-boiling, a method that retains the island seawater's minerals. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Akanko Ainu Kotan Lake Akan Onsen, Kushiro, Hokkaido
  Akanko Ainu Kotan is Hokkaido's largest Ainu settlement, a village of craftspeople whose shops sell traditional Ainu woodcarvings, embroidery and folk crafts. The community sits alongside the Ikor theatre at Lake Akan. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Amami Island Style Amami Oshima, Kagoshima
  An independent Amami Oshima store curating island-made goods. Its shelves hold authentic Oshima Tsumugi silk, kokuto brown-sugar shochu, kimono accessories and local crafts. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Arita Porcelain Lab (Yazaemon Kiln) Arita, Saga Prefecture
  Rooted in the historic Yazaemon kiln, Arita Porcelain Lab draws on more than 200 years of technique for its modern-luxury porcelain, including the Japan series. Its flagship gallery in Arita shows the range. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Aso Milk Factory (Abe Bokujo) Aso, Kumamoto
  Run by Abe Bokujo, this dairy makes milk, cheese, gelato and baked sweets from its own grass-fed Aso herd. The on-site shop and cafe are known above all for the milk soft-serve. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Atami Purin Near Atami Station, Atami, Shizuoka
  Atami's first shop devoted to custard pudding trades on retro milk-truck branding near the station. Its flavours are made for Atami alone. store page → · open in the atlas →
• BEPPU BREWERY (別府ブルワリー) Beppu Onsen district, Beppu
  Beppu Brewery is the hot-spring town's first craft-beer brewery, opened in 2022 with an on-site brewhouse and restaurant built for the after-bath drink. The taproom pours beers brewed on the premises alongside local food in the heart of the Beppu onsen quarter. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Chihiro Art Museum Azumino Matsukawa, Azumino (Shinshu)
  A museum devoted to children's-book illustrator Iwasaki Chihiro and picture-book artists from around the world, set in a large park with Northern Alps views. It is run by the Iwasaki Chihiro Memorial Foundation, which also keeps a Tokyo location. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Children of the Discordance Tokyo / Online
  Tokyo upcycled streetwear by Hideaki Shikama — vintage bandanas and textiles rewoven into patchwork collections. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Daio Wasabi Farm (大王わさび農場) Hotaka, Azumino
  One of Japan's largest wasabi farms, fed by spring water from the Japanese Alps at Hotaka in Azumino. Farm tours, clear-water boat rides, restaurants and cafes surround a gift shop and online store of fresh wasabi and wasabi products. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ekimae Aoki Himono (Atami Ekimae Aoki) Atami Station front, Atami, Shizuoka
  Standing at the Atami station front, this dried-fish specialist offers gift-boxed and mail-order himono. It is a familiar stop for visitors carrying home seafood souvenirs. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Fujii Jozo (Taimei) Chitose, Bungo-ono
  A small distillery in Chitose making the Taimei barley shochu in limited batches. Visitors can taste and buy the range at its adjoining Ida Manrikiya sales space. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Fukagawa Seiji Arita, Saga Prefecture
  Founded in 1894, Fukagawa Seiji served as a purveyor to the Japanese Imperial Household. The Arita brand is known for refined blue-and-white and richly decorated tableware. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Gen-emon Kiln Arita, Saga Prefecture
  Founded in 1753, the Gen-emon kiln paints every piece of its Arita porcelain by hand in the spirit of old Imari. Its tableware and decorative ware are made without printed transfers. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Gyokudo Kiln (無名異焼 玉堂窯元) Sado City, Sado Island, Niigata
  This Sado Island kiln fires Mumyoi ware from iron-oxide-rich mumyoi clay drawn from the island's gold and silver mines, producing dense red-brown pieces that ring with a metallic note and gain lustre with use. Mumyoi-yaki was designated an Important Intangible Cultural Property in 2003. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hamashima Shuzo (Takakiya) Ogata, Bungo-ono
  A fifth-generation sake brewery in Ogata making the Takakiya label by hand and pressing its junmai sake in traditional wooden fune. The Hamashima family follows a 'half-farming, half-brewing' approach, growing much of its own rice on nearby paddies fed by local water. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hyotan Onsen Kannawa
  Hyotan Onsen in Beppu's steam-wreathed Kannawa district fills every pool with free-flowing natural hot-spring water and adds sand and steam baths heated by geothermal vapor. Its kitchen serves jigoku-mushi, foods cooked directly in that hot-spring steam, alongside Oita dishes such as kabosu udon. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ichizawa Shinzaburō Hanpu Higashiyama, Kyōto
  Canvas bags sewn in one Kyōto workshop since 1905 — sold only here, opposite Chion-in’s gate; the family schism made headlines, the stitching never wavered. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Imaizumi Imaemon Kiln Arita, Saga Prefecture
  Across fourteen generations, the Imaizumi Imaemon line has made Iro-Nabeshima porcelain in Arita, its holders including Living National Treasures. The kiln's refined, enamelled color decoration defines the style. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Imakin Shokudo Uchinomaki, Aso
  This family diner in Aso's Uchinomaki onsen district has served for more than a century, drawing visitors nationwide for its akaushi-don. The bowl is built on Aso red-cattle beef. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kakiemon Kiln Arita, Saga Prefecture
  This Arita-yaki kiln originated the Kakiemon overglaze enamel style, or aka-e, in the 17th century and holds Important Intangible Cultural Property status. Still led by the Sakaida Kakiemon lineage, it is known for Nizaka-white porcelain painted in delicate colored enamels. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kamatsuru Himono-ten Atami Ginza, Nakamise, Atami, Shizuoka
  This long-established Atami maker sun-dries its own additive-free himono along the Ginza and Nakamise streets. Dried horse mackerel, squid and seasonal fish are its signature onsen-town souvenir. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Keizan Kiln Arita, Saga Prefecture
  Keizan is an independent Arita kiln that hand-crafts porcelain tableware. Its work spans traditional and contemporary styles. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kihara Arita, Saga Prefecture
  Kihara is an Arita design house that carries traditional Hizen porcelain craft into modern tableware collections. Working with local kilns, it translates the region's technique into contemporary designs. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kijiya Yamato (木地屋やまと) Nagiso, Kiso District, Nagano, Japan
  Run by Masayuki Ogura, who inherited the workshop from his father, Kijiya Yamato sits 800 meters up in a kijishi woodturning hamlet in Nagiso, Nagano. Bowls and trays are lathe-turned from chestnut logs, then finished in lacquer and chinkin inlay. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kira Shuzo Ogata, Bungo-ono
  An Ogata sake brewery producing the Tansei label from locally grown rice and spring water. It is one of a cluster of small family breweries that make Bungo-ono a stop on Oita's sake-brewery trail. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kiso Kurashi no Kougeikan / Michi-no-Eki Kiso Narakawa (木曾くらしの工芸館) Narakawa, Shiojiri (Kiso lacquer district), Nagano, Japan
  Officially Michi-no-Eki Kiso Narakawa / Kiso Kurashi-no-Kogeikan, this roadside station sits in Kiso-Hirasawa, Shiojiri, a working Kiso lacquerware town. It sells pieces from local lacquer makers, runs a lacquer-display area and workshops, and ships via an online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kitazawa Kiln (北沢窯) Sado City, Sado Island, Niigata
  This Sado Island kiln shapes the island's iron-rich red stoneware from local mine mumyoi clay. Teapots, cups and vessels emerge in the characteristic red-brown of Mumyoi-yaki. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Koransha Arita, Saga Prefecture
  Founded in 1879, Koransha ranks among the oldest continuous makers of Arita ware and once exhibited at the world expositions. It supplies fine porcelain tableware and decorative pieces. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kosawa Shoten Atami, Shizuoka
  This Izu-Atami maker sun-dries additive-free himono. It sells the fish direct from the shop and online. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kyoto Handicraft Center Kyoto / Online
  Founded from a 1947 Kyo Zogan damascene workshop by Shintaro Oda, this Higashiyama complex opened as a duty-free crafts center in 1967, gathering Kyoto artisans under one roof selling kimono, woodblock prints, pottery, lacquerware and more. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kyoto Museum of Crafts and Design Kyoto / Online
  Public craft museum with a retail shop presenting products connected to Kyoto’s traditional craft industries. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kyoto Shibori Museum Kyoto / Online
  Run by the Yoshioka Jin Shoten shibori workshop, which has produced shibori on the site since 1940, the Kyoto Shibori Museum opened in 2001 as Japan's only museum devoted specifically to shibori resist-dyeing. It pairs rotating exhibitions with a retail shop and hands-on dyeing classes. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Labour and Wait Shoreditch (85 Redchurch Street, E2 7DJ) / Covent Garden / Marylebone / Tokyo / Online
  Independent functional-goods retailer specialising in durable kitchenware, brushes, tools, clothing and household objects. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Lolotte Candle Nakazakicho, Kita Ward / Online
  Lolotte Candle is a maker in Osaka known for handcrafted animal-shaped candles that can be engraved with names or dates, plus candle-making workshops with different difficulty levels and themes. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Marucho Japan / Online
  J∞QUALITY-certified sewing house — “good people, good stitching, good product”; a Japanese garment factory stepping out from behind the labels at Pitti’s Made-in-Japan showcase. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nakamura Shikki Sangyo (中村漆器産業) Kiso region (Shiojiri, Narakawa), Nagano, Japan
  Based in Shiojiri, Nagano, Nakamura Shikki Sangyo sells Kiso lacquerware alongside imported lacquer pieces, folk-craft furniture, textiles and ceramics. It also runs related retail lines, including the contemporary lacquerware brand WABI×SABI. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Noto Wine (能登ワイン) Anamizu, Ishikawa
  On the Noto Peninsula, this Anamizu winery makes wine from grapes grown in a GIAHS-recognised agricultural landscape. Visitors can tour the vineyards and cellar and taste on site. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Oshima Tsumugi Museum (Oshima Tsumugi Mura) Amami City, Amami Oshima, Kagoshima
  A weaver and manufacturer of authentic Oshima Tsumugi silk kimono, counted among the world's three great textiles. On Amami Oshima it runs mud-dyeing (Kusaki) workshops, studio tours and a museum. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Rakunoh Mother's - Aso Milk Farm Minami-Aso
  This Aso dairy bottles milk and makes yogurt, pudding and soft-serve at a creamery on the caldera slopes. Its farm shop and cafe sit among the region's dairy pastures. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Reizan (Yamamura Shuzo) Ichinomiya, Aso
  Founded in 1762 at the foot of Mount Aso, Yamamura Shuzo brews its Reizan label from local spring water and Kumamoto rice. The kura has carried its craft through more than two and a half centuries. store page → · open in the atlas →
• ROKETSU Dyeing Studio YAMAMOTO Kyoto / Online
  Run by the Yamamoto family, who have dyed kimono in Kyoto for over 50 years, this studio opened its hands-on Dyeing Studio in 1999 — reportedly the only place in Japan letting visitors complete the entire roketsu wax-resist dyeing process. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Rokuzan Art Museum (碌山美術館) Hotaka, Azumino
  A historic museum dedicated to Ogiwara Morie, known as Rokuzan, a pioneer of modern Japanese sculpture, displaying his work and hosting cultural events. It stands a short walk from Hotaka Station. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sado Mumyoi-yaki (佐渡 無名異焼) Sado Island, Niigata
  This maker presents and sells Sado's Mumyoi-yaki, red-clay pottery colored by iron oxide and distinctive to the island. The traditional ware is offered directly through the brand. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shima no Hito Rebun Island, Hokkaido (original shop); operated by Rebunese Co., Ltd.
  Shima no Hito is a Rebun Island-origin seafood retailer dealing in premium Hokkaido uni, ikura, crab, scallops and kombu kelp. Operated by Rebunese Co., Ltd., it runs its original shop on Rebun Island and sells seasonal gift sets online. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shinya Kozuka Tokyo / Online
  Tokyo menswear — dramatic oversized silhouettes and hand-painted details from Central Saint Martins graduate. store page → · open in the atlas →
• SOU・SOU Shinkyōgoku alleys, Kyōto / Online
  Kyōto pop-modern — split-toe tabi sneakers and textile prints that put festival colors on the street; a cluster of tiny shops down one alley. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Takahama-yaki Jubo Kiln Takahama, Amakusa, Kumamoto
  A historic Amakusa kiln producing Takahama-yaki, the prized white porcelain thrown from the region's high-purity pottery stone. The craft here reaches back to the Edo period. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokiwagi Yohkanten Sohonten Izusan, Atami, Shizuoka
  Official confectioner to Izusan Shrine, this historic wagashi maker is best known for its Tsurukichi yokan. The sweet bean jelly anchors a range of traditional Japanese confections. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokyu Kobo (Tokyukobo) Igo, Amakusa City, Kumamoto
  Potter Masashi Sueishi runs this Amakusa studio, specialising in kohiki, white slip laid over dark clay. The everyday tableware is made to sit quietly alongside daily life. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ubusuna Japan / Online
  Japanese craft label named for the ubusuna — the guardian spirit of one’s birthplace; Pitti-shown clothing rooted in native-place tradition. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Uchinaa Tea House and Gallery Buku-buku Tsuboya
  On Naha's Yachimun Street, this tea house and gallery serves bukubuku-cha — a frothy Okinawan tea whisked from roasted rice and sanpin (jasmine) tea, once served in the Ryukyu royal court — in handcrafted local pottery, alongside traditional sweets. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yamadaya Suisan Sakimi-cho, Atami, Shizuoka
  Said to be the only kamaboko workshop in Atami, this heritage maker turns out steamed and grilled surimi products. They are sold fresh as a local specialty. store page → · open in the atlas →
• 三味ざぼん店 (Sanmi Zabon) Yayoi Tengu-dori, Beppu
  Founded in 1945 on the Yayoi Tengu-dori arcade near Beppu Station, Sanmi Zabon-ten specializes in zabon-zuke, candied pomelo peel that its first generation reinvented without the usual sugar coating so the pieces resemble translucent jewels. Each additive-free batch is handmade in three styles, kohaku, bekkou and shirayu, using pomelo peel sourced from Akune in Kagoshima. store page → · open in the atlas →
• 別府竹細工cotake Yumigahama, Beppu
  Mikiko Sato converted her Beppu home into a bamboo workshop and shop, weaving madake baskets, bags, accessories and everyday objects after training at the city's Traditional Bamboo Crafts Center. Her work won the President's Award at the 2016 Bamboo Crafts in Daily Life exhibition, and the space doubles as a café where visitors watch the weaving up close. store page → · open in the atlas →
• 岡本屋 (Okamotoya) Myoban, Beppu
  Okamotoya has operated in Beppu's Myoban hot-spring district since 1875. Its shop makes signature jigoku-mushi pudding, steamed with geothermal heat, and sells yunohana mineral bath crystals harvested in traditional hillside huts; the family also runs the adjoining Okamotoya ryokan. store page → · open in the atlas →
• 森口竹工業 (Moriguchi Bamboo) Baba, Beppu
  Moriguchi is a second-generation Beppu workshop on Baba street whose madake baskets, sieves, bags and flower vases are made in the tradition that earned Beppu bamboo craft its 1979 national Traditional Craft designation. The family splits and weaves Oita-grown bamboo by hand, producing both utilitarian ware and contemporary decorative pieces. store page → · open in the atlas →

• Hachijojima Shuzo Okago, Hachijojima
  Founded in 1915, this Okago brewery is the oldest shochu distillery on Hachijojima, working with both barley and locally grown sweet potato. Its range runs from the blended Yaetsubaki to the sweet-potato Shimanagashi and the barley Ipponzuri. store page → · open in the atlas →
• HAKUBA CRAFT (Hakuba Beer Garage) Tsugaike Kogen, Hakuba Valley
  Billed as Japan's only brewery connected directly to a ski slope, this Tsugaike Kogen operation brews small-batch beer with Hakuba Valley water and serves it alongside house-made sausages. The taproom sits at the base of the Tsugaike ski area in the Hakuba Valley. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Houtou Fudo Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi
  Kawaguchiko's best-known house for hoto, the region's flat wheat noodles stewed with pumpkin and vegetables in miso broth, served across four lakeside branches. Its north main store is a landmark of billowing white shells designed by architect Takeshi Hosaka. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hyuga Goboard & Stone Zaikoji, Hyuga City, Miyazaki Prefecture
  Hyuga Goboard & Stone has manufactured clamshell Go stones and kaya wood boards for more than a century in Hyuga, the only place in Japan where hamaguri-shell goishi are still cut and polished. CEO Hirotaka Kuroki developed a diamond drill technique now used to shape the shells into the stones favored by professional Go players. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ide Sake Brewery (Kai no Kaiun) Fujikawaguchiko (Kawaguchi), Yamanashi
  The only sake brewery among the Fuji Five Lakes, brewing its 'Kai no Kaiun' label from Mount Fuji's soft spring water in a machiya cellar at Kawaguchi. Alongside the sake it now runs the Fuji Hokuroku whisky distillery and pours umeshu, with tastings at its Sakaboshi shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Iseman Naiku-mae, Ise
  Iseman is the only sake brewery still operating in the Ise-Shima region, distilling shochu and craft spirits alongside sake at its Naiku-mae brewery near the inner shrine of Ise Jingu. Its long-running shochu Konen has stayed in continuous production for more than thirty years, alongside newer releases such as Ise Gin. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kihachijo Meyu Kobo Nakanogo, Hachijojima
  Meyu Kobo has dyed and hand-woven Kihachijo silk in the Nakanogo district for around 145 years, drawing its yellows from kariyasu grass and its browns and blacks from island tree bark. The workshop sells kimono cloth alongside smaller pieces like scarves and card cases, and remains the island's sole dyeing-and-weaving house for the craft. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Konisu Cafes Hakuba Cortina
  Opened in 2020, Konisu runs Hakuba's only ski-through cafes, pulling espresso from freshly ground beans between runs at Lifts 2 and 6. Everything on the menu, from sourdough sandwiches to croissants and pies, is baked in-house each season. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Koyasan Daisido (高野山大師堂) Koyasan, Wakayama, Japan
  Near the entrance to Mount Kōya's Okuno-in cemetery, Koyasan Daisido hand-finishes its Kōya Reikō incense stick from natural materials described in ancient Indian scriptures, alongside raw aromatic wood, zukō powder and Buddhist temple supplies. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kutani Kosen Kiln (九谷光仙窯) Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
  Opened in 1870, Kutani Kosen Kiln is the only Kutani-yaki kiln still operating within Kanazawa city, handling every stage of production from clay blending and wheel-throwing to the layered overglaze coloring that defines the ware. The kiln sells its own porcelain and runs studio tours plus painting and pottery-making workshops for visitors. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kutani Ware Kutani Kosen Kiln Nomachi, Kanazawa
  A working Kutani-ware kiln and shop producing and selling hand-painted ceramics in Kanazawa. The kiln describes itself as the last operating pottery kiln in central Kanazawa. Established 1870. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Morita Shuzo Honmachi, Bikan Historical Quarter, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
  Morita Shuzo is the only sake brewery still operating inside the Bikan historical quarter, brewing its Mannenyuki label on Honmachi street using a fully open fermentation method the brewery says is rare today. The lineup runs from honjozo to daiginjo and unfiltered araborashi. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tottori Folk Crafts Museum & Takumi Kogei-ten Tottori / Japan
  Tottori Takumi Kogei-ten has sold folk-craft pottery, glass, woodwork and textiles from around Japan since 1932, Japan's first dedicated mingei shop, named by folk-craft movement founder Soetsu Yanagi and standing beside the Tottori Folk Crafts Museum founded by Shoya Yoshida. The shop sells in person on Sakaemachi street and through its own online store. store page → · open in the atlas →

• 1LDK Apartments Nakameguro, Tokyo
  Minimalist Japanese lifestyle and fashion concept store. A calm, airy space with great brands like Auralee, Arpenteur, Comoli, and Kaptain Sunshine. store page → · open in the atlas →
• 2nd Tokyo / Multiple / Online
  Japanese vintage culture magazine — denim, leather, boots, Americana, and the publication that documents Japanese heritage fashion culture monthly. store page → · open in the atlas →
• 2nd Street Japan / Online
  全国900店以上の店舗とオンラインストア(宅配買取)で、洋服(古着)、バッグを中心に、ラグジュアリーブランド品から家具・家電まで幅広く中古品の買取と販売をしている総合リユースショップです。. store page → · open in the atlas →
• A Bathing Ape (BAPE) Tokyo, Japan
  Harajuku streetwear legend since 1993 — camo sharks and Japanese hype culture exported worldwide. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Abab Ueno Ueno, Tokyo
  Youth fashion department store with affordable Japanese brands targeting teens and young adults. The 'Gal Fit' section is . Constantly rotating pop-up shops and trend events. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Abe Kamaboko-ten Sendai / Japan
  Abe Kamaboko-ten has made kamaboko fish cakes in Sendai since 1935, including its signature sasa-kamaboko, and the company's products have repeatedly won the Ministry of Agriculture's award for quality. Its products are sold through an online shop and at a network of physical stores that customers can locate on the company's site. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Abeno Harukas Kintetsu Main Store Osaka / Japan
  Housed inside the Abeno Harukas skyscraper in Osaka, this Kintetsu department store spans multiple floors of fashion, food, and lifestyle brands alongside rotating exhibitions and pop-up events. Shoppers can browse in person or order through the affiliated Kintetsu online store, with dedicated counters ranging from a Rolex boutique to seasonal food fairs. store page → · open in the atlas →
• AEON Japan
  Japan’s retail leviathan — malls, supermarkets and the suburban weekend ritual across Asia. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Aeon Mall Japan
  Japan’s dominant mall operator — retail cathedrals with food halls, arcades and every national brand. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Aesop Nakameguro Nakameguro, Tokyo
  The Australian skincare brand's Tokyo outpost on the Meguro River. A beautifully designed space with botanical formulations. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Agave Spirits Gallery (SAKESHO KIN'EMON) Nagoya / Japan
  Agave Spirits Gallery, operated by SAKESHO KIN'EMON, describes itself on its own site as "the first and only gallery in Japan that specializes in introducing agave spirits made from agave, a Mexican spirit," located at 3-42-14 Osu, Naka-ku, Nagoya City, a two-minute walk from Kamimaetsu Station. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Agetateya (Tatsueishi Foods) Kagoshima
  Agetateya is the satsuma-age brand of Tatsueishi Foods, a Kagoshima maker producing phosphate-free, lightly salted fish cakes from local surimi. The company sells its fried and cheese-filled varieties, along with shochu pairing sets, through its own shops and online store in Kagoshima. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Aizengama Hasami, Nagasaki, Japan
  Aizengama is a Hasami kiln working in warm, understated tableware, with series such as Bronze, UTAGE and its signature Indigo Blue covering plates, bowls, mugs and chopstick rests. It sells the full range through its own online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Akafuji Wine Cellar Fujikawaguchiko (Funatsu), Yamanashi
  A Funatsu wine specialist stocking around 130 bottles from Yamanashi's growers alongside grape juice, dried raisins and its own-label pours offered for tasting. Staff will engrave a wine glass on the spot, making it a practical last stop for gifts before leaving the lake. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Akihabara Tokyo
  Tokyo’s electric town — anime, arcades, components and otaku culture in neon-stacked multistories. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Albion Tokyo / Online
  Ginza-born luxury skincare house since 1956 — the milk-first philosophy and hand-delivered counter service that made it a quiet giant of Japanese beauty. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Allpress Espresso Tokyo Roastery Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Tokyo
  New Zealand-born coffee roaster in a converted timber warehouse. Excellent flat whites and single-origin pour-vers in a spacious, industrial-chic setting. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Amagiya (甘木屋) Dazaifu Tenmangu approach (sando)
  A confectioner working from a three-storey wooden Meiji-era building at the front torii of Dazaifu Tenmangu, grilling umegae-mochi one at a time in an open workshop. The listed heritage building also roasts chestnuts and runs a café, with nationwide frozen shipping. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Amami Shurui Tokunoshima / Japan
  Amami Shurui blends the black-sugar shochu tradition of four founding distilleries on Tokunoshima into its signature Amami brand, a spirit legally restricted to production within the Amami Islands. The company ships its lineup, from standard-proof bottles to aged expressions, directly from its Tokunoshima headquarters via its online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ameyoko Tokyo
  Tokyo’s post-war market street under the Ueno tracks — dried fish, sneakers, and bargaining energy. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Anatomica Tokyo, Japan
  Pierre Fournier’s Tokyo-Paris ideal — the 618 chino and garments perfected through archival anatomy. store page → · open in the atlas →
• and Wander Tokyo, Japan
  Tokyo mountain-fashion hybrid — reflective taping and technical fabrics styled for Shibuya as much as summits. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Antov Yamanakako / Japan
  Antov is a reservation-only craft workshop near Lake Yamanaka where visitors can try glassmaking, pottery and silver accessory making, with an on-site ANTOV Shop selling finished pieces. The studio, close to Mount Fuji, welcomes everyone from young children to seniors and accommodates group bookings. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Aoki Tobo Okawachiyama, Imari, Saga
  Aoki Tobo works out of a roughly 70-year-old house in Okawachiyama once inhabited by the founder's ceramicist grandparents, in the valley historically kept as the Nabeshima domain's exclusive kiln district. The studio fires celadon glazes and keeps a small showroom open daily except Mondays, one of about thirty potteries still working the same rock-walled hollow. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Aoyagi Souhonke Nagoya / Japan
  Founded in 1879, Aoyagi Souhonke is the Nagoya maker behind the city's famous Aoyagi uiro rice cakes and the frog-shaped Kaeru Manju. Its sweets are sold at the Osu flagship and other Nagoya shops as well as an online store, with cafe treats at the KITTE Nagoya branch. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Aoyama Flower Market Tea House Aoyama, Tokyo
  Flower shop and tea house surrounded by living plants and fresh blooms. Light meals and tea served in a greenhouse atmosphere. The floral arrangements are as beautiful as the food. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Arcuate Stitching Japan / Levi's Heritage
  The curved back-pocket stitch associated with blue jeans—from Levi’s double arc to Evisu’s hand-painted seagull—functions as a recognizable maker signature. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Arimuraya Kagoshima
  Arimuraya has made satsuma-age, Kagoshima's fried fish cake, since it was founded in 1912, with its current artisan bringing more than fifty years of experience to the recipe. The shop sells its fish cakes through Kagoshima outlets and an online store, and travels to department store food fairs such as Takashimaya and Daimaru around Japan. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Art Island Center Naoshima / Japan
  Based in Miyanoura on the art island of Naoshima, Art Island Center is a gallery, bookshop and art center that helps visitors explore the Setouchi islands. Its online store sells guidebooks and art, and the center also arranges locally guided island tours. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Asahi Boseki Japan
  The fibre innovators — Bemberg cupro lining, synthetic innovation, and the Japanese textile giant that also produces denim components and blends. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Asics Japan
  Kobe’s running-science institution — Gel-Kayano engineering, Onitsuka heritage, and anima sana in corpore sano. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Aspen Karuizawa (western antiques) Karuizawa
  Aspen Karuizawa sources and repairs Western antique furniture from a shop in town dedicated to imported pieces rather than reproductions. The business posts its own company profile and shop details directly on its site rather than through a listings platform. store page → · open in the atlas →
• At Last & Co Japan
  Butcher Products’ universe — Tokyo Americana of leather, denim and lamp-lit workshop romance. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Atelier de Fromage Karuizawa
  Atelier de Fromage makes natural cheese in Nagano and runs a dedicated shop in Karuizawa, producing Camembert-style and other soft cheeses from regional milk. The company sells directly through its own online store as well as its physical branches. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Atelier.AKIKO Sendai
  Atelier.AKIKO is a Sendai atelier where designer Akiko Takeda has custom-tailored women's wear and wedding dresses for over 40 years, alongside running an in-house dressmaking school at the same address. Clients can browse past commissions in the atelier's project galleries before booking a made-to-order piece. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Auralee Tokyo, Japan
  Tokyo-based minimalist label built around refined fabrics and understated silhouettes. The emphasis is on textile development, precise cut and restraint rather than conspicuous branding. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Auralee Aoyama Tokyo
  Ryota Iwai's quietly luxurious brand known for tactile fabrics and tasteful colors — pistachio poplin, cornflower cashmere. Simplicity and sophistication. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Awa Yuzen Kojo Tokushima / Japan
  Awa Yuzen Kojo has dyed textiles in Tokushima's traditional indigo since 1907, developing its own aizome techniques alongside its founding yuzen dyeing craft. The workshop's onsite Aizome Kogeikan shop sells finished indigo goods daily and runs reservation-only dyeing workshops for visitors. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ayukawa Kujira Honpo Oshika / Japan
  Direct-sale shop of Ayukawa Whaling Co. (founded 2008), selling whale — mainly minke, plus Bryde's — caught by its own boats out of Ishinomaki's Ayukawa port as frozen cuts, bacon, unesu and canned goods. The parent company filed for bankruptcy on 26 June 2026 citing falling catches and losses, so current trading status is uncertain. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Bakery & Restaurant Sawamura Kyu-Karuizawa, Karuizawa
  Bakery & Restaurant Sawamura opened in Karuizawa in 2009, baking with four house-cultured yeasts and an 18-hour slow fermentation. Its in-house SAWAMURA ROASTERY and SAWAMURA FRUTERY extend the operation into coffee and jam production. store page → · open in the atlas →
• BEAMS Harajuku Harajuku, Tokyo
  Japan's most prestigious multi-brand store. The Harajuku flagship showcases the best of Japanese and international contemporary fashion. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Beams Plus Tokyo, Japan
  The Ivy League-obsessed sub-line of Beams — Japanese reinterpretation of mid-century American casual wear. Patchwork madras, chambray, and needlepoint belts. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Bear Pond Espresso Shimokitazawa, Tokyo
  Katsuyuki Tanaka's Shimokitazawa espresso bar, open since 2009. His 'Angel Stain' shot is capped at ten cups a day, gone by 1pm. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Beauty & Youth Tokyo, Japan
  United Arrows’ contemporary line — the polished Tokyo casual wardrobe, impeccably merchandised. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Belly Beads Winery Shiojiri / Japan
  Belly Beads Winery makes Shiojiri wines and ciders on a hillside vineyard 780 meters up, part of the Otaki restaurant group's move into winemaking. The winery sells its bottles through an official online shop and a direct-sales outlet a few minutes' walk from Shiojiri Station. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Berberjin Tokyo / Harajuku / Online
  Harajuku vintage-denim specialist with a deep selection of pre-1970s Levi’s and other American workwear, known for authenticated pieces that have influenced Japanese reproduction brands. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Betty Smith Kojima, Okayama / Japan / Online
  Japan's oldest jeans maker — 1962, the original Okayama denim brand, custom jeans workshops, and the Kojima institution that predates the Osaka 5 by decades. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Betty Smith Jeans & Museum Kojima, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
  Betty Smith runs what it calls Japan's oldest jeans factory in Kojima, the neighborhood where domestic denim production began, and still fits customers for bespoke jeans on-site. The factory grounds hold two museums, a hands-on jeans-making workshop, and a retail shop selling the house line and offcut goods from the Eco Betty project. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Big John Okayama, Japan
  Okayama-prefecture denim pioneer, founded in 1940 by Kotaro Ozaki in Kojima as workwear maker Maruo Hifuku; produced Japan's first domestically sewn jeans in 1965 and the country's first Japanese-woven denim fabric in 1972, seeding the Kojima denim industry. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Blue Blue Japan Tokyo, Japan
  Blue Blue Japan is the indigo-focused label of Seilin & Co., founded in 1996 alongside its Daikanyama flagship store Okura, which opened three years earlier. Garments are hand-dyed with fermented sukumo indigo and finished with sashiko stitching and boro patchwork, made entirely in Japan. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Tokyo
  California's third-wave coffee pioneer in a minimalist Tokyo roastery. Precisely brewed pour-overs and excellent espresso drinks. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Boulangerie Asanoya Kyu-Karuizawa, Karuizawa
  Boulangerie Asanoya has baked bread in Karuizawa since 1933, a history the company documents on its own site alongside its current stone-oven methods. The bakery sells through its Kyu-Karuizawa storefront and an online shop that ships bread and pastries nationwide. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Boulangerie035 Omura / Japan
  Opened in Omura's Furumachi district in January 2017, this small bakery hand-bakes more than thirty kinds of bread daily, from seasonal focaccia to its prized domestic-wheat pain de mie. The owner bakes everything personally, selling until the loaves run out most days. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Bounty Hunter Harajuku, Tokyo
  Cult streetwear boutique known for graphic tees, accessories, and punk-influenced designs. A staple of Harajuku's street fashion scene since the late 1990s. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Brooklyn Roasting Company Namba Osaka / Japan
  This Namba location is one of several Osaka and Tokyo cafes run by Brooklyn Roasting Company Japan, roasting and serving specialty coffee inside the Namba EKIKAN complex. Beans and branded goods can also be ordered through the company's dedicated online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Bryceland's Tokyo / London / Online
  Japanese-British hybrid — workwear and tailoring fusion. Offers one-piece collar shirts through its made-to-measure program. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Busho Kiriko Kagoshima
  Busho is a Kagoshima glass studio cutting Satsuma kiriko crystal, a craft dating to 1846 under the Shimazu clan's glassmaking program. The studio's artist has shown work via Japanese embassies in France and Mauritius, and runs summer cutting workshops for visitors. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Buzz Rickson's Japan
  Toyo’s military-repro flagship — the MA-1 of William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition, stitch-count exactness. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Caffera Daikanyama, Tokyo
  Specialty camera shop with vintage film cameras, lenses, and darkroom supplies. The knowledgeable owner offers repair services and photography advice. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Café de l'Ambre Tokyo / Japan
  On a Ginza backstreet, Café de l'Ambre has served coffee and nothing else since 1948, when Ichiro Sekiguchi opened its doors in the lean years after the war. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Camoshita Japan / Italy
  Yasuto Kamoshita’s sprezzatura — United Arrows’ co-founder cutting Italian ease with Tokyo precision. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Casio Tokyo, Japan
  Tokyo’s electronic everything — the immortal F-91W, scientific calculators and democratized precision. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Casio G-Shock Tokyo, Japan
  The unbreakable watch — Kikuo Ibe’s 1983 shock-resistant revolution, from DW-5600 to MR-G titanium. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Casper Ebisu, Tokyo
  Mid-century modern and vintage Scandinavian furniture in a beautifully curated showroom. Authentic pieces from the 1950s-70s restored to original condition. Interior design consultation available. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Chanoko Nishi-Kamakura (West Kamakura)
  Chanoko is a Nishi-Kamakura wagashi shop that has passed recipes from father to daughter for over a century, making small-batch sweets from rice and beans with minimal preservatives. Its lineup runs from monthly seasonal confections to standing items like manju and sekihan mochi, sold both from the shop and by mail order. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Charmant Wine Hakushu, Hokuto City
  Charmant Wine has grown European grape varieties at 600 meters in the Southern Alps foothills of Hakushu since 1964, handling everything from cultivation through barrel aging on site. The estate runs a weekend tasting room and direct-sales shop alongside weekday cellar tours for visitors touring the Hokuto wine district. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Chateau Katsunuma Katsunuma, Koshu, Yamanashi
  Chateau Katsunuma sells its Koshu-led range of white, red, rosé and sparkling wines from a direct-sales shop and cellar tours within walking distance of Katsunumabudokyo Station, plus an on-site restaurant, Toriivilla, built around locally sourced ingredients. The winery also bottles additive-free and non-alcoholic wine options alongside its standard lineup. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Chidoriya Sohonten (千鳥饅頭総本舗) 9-157 Kami-Kawabata-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka 812-0026, Japan / Fukuoka / Japan
  Official history dates the Harada confectionery line to Kan'ei 7 / 1630; Crossroad Fukuoka lists the current Kami-Kawabata honten at 9-157. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Chidoriya Souke Fukuoka
  Chidoriya Souke traces its confectionery back more than three centuries, built around the bean-paste Hon-Chidori Manju. The Fukuoka house also makes castella and sable sold through its shops and online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Chikaramochiya Near Hase-dera, Hase, Kamakura
  Chikaramochiya has made Gongoro chikaramochi, a soft rice-cake wrapped in sweet bean paste, for over 300 years and nine generations from the same shop near Hase-dera. The confections are still produced without additives, using the mochi-pounding method the family has kept since the Edo period. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Chikuhodo Kumano, Hiroshima
  Chikuhodo hand-assembles cosmetic, medical and painting brushes in Kumano, working with fibers such as Kazan squirrel, silver fox and Japanese mink. Alongside its own retail series the company runs an OEM operation, and each brush is finished by hand in Japan. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Chinen Bingata Laboratory Uebaru, Naha
  An appointment-based bingata atelier producing hand-dyed kimono, obi, and commissioned textiles entirely within its Naha studio. The laboratory accepts reserved workshop visits and consultations, subject to its production schedule. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Chojuan Kumamoto City
  Chojuan specializes in ikinari dango, the Kumamoto sweet of sliced sweet potato and sweet bean paste wrapped in a plain steamed dough, sold here in white, black, purple and baked versions. The shop ships nationwide and sponsors the local Roasso Kumamoto football club, a sign of how embedded it is in the city's everyday food culture. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Cibone Aoyama, Tokyo
  Immaculately curated design store showcasing Japanese and international contemporary design. Furniture, lighting, ceramics, and accessories in a gallery-like setting. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Citizen Tokyo, Japan
  Tokyo watchmaker known for Eco-Drive light-powered movements and Promaster tool watches, with collections spanning everyday, sport and professional-use timepieces. store page → · open in the atlas →
• CLUTCH Magazine Tokyo / Japan / Online
  The luxury heritage quarterly — higher-end than Lightning, craftsmanship focus, factory visits, artisan profiles, and the Japanese magazine that treats denim as haute couture. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Clé de Peau Tokyo
  Shiseido’s pinnacle line — The Serum, radiant foundations and key-of-skin luxury science. Stocked at Galeries Lafayette in Paris. store page → · open in the atlas →
• CMF Outdoor Garments Tokyo / Online
  Tokyo-based technical outdoor-fashion label revived in 2009 by Harajuku vintage retailer Lost Hills from a 1915 Seattle bedding/down-quilt maker's name, blending vintage American mountaineering references with modern fabrics like eVent and Dyneema under designer Makoto Okuya. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Coherence Japan
  Kentaro Nakagomi’s coat philosophy — French artist-intellectual outerwear reborn in Japanese cloth. store page → · open in the atlas →
• COMME des GARÇONS PLAY Tokyo, Japan
  Rei Kawakubo's accessible line. The iconic red heart logo by Filip Pagowski on polo shirts, T-shirts and knits. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Comoli Tokyo / Online
  Tokyo-based label focused on understated elegance and premium fabrics. Minimal branding, maximum material quality — the quiet end of Japanese luxury. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Cow Books Nakameguro, Tokyo
  Cult independent bookstore specializing in out-of-print books on photography, design, and counterculture. Founded by creative director Naoto Fukasawa. A quiet sanctuary for book lovers. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Crafthouse Miyasaka Tateshina / Japan
  Marked by a big sign along Route 299 in the Tateshina highlands, this log-cabin workshop has designed and sold custom leather goods, including keychains and bags printed with customers' own pet photos, since at least 2009. The shop at 5522 Kitayama, Chino City keeps regular 9:00–19:00 hours and also carries a line of nature-healing CDs composed with musician Junichi Kamiyama. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Cushman Japan
  Vintage athletic Americana — loopwheel sweats and work chinos of period-correct Japanese make. store page → · open in the atlas →
• D&DEPARTMENT HOKKAIDO by 3KG Odori West, Sapporo
  A design-led shop selecting durable furniture, household goods, tableware, and craft products from Hokkaido and elsewhere in Japan. The Hokkaido store is operated by Sapporo design company 3KG. Established 2007. store page → · open in the atlas →
• D.L.P. Toyooka / Japan
  D.L.P. is a small bag workshop in Toyooka, Japan's historic bag-making town, where craftsmen work leather and canvas into original totes, wallets, and hand-dyed patine pieces. The workshop also runs an online shop and a new Tajima Cowhide line made in partnership with local tanners. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Daikanyama Tokyo
  Tokyo’s low-rise boutique quarter — T-Site bookstore, hidden ateliers, Sunday-stroll fashion. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Daimaru Fujii Central Odori, Sapporo
  A multilevel stationery and art-supply specialist carrying writing instruments, paper, Japanese art materials, leather goods, and original products. The business began when Senzo Fujii started selling paper in Sapporo in 1893. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Daimaru Shinsaibashi 1-7-1 Shinsaibashisuji, Chuo Ward, Osaka
  Historic department store dating to 1726 — luxury brands, cosmetics, and one of Osaka's best depachika food halls. The tax-free counter is efficient. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Daiso Shinsaibashi 2-1-22 Shinsaibashisuji, Chuo Ward, Osaka
  Japan's largest 100-yen shop — 70,000 products at 100 yen each (tax excluded). Kitchenware, cosmetics, snacks, and souvenirs. You could spend hours here. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Daiwa Pier39 Tokyo / Online
  Fishing-inspired technical wear meets Tokyo street style. Functional pockets, technical fabrics, and a utilitarian aesthetic that works on the street and the pier. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Denim Street Food Kojima Kojima, Okayama / Japan
  Denim udon — the local noodle shop serves blue-tinted udon noodles dyed with indigo, and the Okayama food culture that embraces its denim identity down to the cuisine. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Denime Osaka / Japan
  Founded in 1988, DENIME is built around a 'real basic' approach to everyday denim. Its current Warehouse-made programme revisits the brand's earliest jeans, including denim recipes originally developed with Kurabo. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Denime XX Model Osaka / Japan
  The 1950s Levi's reproduction — button fly, hidden rivets, red tab, and the Denime model that launched the brand's reputation for clean, accurate vintage work. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Denimio Yokohama / Japan / Online
  The online gateway — ships worldwide, carries dozens of Japanese brands, English-speaking staff, and the Yokohama-based retailer that introduced many Westerners to Japanese denim. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Descente Osaka, Japan
  Osaka technical apparel — ALLTERRAIN’s seam-taped minimalism and Mizusawa down, engineering as fashion. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Deshimaru Satsuma Kiriko Kirishima, Kagoshima
  Deshimaru is a Kirishima-based cut glass studio founded by artisan Tsutomu Deshimaru to continue Satsuma kiriko, the layered cut-glass technique that traces to the Shimazu-era workshops of the 1850s and was revived in 1985. The studio trains apprentices in the gradation cutting that gives each piece its signature sparkle and sells finished glassware directly from its own site. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Devoa Tokyo, Japan
  Tokyo menswear label DEVOA, founded in 2006 by designer and former athlete Daisuke Nishida, builds three-dimensional 'anatomical' patterns modeled on muscle, skin and vein movement; garments are made in Japan in limited runs. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Disk Union Shinjuku Shinjuku, Tokyo
  Massive used record store with multiple specialized floors — jazz, rock, classical, and world music. A crate-digger's paradise with incredibly deep inventory. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Don Quijote Tokyo
  Japanese discount retailer for food, cosmetics, electronics, household goods, souvenirs and everyday necessities, with dense multi-floor stores and late-night shopping at many locations. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Dynamic Audio 5555 Tokyo (Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku) / Japan
  Dynamic Audio has traded in Akihabara since March 1965, when Tokyo's first postwar audio boom was still building, and the flagship store known as 5555 sits a few minutes' walk from the Electric Town exit at 3-1-18 Sotokanda. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Edwin PRINTEMPS
  Tokyo denim since 1947 — rainbow selvedge and the jeans that pioneered Japanese washing artistry. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Eishodo Minobu / Japan
  Eishodo bakes Minobu manju, the steamed local specialty of Minobu, Yamanashi, prized for gifts, temple offerings and everyday tea, shipping it fresh nationwide via Yamato delivery within its four-day shelf life, with no dispatch on Wednesdays and tiered packaging up to 48 pieces. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Endo Mochi-ten Sendai / Japan
  Endo Mochi-ten is a mochi shop in Sendai's Miyamachi district known for its zunda-mochi made from Miyagi-grown edamame, along with kurumi-mochi, anko-mochi and celebratory issho-mochi for a child's first birthday. Its rice cakes and bean pastes are made fresh from Miyagi's prized Miyakogane glutinous rice, and orders can be placed online or picked up at the storefront. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Estnation Roppongi Roppongi Hills, Tokyo
  ESTNATION Roppongi Hills is the retailer’s current Roppongi store, occupying the first two floors of the Hillside Keyakizaka Complex. store page → · open in the atlas →
• ETHOSENS Tokyo / Online
  Hiromi Nakauchi's poetic minimalism — architectural silhouettes, monochromatic palettes, and the Japanese womenswear brand that treats clothing as sculpture. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Eurobox Tokyo (Ginza) / Japan
  Eurobox is an independent multi-brand fountain-pen specialist on the fourth floor of Ginza’s Okuno Building, carrying Japanese and European pens, including vintage and collectible pieces. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Evisen Skateboards Tokyo / Online
  Tokyo skate brand — Japanese craftsmanship meets skate culture. Premium decks, apparel, and accessories with a distinctly Tokyo aesthetic. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Evisu Osaka, Japan
  The painted seagull of Osaka — Hidehiko Yamane hand-painting arcuates that ignited global Japanese-denim worship. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Evisu No. 1 Special Osaka / Japan
  The grail — No. 1 Special is Evisu's highest grade, hand-painted gull, premium fabric, limited to a few pairs per day, and the Evisu model that collectors chase. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Evisu No. 2 Osaka / Japan
  The middle tier — printed gull (not hand-painted), still premium fabric, more accessible than No. 1, and the Evisu model that most enthusiasts own. store page → · open in the atlas →
• F/CE. Tokyo / Online
  Tokyo functional wear — country-themed seasonal research turned into waterproof city gear. store page → · open in the atlas →
• FDMTL Tokyo, Japan
  Tokyo denim label FDMTL, founded in 2005 by designer Gaku Tsuyoshi, applies traditional boro patchwork and sashiko stitching to jeans and outerwear made start-to-finish in Japan; its Meguro flagship opened in 2009. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Flora Flor Aoyama, Tokyo
  Artistic Tokyo flower shop treating botanical arrangements as sculptural art. Dried and fresh flowers in unexpected combinations. Also carries botanical skincare and home fragrance. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Flower Mountain Veneto–Tokyo / Online
  Sneaker brand founded in 2015 by Tokyo-born Keisuke Ota and Beijing-born Yang Chao, who met at Japan's Fuji Rock Festival; blends Japanese trekking-boot design with manufacturing by Italian shoemaker Falc S.p.A. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Foot the Coacher Japan
  Naosuke Takei’s Japanese footwear label combines British-informed lasts, artisan shoemaking and Tokyo design, with specialist stockists including NUBIAN Tokyo. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Freewheelers Japan
  Japanese workwear brand — vintage-inspired clothing rebuilt from historical patterns with period-authentic materials and construction. store page → · open in the atlas →
• FTC Tokyo Cat Street, Tokyo
  Forte Tokyo Company's flagship skate shop on Cat Street. Premium skateboard decks, streetwear, and accessories with a distinctly Japanese aesthetic. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Fuefuki Wine (笛吹ワイン) Fuefuki, Yamanashi, Japan
  Fuefuki Wine has pressed Yamanashi grapes for more than two decades from its cellar in the Misaka district, bottling Muscat Bailey A and other local varieties. The winery pours free tastings and sells its bottles direct on site and through its own online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Fujiiya Miyajima, Hiroshima
  Fujiiya has made momiji manju since 1925, and its smooth strained red-bean version is registered as one of Hiroshima City's brand products. The maker sells through directly run shops in Miyajima and Hiroshima and offers a sweets-making experience on the island. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Fujisaki Bingata Studio Motobu, Okinawa / Japan
  Fujisaki Bingata Studio is a bingata dyeing workshop in Motobu, in Okinawa's northern Yanbaru region, run by Makoto Fujisaki. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Fujizakura Heights Beer Mt Fuji northern foothills / Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi
  A craft brewery working at 1,000 metres in Mount Fuji's forested northern foothills, brewing Pils, Weizen, Rauch and Schwarz Weizen to German technique with the mountain's soft spring water. The beers are poured and sold at its Sylvans bar-restaurant down in Fujikawaguchiko and through an online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Fujizakura Kobo (Yamazaki Orimono) Nishikatsura (Fuji Five Lakes), Yamanashi
  The Fujizakura studio of silk weaver Yamazaki Orimono, carrying on the fine Gunnai textile tradition of Mount Fuji's foothills at Nishikatsura. It weaves neckties and stoles that set historical Japanese patterns into contemporary Western dress. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Fukurasha Sakurazaka
  Inside Naha's Sakura-zaka Theater complex, Fukurasha opened as PANA in 2005 and relaunched under its current name in August 2010, selling Okinawan crafts such as Tsuboya pottery and recycled glass art alongside used books, split across two floors. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Fukuya Nakasu, Hakata, Fukuoka
  Founded in Hakata's Nakasu district in 1948, Fukuya originated Japan's karashi mentaiko by seasoning salted pollock roe for local tastes. The Nakasu flagship sells the marinated roe alongside its factory-museum, Hakuhaku, where visitors watch the curing process. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Full Count Harajuku Harajuku, Tokyo
  One of Osaka Five's finest. Premium Japanese selvedge denim and workwear reproductions crafted with obsessive attention to vintage details. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Funasaka Sake Brewery Takayama, Gifu
  A working sake brewery in Takayama's old town where the tasting counter, sake shop and adjoining restaurant share one address in the historic streets. Visitors can sample the house junmai and seasonal releases before buying bottles directly from the kura. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Funasaka Shuzo Takayama / Japan
  Funasaka Shuzo has brewed sake for roughly 200 years from its storefront on Takayama's historic Kamisannomachi street, using spring water from the surrounding Hida mountains. The brewery sells directly at its shop, ships through its own online store, and runs an adjoining restaurant, Aji no Yohei, for visitors. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Furuhashi Sake Brewery (Uijin) Tsuwano / Japan
  Furuhashi Sake Brewery, trading online as Uijin, sells its Tsuwano-brewed sake, shochu, and sake sweets through its shop-pro storefront, shipping nationwide across Japan. The brewery also keeps customers updated with near-daily blog posts from the Tsuwano brewhouse. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Gachapon Kaikan 3-4-16 Nipponbashi, Naniwa Ward, Osaka
  Massive capsule toy shop — hundreds of gachapon machines with collectable figures, from anime characters to miniature food replicas. The most Japanese shopping experience. store page → · open in the atlas →
• GARB DOMINGO Tsuboya, Naha
  A select shop selling pottery, lacquerware, bingata textiles, glass, and other work by Okinawan and Japanese artists. store page → · open in the atlas →
• General Store Shimokitazawa Shimokitazawa, Tokyo
  California-inspired general store with home goods, natural skincare, and simple accessories. Emphasizes sustainable, well-made products from small producers. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ginban Shuzo (Ginban Sake Brewery) Ogiu, Kurobe, Toyama, Japan
  Ginban has brewed sake for more than a century in Ogiu, a district of Kurobe fed by snowmelt water flowing off the Tateyama mountains. The brewery mills its own rice and keeps a retail shop on site where visitors can taste and buy the finished sake directly. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ginza Motoji Ginza, Tokyo
  Kimono house with hand-painted and embroidered formal wear. Exclusive designs by master craftspeople using centuries-old techniques. The second floor features a gallery of textile art. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ginza Six Tokyo
  Tokyo’s luxury flagship complex — 240 brands, a Noh theatre and teamLab-adjacent art above Ginza. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ginza Washita Ginza, Tokyo
  Okinawan specialty shop with textiles, ceramics, food products, and craft spirits from Japan's southern islands. A taste of tropical Japan in the heart of Ginza. Their awamori selection is ou. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Glass Island Ishigaki Island, Okinawa
  This Ryukyu glass studio has blown color-flecked glassware on Ishigaki for 38 years, continuing a technique that took off after WWII when artisans recycled discarded American soda and beer bottles into drinkware. Visitors can try a hands-on glassblowing session to make their own tumbler, alongside the studio's beer glasses and bubble-textured barrel glasses on sale. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Gold Leaf Kanazawa Katani Owaricho, Kanazawa
  A gold-leaf manufacturer and shop selling decorated craft goods and hosting hands-on gold-leaf workshops. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Gold Leaf Sakuda (金箔屋さくだ) Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
  Gold Leaf Sakuda has manufactured and applied gold and silver leaf in Kanazawa since 1919, evolving from a leaf wholesaler into a maker of gilded folding screens and craft goods. Near the Higashi Chaya district, the company runs a factory tour, a small gold-leaf museum, and hands-on gilding workshops alongside its retail shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Gold Leaf Sakuda Main Store Higashi Chaya District, Kanazawa
  A gold-leaf manufacturer and retail shop selling craft objects and offering demonstrations of traditional gold-leaf production. Established 1919. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Gold-Knot Minamicho, Kanazawa
  A local jewelry brand and shop combining Kanazawa gold leaf with silk thread in earrings, necklaces, and other accessories. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Goldwin Toyama, Japan
  Toyama technical refinement — the minimalist ski-and-city line that runs The North Face Japan. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Goro's Harajuku, Tokyo
  Japanese jewelry atelier for handcrafted feather pendants and leather accessories. Worn by rock stars and collectors worldwide. Pieces are only available in-store and buying involves. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Gotemba Premium Outlets Japan
  Japan’s greatest outlet — 290 stores under a full Mount Fuji view. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Goto Hakata Ningyo Fukuoka
  Goto Hakata Ningyo is a long-established Hakata doll house in Fukuoka, hand-forming and painting the fired-clay figures the city has made for four centuries. Its Kogei Gallery shop sells finished dolls and takes commissions for commemorative pieces. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Goto Nada Shuzo Shinkamigoto (Nakadori Island)
  This Shinkamigoto distillery makes sweet-potato shochu under the Goto Nada label, working from a philosophy it calls nojo goitsu, in which the brewers grow the sweet potatoes themselves before distilling. Production uses locally grown Shinkamigoto sweet potatoes, worked by hand by the maker's own kurabito. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Goto no Tsubaki Fukue Island, Gotō City, Nagasaki
  Goto no Tsubaki presses and refines wild-camellia oil on Fukue Island, where the Gotō archipelago holds Japan's largest stand of naturally growing camellia. The company builds its skincare line — lotions, soaps and yeast-fermented camellia oil — around the island's signature crop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Goto Retto Shuzo Gotō City (Fukue Island), Nagasaki
  Goto Retto Shuzo is Fukue Island's honkaku shochu distillery, making barley 'Goto Mugi' and sweet-potato 'Goto Imo' from island-grown ingredients. The distillery ships directly through its own online shop from within Gotō City. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Goto Tsubaki Distillery (GOTOGIN) Fukue Island, Gotō City, Nagasaki
  Goto Tsubaki Distillery makes GOTOGIN, a craft gin distilled on Fukue Island using local botanicals chosen to evoke the archipelago's landscape. The distillery sells its bottlings directly through an official online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• GR8 Tokyo / Laforet Harajuku
  Harajuku's sharpest select shop — Kubo Mitsuhiro's two floors inside Laforet where Vetements and Chrome Hearts hang beside unknown Tokyo graduates he bets on first. The taste-making door through which new Japanese streetwear reaches the world. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Grace Rum (Cor Cor) Minamidaito / Japan / Online
  Grace Rum distills CORCOR, an additive-free rum made from sugarcane grown on Okinawa's remote Minamidaito Island, in both molasses and agricole styles. Bottles, rum cake, and island sugarcane are sold through the company's online shop and at product fairs across Japan. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Grace Wine (Chuo Grape Wine Co.) Katsunuma, Koshu, Yamanashi
  Grace Wine has grown and vinified grapes in the Katsunuma and Akeno vineyards for four generations, focusing on single-vineyard bottlings of the native Koshu grape rather than winery tourism. Its second-floor tasting shop uses Enomatic dispensers so visitors can sample small pours of wines made by an in-house team of sommeliers and viticulturists. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Gramicci Ventura–Tokyo / Online
  Climbing-gear label started in 1982 by Stonemasters climber Mike Graham ('Gramicci') in a Ventura, California garage; known for the gusseted G-Pant and shorts, later revived and expanded commercially through a Japanese licensee. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Grand Seiko Iwate, Japan
  Japan’s quiet horological summit — Zaratsu-polished cases, Spring Drive’s gliding seconds, snowflake dials from Shizukuishi. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Grandvert Vineyard (八ヶ岳グランヴェールヴィンヤード) Kobuchizawa, Hokuto City
  Grandvert planted its vines at the base of the Yatsugatake range in Kobuchizawa in 2022 and opened an on-site cafe and wine shop in March 2025. Visitors can walk the vineyard, join a staff-led winery tour, and taste bottles produced from grapes grown on the property. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Graph Zero Kurashiki, Okayama / Japan
  The new Okayama voice — founded by a former Collect mill employee, original silhouettes, modern fits, and the Kurashiki brand that brings fresh design thinking to traditional Okayama denim. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Graphpaper Tokyo, Japan
  Tokyo label and retail concept founded by Takayuki Minami, pairing clean architectural silhouettes with carefully selected Japanese fabrics across shirts, trousers, outerwear and basics. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Graphpaper Koenji Koenji, Tokyo
  Minimalist Japanese label known for impeccably cut basics in premium fabrics. The 'paper' concept references their clean, blank-canvas approach to design. Built to last and improve with wear. store page → · open in the atlas →
• GU Tokyo
  Founded 2006 as Fast Retailing's budget sister brand to Uniqlo; the name puns on the Japanese word jiyū (freedom). Expanded to Shanghai in 2013 and opened its first US store in 2022. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Gujo Mokuri Hashimoto-cho, Gujo Hachiman
  A clog workshop that designs, carves and finishes geta worn for the Gujo Odori summer dance, using locally sourced cypress and cedar. Every pair is made in-house in Hashimoto-cho, from cutting the block to fitting the hanao thong. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Gujo Tsumugi Tanizawa Minami-cho, Gujo City
  Tanizawa is a Gujo Hachiman kimono shop and authorized dealer of Gujo tsumugi, a hand-woven silk revived after the Second World War by Living National Treasure Rikizo Munehiro through his Gujo Craft Research Institute, with the technique certified in 1982. Alongside tsumugi kimono, obi and accessories, the shop carries plant- and indigo-dyed cloth and arranges weaving and dyeing visits by appointment. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Gundam Base Tokyo Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo
  THE GUNDAM BASE TOKYO is Bandai’s official Gunpla facility at DiverCity Tokyo Plaza. Its zones combine model-kit retail, building, displays and events. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Gyokusuien Nijo Market area, Sapporo
  A Japanese tea specialist retailing teas from across Japan, with takeaway tea and an eat-in counter for prepared tea and sweets. The shop was founded in 1933. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hachijo Mingei Yamashita Hachijojima
  Yamashita weaves Kihachijo from pure silk colored with island plant dyes-safflower yellow, tabu-bark brown, and oak-bark black-and sells finished cloth and goods. The shop also bakes Kihachijo sables and runs a small inn for visitors who come to see the loom. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hadano Shigetsugama Horiuchi, Hagi
  A father-and-son kiln in Hagi's Horiuchi district within the castle-town World Heritage zone, Hadano Shigetsugama fires both artists' work and studio pieces. The gallery carries everything from premium bowls to more affordable daily ware and arranges kiln tours by advance request. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hagi-yaki Senryuzan Hagi, Yamaguchi
  Senryuzan is a working Hagi-yaki kiln in Hagi City, Yamaguchi, hand-throwing tea-ceremony chawan, vases, sake cups and everyday tableware in the region's centuries-old glaze tradition, sold from its shop and shipped internationally on larger orders. store page → · open in the atlas →
• HAGISO Yanaka, Tokyo
  Renovated 1950s apartment building turned cultural space with gallery, café, and guesthouse. The shop sells art books, local crafts, and design objects. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Haifukiya Nishida Fude-ten Arima Onsen
  Haifukiya Nishida is the last ningyo-fude shop still operating in Arima Onsen, a craft that once supported four or five workshops during the Taisho era. Each brush handle holds a small paper figure wound in silk thread by hand, tipped upside down to reveal itself, and the shop turns out only a dozen or so a day. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Haight & Ashbury Shimokitazawa, Tokyo
  Named after the San Francisco intersection, this vintage shop specializes in 1960s and 70s psychedelic fashion. Colorful band tees, fringe jackets, and bohemian dresses. A time capsule of count. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hakata Takumi Kougei Fukuoka / Onojo, Fukuoka
  Hakata Takumi Kougei manufactures Hakata-ori textiles in the Fukuoka area, including e-ori picture-weaving with historical motifs. Its weavers, some with over fifty years at the loom, produce obi and kimono cloth sold through the atelier. store page → · open in the atlas →
• hakatakara at Hakata Machiya Furusatokan 6-10 Reisen-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka 812-0039, Japan / Fukuoka / Japan
  The souvenir wing reopened 26 April 2025 as hakatakara, selling Hakata traditional crafts; facility address 6-10 Reisen-machi. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hakataya Miyajima / Japan
  A Miyajima confectioner of roughly 140 years, baking momiji manju from house-made castella batter and adzuki paste. The shop on Miyajima-cho sells in person and ships through its online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hakkai Soba Kuraya Seimenjo Oshino / Japan
  Hakkai Soba Kuraya is a soba-noodle maker in Oshino village at the foot of Mount Fuji, milling and selling its own buckwheat noodles. The shop takes mail orders through its website in addition to selling at the storefront. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hakone Maruyama Hakone (Gora)
  A yosegi specialist in the Gora hot-spring quarter, Hakone Maruyama makes and sells himitsu-bako secret boxes, coasters and trays patterned with the craft's interlocking geometric mosaics. Its product pages break down the woods and techniques behind each piece. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hakuba Brewing Company Hakuba, Nagano
  This microbrewery uses snowmelt water from the peaks above Hakuba Village to make unfiltered, hand-capped beers including Hakuba IPA, Pale Ale and a dark Hakuba Black. Bottles in 330ml and 350ml formats plus merchandise are sold through the brewery's own online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hakubanishiki Shuzo Omachi / Japan
  Founded in 1906 in Omachi at the foot of Nagano's Northern Alps, this brewery makes Hakuba Nishiki sake from local contract-grown rice and alpine snowmelt water. Its junmai, junmai ginjo, and daiginjo sakes are sold at the brewery and through its online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hakuhinkan Toy Park Ginza 8-8-11, Chuo Ward, Tokyo
  Hakuhinkan Toy Park is a four-floor toy specialty shop in Ginza stocking roughly 200,000 items across stuffed animals and character goods, games and dolls, and a dedicated racing/hobby floor with slot-car circuits. The store dates back over a century as one of Ginza's original toy retailers. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hakuhodo Kumano, Hiroshima
  Founded in Kumano in 1974, Hakuhodo makes roughly 500,000 brushes a month entirely in its own Hiroshima Prefecture workshops, spanning makeup, calligraphy, nihonga and watercolor lines. The firm's craft earned the first Japan Monodzukuri Grand Award Prime Minister's Prize, and its brushes are built around undyed, uncut hair tips rather than trimmed bristles. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hakuichi (箔一) Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
  Founded in 1975 by Kuniko Asano, recognized as Japan's first female metal-leaf manufacturer, Hakuichi grew into an eleven-store Kanazawa company built around a city that produces over 98 percent of the country's gold leaf. Its flagship Hakukokan complex sells gold-leafed lacquerware, cosmetics, and confections, and includes a renovated Higashi Chaya teahouse known for gold-leaf-topped soft serve. store page → · open in the atlas →
• HAKUICHI Higashiyama Store Higashi Chaya District, Kanazawa
  A gold-leaf shop selling decorative crafts, tableware, accessories, and cosmetics made with Kanazawa gold leaf. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hakusan Porcelain Hasami, Nagasaki, Japan
  Hakusan Porcelain has made everyday tableware in Hasami for decades, known for enduring designs including work developed with designer Masahiro Mori. Alongside its Hasami headquarters showroom it runs a Tokyo showroom in Aoyama and a direct online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hakutsuru Sake Brewing Higashinada-ku
  Hakutsuru brews in Nada, the Hyogo district responsible for a large share of Japan's sake, and runs a working museum built around a preserved Edo-period brewhouse in Higashinada-ku. The attached shop sells unpasteurized draft sake and sake-based sweets alongside the brewery's core lineup. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hakuza (箔座) Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
  Hakuza produces gold leaf using the centuries-old entsuke technique, a method recognized as an intangible cultural asset, and supplies leaf used in restoring national treasures and temples. From its Kanazawa storefronts, including one in the historic Higashi Chaya district, the company sells gold-leafed tableware, interior objects, cosmetics, and edible leaf for everyday use and formal gifts. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hamamatsuya Hakone (Hatajuku)
  Hamamatsuya has worked wood in Hatajuku for more than two centuries, producing both veneered and solid yosegi-zaiku and the pictorial wood inlay known as mokuzougan. Its counter carries trays, boxes and framed marquetry pictures built from naturally colored timbers. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hananoya Narai-juku, Shiojiri, Nagano, Japan
  Hananoya has bent Kiso cypress and sawara wood into magemono food containers in Narai-juku since 1937, continuing a trade its owners trace to Edo-period magemono makers in the same post town. The shop steams and curves each oval or round form by hand, stitching the seams with cherry bark to make ohitsu rice tubs, sushi tubs, steamers, and bento boxes sold from its two Narai storefronts. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hankyu Osaka, Japan
  Osaka department store chain that opened in 1929 above Umeda Station as the world's first railway-terminal department store, under Hankyu Railway founder Ichizo Kobayashi. The Umeda flagship reopened in 2012 after a seven-year rebuild. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hankyu Umeda Honten 8-7 Kakudacho, Kita Ward, Osaka
  Giant department store with 15 floors — cosmetics basement, designer fashion, homeware, and an incredible food hall (depachika) with premium bento and sweets. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hanshin Osaka, Japan
  Osaka department store at 1-13-13 Umeda, Kita-ku, tracing to a 1933 railway-station shop; known today for its basement Hanshin Food Hall and its Hanshin Tigers baseball merchandise corner. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Harada Sake Brewery (Sansha) Takayama, Gifu
  Brewer of the Sansha (Sansya) label, this Takayama kura runs a shop and online store selling its junmai, ginjo and a smooth amazake made from brewing koji. The brewery sits among the merchant houses of the old town where sake has been made for generations. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Harajuku Laforet Tokyo
  Tokyo youth-fashion incubator since 1978 — subculture floors where trends are born. store page → · open in the atlas →
• HASAMI PORCELAIN Hasami, Nagasaki, Japan
  HASAMI PORCELAIN is a stackable tableware line created by Takuhiro Shinomoto of Los Angeles' Tortoise and produced by Maruhiro in Hasami, Nagasaki, using local clay tinted with warm reddish tones. The modular mugs, bowls and wooden-lidded containers are sized to nest and lock together, so a set doubles as storage. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hatakan Seido Yamanouchi / Japan
  Hatakan Seido has made confections by hand in the Yudanaka-Shibu hot spring district of Yamanouchi since 1927, known for its 90-year-old recipe for koshian (smooth red bean paste) used in manju buns and dorayaki. The shop sells directly from its Nagano storefront, open daily from 8:30am to 6pm. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hender Scheme Tokyo / Online
  Tokyo leather goods atelier — hand-stitched raw leather accessories and footwear that patina beautifully over time. The Japanese answer to artisanal leather craft. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hida Sangyo (HIDA) Takayama, Gifu
  A furniture maker over a century old, carrying the Hida woodworking tradition into bentwood chairs, tables and cabinetry made in Takayama. The corporate showroom at the Takayama headquarters displays the full range for visitors. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hidehiko Yamane Osaka / Japan
  Evisu founder Hidehiko Yamane began as a vintage-clothing dealer and hand-painted the seagull mark on the label’s early jeans. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Higo Zogan Mitsusuke Shinmachi, Kumamoto City
  Higo Zogan is Kumamoto's centuries-old technique of hammering gold and silver wire into blackened steel, a skill once reserved for samurai sword fittings and now shaped into brooches, cufflinks and hairpins. Mitsusuke works from a shop in Kumamoto's old castle town, its pieces ranging from simple bookmarks to gold-inlaid rings priced up to ¥66,000. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Higosomekoubou Nishi-ku, Kumamoto City
  This hand-dyeing workshop in western Kumamoto City produces happi coats, noren curtains and shrine and school flags entirely by hand, taking custom commissions from restaurants and festival committees across the region. Its HIGOSOME SHOP line applies the same dye techniques to everyday goods like hand towels and T-shirts. store page → · open in the atlas →
• HIKARI Shibuya Shibuya, Tokyo
  Minimalist lifestyle boutique focusing on Japanese-made home goods, skincare, and wellness products. A calm, beautifully designed space that feels worlds away from Shibuya's chaos. mindful. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hikawa Chuo Budoshu / Liaison (日川中央葡萄酒) Fuefuki, Yamanashi, Japan
  Hikawa Chuo Budoshu, working under the Liaison label, is a family winery set among the vineyards and peach orchards of Fuefuki's Ichinomiya district. It presses local Koshu and Muscat Bailey A and sells its wines direct. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hinoki Cypress Denim Care Japan
  Natural fabric care — hinoki wood hangers, cedar blocks, natural soap, and the Japanese approach to denim care that uses traditional materials to preserve fabric integrity. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hirado Kohsyo (Danemon Kiln) Mikawachi, Sasebo (historic Hirado ware)
  Hirado Kohsyo carries on Mikawachi ware, the fine white porcelain and cobalt underglaze that served the Hirado domain as its official kiln for some four centuries. Potters Taiyo and Yukimi Nakazato throw tableware and decorative pieces at the workshop in Mikawachi, the porcelain village of the former Hirado clan. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hirado Shozan Mikawachi, Sasebo (historic Hirado ware)
  Hirado Shozan works in the imperial-kiln tradition of Mikawachi ware, specializing in blue-and-white underglaze and pure white porcelain, including the karako child figures that were a Hirado-domain specialty. The kiln in Mikawachi keeps a workshop and gallery where the throwing and painting can be watched. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hiroshima Artist Brush Manufacturing Kumano, Hiroshima
  Established in 1869, this Kumano-cho manufacturer makes calligraphy brushes, nihonga painting brushes, makeup brushes and writing accessories under its KUMANO label. Its head office sits at 4-7-24 Nakamizo in Kumano-cho, with a retail outlet in central Hiroshima. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hita Shoyu Akatsuka, Hita
  Hita Shoyu has fermented soy sauce and miso in Hita for over 170 years and once presented its wares to the Imperial household. Beyond its high-grade shoyu and miso it makes dashi stocks, miso dips and cooking sauces, shipping nationwide from its Akatsuka premises. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hiyoko Honpo Yoshinodo Iizuka Honten (ひよ子本舗吉野堂 飯塚本店) 15-1 Honmachi, Iizuka-shi, Fukuoka, Japan / Iizuka / Japan
  Yoshinodo founded 1897 in Iizuka; chick-shaped Hiyoko created 1912. Iizuka tourism and Crossroad Fukuoka list the Iizuka honten at Honmachi 15-1 as a current direct shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• HOME LABO. Omura / Japan
  HOME LABO. bakes bread, sweets, cakes and tarts from a converted family home in Omura's Kubara district, with allergy-friendly options among its careful-ingredient offerings. Scones appear every Tuesday and a rotating trio of cakes on the last Sunday of each month. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Honke Chichiya Kusatsu Onsen, Gunma, Japan
  Honke Chichiya steams traditional tea-flavored and two-tone onsen manju from three shops near Kusatsu's Yubatake hot spring field. Its Chichiya Baum, a coarse-sugar castella cake, has become a companion souvenir to the buns. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Honma Yosegi Museum (Honma Wood Workshop) Hakone (Yumoto)
  Run by the Honma family in Hakone-Yumoto, this working shop pairs a museum of Edo- through Showa-era yosegi pieces with a studio where visitors watch marquetry demonstrations and glue their own coasters. The adjoining store sells parquetry boxes and wood-mosaic goods produced on site. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Horiyo Himi, Toyama
  Founded in 1912, Horiyo is a Himi seafood merchant dealing in overnight-dried and mirin-glazed fish, firefly squid, white shrimp and kelp from Toyama Bay. Its Himi main store doubles as a gift counter, adding local Himi beef and udon to the seafood shelves. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hotokudo (高野山法徳堂) Koyasan, Wakayama, Japan
  This Koyasan shop specializes in scroll mounting and religious goods, stocking Buddha statues, prayer beads, sutra books, and the stamped temple books pilgrims collect at each stop on the mountain's circuit. It also sells hanging scrolls and sutra-copying supplies tied to the temple town's devotional routines. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Human Made Tokyo / Online
  Nigos post-BAPE label — vintage Americana filtered through Japanese precision. Heart logos, duck graphics, and impeccable reproduction wear. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hummingbirds Hill Cat Street, Tokyo
  Delightful multi-brand store with reproduction and modern labels — Camber, Chamula, Engineered Garments, and Needles. Great vintage southwestern jewelry. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hysteric Glamour Tokyo / Online
  Nobuhiko Kitamura’s Tokyo institution since 1984 — rock-and-roll Americana filtered through Japanese streetwear obsession, printed, patched, and collected worldwide. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Icchodo (一彫堂) 775 Karuizawa, Karuizawa
  Icchodo carves furniture and everyday objects in Karuizawa-bori, the relief woodcarving technique specific to the town, from a workshop that also produces Buddhist altar fittings and tableware. The shop sells both museum-grade carved pieces and simpler functional items, keeping the technique in ordinary commercial use. store page → · open in the atlas →
• ICHI + G Marunouchi, Tokyo
  Curated lifestyle store in the JP Tower with Japanese design objects, stationery, and home goods. Emphasises products that tell a story of Japanese craftsmanship. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ichiryu Toen Hasami, Nagasaki, Japan
  Ichiryu Toen is a Hasami kiln whose catalogue leans on carved shinogi ridges and Swatow-inspired decoration across plates, bowls, cups and serving dishes. It sells its tableware directly through an official online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ijiit Japan
  Japanese womenswear label IJIIT, launched in 2003 by designer Keiji Itakura, who opened the flagship store in Tokyo's Omotesando in 2004. Rebranded IJIIT and Co. for spring/summer 2021 around a 'timeless and comfortable' concept of relaxed, washable pieces. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ikinokura Distillery Ashibe-cho, Iki, Nagasaki, Japan
  Founded in 1984 on the island credited as the birthplace of mugi (barley) shochu, Ikinokura distills the Ikinoshima and Ikikko lines using local barley and Iki's own spring water, alongside sake and a yuzu liqueur. Its shopfront in Ashibe-cho, on Iki's east coast, sits close to the barley fields and rice paddies that supply the stills. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ikuji Kamaboko Ikuji, Kurobe, Toyama, Japan
  Founded in 1927 in the fishing port of Ikuji, this maker steams and grills kamaboko fish cakes from Toyama Bay catch, including white shrimp and other local seafood. The company still runs its workshop and retail shop in the harbor district it was named for, alongside an online store at ikujikamaboko.com for its gift boxes. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ikutoen Pottery Works Tsuboya, Naha
  A Tsuboya pottery workshop and shop where visitors can buy yachimun and watch or take part in pottery making. The official company page records the present company as established in April 1963; the pottery tradition is led by a sixth-generation owner. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Imai Jihei Shoten (今井治平商店) 676 Koyasan, Koya-cho, Ito District, Wakayama, Japan
  A Koyasan storefront dealing in Buddhist altar fittings and prayer beads across many materials, offering wrist malas alongside full juzu sets. The shop also repairs beads brought in by visitors, a service tied as much to the mountain's resident temples as to its pilgrims. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Imai Kinpaku Main Store Saiwaimachi, Kanazawa
  A gold-leaf manufacturer with a showroom selling leaf-decorated goods and a workshop for applying gold leaf to take-home objects. The company was established in Kanazawa in 1898. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Imamura Tsubaki Seiyusho Heizo-machi, Gotō City (Fukue Island), Nagasaki
  Imamura Tsubaki Seiyusho has pressed camellia oil on Fukue Island since 1933 using the tamashime first-press method, tending roughly four thousand trees for its seed. The family sells culinary and cosmetic camellia oil, shampoo and pressed-seed cake from its Heizo-machi workshop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Imari Toen Imari, Saga
  Imari Toen was founded in 1968 by ceramicist Kaneko Sadao with designers Chitojin and Eiji Okamoto shaping its early output, built around a stated refusal to cut corners as the wider industry moved toward mass production. The company still runs its own Imari showroom and presents its work bilingually rather than through a tourism intermediary. store page → · open in the atlas →
• in Between Blues Tokushima / Japan
  in Between Blues is an indigo dye studio based in Tokushima Prefecture, founded in 2016 by Leki Nagahara, who grew up in the town of Kaiyo and competed as a four-time national collegiate surfing champion while at Josai International University. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Inomoto Saketen Nagamine, Kumamoto City
  Inomoto opened in Kumamoto's Nagamine district in 1974 and shifted in the early 1990s to become a dedicated local sake and shochu specialist, a focus it has kept for three decades. The owner and staff select bottles directly from breweries around Kumamoto and beyond, stocking sake, shochu, Japanese wine and liqueurs both in-store and by mail order. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Inoue Kamaboko Wadazuka / Kamakura Station area, Kamakura
  Inoue Kamaboko hand-forms fish paste into kamaboko, hanpen and koban-age using whole fish selected for the Kamakura trade, a craft the shop calls the daiginjo of fish. It sells directly from its own storefronts near Kamakura Station rather than through department-store counters. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Inoue Seikoen Shodoshima / Japan
  Inoue Seikoen has grown roughly 4,500 olive trees and 14 citrus varieties on Shodoshima, pressing the harvest into olive oil, skincare, and other products under its own label. The company runs a flagship shop and cafe on the island plus outlets in Takamatsu and Kobe, alongside a full online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Inoue Shuzo Hita
  Inoue Shuzo has brewed in the old tenryo town of Hita for more than two centuries, bottling the Kakunoi label of junmai and daiginjo sake alongside honkaku shochu and seasonal liqueurs. The brewery works by hand with the region's abundant water and sells its range directly through its own online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Inshu Washi Heritage Workshop (Kamingusaji) Tottori / Japan
  Kamingusaji is a hand-papermaking workshop for Inshu washi in the mountain town of Saji, carrying on roughly 1,200 years of papermaking tradition alongside paper-making experiences for visitors. A shop beside the workshop sells finished washi and paper goods, with a portion available through its online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Iori (伊織) Matsuyama / Japan / Online
  Iori is a towel specialty store built on Imabari's 130-year weaving tradition, offering everyday and gift towels alongside baby and lifestyle textiles. Its flagship sits in Matsuyama's Dōgo Onsen arcade, backed by other branches and a full online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Iriomote Green Farm Ohara, Iriomote Island, Okinawa, Japan
  Iriomote Green Farm makes small-batch handmade kokuto from its own cane during the November-to-May harvest season and grows several pineapple varieties for the following summer, working out of the Ohara settlement on Iriomote Island. The farm also runs Inoshigari-ya, an izakaya on the same site, and sells its seasonal produce directly rather than through outside distributors. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Iriomote Sugar Company Iriomote Island (Taketomi), Yaeyama, Okinawa, Japan
  Iriomote Sugar Company has made kokuto black sugar for more than sixty years, running its production facility on Iriomote Island using cane grown on the island itself. The unrefined sugar is sold as blocks and granules prized for a deeper, more bitter sweetness than the refined product. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Iron Heart Tokyo, Japan
  Heavyweight denim specialist. 21oz+ denim, ultra-durable construction. Favoured by motorcycle riders worldwide. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Iron Heart 666S Tokyo / Japan / Online
  The 21oz Devil — slim straight cut, 21oz Kaihara denim, super-heavyweight, and the Iron Heart model that defined the heavyweight category. Takes 3-6 months to break in, lasts 5+ years. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Iron Heart Western Shirt Tokyo / Japan / Online
  The 12oz western — snap buttons, western yoke, 12oz Japanese denim, and the Iron Heart shirt that brings heavyweight denim to the western silhouette. store page → · open in the atlas →
• is-ness Tokyo, Japan
  Tokyo streetwear label founded in 2001 by DJ and designer Tomoo Kinoshita, blending music, art, and traditional Japanese sensibility into oversized, graphic-driven pieces; also runs a linked music imprint, ISNESS MUSIC. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Isetan Shinjuku Shinjuku, Tokyo
  Tokyo's most fashion-forward department store. Seven floors of cutting-edge Japanese and international designers plus an unmatched food hall in the basement. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Iseya Honten Himeji, Hyogo
  Founded in the Genroku era as confectioner to Himeji's ruling Sakai clan, Iseya Honten built its name on Tamatsubaki, a pale mochi sweet shaped like a camellia bud that was presented to the Showa Emperor during his 1947 tour of Kansai. The shop still works from Nishi-Nikaimachi in central Himeji, with counters in the city's stations and department stores. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ishimura Manseido (石村萬盛堂) 2-1 Suzaki-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka 812-0028, Japan / Fukuoka / Japan
  Founded 25 December Meiji 38 / 1905 at Hakata Naka-Tsushima-koji; honten now 2-1 Suzaki-machi. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ishiya (Shiroi Koibito) Odori (Ishiya Cafe, West 4) + Shiroi Koibito Park, Nishi-ku, Sapporo, Japan
  Ishiya makes Shiroi Koibito, Hokkaido's white-chocolate langue-de-chat cookies, along with Mifuyu and TSUMUGI baumkuchen. The company also runs Ishiya Cafe and the Shiroi Koibito Park factory attraction in Sapporo. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Issey Miyake Tokyo / Online
  The master of pleats and technological fabric innovation. From Bao Bao bags to Pleats Please — Japanese fashion as wearable architecture. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Itoya Ginza Ginza, Tokyo
  Historic 12-floor stationery emporium founded in 1904. Fountain pens, washi paper, leather accessories, and art supplies from around the world. The 'Gift Lounge' offers same-day wrapping in exquisite. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Iwanaga Baijuken Nagasaki / Japan
  Established in 1830, this Nagasaki confectioner near Meganebashi bridge is known for moshiho-gusa mochi, kangiku dried sweets and made-to-order Nagasaki castella. The Suwa-machi shop also sells seasonal specialties such as zabon-zuke candied citron and festival sweets for the Boys' and Girls' Dayseasons. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Izumiya Hakone
  Izumiya works near the shore of Lake Ashi, cutting and gluing rods of naturally colored woods into the geometric mosaics that face its trays, jewelry boxes and himitsu-bako puzzle boxes. The shop ships internationally and lists trick chests, kokeshi and spinning tops alongside its marquetry, all made by hand in Japan. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Izumo Mingei Shi Shimane / Japan
  Izumo Mingei Shi has hand-pulled washi paper in the Yakumo hills since the workshop building went up in 1933, carrying on techniques championed by Living National Treasure Eishiro Abe. Visitors can watch papermaking in progress and buy sheets, cards, and craft paper through the studio's dedicated online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Japan Blue Kojima, Japan
  Kojima’s value virtuoso — Momotaro’s sibling delivering Japanese selvedge at entry-honest prices. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Jelado Japan
  A Japanese label founded in 2005 by Yohei Goto, a former vintage-clothing dealer and kickboxer, who reverse-engineers 1930s-1970s American workwear by disassembling original garments to study fiber, weave, and construction. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Jiyugaoka Department Store Jiyugaoka, Tokyo
  Compact community department store with an excellent food hall and lifestyle floors. The basement features artisanal Japanese sweets and prepared foods. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Josuian Hakata-eki-mae, Hakata, Fukuoka
  Josuian makes Hakata wagashi from its base by Hakata Station, best known for Tsukushi-mochi, kinako-dusted mochi served with brown-sugar syrup. The confectioner also turns out monaka and seasonal strawberry and grape daifuku. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Juchheim Motomachi
  Juchheim traces its Japanese roots to Kobe, where German confectioner Karl Juchheim reopened his baumkuchen business in the early 1920s after the Great Kanto Earthquake forced him out of Yokohama. The Motomachi honten still bakes the ring-shaped layered cake he introduced to Japan, alongside seasonal European-style confections. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Jumonjiya 1-2-15 Omoromachi, Naha, Okinawa
  Founded in 1912, Jumonjiya is a long-running Naha kimono shop selling women’s and men’s kimono, Okinawan textiles, accessories and yukata, with garment care and dressing classes. Its new Omoromachi store is at 1-2-15 Omoromachi, Naha; after an August 9–14 pre-opening, the official site schedules the full opening for August 23, 2026. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Junya Watanabe Tokyo, Japan
  Comme’s technical poet — patchwork Levi’s, articulated tailoring and the most intelligent collaborations in fashion. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kado Onomichi / Japan
  Kado occupies a small corner spot on the Onomichi waterfront, pairing a tightly edited selection of menswear from labels like Frank Leder and Post O'Alls with a natural-wine bar serving seasonal small plates. Clothing is available in-store and through the shop's online store, while the wine counter keeps its own afternoon-into-evening hours. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kadohama Gomatofu Sohonpo (角濱ごまとうふ総本舗) Koyasan (Takano), Ito District, Wakayama, Japan
  This goma-dofu specialist has collected fifteen consecutive gold awards at the Monde Selection food competition for a product rooted in Koyasan's Buddhist vegetarian cooking. Beyond its main shop, it runs dining rooms in the Daimon and Odawara districts of the temple town where the sesame tofu is served fresh. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kaga Mizuhiki Tsuda Mizuhiki Nomachi, Kanazawa
  A fifth-generation workshop and shop making ceremonial paper decorations and gift wrapping with Kaga mizuhiki cords. The craft has been carried by five generations of the business. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kaga Yuzen Kaikan (加賀友禅会館) Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
  Kaga Yuzen Kaikan is Kanazawa's dedicated center for Kaga Yuzen, the hand-painted silk-dyeing technique developed for kimono under the Kaga domain, with exhibit rooms showing newly produced pieces alongside the dyeing tools and materials behind them. Its ground floor sells finished Kaga Yuzen textiles and smaller accessories, while a basement studio runs hands-on dyeing workshops. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kagura Shuzo Takachiho / Japan
  Kagura Shuzo distills barley and sweet-potato shochu at its Takachiho works in Miyazaki, aging some releases in custom oak casks that won gold at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. The distillery sells its Kurouma and Tenson Kourin lines through its own dedicated online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kagure Omotesando, tokyo / Japan
  Kagure is a Tokyo lifestyle brand built around organic cotton clothing and natural-material homeware, with its original flagship store, Kagure Omotesando, opened in December 2008 inside a building finished in solid white oak, cedar and plaster. The brand now runs additional stores at Tokyu Plaza Ginza and Yokohama Joinus alongside its online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kai Winery Shioyama, Koshu City, Yamanashi (historic Kai Province)
  A family-run winery built in 1986 inside a cluster of Edo-period buildings that once housed a sake brewery, four of which are registered national cultural properties. Its own vineyards grow Koshu, Merlot and Barbera, sold from the estate shop alongside tastings and food in a 200-year-old storehouse converted into a café. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kaikiza North Fuji (Fujiyoshida / Nishikatsura), Yamanashi
  A four-workshop collective in Yamanashi's Fujiyoshida and Nishikatsura towns reviving historic Kai-silk; Makita-Shoten weaves the umbrella line using techniques including kasuri ikat, working under 1% of Japan's total silk output. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kaizuya Himi, Toyama
  Kaizuya makes Himi udon by the traditional hand-stretching and hand-kneading method, turning out fine, chewy noodles alongside seasonal Himi somen. The family shop in Kamiizumi, Himi, sells dried bundles and gift boxes through its own online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kajitsuen Ogasahara Minami Alps / Japan
  Kajitsuen Ogasahara is a family orchard in Minami-Alps, Yamanashi, growing cherries, peaches, plums, prunes, and kiwifruit with organic fertilizer and reduced pesticides. Its fruit and house-made dried fruit and dressings are sold at the farm shop and shipped nationwide through its online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kakinohasushi Tanaka Nara / Japan / Online
  A Nara specialist in kaki-no-ha sushi, mackerel and salmon pressed and wrapped in persimmon leaves, Tanaka sells its boxed regional sushi at its Nara and Gojo stores and other branches. The main Nara shop near Kintetsu Nara Station adds a tearoom, and products ship through the company's online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kakiya Miyajima, Hiroshima
  Set on Miyajima's main shopping street about ten minutes from the pier, Kakiya serves an oyster-only menu of grilled, raw, fried and rice dishes sourced from local growers. Listed in the Michelin Guide for the Hiroshima area, it also runs a sister cafe and cocktail bar nearby. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kama-Asa Shoten Tokyo / France
  Kama-Asa Shoten has specialized in Japanese kitchen knives, cast-iron pans and cookware from Tokyo's Kappabashi kitchenware district for generations, selling its own hammered ironware alongside brands like Konosuke. The shop runs a full international online store plus physical locations in Kappabashi, Paris and Brooklyn. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kamaku Wakamiya-oji / Komachi-dori, Kamakura
  Kamaku curates handmade tableware, glassware and pottery from independent Japanese potters across three small Kamakura storefronts near Tsurugaoka Hachimangu. Alongside ceramics it stocks grapevine-basket bags from Yamagata, coral jewelry and carved wooden Buddha figures, all chosen for daily use rather than display. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kamakura Shirts Kamakura / Japan / Online
  Japan's great value shirtmaker — the Sciolto line is its one-piece collar family, from Tokyo Fit flannels to MTM bodies cut for the construction. Established 1993. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kamikyu Honten Yanagawa / Japan
  Kamikyu Honten is a Yanagawa shop selling traditional Japanese ceremonial dolls and decorations, including hina dolls, sagemon hanging ornaments and Boys' Day displays, from its storefront in Fukuoka. Staff offer semi-custom hina doll sets built to a customer's budget, and pieces are displayed in-store for viewing before purchase. store page → · open in the atlas →
• KAMOI Kakoshi 2-3-27 Higashi-Shinsaibashi, Chuo Ward, Osaka
  Home of mt masking tape — the original decorative washi tape that sparked a global craze. Hundreds of colours, patterns, and limited editions in their concept store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kanazashi Woodcraft Hakone (Hatajuku)
  In the Hatajuku craft village, Katsuyoshi Kanazashi carves yosegi from solid blocks rather than shaving decorative veneers, so each coaster, bowl or box is a single three-dimensional piece stamped with his seal. The workshop also made the trophy for the opening leg of the Hakone Ekiden relay. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kanazawa Crafts Hirosaka Hirosaka, Kanazawa
  A city craft shop exhibiting and selling work by Kanazawa makers across multiple traditional craft disciplines. The shop was founded in 1997. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kanazawa M'ZA Kanazawa
  A locally rooted department store opposite Omicho Market. Combines food halls, fashion, household goods and local retail under one roof. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kanbayashi Kanazawa Chaho (上林金沢茶舗) Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
  Kanbayashi Kanazawa Chaho inherited its name from a historic Kyoto Uji tea merchant family when it opened in 1949. It sources matcha, sencha and gyokuro from Uji, roasts kaga-bocha, and grows its own black tea on Noto Island. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kanehiko Factory Shop (蒲鉾のかね彦) 2-26 Higashi-Sapporo 6-jo 1-chome, Shiroishi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 003-0006 / Sapporo / Japan
  Founded Taisho 7 (1918); factory shop at the Shiroishi plant sells the house's own kamaboko made without preservatives. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kanetsuru Sunako Shoten Namerikawa / Japan
  A Namerikawa seafood processor of over 110 years, Kanetsuru is known for firefly-squid products made in the town famous for its glowing-squid bay, plus white shrimp and red snow crab. Its goods are sold at the Kitamachi main shop, a Hotaruika Museum outlet and an online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kanezaki Sendai / Japan
  Since 1947, Kanezaki has turned Sendai's signature sasa-kamaboko fish cakes using additive-free surimi, running five directly-owned shops across Miyagi plus a dedicated sasakama museum-store at its Wakabayashi-ku headquarters. Visitors can watch craftsmen at work and order online or by mail through the company's own shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kapital Tokyo / Online
  Kojima’s gonzo genius — Century Denim, ring bandanas and the freewheeling Hirata family imagination. store page → · open in the atlas →
• KAPITAL KOUNTRY Tokyo / Koenji / Daikanyama
  Kapital's most extreme line — the Century Denim programme, natural indigo, mud dye, boro patchwork, and the Koenji/Daikanyama shops where denim becomes art. Each piece is unique; no two are alike. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kapital LEGS Tokyo
  Kapital's dedicated denim outpost with their boro patchwork, distressed jeans, and bohemian interpretations of American workwear. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kapital Tokyo Tokyo
  Eclectic Japanese brand known for boro patchwork, bohemian denim, and free-spirited clothing that blends global folk traditions with Japanese craft. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kappabashi Dougu Street Asakusa, Tokyo
  'Kitchen Town' — where Japanese chefs buy their culinary equipment for over a century. Knives, ceramics, restaurant supplies, and plastic food replicas. store page → · open in the atlas →
• KAPTAIN SUNSHINE Tokyo, Japan
  Founded in Tokyo in 2013 by Shinsuke Kojima, former founding editor of Japan's Huge magazine, Kaptain Sunshine reworks vintage American military and workwear silhouettes through Japanese factories — denim from Okayama and Hiroshima, leather goods from Tokyo and Kamakura — anchored by its Aoyama flagship. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kasanoya (かさの家) Dazaifu Tenmangu sando
  A long-running umegae-mochi maker and teahouse on the shrine approach, grilling red-bean-filled mochi in iron molds and serving them with meals. Special versions appear monthly, with ancient-grain mochi on the 17th and mugwort mochi on the 25th. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kashidate Shuzo Kashidate, Hachijojima
  Kashidate distills barley shochu, including the label Shima no Hana, using copper pot stills that are now rare in the trade. The brewery marked its centenary with commemorative bottles whose labels were drawn by a hundred local children. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kawakami Seimen Shimabara / Japan
  Kawakami Seimen has hand-stretched somen noodles in Shimabara since its 2009 founding, drying bundles of thin wheat noodles using techniques passed down through the region's centuries-old noodle trade. The family-run shop sells its somen and dried-noodle gifts directly through its online storefront from its Nagasaki workshop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kayaba Bakery Yanaka, Tokyo
  Artisan bakery in a restored machiya townhouse, serving natural-yeast breads, seasonal pastries, and coffee. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kazaemon Chaho Kagoshima
  Kazaemon Chaho is the retail arm of Kagoshima wholesaler Shinbara Seicha, named for founder Shinbara Kazaemon. It sells deep-steamed Chiran sencha, shallow-steamed Kirishima tea, gyokuro, and 100%-Kagoshima matcha, blended in-house. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kazuyuki Kumagai Attachment Tokyo, Japan
  Kazuyuki Kumagai’s Tokyo label Attachment — draped, muted-palette Japanese menswear where pattern-cutting rigor meets quiet street sensibility. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kichijoji Tokyu Kichijoji, Tokyo
  Community-focused department store with a strong selection of Japanese fashion, lifestyle goods, and gourmet food. The rooftop garden offers a peaceful escape from the shopping crowds. store page → · open in the atlas →
• KiddyLand Harajuku Omotesando, Tokyo
  Four floors of character goods, toys, and Japanese pop culture merchandise. From Studio Ghibli to Pokémon to Sanrio — if it has a face, they sell it. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kijima Takayuki Tokyo / Online
  Tokyo hatmaker — handcrafted headwear with Japanese precision. From wide-brim fedoras to casual caps, each piece is cut and sewn with obsessive attention. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kijiya Takayama, Gifu
  A small solid-wood furniture workshop in the Hida-Takayama hills making tables, chairs, stools and wooden accessories from single boards. A gallery-showroom at 2-52 Honmachi in central Takayama shows the pieces, open daily except Tuesday. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kikuchi Shuzo Tamashima, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
  Kikuchi Shuzo has brewed sake in Kurashiki's Tamashima district for roughly 150 years, releasing its Sanzen label alongside a natural-cultivation-rice Kiseki no Sake and a fresh-pressed Sakaoto line. The brewery has collected repeated awards at the National New Sake Appraisal. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kimono Marutoshi Kanazawa
  A long-established kimono retailer with formal wear, obi and accessories. The shop is known for one of the larger kimono selections in the Hokuriku region. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kimono Rental Yume Yakata 1-7-13 Namba, Chuo Ward, Osaka
  Rent a kimono or yukata, get styled with hair and accessories, and walk through Osaka Castle Park or Dotonbori for photos. All-day rental. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kineya Himeji, Hyogo
  Kineya is a Himeji confectioner best known for Shosha Sennensugi, a green-tea sponge roll tied to Enkyoji Temple on Mount Shosha. It also makes Kinuta and Sara, tea-ceremony sweets commissioned for Himeji Castle's tea gatherings. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kinkoen Nara / Japan
  A Nara sumi ink workshop of about 150 years, Kinkoen makes soot and oil ink sticks and offers a hands-on 'gripped sumi' making experience at its Sanjo-cho workshop. Its ink sticks are sold in person and shipped overseas through an online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kinokuniya Sydney CBD
  Sydney flagship of the Japanese Kinokuniya chain, opened 1996 in Neutral Bay and relocated to The Galeries on George Street, Sydney CBD, in 2002. Stocks over 300,000 English, Japanese and Chinese titles, plus manga and stationery. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kinotoya Shiroishi Honten 1-20 Higashi-Sapporo 3-jo 5-chome, Shiroishi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 003-0003 / Sapporo / Japan
  Sapporo's representative Western pastry house; founding shop on Nango-dori in Shiroishi. store page → · open in the atlas →
• KINTO Tokyo Nakameguro, Tokyo
  KINTO makes understated Japanese tableware and coffee gear, with a "MARK IT" service that engraves pieces to order. Its Futo textile line and its own KINTO Farm herbal teas extend the same everyday-ritual design brief beyond the table. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kintsuba Nakataya Higashiyama Chayagai Higashi Chaya District
  Kanazawa confectioner since 1934, specializing in kintsuba bean sweets in a restored machiya at the Higashiyama Chayagai geisha district entrance. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kiro Hakone (Yumoto)
  Kiro is a Hakone-Yumoto yosegi marquetry shop whose craftsman, Yuhei Kojima, applies the traditional zuku veneer-shaving technique to tea canisters, tote bags, music boxes and chopsticks alongside classic puzzle boxes, sold on-site and online. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kishiyama Hakimono Gujo Hachiman
  Family footwear shop making two-tooth dancing geta cut from single planks of Japanese cypress for the Gujo Odori. Each pair is fitted to the customer, branded with the shop's mark and finished in about fifteen minutes. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kiso Ebiya Kiso-Fukushima, Kiso-machi, Nagano, Japan
  Kiso Ebiya has worked as a lacquer artisan workshop for around 160 years in Kiso-Fukushima, Nagano — the town regarded as the birthplace of Kiso lacquerware, not Fukushima Prefecture. It makes hinoki magewappa bentwood boxes and lacquer-coated chopsticks and tableware. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kita Kitchen Aurora Town Store Aurora Town, Sapporo
  A Hokkaido food specialist selecting dairy products, seafood, vegetables, breads, confectionery, and regional pantry goods from across the island. The shop is operated by the Hokkaido department store Marui Imai. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kith Tokyo Tokyo
  Ronnie Fieg’s premium streetwear boutique in Tokyo, bringing together sneakers, apparel, collaborations and Kith’s own collections in a highly designed multi-level retail setting. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kitte Marunouchi, Tokyo
  Stylish retail complex in the Japan Post building with shops focused on Japanese design and regional products. The rooftop garden offers views of Tokyo Station's historic architecture. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kiyosato Milk Plant Kiyosato, Hokuto City
  Kiyosato Milk Plant processes raw milk collected that same morning from local herds into fresh milk, drinking yogurt and cheese at its highland dairy near Moegi no Mura. The small creamery runs a direct retail shop and online store, and works with neighboring fruit growers and winemakers on collaborative products. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kiyosumi Gardens Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Tokyo
  Kiyosumi Gardens grew from a daimyo's Edo-period retreat into a Meiji stroll garden after Mitsubishi founder Iwasaki Yataro bought the site in 1878. Stepping stones cross the pond past a 1909 lakeside teahouse and stones gathered from six provinces. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kobayashi Shikki Hirosaki, Aomori / Japan
  Kobayashi Shikki manufactures and sells Tsugaru-nuri, the multi-layered lacquerware tradition unique to the Hirosaki area of Aomori Prefecture, from its own workshop and retail premises at Higashijokita in Hirosaki City. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kobo Ainoyakata Ohara, Kyoto / Japan
  Kobo Ainoyakata is a traditional indigo dyeing workshop and shop in Ohara, a rural district of Kyoto's Sakyo Ward roughly thirty minutes from the city center. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kobo Furukawaya Kiso Village, Nagano, Japan
  Kobo Furukawaya is a one-person workshop producing oroku-gushi, the fine-toothed wooden combs that Yabuhara artisans have cut from minebari birch, boxwood, and isunoki since the Edo period. Craftsman Masao Furuhata's hand-sawing has been shown on NHK's Ippin and Wafu Sohonke, and each comb still takes months of hand-filing to finish. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Koenji Tokyo
  Tokyo’s vintage capital — thrift dens, punk history and secondhand treasure west of Shinjuku. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kogetsudo Roho Hirado, Nagasaki
  Kogetsudo Roho makes Casdous, the sugar-crusted, yolk-dipped castella of old Hirado, along with Portugal senbei and castella, all handmade without additives. Based at the Hirado Products Hall on Iwanoue-cho, the shop has presented its sweets to the imperial household across the Showa and Heisei reigns. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Koju Tenkundo Komachi-dori, Yukinoshita, Kamakura
  On Komachi-dori in Kamakura for decades, Koju Tenkundo sells kyara, jinko and byakudan aromatic woods alongside incense sticks, and runs a monthly kōdō class taught by the head of the Iekyō-ryū school plus a beginner incense session. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kokeshi no Shimanuki Sendai / Japan
  Kokeshi no Shimanuki has sold kokeshi dolls and Tohoku folk crafts from its shop on Sendai's Ichibancho arcade since it was founded in the Meiji era, and visitors can try hand-painting their own kokeshi in the store. Its online shop carries kokeshi cans, lacquerware and Sendai glass alongside the physical storefront near Sendai Station. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kokuyo Osaka Showroom 1-8-35 Namba, Chuo Ward, Osaka
  Japanese stationery and furniture showroom — beautifully designed notebooks, organisers, and office supplies. The 'Campus' notebook was born here. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Komehyo Shibuya Shibuya, Tokyo
  Store for secondhand luxury fashion. An incredible selection of Jil Sander, Margiela, and archive Japanese designers spread across multiple floors. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Komorebi Koubou Hita
  Komorebi Koubou turns and finishes Hita geta from locally grown Hita cedar, including the white-scorched sugi clogs that featured on NHK's Bura Tamori. The workshop sells its wooden footwear directly and accepts online orders around the clock from its Hita base. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Konami Style Roppongi, Tokyo
  Official merchandise shop for Konami game franchises — Metal Gear, Silent Hill, Yu-Gi-Oh. Limited-edition collectibles, apparel, and accessories. The Roppongi location occasionally hosts game preview. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Konbu Doi Osaka / Japan
  Konbu Doi is an Osaka kelp specialist of more than 110 years in Chuo-ku’s Tanimachi district, making dashi kombu, tororo and oboro kelp, salted kombu and additive-free products. It focuses on ma-konbu from southern Hokkaido and sells its kelp goods from the Tanimachi shop while preserving Osaka’s long konbu food culture. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Konigs-Krone Higashinada-ku (Mikage)
  Konigs-Krone opened as a Western confectionery in Kobe's Mikage district in 1977, building its name on the custard-filled Crone pastry sold across its Kansai stores. The company still runs a Mikage honten and a hotel of the same name in the neighborhood where it started. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Konsei Arimatsu/Narumi, Nagoya / Japan
  Konsei is a shibori tie-dye workshop in the Narumi district of Nagoya's Midori Ward, part of the Arimatsu-Narumi shibori tradition that has centered on this stretch of the old Tokaido road since the early Edo period. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kotobukiya Jiyugaoka Jiyugaoka, Tokyo
  Flagship store for Kotobukiya's collectible figures and model kits. Exclusive Jiyugaoka-only items available alongside their full catalog. Regular workshops where fans can learn painting and assembly. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Koujiya Shibata Harujishoten Takayama, Gifu
  A third-generation miso brewery in Hida-Takayama making inaka, koji and awase miso by traditional koji fermentation, alongside hoba miso to grill on magnolia leaves. The shop also sells yuzu and sesame miso and its own tochi-no-mi horse-chestnut senbei. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kounoen Annaka Chaho (幸乃園 安中茶舗) Minami 3-jo Nishi 7-chome, Tanukikoji 7-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0063 / Sapporo / Japan
  Founded 1927 (Showa 2) as the Tanukikoji 7-chome tea house; owner Annaka Michiaki still roasts hojicha at the shopfront. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kousaido Kyoto / Japan
  Kousaido is a comparatively young house by the standards of Kyoto's incense trade, founded in 1994 around the idea of 'coloring daily life with fragrance.' Rather than positioning itself against the city's centuries-old temple-incense makers, it has built its catalogue at the intersection of traditional technique and modern perfumery, using sandalwood as the base across its lines. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Koushun (Koushun-gama) Hasami (Nakaoyama), Nagasaki, Japan
  Koushun is a family kiln in Hasami's Nakaoyama district, the historic potters' quarter where work has continued since the Edo period. It makes glaze-forward tableware for daily meals, sold through its own website and a BASE storefront. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Koyudo Kumano, Hiroshima
  Established in Kumano Town in July 1990, Koyudo produces around 3,500 calligraphy brushes, 200 painting brushes and 300 makeup brushes, including its animal-shaped and fluffy fan brushes. The company runs a headquarters and makeup-brush workshop-shop in Hiroshima plus a Tokyo branch, and sells directly through its own online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kumejima Kaiyou Shinsosui Kaihatsu Kumejima Town
  Established in 2000, this company draws deep ocean water from off Kumejima and desalinates it to separate mineral-rich salt from fresh water, using the same nutrient-dense water to farm umi-budo sea grapes on land. It processes the entirety of the prefecture's deep-sea water intake allocated to the island, selling salt and sea grapes under its own brand. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kumejima Tsumugi Cooperative Association (Yuimaru-kan) Shinsha, Kumejima Town
  The Kumejima Tsumugi Cooperative Association runs Yuimaru-kan, the island's weaving hall, where mud-and-plant-dyed silk has held status as an Important Intangible Cultural Property since 2004. Visitors can watch dyeing and weaving in progress and buy finished tsumugi textiles through the cooperative's own museum shop and online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kumejima's Kumesen Uegusuku, Kumejima Town
  Kumejima's Kumesen distills awamori in Uegusuku from carefully selected hard rice and the island's spring water, aging select batches into kusu old liquor. The distillery sells its core and limited lines, including the Chura Botaru series, through its own online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kuncho Shuzo Mamedamachi, Hita
  Founded in 1932 on the former estate of the Chihara merchant family, Kuncho Shuzo brews sake and shochu with local groundwater inside a row of warehouses built between 1702 and 1918. The riverside complex houses a brewing museum, tasting shop, gallery and cafe, and takes drop-in visitors daily from 9:00 to 4:30. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kurambon Wine Katsunuma, Koshu, Yamanashi
  Kurambon has made wine in Katsunuma since Chosaku Nozawa founded it in 1913, becoming an independent company in 1962 and adopting its current name in 2014, and has farmed without chemical sprays or insecticides since 2007. The winery ferments its Koshu and Muscat Bailey A grapes with indigenous yeasts and minimal filtration to keep the fruit's natural acidity and citrus notes. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kurashiki Hampu Kojima, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
  This canvas maker grew out of Kojima's Meiji-era sailcloth industry and still weaves grade-one cotton duck in the same district that supplies denim to the rest of Japan. Bags, aprons, and stationery are cut and sewn from the house canvas under its own factory-brand labels. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kurasu Kyoto / Japan
  Kurasu began in 2013 as a homeware shop in Kyoto, selling ceramics and everyday objects before coffee became its focus. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kuroki Mill Ibara, Okayama / Japan
  The vertical specialist — spinning, dyeing, weaving all in-house, the Ibara facility, and the Okayama mill that controls every step from raw cotton to finished fabric. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kushikatsu Daruma Shinsekai 2-3-9 Ebisuhigashi, Naniwa Ward, Osaka
  The original kushikatsu shop since 1929 — golden crispy skewers of meat, seafood, and vegetables, with the strict 'no double dipping' sauce pot rule. An Osaka essential. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kutani Ceramics HOKUSANDO Hirosaka, Kanazawa
  A Kutani-ware specialist selling original ceramics and works by established Kutani artists. The shop reports more than a century of experience dealing in Kutani ceramics. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kuwabara Ouchi-nuri Yamaguchi / Online
  Kuwabara's Ouchi-nuri Doll Workshop makes Yamaguchi's traditional Ouchi dolls, whose origin the shop traces to 17th-generation Ouchi clan leader Ouchi Hiroya commissioning them to comfort his Kyoto-born wife. Pairs range from small ping-pong-ball-sized dolls to large lacquered, gold-leafed ceremonial sets, sold through its BASE online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kōdō — The Way of Incense Japan
  One of the three classical Japanese arts of refinement, alongside the tea ceremony (chadō) and flower arrangement (kadō). store page → · open in the atlas →
• L-Breath Tokyo
  Nine-floor Tokyo outdoor superstore in Shinjuku — camping gear, hiking boots, and brand-specialist floors for Snow Peak and Japanese Montbell. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Lad Musician Tokyo / Japan / Online
  Yuki Yagi's skinny denim — the rock aesthetic, the slim silhouettes, and the Tokyo brand that brought Japanese denim to the music and fashion crossover crowd. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Laforet Harajuku Harajuku, Tokyo
  The epicenter of Tokyo's alternative fashion scene for over 40 years. Six floors of avant-garde Japanese brands, vintage shops, and subculture boutiques. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Leather Belt Co. (for Raw Denim) Japan / Multiple
  The essential partner — full-grain leather, natural patina development alongside denim fades, brass buckle, and the accessory that every raw denim wearer needs. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Licht Sapporo
  Licht sells handmade ceramics and craft pieces by independent artists from its shop in Sapporo's Chuo-ku district. It opened on April 14, 2019, taking its name from the German word for light. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Lightning Magazine Tokyo / Japan / Online
  The bible — Lightning, CLUTCH, and The Rake Japan editions. The publishing house that defines, documents, and shapes Japanese heritage fashion culture. Every issue is archival quality. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Loft Tokyo
  Tokyo lifestyle chain that opened in 1987 as an annex of the Seibu Shibuya department store, spun off into an independent company (The Loft Co., Ltd.) in 1996. Its yellow wordmark logo was designed by graphic designer Ikko Tanaka. store page → · open in the atlas →
• LOFT Shibuya Shibuya, Tokyo
  Seven floors of Japanese lifestyle goods — stationery, homeware, beauty, and quirky gadgets. Known for exclusive collaborations and limited-edition collections. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Loft Shinsaibashi 16-7 Shinmachi, Chuo Ward, Osaka
  Japanese variety store — stationery, cosmetics, homeware, travel goods, and seasonal items. The perfect place for souvenirs that aren't tacky. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Loop & Weft Japan
  Loopwheel evangelists — vintage knitting machines turning out the henleys of connoisseur rotation. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Lovenet Karaoke Shibuya, Tokyo
  The wildest karaoke rooms in Tokyo. Fantastically themed private rooms — not a store, but an essential Tokyo experience. store page → · open in the atlas →
• LUCUA Osaka 3-1-3 Umeda, Kita Ward, Osaka
  Fashion-forward department store above Osaka Station — Japanese brands, accessories, cosmetics, and a fantastic restaurant floor. The 10th-floor food hall is exceptional. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Lumiere Winery (ルミエールワイナリー) Fuefuki, Yamanashi, Japan
  Founded in the Meiji era, Lumiere has made wine in the Ichinomiya vineyards of Fuefuki for more than 140 years, ageing wine in a stone fermentation tank registered as a tangible cultural property. The estate runs an online shop, a directly operated cellar store and the Zelkova restaurant among its vines. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Lupicia Ginza Ginza, Tokyo
  Premium Japanese and international tea shop with over 400 varieties. The annual 'Tea of the Year' release causes queues around the block. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Maison Margiela Aoyama Aoyama, Tokyo
  The enigmatic French house's Tokyo flagship with its signature deconstructed aesthetic. Known for artisanal collections, Tabi boots, and numbered product lines. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Mandarake Complex Akihabara, Tokyo
  Eight floors of anime, manga, collectibles, and otaku culture in Akihabara. The largest anime goods store in the world. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Mandarake Osaka 3-2-19 Nipponbashi, Naniwa Ward, Osaka
  Massive anime and manga resale shop — new and used figures, doujinshi, cels, and collectables across multiple floors. Otaku treasure hunting at its finest. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Mariya Handicraft Shop Chuo-ku
  A long-running Sapporo specialist for yarn, embroidery, weaving and handicraft materials.Established 1926. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Markaware Tokyo, Japan
  Japanese menswear label launched in 2009 by designer Shunsuke Ishikawa (who started the related MARKA line in 2003) from Nakameguro, Tokyo; sources traceable organic cotton, wool and hemp globally and has natural fabrics woven and sewn in Japan. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Marugoto Nippon Asakusa, Tokyo
  Department store concept showcasing specialty products from all 47 Japanese prefectures. Food, crafts, and regional souvenirs in one location. The perfect place to discover Japan's regional diversity. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Maruhara (Harajiroemon) Hita
  Brewing under the Harajiroemon name since 1899, Maruhara presses miso and soy sauce in Hita through long, slow cellar fermentation. The maker is known for its Ayame sashimi soy sauce and for developing seasonings meant to enhance other condiments, and it runs a second shopping site at maruhara.jp. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Marumi Coffee Stand Nakajima Park Nakajima Park
  This Sapporo coffee stand near Nakajima Park has sold specialty beans from Kenya, Mexico, and Central America since 2006, alongside drop-style brewing gear. The company also produces its own coffee podcast and ships free within Japan on orders over ¥5,000. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Marumizu-gumi Bookbinding Studio Tokyo / Japan
  Marumizu-gumi is a working bookbindery in Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, dedicated to traditional Japanese bookbinding, or wahon — the thread-sewn, washi-paper binding styles that predate Western case binding in Japan. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Marunouchi Building Tokyo
  Tokyo Station’s tower of polish — office-lunch luxury and Imperial Palace views. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Maruzen Junkudo Bookstore Shinjuku, Tokyo
  One of Tokyo's largest bookstores with an impressive foreign language section. Seven floors of books including academic titles, art books, magazines, and Japanese literature. The architecture section. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Mataichi no Shio (またいちの塩) / Shinzaburo Shoten Itoshima, Fukuoka, Japan
  At the Kobo Tottan works on the Itoshima coast, seawater is drawn up and circulated for ten days down bamboo-lined raised saltpans before being reduced slowly in iron kettles until crystals form. The company built out a cluster around the salt works, including the Kisetsuya retail shop, the Itaru and Sumi Cafe eateries, and a pudding shop built on its signature hana-shio flower salt. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Matsubaya Honten Obuse / Japan
  Matsubaya Honten is an Obuse sake brewery with roots in the Edo period and more than two centuries at its brick-chimneyed kura, where rice is steamed in a great iron kettle. Its direct online shop sells Hokushinryu junmai ginjo sake, GI Nagano-certified bottles and easy sake-kasu paste for cooking. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Matsumoto Kiyoshi Asakusa Asakusa, Tokyo
  Massive Japanese drugstore with cosmetics, skincare, supplements, and household goods at competitive prices. Tax-free shopping for international visitors. The Asakusa location carries limited-edition. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Matsumoto Uodonya Himi, Toyama
  A Himi fish wholesaler of more than a century, Matsumoto Uodonya specializes in kan-buri, the prized winter yellowtail pulled from Toyama Bay, alongside white shrimp and firefly squid. Catches are flash-frozen at minus thirty degrees and shipped nationwide, with gift sets developed alongside a Paris-trained chef. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Matsuya Ganso Keiran Somen (元祖鶏卵素麺 松屋) 2-1-4 Hashimoto, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0031, Japan / Fukuoka / Japan
  First Matsuya Riemon began selling keiran somen in Hakata in 1673; this Hashimoto house continues that handmade line. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Meanswhile Tokyo / Online
  Tokyo technical wear label — clothes as tools philosophy. Convertible garments, modular systems, and urban utility wear for the modern nomad. store page → · open in the atlas →
• MEDAKA Box Fishing 3-2-14 Nipponbashi, Naniwa Ward, Osaka
  Catch your own medaka (small Japanese rice fish) to take home — a uniquely Japanese pet shop experience where you fish with a tiny net. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Medetaya Kawaguchiko Fujikawaguchiko (Oishi Hana Terrace), Yamanashi
  The washi-craft line of long-established papermaker Onao, turning Japanese paper into seasonal decorations, lucky charms, stationery and Mount Fuji motifs. Its Kawaguchiko branch sits inside the Fuji Oishi Hana Terrace complex on the lake's north shore. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Meigetsudo Honsha Baiten (明月堂 本社売店) 2-11-23 Higashi-Naka, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka 812-0892, Japan / Fukuoka / Japan
  Meigetsudo was founded in Tenjin in 1929 by Akiimaru Yūichirō; Hakata Torimon was created in 1993 after the house lost the castella trade to Nagasaki makers. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Meoto ZenZai 1-2-10 Namba, Chuo Ward, Osaka
  Tiny shop serving 'meoto zenzai' — sweet red bean soup with mochi, served in pairs for couples. A warm, comforting Osaka dessert tradition. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Merry Weather Daikanyama, Tokyo
  Tiny, tightly curated general store with a mix of vintage and new goods. Leather accessories, hardware, grooming products, and Japanese-made household items. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Messe Sanoh Akihabara, Tokyo
  Long-running hobby shop specializing in model trains, plastic models, and radio-controlled vehicles. Extensive N-gauge train section with Japanese railway replicas. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Michi-no-Eki Toyotomi (道の駅とよとみ) Toyotomi, Chuo, Yamanashi
  This roadside market in the Toyotomi district of Chuo gathers the Kofu basin's farm output, led by the prized 'Gold Rush' sweet corn harvested in summer and Fuji-zakura pork raised in the prefecture. Alongside the produce stands sit local processed goods, seasonal fruit and a restaurant cooking the same regional ingredients. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Mihara Yasuhiro Tokyo / Online
  Sneaker architect turned fashion designer — deconstructed soles, patchwork uppers, and footwear that challenges every convention. Maison Mihara Yasuhiro is the future of Japanese sneakers. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Mikazuki Shoten Naoshima / Japan
  Mikazuki Shoten is a takeout coffee stand on Naoshima, opened in April 2017 near the Benesse Art Site, pouring morning and evening house blends Asami and Yumi. It also sells original apparel made with regional artisans. store page → · open in the atlas →
• MIMURI Ukishima-dori, Naha
  A textile designer's studio-shop selling bags, clothing, and accessories patterned with Okinawan plants, animals, produce, and scenery. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Mineya Minsa Weaving Workshop Shinkawa Wakugawara, Ishigaki City, Okinawa
  This workshop in Ishigaki City hand-weaves Yaeyama Hanaori Minsa and Yaeyama Jofu cloth, the two textile traditions native to the Yaeyama Islands, turning them into ties, bags and business-card cases. Visitors can watch the looms in the attached craft museum or book a weaving or plant-dyeing session before browsing the shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Mingei Iyokasuri Kaikan (民芸伊予かすり会館) Matsuyama / Japan
  Art Labo Kasuri (Mingei Iyo-kasuri Kaikan) in Matsuyama keeps alive the indigo ikat technique devised around 1802 by weaver Kanaya Kana. Visitors can watch weaving demonstrations, try a natural indigo dyeing experience, and shop aizome handkerchiefs, bags and Ehime specialty treats. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Minobu Yuba no Sato Minobu / Japan
  Minobu Yuba no Sato makes and sells yuba, the delicate tofu skin whose local tradition traces back seven centuries to Mount Minobu, from its shop in Minobu, Yamanashi. Visitors can buy fresh and dried yuba products, try a yuba-making experience, or dine at its restaurant, and orders ship through its online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Minobusan Miyagekan Minobu / Japan
  Minobusan Miyagekan is a shop on the temple approach to Kuon-ji at Mount Minobu, selling prayer beads, Buddhist altar goods, and bracelet rosaries to pilgrims and visitors. Long a storefront business, it now also offers its beads and a custom tassel-color service through its online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Minoh Beer Warehouse 1-29-34 Kita, Minoh City, Osaka
  Award-winning Japanese craft brewery — their W-IBA won World's Best IPA. The taproom serves fresh pours and the adjacent shop sells bottles and merch. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Minoru Enchaho Kagoshima City
  Minoru Enchaho sells Chiran-grown sencha and gyokuro from its Kagoshima shop, packaged as loose leaf or 5g tea bags, plus tiered gift sets. The shop earned recognition at the 2024 Tea Grand Prix AWARD. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Mitsukoshi Ginza Ginza, Tokyo
  A byword for tradition and refinement since 1673. Curated kimono, international luxury houses, and one of Tokyo's finest gourmet food halls. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Miyagi Kashiten 727-1 Ishigaki, Ishigaki City, Okinawa
  Marking its 100th anniversary in 2023, this confectioner created the original salt chinsuko, working Ishigaki's natural sea salt into the shortbread-like Okinawan cookie, and now makes more than thirty types of sweets from Yaeyama ingredients. Its shop sits in Ishigaki City, with a second counter inside the domestic terminal of Ishigaki Airport. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Miyakojima no Yukishio (Paradise Plan) Miyakojima / Japan
  The maker of Yukishio, a mineral-rich salt drawn from Miyakojima's undersea water and sold as powder, granules and salt-based sweets and skincare. Products are available at the Yukishio Museum shop, brand stores and an online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Miyama Tofu Shop (深山豆富店) Shirakawa Go / Japan
  Miyama Tofu Shop hand-makes tofu and the local suttate dip in the Shirakawa-go gassho-style village, selling stone-pressed ishidofu prized for holding its shape even when tied with rope. The shop sells directly to visitors and ships nationwide through its dedicated online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Mizubasho Sapporo
  Handmade leather-bag specialist in Sapporo's Tanukikoji shopping street, part of a small Hokkaido group with sister shops in Otaru and Hakodate; works Hokkaido deerskin, cordovan and vegetable-tanned leather into bags and small goods made by local craftsmen. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Mochibun Sohonten Nagoya / Japan
  Mochibun has made Nagoya uiro for more than 360 years, offering seasonal flavors from mango and white peach to matcha and warabi-textured versions. The confections are available at its Nagoya shops and through a full online store with monthly limited Tsukizuna uiro. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Mokugeisha Bikan Historical Quarter, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
  Mokugeisha has sold handmade glass and ceramic tableware from the same shopfront in the Bikan district for more than 35 years, stocking pieces the owners select for everyday use rather than display. Dishes, glassware, and vases fill the small store along the canal-side lanes. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Momijido Miyajima, Hiroshima
  Momijido is the Miyajima confectioner credited with creating Age-momiji, a deep-fried momiji manju on a stick served hot from its Omotesando shops. The company makes classic baked maple-leaf cakes alongside the fried version and its momiji-shaped nut snacks. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Momotaro Kojima, Japan
  Okayama denim legend. Hand-dyed with natural indigo, battle stripes on back pocket. Exceptional 15.7oz selvedge denim. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Momotaro Jeans Kojima, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
  Momotaro Jeans is the flagship denim brand of Kojima's Japan Blue Co., known for its deep-indigo Gold and Copper label fabrics dyed through repeated natural and synthetic indigo baths. The line ranges from standard five-pocket cuts to naturally dyed, hand-woven limited runs sewn in the Kojima workshops. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Monde Shuzo (モンデ酒造) Fuefuki, Yamanashi, Japan
  Monde Shuzo has bottled wine in Fuefuki's Isawa hot-spring town since 1952, a ten-minute walk from Isawa-Onsen Station. Visitors taste for free at the winery counter and buy direct on site or through the company's online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Monkey Time Tokyo, Japan
  monkey time BEAUTY&YOUTH - a contemporary sub-label of Tokyo retailer United Arrows, mixing streetwear and traditional menswear; known for collaborations with Champion, Lee and The North Face. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Mont St. Clair Jiyugaoka, Tokyo
  Hironobu Tsujiguchi's French pâtisserie, widely considered one of Tokyo's finest, with exquisite entremets, macarons, and seasonal creations. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Mont-Bell Osaka, Japan
  Osaka-founded outdoor brand focused on lightweight, functional mountain gear, including down insulation, shells, packs and camping equipment developed for practical performance. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Montbell Osaka / Online
  Osaka-founded outdoor gear maker, started 1975 by mountaineer Isamu Tatsuno (second Japanese to summit the Eiger's north face, 1969) with climbing partners Fumiaki Masaki and Sachiko Masuo. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Moonshine 2-4-8 Nishishinsaibashi, Chuo Ward, Osaka
  Underground hip-hop bar — craft cocktails, vinyl DJs, and a crowd of local creatives. The energy picks up after midnight when the dance floor fills. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Mori Hakataori Umi Town, Kasuya-gun, Fukuoka
  Mori Hakataori has woven Hakata-ori since 1896, working from Umi Town on the edge of Fukuoka to produce obi and pile-woven silk goods. Its Oriaguri direct shop and factory tour sit at the main mill. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Mori Naraduketen Nara / Japan
  Founded in 1869, Mori Naraduketen makes naraduke, the sake-lees pickles native to Nara, through a long multi-stage fermentation. Its shop stands on the grounds of Todaiji Temple, directly in front of the South Gate. store page → · open in the atlas →
• MORIHICO. Maruyama
  MORIHICO. began as a single Sapporo café thirty years ago and has since added a stay-and-coffee inn, a French restaurant, and an espresso offshoot. In July 2026 it opened its first overseas branch in Taiwan's Nantou County. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Morishita Shoten Sohonpo (森下商店総本舗) Koyasan, Koya-cho, Ito District, Wakayama, Japan
  Founded in 1950, this family workshop still makes its raw goma-dofu with Guatemalan white sesame, Koyasan spring water, and Yoshino kudzu starch, following the method it opened with. The shop sells directly from its Koyasan premises, closed Mondays, with a small dine-in counter attached. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Morita Washi Shijo-Karasuma, Kyoto, Japan
  Morita Washi wholesales handmade paper from mills across Japan out of its Shijo-Karasuma shop, stocking everything from plain kozo sheets to yuzen-patterned chiyogami. Staff cut paper to size at the counter, and the shop stocks stationery and small goods made from the same stock for browsing customers. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Morozoff Chuo-ku
  Morozoff began as a chocolate shop in Kobe in 1931, founded by a family of Russian confectioners who had settled in the city. It has since grown into one of Japan's best-known Western-style sweets makers, still tracing its identity back to that original Kobe shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Motono Hakimono Kogyo Hita
  Motono Hakimono Kogyo is a family workshop producing Hita geta, part of one of Japan's three major geta-making traditions, from the cedar of the surrounding forests. The maker shapes and finishes the wooden soles in-house before fitting them with fabric thongs. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Motoyama Lacquerware Shiojiri / Japan
  Motoyama Shikkiten produces Kiso lacquerware in Shiojiri's Kiso-Hirasawa district, working the craft from raw material through final coating for tableware, furniture, and commercial fixtures such as soba-restaurant tools. The shop operates an attached Urushi Craft Museum and takes custom orders plus lacquerware repair and restoration. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Mouriya Sannomiya
  Mouriya has served Kobe beef teppanyaki in Sannomiya for more than 140 years, sourcing only A5-grade certified Kobe beef for its signature courses. The honten and several sister locations across the city let chefs grill each course at the counter in front of diners. store page → · open in the atlas →
• mu Shimokitazawa, Tokyo
  Independent vintage store focused on originality and one-of-a-kind items. A mix of remade upcycled clothing, unique denim, and artistic vintage. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Muji Tokyo
  No-brand quality goods — Ryohin Keikaku’s 1980 anti-brand that became design philosophy worldwide. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Muller of Yoshiokubo Tokyo, Japan
  Women's line launched in 2006 by Tokyo designer Yoshio Kubo, who trained at Philadelphia University and under New York couturier Robert Danes; 'Muller' is an Aragonese word for woman, and dresses anchor each collection. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Murata Kamaboko Chinto, Hagi
  Murata has made fish cake in Hagi since 1961 using the yaki-nuki baking-through method that draws on the port's Sea of Japan catch. Its lineup includes the conger-eel Murashiro, the Hagi-o block, and Hagi-komachi chikuwa, sold as singles and in gift sets. store page → · open in the atlas →
• N.Hoolywood Tokyo / Online
  Daisuke Obana's military and vintage-inspired label — Japanese reinterpretation of American workwear, military surplus, and Hollywood costume design. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nabeshima Kosen Kiln Imari, Saga
  Nabeshima Kosen Kiln works in celadon, white porcelain and the layered overglaze enamels of iro-Nabeshima from a workshop in Imari, tracing its output to the presentation wares once reserved for the shogunate. The kiln's own site lays out this Nabeshima-clan lineage rather than relying on a tourism-board summary. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Naha City First Makishi Public Market Makishi, Naha
  A municipal market hall with independent fishmongers, butchers, pickle sellers, produce stalls, and shops carrying Okinawan ingredients and souvenirs. The market reopened in a rebuilt three-story building in March 2023. Established 1950. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nakagawa Jinenbo Kiln Karatsu, Saga, Japan
  Founded by Kenichi Nakagawa (potter name Jinenbo), who built the kiln in Genkai, Saga in 1982, this workshop fires Chosen Karatsu ware by hand from local clay. His son Kyohei Nakagawa has run the kiln since 2012. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nakagawa Masashichi Shoten Aoyama, Tokyo
  Contemporary craft shop reviving traditional Japanese techniques for modern life. Nara fukin (cotton cloths), hand towels, and household items that improve with use. Simple, functional beauty. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nakagawa Seikaten Namerikawa / Japan
  A century-old neighbourhood greengrocer in Namerikawa, Nakagawa Seikaten sells seasonal vegetables and fruit alongside daily staples and homemade delicatessen items. It also makes its own vegetable dressings and lays out seasonal fare from spring bamboo shoots to New Year's black beans. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nakamoto Meigyokudo (中本名玉堂) Koyasan, Koya-cho, Ito District, Wakayama, Japan
  Recognized as an official supplier to Kongobuji, the head temple of Shingon Buddhism, this shop has sold juzu prayer beads and Buddhist altar fittings from the same Koyasan address for several centuries. It also stocks goma-dofu and other temple-town souvenirs and runs an attached dining room. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nakamura Ningyo Kaigeido (中村人形 傀藝堂) 1-10-46 Sakurazaka, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka 810-0024, Japan / Fukuoka / Japan
  The Sakurazaka gallery Kaigeido opened to exhibit and sell the Hakata ningyo of Nakamura Shinkyō and Nakamura Hiromine, a multi-generation Hakata doll house founded 1917. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nakamura Sake Shop 2-1-8 Nipponbashi, Chuo Ward, Osaka
  Sake retail shop with tasting corner — buy bottles from across Japan or sample seasonal selections. The owner will match sake to your taste preferences. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nakatsu Irotoridori Nakatsu / Japan
  A short walk from Nakatsu station, Irotoridori is a Nakatsu-style karaage takeout shop whose owner sources Kyushu chicken and marinates it in a house kiwami tare. Its award-winning seseri and signature V-chicken are sold at the counter and shipped through an online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nakatsu Kanei Nakatsu / Japan
  A small confectioner in a Nakatsu residential neighbourhood, Kanei makes nama-choco busse, walnut monaka and rare-cheese mizu-manju with restrained sweetness. Seasonal cakes and tarts are served in its cafe space, and its sweets ship nationwide via an online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nakatsu Karaage Genkiya Nakatsu / Japan
  Genkiya fries Nakatsu-style karaage from domestic young chicken marinated in a soy-based secret tare with more than ten spices, built to taste good even once cooled. Its Nakatsu shop and mail-order site sell fresh and frozen karaage and chicken nanban nationwide. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nakaya Taito-ku, Tokyo / Japan
  Nakaya was founded in 1999 by Toshiya Nakata, president of Platinum Pen Co., Ltd., who set out to preserve a craft Platinum's own mass production had left behind: hand-lacquered urushi fountain pens turned and finished one at a time. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nakazakicho Nakazakicho, Kita Ward, Osaka
  Osaka's hipster neighbourhood — Showa-era wooden houses converted into vintage shops, galleries, cafes, and craft workshops. The city's most walkable and charming district. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Namiyoshian Osaka / Japan / Online
  Namiyoshian is a long-established Osaka wagashi house whose Okunamba flagship pairs a sweets counter and bakery with a first-floor cafe and third-floor gallery. Alongside the shops in Fukushima and around Osaka, the site runs an online store selling fresh nama-gashi, baked sweets and gift assortments. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nanamica Tokyo, Japan
  The North Face Purple Label creator — Japanese technical casual wear that blends outdoor functionality with city-ready aesthetics. Gore-Tex, Coolmax, and impeccable taste. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nanga Shiga / Online
  Japanese down-gear maker founded in 1941 as Yokota Sewing in Shiga Prefecture; began making sleeping bags for a major outdoor brand in 1988, adopted the Nanga name in 1995, and launched its Aurora down jacket in 2003. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Natal Design Osaka / Online
  Tokyo apparel label founded in 1999 by graphic designer Tsukada Koji, starting with printed T-shirts before growing into festival-inspired camp gear, including down jackets co-developed with sleeping-bag maker Nanga. store page → · open in the atlas →
• natural69 Hasami (Muraki), Nagasaki, Japan
  Run by Matsuo Shoten, established 1954, natural69 designs Hasami and Arita porcelain built around simple, hard-wearing everyday shapes, including its patterned swatch series. The brand sells directly through its own online store and stocks well-priced tableware intended for years of daily use. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Needles Tokyo, Japan
  Japanese label founded by Keizo Shimizu, known for Rebuild flannel shirts, butterfly branding and velour track pieces alongside workwear-influenced collections. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Needles Rebuild 7 Cuts Tokyo / Japan
  The seven-panel jean — seven different vintage Levi's panels sewn into one pair, the Needles flagship, and the Tokyo brand that treats denim reconstruction as high fashion. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Neighborhood Tokyo / Online
  Shinsuke Takizawa's motorcycle and military-inspired label — Japanese streetwear royalty since 1994. Leather jackets, denim, and hardware that define Tokyo cool. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nepenthes Tokyo, Japan
  Keizo Shimizu’s Tokyo universe — Needles butterflies, Engineered Garments and South2 West8 under one visionary roof. store page → · open in the atlas →
• NEWoMan Shinjuku Shinjuku, Tokyo
  Ultra-modern luxury department store targeting working women with sophisticated taste. Curated edit of international and Japanese fashion, beauty, and lifestyle brands. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nigel Cabourn The Army Gym Aobadai, Meguro-ku, Tokyo
  Nigel Cabourn THE ARMY GYM TOKYO FLAGSHIP STORE is the brand’s current Tokyo flagship in Aobadai, carrying the men’s Authentic, Main, Lybro and collaboration lines. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nijo Fish Market Chuo-ku, Sapporo
  A central fish market containing seafood companies and retail fish shops selling crab, scallops, fresh fish, and other Hokkaido products. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Niki Sake Brewery Takayama, Gifu
  Founded in the Genroku era, this Takayama brewery produces the Hyoshitsu and Tamanoi sake labels using Hida rice and mountain water. The kura and shop stand in the old town, one of six historic breweries clustered within a short walk. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Niku no Hashimoto Otsu, Kikuchi District, Kumamoto
  Niku no Hashimoto specializes in basashi, thin-sliced raw horse meat served with ginger and soy, from its shop in Otsu town northeast of Kumamoto City. Its cured and processed horse meat products have won a Monde Selection gold award and medals at Germany's DLG competition, and the shop belongs to the prefecture's horse meat safety council. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Niku no Suzukiya Minamishinano / Japan
  For more than sixty years, Niku no Suzukiya has been the butcher of the remote Toyama district in Iida, Nagano, famous for its miso-and-garlic marinated 'Toyama Jingisu' mutton and wild game. From its village shop and HACCP-certified workshop it ships mutton, boar, venison, bear, and other rare meats across Japan through its online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nishikido Hiroshima
  Nishikido opened in Hiroshima City in 1951, six years after the atomic bombing, and later developed Nama-momiji, a soft mochi-skinned version of the maple-leaf cake that became a national seller. The maker offers fillings from red bean to chocolate and matcha along with allergen-friendly options, and its sweets were served at the 2023 G7 Hiroshima Summit. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nishimura Orimono ORIBA (西村織物 ORIBA) 7-3-5 Murasaki, Chikushino-shi, Fukuoka 818-0061, Japan / Chikushino / Japan
  Nishimura Orimono is the oldest Hakata-ori weaver still operating; Gihei Nishimura opened the weaving factory in 1861 after studying under the Shirouzu family (one of the Edo twelve licensed houses); ORIBA at the factory entrance sells obi and accessories. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nishino Urushi Kobo Kiso-Hirasawa, Shiojiri, Nagano, Japan
  Nishino Urushi Kobo is the workshop of lacquerer Nishino Takaaki, who trained under the late Sugishita Shigeru, was certified a Kiso lacquerware Traditional Craftsman in 2013, and opened independently in Kiso-Hirasawa in 2019. He hand-finishes chopsticks and small wares in sumi-jiro and shunkei-nuri lacquer techniques. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nitanda Shoyu Nakatsu / Japan
  A Nakatsu soy-sauce brewery of about a century, Kurakobo Nitanda naturally brews shoyu and miso and builds dressings, ponzu, sauces and noodles on that base with local yuzu and kabosu. The family still bottles and labels by hand and delivers to neighbourhood customers door to door. store page → · open in the atlas →
• nonnative Tokyo, Japan
  Tokyo menswear label founded 1999, creatively directed since 2001 by designer Takayuki Fujii; blends workwear and outdoor references with refined materials, from its flagship shop in Meguro-ku's Nakameguro district. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nousaku Takaoka / Japan
  Nousaku has cast tin, bronze, and brass tableware, bells, and vases at its Takaoka foundry since 1916, work recognized by MoMA's design store and multiple Good Design Awards in Japan. The company runs factory tours and a workshop program from its Toyama headquarters alongside its retailer network. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nozawa Onsen Distillery Nozawa Onsen / Japan / Online
  In the heart of Nozawa Onsen in Nagano, this distillery makes small-batch craft gin and whisky, including its Nozawa, Classic Dry and Shiso gins. Bottles, tasting sets and merchandise are sold through its online store, with a store locator for stockists. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Number (N)ine Tokyo, Japan
  Takahiro Miyashita’s grunge cathedral — Kurt-and-Neil romanticism that defined 2000s Tokyo fashion. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Number Sugar Daikanyama, Tokyo
  Artisan caramel candy shop with 12 numbered flavors. The perfect Tokyo souvenir — beautifully packaged and utterly delicious. store page → · open in the atlas →
• O's Farm Shodoshima / Japan
  O's Farm hand-picks roughly 400 olive trees across four traditional Shodoshima varieties plus newer cultivars like Leccino and Picual, pressing the fruit within 24 hours of harvest to protect freshness. The small-batch olive oils are sold through the farm's online shop from its Kagawa address. store page → · open in the atlas →
• O-kita Nouen (大北農園) Fuefuki, Yamanashi, Japan
  O-kita Nouen grows peaches and grapes across the Ichinomiya slopes of Fuefuki, a family orchard that ships white peaches, golden peaches and gift boxes nationwide in season. Fruit is sold direct through the farm's own online store and roadside stand. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Obayashi Toshijuen Nara / Japan / Online
  This Nara doll workshop carves traditional Nara ittobori figures, including hina and May dolls, Noh-themed pieces and zodiac animals. The hand-carved pieces are sold through the studio's online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Obusedo Obuse / Japan
  Obusedo makes chestnut confections in Obuse, the town famed for chestnuts, using house-cooked kuri-an in everything from traditional kuri-kanoko and yokan to Mont Blanc and baked sweets. Its shops and eateries cluster in a restored quarter of old warehouses, drawing crowds each autumn for the seasonal Suzaku chestnut dessert. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Odaiba Tokyo
  Tokyo Bay’s entertainment island — Ferris-wheel retail, Gundam statue and waterfront malls. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ofuku Mochi Honke Futamiura, Ise
  Ofuku Mochi Honke has hand-pressed red bean mochi in Futamiura since the Edo period, more than 270 years ago, when the shop supplied pilgrims walking to Ise Grand Shrine near the Meoto Iwa rocks. It remains the town's original confectioner, still selling its namesake ofuku mochi alongside sesame-wrapped mokari mochi. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ogihara Yohoen (荻原養蜂園) Kyu-Karuizawa Main Street, Karuizawa
  Ogihara Yohoen keeps bees across the Shinshu region and sells its raw honey direct from a shop on Kyu-Karuizawa's main street, run by a beekeeper known locally as the 'bee-mustache uncle.' The shop lists its apiary sources and harvest details alongside the honey itself. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Oh My Glasses Tokyo Ginza, Tokyo
  Curated Japanese-made eyewear with meticulous craftsmanship. Offers face-shape analysis and complimentary eye exams by professional staff. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Okayama Denim Okayama / Japan / Online
  Direct from the source — Okayama-based, exclusive collaborations, and the online shop that connects the denim mills directly to international consumers. Known for hard-to-find Japanese exclusives. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Oke-Craft (オケクラフト) Oketo / Japan
  From the small Hokkaido town of Oketo, Oke-Craft gathers turned wooden tableware and cutlery made by two dozen independent workshops under a regional craft brand born in 1983. Bowls, plates, cups, and utensils are sold at the Forest Craft Center shop and through the official online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Olive no Mori Shodoshima / Japan
  Olive no Mori is the retail arm of Shodoshima Healthy Land, turning the island's olive harvest into skincare, food, and body-care lines sold from its Kagawa headquarters. The brand runs a full online shop and pop-up counters in department stores nationwide, alongside phone ordering for its olive-oil cosmetics and foods. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Omotesando Hills Tokyo
  Ando Tadao’s spiral retail monument — a six-storey atrium whose slope follows Omotesando Avenue and whose low-rise form meets the zelkova-lined streetscape, with shops arranged along the ramp. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Omoya Shuzo Iki Island, Nagasaki, Japan
  Omoya Shuzo has distilled on Iki since 1924, running two separate sites on the island: a main shochu brewery and a second facility at Yokoyama dedicated to sake made with local rice and spring water. Its black-koji barley shochu, sold as Chingu and Natsujojo, favors the founder's founding instinct to work against passing trends rather than chase them. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Omura-zushi Gion Omura / Japan
  For nearly half a century Gion has made and sold Omura's traditional pressed sushi on Route 34, keeping to the recipe of its founding. Buy the freshly made Omura-zushi to take away from the shop counter, or eat in at the adjoining restaurant. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Onao Ichikawa Daimon, Ichikawamisato, Yamanashi, Japan
  Onao has worked washi in Yamanashi's thousand-year-old Ichikawa Daimon papermaking district since around 1960, incorporating in 1974. Beyond shoji paper, its 2008 SIWA line with designer Naoto Fukasawa turns tear-resistant Naoron paper into bags and everyday objects. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Oni Japan
  The secret denim demon — reclusive weaver of "secret denim," the most irregular, natural-looking cloth in Japan — no site of its own; sold via specialist stockists such as Denimio. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Onibus Coffee Nakameguro Nakameguro, Tokyo
  Onibus roasts single-origin lots from Ethiopia, Guatemala, Colombia, and Kenya out of its Nakameguro shops, steps from the station. The company became a B Corp after a stated four-year certification process. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Oose Shoten Kagoshima City
  Oose Shoten has sold Oshima tsumugi, the mud-dyed silk woven on Amami Oshima for about 1,300 years, from its Kagoshima City shop since 1930. Beyond kimono bolts that can take months to weave, the shop sells everyday items made from the same handwoven, naturally dyed silk and runs factory tours and weaving demonstrations for visitors. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ooyagama Hagi, Yamaguchi
  Founded in 1969 at the foot of Mount Nichirin in southern Hagi, Ooyagama works in pottery, porcelain, and even ceramic jewelry. The kiln keeps its own gallery and shop for visitors browsing its Hagi ware. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Orgueil Japan
  Japanese denim label launched in 2012 as an offshoot of Osaka Five member Studio D'Artisan, blending early-20th-century European tailoring with American workwear; garments made in Japan. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Orient Tokyo, Japan
  Japan’s mechanical value king — the Bambino’s domed elegance and in-house movements under Epson. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Oriental Bazaar Omotesando, Tokyo
  Landmark souvenir shop on Omotesando selling traditional Japanese crafts since 1951. Kimono, ceramics, lacquerware, folding fans, and woodblock prints. store page → · open in the atlas →
• OrSlow Kojima, Japan
  Ichiro Nakatsu’s slow standard — 105 jeans and fatigue pants cut from vintage-loom fabric in Hyōgo. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Orslow 107 Ivy Kobe / Japan / Online
  The slim tapered — 1960s Ivy League inspiration, one-wash, comfortable from day one, and the Orslow model that is the easiest entry into Japanese denim. No break-in, no sizing drama. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Osaka Japan Folk Crafts Museum Shop Osaka / Japan
  At 10-5 Senri Expo Park in Suita, the museum shop curates mingei folk crafts such as Tamba and Onta pottery, hand-loomed Tamba cloth, Inshu washi paper, and household goods designed by Sori Yanagi. It also stocks the museum's own publications and catalogs, including works tied to founder Muneyoshi Yanagi's writings. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Oshino Hakkai Ikemoto Oshino / Japan
  Oshino Hakkai Ikemoto sits by the spring-fed ponds of Oshino Hakkai, making its kusa-mochi on the spot from domestic mochi rice, mugwort and Fuji spring water. Its shelves also hold Fuji-water tofu, soft-serve, fried kamaboko skewers, house sake and pickles for visitors to take home. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Oshu Gama Okawachiyama, Imari, Saga
  Oshu Gama fires natural celadon stone quarried around Okawachiyama into a signature glaze it calls Oshu Blue, a technique rooted in the valley's Nabeshima-clan ceramic history. The workshop makes both everyday tableware and standalone art pieces from the same local clay and mineral sources. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Oumamiya Honmachi, Gujo Hachiman
  Confectioner founded in 1887 whose signature nikki-dama are hard cinnamon candies boiled and shaped by hand in small batches. The Honmachi shop also sells black-cinnamon sweets under the Gujo brand label. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Oven Universe Sapporo
  Sapporo shop opened March 2021 in Chuo Ward selling imported vinyl, cassettes, risograph and silkscreen art books, zines, incense and small goods. store page → · open in the atlas →
• ozie Tokyo / Online
  Tokyo shirting specialist with an entire Italian-collar department — one-piece collar dress shirts in Japanese cotton under its Windsor Knot house label, made in Japan. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Pablo Cheesetart Various locations, Osaka
  Japan's 'half-baked' cheese tart — crispy pastry with a molten cheesecake centre that oozes when you bite. The Dotonbori flagship always has a queue. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Papier Labo. Nakameguro, Tokyo
  Boutique paper and printing studio making original notebooks, cards, and letterpress items. Custom printing services for events and businesses. The tactile quality of their paper goods is exceptional. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Parco Tokyo
  Tokyo's youth-culture department store founded 1973 in Shibuya, blending fashion, art, music, and subcultures; rebuilt and reopened 2019 with 600,000 monthly overseas visitors. store page → · open in the atlas →
• PASS THE BATON Tokyo / Omotesando / Online
  Masamichi Katayama's (Wonderwall) concept shop — curated vintage, artisan goods, and the Omotesando destination where heritage items find new owners with stories attached. The Omotesando PASS THE BATON destination described here has permanently closed. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Pelican Bakery (パンのペリカン) Asakusa, Tokyo / Japan
  Pelican Bakery has operated from the same corner of Tokyo's Asakusa district since 1942, when founder Takeo Watanabe opened what began as a general bread shop, Watanabe Bakery, in the Tawaramachi neighborhood. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Phenix Japan / Europe
  Japanese ski-apparel brand founded in 1952 by Kazuo Tajima, an early adopter of nylon skiwear in 1955; now the official technical-apparel supplier to Norway's Alpine ski team, with a Swedish Alpine team partnership beginning the 2024/25 season. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Pherrow's Tokyo, Japan
  Founded in 1991 by Masahiro Shimura, who had helped set up The Real McCoy's before striking out on his own with the L-2B flight jacket repro and the Stormy Blue denim line. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Pianola Records Shimokitazawa, Tokyo
  One of Shimokitazawa's many excellent vinyl stores. Specializing in jazz, soul, and rare grooves in a cozy, knowledgeable setting. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Pilgrim Surf+Supply Cat Street, Tokyo
  Brooklyn's design-forward surf shop, now with a Shibuya flagship opened through a partnership with Beams. Surfboards, apparel, and coffee under one roof. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Porter Yoshida Tokyo / Japan / Online
  Japanese bag manufacturer since 1935 — the Tanker series, nylon messenger bags, and impeccable Japanese bag craft. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Post Overalls Japan
  Takeshi Ohfuchi’s NY-Japan engineer poetry — the Post pants and cruiser jackets since 1993. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Postalco Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
  Postalco began in 2000 in Brooklyn and is now based in Tokyo. Its single Postalco Shop in Kyobashi carries the brand’s bags, wallets, key holders, stationery and clothing. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Pure Blue Japan Tokyo, Japan
  The slub kings — low-tension looms weaving the textured, electric indigo of Okayama legend. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Pure Blue Japan XX-003 Tokyo / Japan / Online
  The slubby straight — 14oz, irregular texture, deep indigo, and the Pure Blue Japan model that launched the slub revolution. The denim looks like it has personality before you even wear it. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Rainbow House Naha
  A five-story fabric and craft-supply store in Naha's Shurisueyoshicho district, Okinawa, stocking fabric, yarn, beads, ribbon and sewing notions across multiple floors; a fixture for local quilters, sewers and knitters. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Record Jungle Kanazawa
  An independent used and imported record store with LPs, singles, CDs and DVDs. Founded in 1983 and described as carrying about 100,000 titles. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Reijin Sake Brewery Suwa / Japan
  Reijin Sake Brewery, based at 2-9-21 Kita-Suwa in Suwa, Nagano Prefecture, sells its sake and shochu — including limited-edition and cask-aged bottlings — directly through its own online shop. The brewery also offers gift sets and seasonal releases timed to Japan's Obon and New Year holidays. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Remi Relief Japan
  Japanese vintage-wash label founded around 2007-2008 by designer Yutaka Goto, whose name blends 'remix' and 'relief.' Known for 'SP processing,' a technique replicating 1930s-60s sulfur-dye fading, applied to sweats, fleece and denim to mimic decades-old wear. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Resolute Japan
  One man, four fits — Yoshiyuki Hayashi’s 710, the perfected 1960s jean, nothing else needed. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Resolute 710 Tokyo / Japan / Online
  Hayashi's slim straight — 1960s Levi's inspiration, one-wash, and the Resolute model that captures the post-war American denim moment with Hayashi's lifetime of vintage knowledge. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Riku Matsuzaki (Kyoai) Oharano, Kyoto / Japan
  Home-grown, wood-ash-fermented indigo dyeing workshops from a small Oharano, Kyoto studio. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ring Jacket 2-7-3 Kita-Aoyama, Minato, Tokyo
  A Japanese tailoring house known for their soft-constructed suits and exceptional shirts. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Rivet Types in Japanese Denim Japan
  Copper rivets provide high-strength pocket reinforcement; iron rivets offer historically accurate period detail; hidden rivets reinforced back pockets from 1936-1966; and bar tacks largely replaced them after 1966. Warehouse documents these construction changes in detail. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Roppongi Tsutaya Books Roppongi, Tokyo
  Premium bookstore with an extensive art, design, and photography selection. Comfortable reading spaces and a Starbucks. Regular book signings and talks with authors and creatives. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Rosa Tateshina Tateshina / Japan / Online
  Rosa Tateshina turns rose petals grown on its own farm in Nagano's Tateshina highlands into a full line of licensed cosmetics, from rose lotion to essence, sold entirely through its online shop. The business holds Japan's official manufacturing and sales license for cosmetics (No. 40-15-02) and ships nationwide. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Rurian Glass Studios Nagasaki / Japan
  Near Glover Garden, Rurian keeps Nagasaki's 400-year vidro glassblowing tradition alive, mixing its own raw materials and shaping each piece by hand. Visitors can buy finished work through the shop and online store or book blowing, stained-glass and kaleidoscope workshops at the Matsugae-machi studio. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ryukyu Craft Gallery Keystone – Makishi Store Makishi
  Traditional-crafts gallery-shop in the Makishi district of Naha, Okinawa, selling Ryukyu glass, Tsuboya-yaki pottery, Bingata stencil-dyed textiles and other Okinawan artisan goods, alongside original tote bags and merchandise. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ryukyu Pearl Kabira, Ishigaki Island, Okinawa
  Founded in 1951 by Susumu Tokashiki at Kabira Bay, this pearl farm was the first in the world to successfully mass-produce black pearls, cultured from black-lipped oysters in the northernmost waters where the species grows. Its Kabira, Ishigaki and airport stores sell the black and South Sea pearls the company still farms and grafts by hand. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ryukyu Piras Ukishima-dori Store Ukishima-dori, Naha
  A local clothing and goods shop selling T-shirts and accessories created with Okinawan illustrators, dyers, potters, metalworkers, and other artists. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sacai Tokyo / Online
  Chitose Abe's hybrid label — deconstructed tailoring, layered fabrics, and Nike collaborations that sell out instantly. The most wearable avant-garde in Japan. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sacai Aoyama Tokyo
  Chitose Abe's boundary-pushing label known for deconstructed, hybrid garments. She fuses disparate pieces — a blazer with a MA-1, a dress with a shirt — creating entirely new forms. Now internationally acclaimed after collaborations with Nike. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Saiki Enka Honten Ichikawa Daimon, Ichikawamisato, Yamanashi, Japan
  Saiki Enka Honten has hand-built fireworks shells in Ichikawa Daimon for roughly 120 years and is credited locally as the originator of the elaborate Koshu-style fireworks displayed each August at the town's Shinmei Fireworks Festival. The company still designs, manufactures, and launches its own pyrotechnic programs from its workshop in a town ranked among Edo-era Japan's three great fireworks centers. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sakai Ichimonji Mitsuhide 2-20-8 Ochara, Sakai Ward, Sakai City, Osaka
  Sakai knife specialist since 1941 — hand-forged Japanese kitchen knives using centuries-old techniques. Custom fittings and engraving available. A chef's pilgrimage. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sakai Kikumori Sakai / Japan
  Sakai Kikumori is the brand of Kawamura Hamono Co., Ltd., founded in February 1926 as a wholesaler of Sakai knives and based at 3-1-7 Zaimoku-cho Higashi in Sakai-ku, Sakai City, Osaka — the same forging district as Aritsugu and Sakai Ichimonji Mitsuhide, but an independently run house. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sakai Takayuki Sakai / Japan
  Sakai Takayuki is the trading name of Aoki Hamono Seisakusho Co., Ltd., a blade manufacturer at 1-2-28 Zaimokucho-nishi in Sakai's historic cutlery district, the port city that has forged Japan's professional kitchen knives since the 16th century. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sake no Marukame Maruyama Main Store Maruyama, Sapporo
  A salmon specialist making and selling cured, dried, sashimi-style, and other processed products from wild Hokkaido salmon. The business was established in Sapporo’s Maruyama district in 1935. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sake Ya 3-4-8 Awaji, Yodogawa Ward, Osaka
  Rice wine specialist — rare seasonal sake from small breweries, served in beautiful ceramic vessels. Pair with seasonal small plates. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sample Kobo Hashimoto-cho, Gujo Hachiman
  Housed in a converted machiya in Gujo Hachiman's old town, this studio makes wax and vinyl food replicas and runs walk-in workshops where visitors mould their own tempura and lettuce. A retro gallery displays vintage samples alongside magnets, key straps and other finished pieces sold at the counter. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sample Village Iwasaki Gujo Hachiman
  Operated by Iwasaki Mokei Seizo, a Gujo food-sample manufacturer descended from the craft's local pioneers, this facility produces restaurant display replicas and hosts hands-on sessions making lifelike tempura and parfaits. The attached shop sells sample-based souvenirs ranging from sushi magnets to dessert accessories. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Samurai Osaka, Japan
  Osaka Five heavyweight — sword-embossed buttons and 15oz+ rope-dyed selvedge of denim-otaku devotion. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sanforization Japan / Global
  The pre-shrinking process — fabric is treated with water/heat/pressure before cutting to prevent post-wash shrinkage. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sano Fru (さのフル) Fuefuki, Yamanashi, Japan
  Sano Fru is a grower in Fuefuki's Ichinomiya district selling its own peaches and grapes by direct order and nationwide shipping. The farm packs sun-ripened fruit to order across the summer and autumn harvests. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sansuido Yukinoshita, near Tsurugaoka Hachimangu, Kamakura
  Sansuido has hand-carved and lacquered Kamakura-bori tableware since 1980, near Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine. Its trays, bowls and tea implements in katsura and magnolia wood continue a technique tracing to 12th-century temple carvers. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Santastic! Tokyo Harajuku, Tokyo
  Tokyo streetwear brand blending Japanese aesthetics with hip-hop and skate culture. Bold graphics and premium construction at accessible prices. A favorite among Tokyo's young creative crowd. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sanui Orimono Nishi Ward, Fukuoka
  Sanui Orimono weaves Hakata-ori silk at its workshop in Fukuoka's Nishi ward, turning the warp-faced cloth into obi, neckties, wallets and furoshiki. The company runs a gallery and airport shop alongside made-to-order commissions. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sapporo Coffee Kan Sapporo
  Sapporo Coffee Kan opened in 1982 as a coffee wholesaler, added charcoal roasting in 1984, and became a specialty retailer in 1989. Beans are sourced from farms including Brazil's Fazenda San Conrado; its signature product is a charcoal-roasted coffee yokan. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sapporo Niikuraya Main Store Tanukikoji, Sapporo
  A Japanese confectionery shop making and selling dango, mochi sweets, and wagashi using Hokkaido-grown beans and wheat. The Sapporo business was established in 1960 as an offshoot of Otaru Niikuraya. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sassafras Japan
  Japanese gardener-workwear poetry — botanical utility clothing of Tokyo cult status — famously no site of its own; via stockists like Blue in Green. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sato Suisan Headquarters Store Sapporo Station area, Sapporo
  A seafood processor’s retail headquarters specializing in traditionally cured and fermented products made from Hokkaido autumn salmon. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sawaya (沢屋) Kyu-Karuizawa, Karuizawa
  Sawaya has made preserve-style jam in Karuizawa since 1932, cooking each batch with whole seasonal fruit so pieces of strawberry or blueberry stay intact in the jar rather than breaking down. The company sells its full range from its Kyu-Karuizawa storefront and a newer shop at Karuizawa Station. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sazaby Kichijoji, Tokyo
  Japanese leather goods brand known for functional, beautifully crafted bags and accessories. Minimalist designs in high-quality materials that age gracefully. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Scye Japan
  Pattern-first Japanese tailoring — British cloth sensibility engineered in Tokyo since 2000. store page → · open in the atlas →
• SDA (Studio D'Artisan) Osaka / Japan / Online
  The pig and the archive — D1805 'Mount Fuji', the natural indigo programme, G3 denim (Guatemala × Memphis hybrid), the 40th anniversary collection, and the founding brand that keeps innovating five decades later. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sea Wash Japan / Global
  The ocean soak — wear jeans into the sea, rub with sand, let dry in sun, and the extreme fading technique that some Japanese denimheads swear by. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Seesaw Books Kita-ku
  Seesaw Books is a new-release bookstore in Sapporo's Kita ward, a minute's walk from Kita-18-jo Station behind UNTAPPED HOSTEL. It stocks a wide selection of independently published zines from across Japan. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sehei Gama (Imariyaki Sehei Kiln) Okawachiyama, Imari, Saga
  Sehei Gama produces Nabeshima and Imari ware from Okawachiyama and runs its own gallery and shop rather than selling solely through the village cooperative's outlet. Its site sets out company history, brand lineup and store locations directly rather than through a tourism intermediary. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Seibu Tokyo
  Seibu's Ikebukuro flagship traces to a 1940 relaunch by Yasujiro Tsutsumi; the 14-story store is among the world's largest department stores, with a food hall drawing about 70 million visitors a year. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Seiko Tokyo, Japan
  Japan’s watchmaking empire — the 1969 Quartz Astron that changed everything, Prospex divers, Presage craft. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sekaido Art Supplies Shinjuku, Tokyo
  Massive art supply emporium with everything from student-grade watercolors to professional oil paints. Multiple floors of brushes, canvases, markers, and Japanese paper. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Semba Motors Takaida-nishi 5-4-35, Higashi-Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
  Semba Motors is a long-running Higashi-Osaka specialist in vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycles, restoration, imported parts and related motorcycle sales. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Senba Toraya Osaka / Japan
  Senba Toraya is a wagashi maker of more than 90 years in Osaka's Bakuromachi, crafting and selling traditional and seasonal Japanese sweets from carefully chosen adzuki beans and rice, and counting Namba Shrine among its patrons. There is no dine-in space, though it added a summer-only shaved-ice offering enjoyed on the bench out front. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sendai Tansu Monmaya Sendai / Japan
  Monmaya has built Sendai tansu chests at its original workshop site for 140 years, making it the oldest surviving Sendai tansu maker, and its showroom occupies a registered cultural property building over a century old. The by-appointment showroom sells and restores Sendai tansu furniture, alongside a companion Garage Store selling one-off slab and solid-wood furniture. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sennichimae Mamemasa 11-20 Namba Sennichimae, Chuo Ward, Osaka
  Traditional bean shop since 1861 — roasted soybeans, flavoured peas, and seasonal 'o-mame' gift sets. The sesame-mochi coated beans are addictive. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Seno Crafts Asakusa, Tokyo
  Traditional Japanese craft shop in Asakusa with handmade pottery, textiles, and Edo-period-inspired objects. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Senshu-an Main Store Tanukikoji, Sapporo
  A Sapporo confectionery shop selling Japanese and Western-style sweets from its city-center main store. Senshu-an was established in 1921. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Seven Cedars Winery (7c) Fujikawaguchiko (Kawaguchi), Yamanashi
  A Kawaguchi winery that vinifies fruit from named local contract growers, printing each farmer and varietal on the label so a bottle traces back to a specific plot. Built to spotlight Yamanashi's small vineyards, it doubles as a villa-and-tasting destination beneath Mount Fuji. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shibuya 109 Tokyo
  The gyaru tower — Tokyo youth-fashion ground zero since 1979. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shibuya Hikarie Shibuya, Tokyo
  Sophisticated retail and cultural complex directly connected to Shibuya Station. ShinQs department store targets working women with refined taste. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shibuya Scramble Square Shibuya, Tokyo
  The tallest building in Shibuya with 213 shops across multiple floors. Home to the Shibuya Sky observation deck with 360-degree views. Features a mix of fashion, lifestyle, dining, and the inno. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shibuya Stream Shibuya, Tokyo
  Modern riverside development with carefully curated restaurants, cafés, and lifestyle shops. The outdoor terrace along the Shibuya River offers a rare moment of calm. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shijimaya Honpo Main Store Kanazawa
  A Kanazawa specialist in fermented and pickled foods. The main store presents regional fermentation traditions and gift products. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shimadzu Satsuma Kiriko Kagoshima City
  Shimadzu Satsuma Kiriko revives the faceted, color-graded cut glass first developed for the Shimazu clan in the 1850s, a technique that had lain dormant for roughly a century before the company restored it. Operated under Shimadzu Kogyo, its artisans hand-cut each sake cup, tumbler, and vase in the gradient style unique to Satsuma kiriko. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shimizu Mokuzai Nagiso (Minami-Kiso), Nagano, Japan
  Shimizu Mokuzai has processed local timber into hinoki bathtubs, sawara sushi tubs, and ohitsu rice containers in Nagiso since 1944, running production from raw log through finished piece in its own workshop. The company also cuts honoki and hinoki cutting boards and still repairs pieces it made and sold decades earlier. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shimokitazawa Tokyo
  Tokyo’s thrift-town — vinyl, curry, small theatres and the best secondhand hunting in Japan. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shimokitazawa Tollywood Shimokitazawa, Tokyo
  Independent cinema showing Japanese and international art house films. The tiny, 50-seat theater creates an intimate viewing experience. A cornerstone of Shimokitazawa's creative community since 1999. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shinshu Matsusaki Washi Omachi / Japan
  In Omachi, Shinshu Matsusaki Washi carries on a papermaking tradition dating to the eleventh century, working strong kozo fiber and pressed leaves into handmade washi. The workshop makes and sells washi homeware and interior goods and offers paper-making experiences. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shinya Mills Japan
  The texture specialist — slub yarns, nep effects, irregular weaves, and the mill that produces denim for brands obsessed with visual texture (Pure Blue Japan, Oni). store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shironameshi (Shin-Toshi Tannery) Himeji, Hyogo
  Shironameshi is Himeji's white-tanned leather, cured with only salt and rapeseed oil in a method more than a thousand years old and nearly lost until tanner Matomo Nitta revived it at his Shin-Toshi tannery from 2000. The site presents the pale, chemical-free hides and the shoes, bags and garments that designers now build from them. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shizukusa Gama Shimoda / Japan
  Shizukusa Gama is a small pottery studio and gallery in Shimoda, open most days from 10am to 4pm, where potters sell finished ceramics alongside hands-on pottery classes for visitors. The workshop's storefront doubles as its gallery, with wares displayed for browsing and purchase on site. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shodoshima Miki Seimen Shodoshima / Japan
  Shodoshima Miki Seimen hand-stretches somen noodles using the island's traditional techniques, selling them online and at pop-up stalls across Shikoku as well as through island retailers. The maker also stocks udon and fu-men alongside its signature somen. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shodoshima Olive Company Shodoshima / Japan
  Shodoshima Olive Company has grown and pressed olives on its own two-hectare Shodoshima orchard since 1950, turning the harvest into award-winning oils and skincare. The company runs two directly-operated retail shops in Kagawa plus a full online store shipping its olive products nationwide. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shohogama Higashisonogi / Hasami area, Nagasaki, Japan
  Shohogama produces Hasami-style porcelain tableware organized into pattern series such as ombre de fleur, blue series and marigold, spanning plates, bowls, mugs and cutlery. The kiln, based in Higashisonogi next to Hasami, sells directly through its official online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shokouzan Eiko Oi, Hagi
  Set beside the Sea of Japan in Hagi's Oi district, Shokouzan makes Hagi ware for the table and for flowers, balancing tradition with a contemporary hand. The kiln opens year-round from ten to five and ships mail orders through its own online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shoutaro Shiojiri / Japan
  Shoutaro Co., Ltd. makes Kiso lacquerware, commercial furniture, and wooden bathtubs from Kiso-Hirasawa, and in June 2022 launched an original lacquer-painted glassware line called Noree M's. The company also supplies fixtures such as droplet-prevention screens and takes part in the annual Kiso Lacquerware Festival. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Showaen Minami Alps / Japan
  Showaen is a fruit grower in Minami-Alps run by craftsman Kobayashi, specializing in Yamanashi peaches, grapes like Shine Muscat and Kyoho, and prized Kiyo plums. The farm sells its seasonal harvest direct by mail order, opening reservations each June, and also welcomes visitors for fruit picking. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shuri Ryusen Shuri, Naha
  A dyeing studio and shop selling bingata and coral-dyed accessories and kimono, with artisans working on site. Its coral-dyeing process is the studio's own technique, and the first-floor shop sells items made with bingata and coral-dyed designs. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shussai Kiln Shimane / Japan
  Shussai Kiln is the century-old pottery at the heart of Shussai Kurashi no Village, a small cluster of shops in Izumo that also includes a bakery cafe and a Kobe-born lifestyle store. The kiln's own direct-sale shop is open daily except Tuesdays, 9:30am to 6pm, selling its hand-thrown mingei tableware. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shuttle Loom Weaving Okayama / Japan
  The pre-1960s technology — the shuttle carries the weft yarn across the warp, creates the self-edge (selvedge), and produces denim with character that projectile looms cannot replicate. Most Japanese. store page → · open in the atlas →
• SIDE BY SIDE Shimokitazawa, Tokyo
  Vintage clothing and records shop hidden underneath stairs. Deep love for vintage design with really unique basics and Americana. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sidewalk Stand Nakameguro, Tokyo
  A canal-side coffee stand in Nakameguro, open since March 2015, pulling shots on a two-group La Marzocco. Bitter orange syrup, steeped in-house, is the signature. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Siesta Labo. Chuo-ku, Sapporo
  A soap workshop and shop selling handmade soaps, bath salts, and home fragrances made with natural ingredients, including materials sourced in Hokkaido. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Snow Peak Niigata / Tokyo / Online
  Niigata camping luxury — titanium ware and apparel elevating the outdoors to design object. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Snow Peak Aoyama Aoyama, Tokyo
  Japan's premium outdoor brand with beautifully designed camping gear, apparel, and titanium tableware. The Aoyama flagship is a design destination. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sorai Olive Farm Shodoshima / Japan
  Sorai Olive Farm has grown olives on Shodoshima since the mid-2000s, earning gold at the Olive Japan competition for its extra-virgin oil pressed from Mission, Coratina, and other varieties. The farm sells its oils and olive saplings through an online shop as well as a farm-side sales counter on the island. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sou Sou Osaka 4-3-20 Minamihorie, Nishi Ward, Osaka
  Kyoto-based textile brand — split-toe tabi shoes, bags, and clothing in bold Japanese patterns. Functional fashion that merges tradition with contemporary design. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sou-Sou Roppongi Tokyo
  Kyoto-based textile brand applying traditional Japanese patterns to modern clothing and accessories. Split-toe shoes, patterned garments, and fabric goods. The bold, graphic prints are instantly recognizable. store page → · open in the atlas →
• South2 West8 Tokyo, Japan
  Nepenthes' outdoor sub-label, founded 2002-03 by Kaname Nagaoka and named for its Sapporo, Hokkaido store address (Minami 2-jo Nishi 8-chome) - not Tokyo. Built around Tenkara fly-fishing gear reworked into pocket-heavy city outerwear. store page → · open in the atlas →
• space1-15 Odori West, Sapporo
  An old apartment building converted into small artisan-run shops and workshops selling ceramics, accessories, bags, books, records, clothing, and household goods. Individual rooms from the second through fifth floors operate as separate shops and studios. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Spiral Aoyama Aoyama, Tokyo
  Landmark design and cultural center with gallery spaces, a design shop, café, and restaurant. The attached Spiral Market carries curated homeware, stationery, and accessories. A hub for Tokyo's design. Established 1985. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Stained Glass DEN Kobuchisawa, Hokuto City
  Brothers Hiroshi and Satoshi Tabata hand-build stained glass clocks, wine-bottle lamps and custom panels at their workshop beside Resonare Yatsugatake in Kobuchisawa. The studio also runs hands-on sessions where visitors assemble their own stained glass pieces to take home. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Stand In Koshien Nishinomiya / Japan
  Tucked into the Koshien Plus complex near Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Stand In Koshien is a baseball specialty shop stocked with gloves, bats, and MLB gear for players of every level. Beyond the shelves, staff offer glove fitting, bat head-carving, embroidery, and custom-order simulations for gear tailored to each player's game. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Star of Hollywood Japan
  1950s American shirt label revived by Japan's Toyo Enterprises, founded in Tokyo in 1965 by Susumu Kobayashi. Produces chain-stitched rayon aloha and western shirts made in Japan, reproducing the label's original vintage patterns. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Steakland Sannomiya / Motomachi
  Steakland runs three teppanyaki counters near Sannomiya station — Kobe-kan, Kobe-ten and Yamasaki — grilling certified Kobe beef at prices below most honten-style restaurants. Chefs cook each course directly in front of diners at the counter, a format kept consistent across all three rooms. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Stevenson Overall Co. Japan
  Zip-fly heresy, hand-finish orthodoxy — American workwear rebuilt with tailoring-grade construction. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Stick Out Shimokitazawa, Tokyo
  Affordable vintage chain known for well-organized racks and fair pricing. Huge selection of denim, workwear, and basic vintage staples. The Shimokitazawa location is the largest and best-stocked. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Studio Mule Nakameguro, Tokyo
  Boutique record store and natural wine bar. Expertly curated vinyl selection that changes with the mood of the night. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Studious Jinnan Shibuya, Tokyo
  STUDIOUS Jinnan is a Shibuya multi-brand store devoted to Japanese labels, useful for discovering domestic designers that are not widely distributed abroad. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sublo Koenji, Tokyo
  Independent stationery shop and risograph printing studio. Original notebooks, cards, and prints by Japanese illustrators. Also offers printing services for artists and small publishers. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Suehirodo Nagoya / Japan
  Established in 1912, Suehirodo upholds the Nagoya folding-fan tradition, handcrafting ceremonial, dance, ladies' and gentlemen's sensu through each divided step of the craft. Fans are sold at its Nishi-ku shop, through a Rakuten online store and made to order as corporate gifts, with fan-making workshops on offer. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sugar Cane Japan
  Japanese workwear specialist using sugar cane fibre blends. Vintage Hawaiian shirts and military reproductions. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Suginoya Yakushima / Japan
  Suginoya is a Yakusugi woodcraft workshop and store one minute from Yakushima Airport, producing and selling crafts made from the island's ancient buried cedar. Visitors can also join a hands-on chopstick-making workshop led by the shop's craftsmen. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sugiura Tobo Shimoda / Japan
  Sugiura Tobo has displayed and sold potter Kenji Sugiura's work from its Shimoda storefront for 47 years, glazing pieces with a distinctive black Izu iron glaze made from local clay. The shop is open four days a week and welcomes browsers even when they aren't buying, though pieces are cash-and-carry only in person. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Suicoke Tokyo / Online
  Japanese sandal specialists — Vibram-soled, nylon-strapped, and unexpectedly fashionable. The sandal that made socks-and-sandals acceptable. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sumida Aquarium Shop Asakusa, Tokyo
  Unique aquarium shop with aquatic-themed gifts, educational toys, and marine-life-inspired design objects. Proceeds support marine conservation. The jellyfish-themed items are particularly beautiful. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sunday Issue Nakameguro, Tokyo
  Independent magazine and bookshop with a focus on art, photography, and culture publications. Excellent coffee and a quiet reading atmosphere. Regular events with photographers and editors. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Super Potato Akihabara, Tokyo
  The world's most retro video game store. Multi-floor paradise of Famicom, Super Famicom, Sega, PlayStation, and arcade cabinets. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Super Potato Osaka 3-8-9 Nipponbashi, Naniwa Ward, Osaka
  Retro video game shop — Famicom, Super Famicom, Mega Drive, Game Boy, and PlayStation 1 games, consoles, and accessories. Gaming nostalgia heaven. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Surugaya Kusatsu Onsen, Gunma, Japan
  Surugaya has traded in Kusatsu Onsen since 1935, and its signature item is Yokusei Kusatsu Onsen Happ, a bath powder made with the town's own hot-spring water for recreating the soak at home. The shop also prints original tote bags, towels and hand towels alongside its bath goods and souvenir sundries. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sustainability in Japanese Denim Okayama / Japan
  The slow fashion paradox — raw denim lasts 5-10 years (vs. 1-2 for fast fashion), natural indigo is biodegradable, but cotton farming is water-intensive. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Suzu Seien (珠洲製塩) Suzu / Japan
  Suzu Seien makes salt on the Noto Peninsula using traditional agehama and ryuka methods, some dating to the Muromachi period, at its production site at 13-17-2 Nagahashi-cho in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture. Its salt and natural nigari are sold through the company's online shop, with a separate sales office in Tokyo handling mail orders. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Suzukake Nakasu-Kawabata, Hakata, Fukuoka
  Suzukake has made Hakata wagashi since 1923, working from the teachings of first-generation master Saburo Nakaoka. The Nakasu-Kawabata main shop pairs a confectionery counter with a tearoom serving seasonal sweets that rotate monthly. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Suzuki's Guitars Shimokitazawa, Tokyo
  Family-run guitar shop specializing in vintage American and Japanese electric guitars. Fender, Gibson, and rare domestic brands at fair prices. store page → · open in the atlas →
• TAAKK Tokyo / Online
  Takuya Morikawa's label — oversized silhouettes, experimental fabrics, and a distinctly Japanese approach to contemporary menswear. Former Issey Miyake designer. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tabi no Kiseki (タビノキセキ) Itoshima, Fukuoka, Japan
  A small studio in Itoshima's Shimakoganemaru district hand-forms borosilicate-glass accessories and earthenware pieces, working glass that its maker describes as lighter yet stronger than conventional glass so pendants and jewelry hold up to daily wear. The shop also repairs its own pieces, including cracked ones, for a flat fee plus return shipping. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Taiichiro Kiln Okawachiyama, Imari, Saga
  Taiichiro Kiln works from Okawachiyama making indigo Nabeshima ware alongside contemporary pieces, including hand-built hina dolls and ceramic awamori bottles decorated with island and wave motifs. It also runs an on-site restaurant that serves food on its own tableware. store page → · open in the atlas →
• TAKAHIROMIYASHITA TheSoloist. Tokyo, Japan
  Boutique in Tokyo's Aoyama district for TAKAHIROMIYASHITATheSoloist., designer Takahiro Miyashita's label launched in 2010; opened in 2011 as 'grocerystore.', later renamed TakahiromiyashitatheSoloist.AOYAMA. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Takaokaya Honpo Himi, Toyama
  Takaokaya Honpo hand-stretches Himi udon, the thin, springy Toyama noodle it presents as the original local style, working from a shop on the shore of Toyama Bay. Bundles of dried noodles and gift sets ship year-round from the Himi premises. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Takara Records Kokusai-dori area
  A longstanding independent Naha record store carrying Okinawan music and wider genres. Established 1949. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Takashimaya Osaka 5-1-5 Namba, Chuo Ward, Osaka
  Upscale department store in Namba — international luxury, Japanese designer fashion, and an extraordinary depachika with wagashi, bento, and premium produce. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Takatori Hassen-gama (髙取八仙窯) 812-1 Oaza Koishiwara, Toho-mura, Asakura-gun, Fukuoka, Japan / Toho Village (Koishiwara) / Japan
  Hassen-gama is a Takatori-yaki kiln in the Enshū seven-kiln tea-ware lineage, with a public gallery at Koishiwara 812-1 open 9:00–17:00, closed Wednesday. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Takoyaki Glico 1-6-12 Dotonbori, Chuo Ward, Osaka
  Glico's official takoyaki shop beneath the running man sign — consistent quality, tourist-friendly, and the takoyaki is actually good. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Takumikan Takayama / Japan
  Takumikan occupies a three-floor building near Takayama's old town, combining a first-floor shop for its own TaKuMi craft woodware and Hida souvenirs with upper floors of Hida furniture from maker Shirakawa. Its wooden trays, vases, and accessories are also sold through the shop's Rakuten storefront for customers who can't visit in person. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tamashii Nations Akihabara, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
  TAMASHII NATIONS STORE TOKYO is Bandai Spirits’ official flagship shop near Akihabara Station. It sells TAMASHII NATIONS figures, including store-limited and general-release items. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tanukikoji Shopping Arcade Tanukikoji, Sapporo
  A kilometer-long covered shopping arcade with roughly 200 independent and chain retail, food, and service businesses. The arcade developed during Sapporo’s nineteenth-century frontier period. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Taragawa Miyakojima / Japan
  A Miyakojima awamori distillery founded in 1948, known for its Ryukyu Dynasty and Kuon labels aged in a cave storehouse. Visitors can tour the cellars at Sunagawa, and the full range sells through the official online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tasaki Shuzo Ichikikushikino, Kagoshima
  Tasaki Shuzo has distilled sweet potato shochu in Ichikikushikino for more than 130 years, built around a spring the founder sought out for its water quality. The distillery pioneered long-term cask aging of raw shochu in the region and still produces its flagship Satsuma Tanabata using rice grown on nearby terraced paddies. store page → · open in the atlas →
• TCB Kojima, Japan
  Two Cats Brand — Hajime Inoue’s Kojima factory recreating specific vintage Levi’s with archaeological accuracy. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tenjin Works Fukuoka / Japan / Online
  Leather and denim — vegetable-tanned leather jackets, the 'Birth' leather, and the Fukuoka brand that treats leather with the same obsessiveness that denim brands apply to fabric. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tenryu-gama Hagi, Yamaguchi
  Tenryu-gama, run by the Hattori family, produces plainly designed Hagi-yaki-plates, bowls, cups, teapots, and sake vessels-for daily use. The kiln sells directly through its online store and keeps a separate corporate site. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tenzan (太宰府参道 天山) By the first torii, Dazaifu sando
  Just past the first torii gate, Tenzan hand-makes Onigawara Monaka, pairing Hokkaido azuki paste with crisp glutinous-rice wafers shaped like the shrine's ridge tiles. Seasonal sweets follow the Amaou strawberry and chestnut harvests. store page → · open in the atlas →
• The Chino Revived Japan / Online
  Japanese chino specialists — army twill resurrected with Made-in-Japan precision; among the Japanese labels showing at Pitti Uomo. store page → · open in the atlas →
• The Flat Head Nagano, Japan
  Nagano’s dense-denim perfectionists — 3009 jeans engineered to fade into personal topography. store page → · open in the atlas →
• The Flat Head 'King of Slub' Nagasaki / Japan
  The XXX series — maximum slub, maximum nep, maximum texture, and the Flat Head denim that looks like it was woven on a broken loom (in the best possible way). store page → · open in the atlas →
• The Mother Garden Aoyama, Tokyo
  Curated lifestyle boutique in a converted Aoyama townhouse. Japanese and Scandinavian homeware, textiles, and natural skincare. The garden terrace hosts occasional pop-ups and workshops. store page → · open in the atlas →
• The Real McCoy's Tokyo, Japan
  Reproduction as religion — A-2 jackets, loopwheel sweats and military replicas indistinguishable from originals. store page → · open in the atlas →
• The Soak Japan / Global Practice
  The first wash — 30-60 minutes in lukewarm water, no agitation, hang dry, and the ritual that sets the indigo, removes starch, shrinks unsanforized denim to fit, and begins the fading journey. store page → · open in the atlas →
• The Strike Gold Kojima, Okayama / Japan / Online
  The Strike Gold is Klaxon’s Japanese denim brand, created in Kojima in 2007 by Yūji Hamamoto. Its jeans use original denim recipes and construction developed around long-term fading and texture, including current heavyweight selvedge models. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tightbooth Tokyo / Online
  Tokyo skate brand — graphic-heavy streetwear with Japanese skate culture at its core. Bold prints and skate-ready cuts. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tobeyaki Kanko Center Honoo no Sato (砥部焼観光センター炎の里) Matsuyama / Japan
  Run by the Senzan kiln, this Tobe centre sells hundreds of pieces of blue-and-white Tobe-yaki porcelain and offers hand-forming and painting workshops. The hillside complex also holds a café and a viewing deck over the town. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tohgoro Chawanzaka, Kyoto, Japan
  Tohgoro sells Kiyomizu-yaki ceramics from a gallery on Chawanzaka, the sloped lane leading to Kiyomizu-dera that has supplied the ware's potters for centuries. The shop curates pieces from working Kyoto ceramicists rather than mass production, rotating stock as individual kilns finish new work. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tojiro Tsubame / Japan
  Tojiro is a knife manufacturer in Tsubame, Niigata Prefecture — the Tsubame-Sanjo metalworking district that has produced Japanese nails, tools, and tableware since blacksmiths were invited there in the early Edo period, and which today supplies most of Japan's domestically made tableware. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokiwa Kissa 1-4-28 Nipponbashi, Chuo Ward, Osaka
  Showa-era kissaten (coffee house) — unchanged since 1960, with siphon coffee, classic jazz on vinyl, and elderly regulars reading newspapers. Time-travel to old Osaka. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokyo Art Beat Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Tokyo
  Community art space and gallery showcasing emerging Tokyo artists. Regular openings, workshops, and talks. The attached shop sells prints, zines, and artist-made goods. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokyo Bike Yanaka, Tokyo
  Minimalist urban bicycle brand with lightweight, beautifully designed city bikes. Flagship showroom with test ride area. The 'Tokyo Bike' has become a global symbol of urban cycling simplicity. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokyo Midtown Tokyo
  Roppongi’s design-forward complex — Suntory Museum, 21_21 Design Sight and refined retail. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokyo Pipe Ginza, Tokyo
  Specialist pipe and tobacco shop with Japanese-made briar pipes and curated international blends. The owner is a pipe collector who sources rare pieces. Smoking lounge for members. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokyo Skytree Town Asakusa, Tokyo
  Retail and entertainment complex at the base of the Tokyo Skytree. Over 300 shops including character goods, Japanese crafts, and specialty food. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokyu Hands Tokyo
  Japanese lifestyle retailer with multi-floor assortments spanning stationery, tools, craft, home goods, beauty, travel and hobby products in major city stores. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokyu Hands Osaka 1-7-1 Shinsaibashisuji, Chuo Ward, Osaka
  Creative lifestyle store — DIY supplies, kitchen gadgets, stationery, beauty tools, and bizarre Japanese inventions you never knew you needed. 8 floors of discovery. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokyu Hands Shinjuku Shinjuku, Tokyo
  The original creative life store with eight floors of DIY supplies, homeware, stationery, and quirky lifestyle goods. From woodworking tools to skincare to travel accessories. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Toshimaya Komachi-dori / Wakamiya-oji, Kamakura
  Toshimaya has baked its butter-rich hato sabure, a dove-shaped sablé biscuit, in Kamakura since the Meiji era, and the recipe and pigeon silhouette have stayed the local souvenir of choice ever since. The company operates multiple shops around the city and Kanagawa but remains a single family confectionery business rather than a national chain. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Toukazan-gama Hagi, Yamaguchi
  Toukazan, the kiln of potters Matsuo Sofu and Yuko, makes Hagi-yaki cups, bowls, plates, and dinner sets across a range of traditional glazes. The workshop pairs hand-throwing with contemporary forms and sells both in its shop and online. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Toukoubou Hiro (陶工房 浩) Tofuroᴍinami, Dazaifu
  A small pottery workshop and gallery in a residential quarter of Dazaifu where the potter throws simple everyday tableware including cups, plates, teapots, and tea bowls for Japanese and Western tables. Pieces are sold at the studio and through an online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tower Records Shibuya Shibuya, Tokyo
  Nine floors of music in the world's most record store. A Tokyo institution that refuses to die, with in-store performances and endless vinyl. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Toyo Enterprise Tokyo, Japan
  The vintage-reproduction mothership — Sugar Cane denim, Buzz Rickson flight jackets, Sun Surf alohas. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Toyooka Koubou Toyooka / Japan
  Toyooka Koubou is the retail brand of Oda Sei Co., a leather goods maker with over a hundred years of history in Japan's bag-making capital of Toyooka. The line focuses on simple, durable cowhide and Italian leather bags and wallets sold through its official online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Trader Akihabara Akihabara, Tokyo
  Used video game specialist with rare retro titles, import games, and gaming hardware. The three-floor shop is meticulously organized by console and genre. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Traveler's Factory Nakameguro, Tokyo
  A notebook lover's paradise. The Traveler's Notebook brand with customizable leather journals and a cozy, creative atmosphere. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Trophy Clothing Japan
  Tokyo motorcycle-Americana label founded in 2005 by Masaki Egawa; garments are made entirely in Japan, including its 'Dirt Denim' fabric woven on old power looms in Ibara, Okayama, sold from the Trophy General Store in Shibuya. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Trophy Clothing Denim Osaka / Japan / Online
  1606XX Dirt Denim — the 1960s reproduction, the Dirt colouring (natural soil wash), and the Osaka brand that adds an earthy, organic dimension to vintage reproduction. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsuda Mizuhiki (津田水引) Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
  Based in Kanazawa's Nomachi district, Tsuda Mizuhiki works in Kaga mizuhiki, the local style of decorative paper-cord tying used for noshi wrapping and celebratory gifts, and extends the craft into three-dimensional cord sculptures depicting seasonal motifs. The studio also makes mizuhiki jewelry and DIY kits, one of which earned a Kanazawa Brand Excellent New Product distinction, and offers hands-on cord-tying workshops. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsujiya Honten Tokyo / Japan
  Tsujiya Honten has fitted geta, zori and setta sandals to customers' feet in Asakusa since 1912, with resident craftsmen hand-lacing the thong (hanao) to each sole in about ten to fifteen minutes. Displaced from its longtime Denboin-dori shop by a rebuild, it is currently operating a temporary storefront in nearby Hanakawado. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsukemono Mikura Komachi-dori, Kamakura
  Mikura is a pickle specialist on Kamakura's Komachi-dori shopping street, selling tsukemono such as pickled eggplant, cucumber, radish and umeboshi plums by weight for tasting and takeaway. The shop lets browsers sample pickles before buying, a practice that has made it a regular stop on the pedestrian street leading to Tsurugaoka Hachimangu. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsurumi-gama (鶴見窯) 2514-3 Koishiwara-tsuzumi, Toho-mura, Asakura-gun, Fukuoka 838-1602, Japan / Toho Village (Koishiwara) / Japan
  Kiln opened Showa 49 / 1974 by Wada Yonetoshi; second generation Wada Yoshihiro still throws Koishiwara ware for daily use. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsuruya General Store Hirayu Onsen, Okuhida
  Run since April 1966 beside the Hirayu Onsen bus terminal, Tsuruya Shoten stocks Okuhida sake and shochu, hoba miso and Hida wagyu curry alongside its own hot-spring cosmetics blended with Tsuru-no-yu spring water. The shop also carries the area's soft-boiled onsen eggs, sansho spice blends and mineral bath salts drawn from the surrounding springs. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsutsumi-yaki Kenba Kiln Sendai / Japan
  Tsutsumi-yaki Kenba Kiln has fired Sendai's 300-year-old Tsutsumi pottery tradition using locally sourced clay and glazes, working from a kiln and exhibition hall in Izumi-ku on the edge of Sendai. Visitors can buy hand-thrown pieces directly at the exhibition hall, which is open daily, and arrange a look at the working kiln by request. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsuyuki Woodworking Hakone (Odawara)
  The Tsuyuki family workshop, in the Hayakawa district of Odawara at the foot of Hakone, produces marquetry tableware, trays and boxes including an original sunflower-field pattern. Its gallery shop displays the drawers, monochrome white-yosegi trays and desk pieces made behind it. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Uehara Meat Ichibamae Honten Makishi, Naha
  A butcher shop retailing Okinawan beef, pork, poultry, sausages, and prepared meat products near Makishi Public Market. Founder Zenshi Uehara began the business as a small retail butcher inside Makishi Public Market. Established 1955. store page → · open in the atlas →
• UES Japan
  Osaka-based Japanese workwear and denim label; the manufacturer began as a 1967 babywear maker, relaunched its heavyweight denim and tee line under designer Chuji Matsumoto, opened a Kobe flagship in 1997, and has been based in Osaka since 2014. store page → · open in the atlas →
• UES (Brand) Osaka / Japan / Online
  The flannel and tee specialist — heavyweight flannels (15oz), loopwheel T-shirts, and the Osaka brand that focuses on the garments you wear with your raw denim rather than the denim itself. store page → · open in the atlas →
• UES Heavy Flannel Osaka / Japan / Online
  The 15oz flannel — heavy Japanese cotton flannel shirts, the Nepenthes-adjacent aesthetic, and the Osaka brand that makes flannel substantial enough to stand next to raw denim. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Un Cafe Sucre (Karuizawa Roasting) Karuizawa
  Un Cafe Sucre traces back to 1998, when it opened as 'Mr. Beans' in Tokyo's Sumida ward under representative director Yuko Nirei. The company now roasts and sells beans from its own shop and factory in Karuizawa. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Un Cinq Nakameguro, Tokyo
  Vintage boutique in Nakameguro. A highly curated selection of French and European vintage clothing in a beautifully styled space. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Unazuki Brewery Unazuki / Japan
  Brewing since 1995 in Kurobe, Toyama with Tateyama snowmelt water and local barley, Unazuki Brewery serves four house beers, including a Rice Ale and the Kamoshika bock, at its 100-seat Beer Hall, plus malt barley tea and beer curry to go. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Undercover Tokyo / Online
  Jun Takahashi’s Undercover has spent three decades combining punk references, graphic streetwear and runway fashion in a Japanese label that moves between T-shirts, tailoring and conceptual seasonal collections. The useful distinction is the punk-meets-luxury design language and long evolution across streetwear and fashion, not an unsupported claim that Takahashi is 'the most influential Japanese designer you have never heard of.' store page → · open in the atlas →
• Undercover Aoyama Tokyo
  Jun Takahashi's influential brand blurring the lines between streetwear and high fashion. Punk-inspired collections with artistic, often political references. A defining voice in contemporary Japanese fashion. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Union Tokyo Tokyo
  Tokyo outpost of LA streetwear institution Union, opened 2018 in Jingumae/Harajuku (2-26-5 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku) by founder Chris Gibbs as a franchise with Japanese distributor Jack Inc., stocking Union's in-house line and partner labels like Fear of God and Brain Dead. store page → · open in the atlas →
• United Arrows Tokyo / Online
  Japanese multi-brand retailer and private label — the Japanese Barneys. Curated selection of global luxury with strong in-house lines. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Urakasumi (Saura Co.) Sendai / Japan
  Sake brewer Saura has crafted Urakasumi in the port town of Shiogama for three centuries, most famous for developing the widely used Association No. 12 yeast strain. The company runs its own "Urakasumi Sake Gallery" storefront alongside a dedicated online shop for its junmai ginjo and seasonal releases. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Urvin Okayama / Japan / Online
  The craft jeans maker — hand-finished details, custom hardware, small batch, and the Okayama brand that bridges artisan production with contemporary design. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Usui Orifu Tsu, Mie
  Usui Orifu has woven Ise cotton, a soft, breathable fabric first produced in the region during the mid-Edo period, on vintage Toyoda shuttle looms at its Tsu workshop. The mill turns its own bolts into kimono, pouches, and other everyday textiles rather than selling raw cloth alone. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Utsuboya Takayama, Gifu
  A confectioner in Takayama since 1890 making about thirty kinds of dagashi folk sweets from soybeans, sesame and peanuts, including its award-winning mameita bean crackers. The house also sells genkotsu kinako and black-sesame kokusen from its shop and online. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Vermicular House Takanawa, Minato, Tokyo
  Flagship showroom for Vermicular's enamel cast-iron cookware. Features an in-house restaurant where chefs demonstrate the pots' capabilities. Also offers cooking classes using their precisio. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Vest Pocket Sapporo
  An independent vintage and antique shop specializing in small objects and collectibles. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Village Vanguard Shibuya Shibuya, Tokyo
  Eclectic novelty store often described as 'the store that sells everything interesting.' Books, toys, accessories, home goods, and quirky Japanese inventions. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Visvim Tokyo / Online
  Hiroki Nakamura's artisanal label — hand-dyed indigo, natural materials, and footwear that costs as much as rent. The pinnacle of Japanese craft-driven fashion. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wabi-Sabi in Denim Japan
  Wabi-sabi offers one way to read denim’s irregular weave, indigo variation, wear and repair as accumulated character rather than manufacturing perfection. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wacko Maria Tokyo, Japan
  Tokyo streetwear label founded in 2005 by former J-League goalkeeper Atsuhiko Mori and Keiji Ishizuka, growing out of a Tokyo record store into leopard-print and aloha-shirt fashion rooted in music and film culture. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wacoal Kyoto
  Japanese fit science since 1949 — engineering-grade bras of Kyoto precision. Stocked at Galeries Lafayette in Paris. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wajima-nuri Daiou Wajima / Japan
  Wajima-nuri Daiou plans, produces, and sells its own lacquerware from a shop on Route 249 in Wajima, open every day of the year from 8:30am to 7pm. The shop also takes custom orders and repairs, drawing on decades of in-house craftsmanship in wood-base carving, undercoating, and gold-and-silver decoration. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wajimanuri Studio RAKU Wajima / Japan
  Tucked in the countryside outside Wajima city, this small studio is one of the few workshops that carries out every stage of Wajima lacquerware, from undercoating to final polish, under one roof. Master craftsman Rikio Hikimochi and his family sell tea utensils and everyday lacquerware pieces from the studio, alongside repair and custom-order services. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wakamatsu Olive Farm - Okashi to Kurashi no Mono Rita (お菓子と暮らしの物 りた) Itoshima, Fukuoka, Japan
  Wakamatsu Farm converted a former lumber warehouse in Itoshima into a farm-direct shop and cafe selling its own olive-leaf lattes, natural-yeast pizzas, and baked goods alongside olive oil and other harvest products. The operation covers growing, processing, and retail itself, built around what it calls a philosophy of working with air, water, and microorganisms rather than against them. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wako Ginza Ginza, Tokyo
  Recognizable by its landmark clock tower. An exceptional selection of fine watches, jewelry, and meticulously crafted objects since 1881. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Warehouse Osaka / Japan / Online
  The archaeologists of denim — Kenichi and Koji Shiotani's obsessive reproduction of vintage Levi's down to the thread count, rivet shape, and fabric irregularities. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Warehouse & Co. Japan
  The fabric archaeologists — Osaka twins re-engineering 1940s American cotton down to the slub. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Watanabe Nouen (渡辺農園) Fuefuki, Yamanashi, Japan
  Watanabe Nouen farms organically in Fuefuki's Misaka district, raising peaches and grapes for direct sale and pick-your-own visits. The orchard ships its fruit straight to customers through the growing season. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wazan Hasami (Shikisase), Nagasaki, Japan
  Wazan is a Hasami kiln in the Shikisase area producing bowls, plates, cups and single-flower vases across collections such as Modern Matte, Ronde and Flower Parade. Its premises include an outlet shop, and its tableware also reaches customers through Rakuten and other channels. store page → · open in the atlas →
• WEGO Harajuku Harajuku, Tokyo
  Harajuku's go-to for affordable, trend-driven street fashion. The place where Japanese youth culture finds its uniform. store page → · open in the atlas →
• White Mountaineering Tokyo, Japan
  Yosuke Aizawa’s outdoor couture — Gore-Tex with runway patterning, technical fabric as luxury. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wife & Husband 2-8-27 Nishitenma, Kita Ward, Osaka
  Tiny coffee shop that rents picnic sets — buy coffee, borrow a blanket and basket, and walk to the nearby Nakanoshima riverbank for an impromptu picnic. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wild Things Tokyo / Online
  Tokyo-based Japanese line of the American alpine brand Wild Things (founded 1981, New Hampshire), reworking its military and mountaineering gear - insulated parkas, Primaloft pieces - through a streetwear lens tied to Tokyo's Ura-Harajuku scene. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Workman Japan
  Japan’s workwear phenomenon — pro-grade technical clothing at astonishing prices, now streetwear-adopted. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Workshop Nuriton Yaese, Okinawa / Japan
  Workshop Nuriton is a small Okinawa studio working in two adjoining crafts, Ryukyu lacquerware and woodworking, based at Nakaza in Yaese Town, Shimajiri District — a rural district south of Naha, distinct from the Kokusai-dori tourist-shop corridor most Ryukyu lacquerware retail is concentrated in. store page → · open in the atlas →
• WTAPS Tokyo / Online
  Tetsu Nishiyama's military-inspired label — the most respected name in Japanese streetwear. Clean lines, functional details, and an aesthetic that influenced a generation. store page → · open in the atlas →
• WWWP Shibuya, Tokyo
  Underground concept store blending streetwear, art, and music culture. Rotating exhibitions and limited product drops create a sense of urgency. A hub for Tokyo's creative underground scene. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Y-3 Japan / Germany
  Yohji’s Adidas — the 2002 collaboration that invented luxury sportswear, still fashion’s sharpest three stripes. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yabeya Konomi Honke / Konomien (矢部屋 許斐本家／このみ園) 126 Motomachi, Yame-shi, Fukuoka 834-0031, Japan / Yame / Japan
  Tea merchant from Hoei era (1704–1710); 14th-generation Konomi Hisayoshi still sells from a Yame City tangible cultural-property townhouse at Motomachi 126. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yachiya Sake Brewery Kanazawa
  A historic Kanazawa sake brewery with shop, tours and tastings. The merchant house and brewery preserve Edo-period fabric and traditional craft details. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yaesen Shuzo 1834 Ishigaki, Ishigaki City, Okinawa
  Established in 1955 on a hilltop overlooking the Yaeyama islands, this awamori distillery still uses traditional direct-flame pot-still distillation while pairing it with long-term aging in western oak barrels, a combination it pioneered locally. Alongside its core awamori it now also makes habu-snake liqueur, fruit wine and vinegar, and runs distillery tours and tastings from its Ishigaki City plant. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yahagi Yoshu (矢作洋酒) Fuefuki, Yamanashi, Japan
  Yahagi Yoshu traces its Fuefuki roots to 1914 and specialises in additive-free wine grown under chemical-free viticulture in the Ichinomiya district. The small family winery bottles and sells its natural wines directly to visitors and by telephone order. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yamada-Shunkei Takayama, Gifu
  Yamada Shunkei-ten, founded in 1971 in Takayama, produces Hida Shunkei lacquerware, a clear-lacquer finish said to originate about 400 years ago under craftsman Takahashi Kishichiemon. It makes trays, bento boxes, chopsticks and tableware in transparent amber lacquer. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yamada-ya Miyajima, Hiroshima
  A long-established Miyajima confectioner, Yamada-ya bakes momiji manju and is known for Toyoka, a chewy maple-leaf cake wrapped in a thin skin around chunky adzuki bean paste. The company runs its own directly operated shops around Hiroshima and offers hands-on baking sessions at its Miyajima main store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yamadai Okura Nagiso / Japan
  Yamadai Okura hand-turns bowls, tea caddies, dishes and tea chests on the lathe in Nagiso, Nagano, following the region's rokuro woodworking tradition, selecting and finishing each piece by hand to show the timber's natural grain, sold from its shop and online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yamaga Toro (Washi Kogei Yamaga Toro) Yamaga, Kumamoto
  Yamaga toro are paper lanterns built entirely from handmade washi and paste, with no wood, wire or metal, a technique refined over more than 500 years in this castle town north of Kumamoto City. The Yamaga Toro Promotion Society trains the toro-shi who keep the craft alive and sells finished lanterns alongside the adjoining folk museum's historic examples. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yamamoto Kansai Boutique Shinjuku, Tokyo
  The flamboyant Japanese designer's boutique showcasing his bold, theatrical creations. Colorful, avant-garde pieces that embody the exuberant spirit of 1980s Japanese fashion. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yamashiroya Ueno, Tokyo
  Massive 6-floor toy and hobby emporium across from Ueno Station. Action figures, models, games, character goods, and collectibles. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yaseuma Honpo Taguchi Kashiho (やせうま本舗田口菓子舗) Oita / Online
  This Oita confectioner reworks the local yaseuma dish into bite-sized wagashi, wrapping self-roasted, self-milled kinako filling in soft gyuhi. Free of preservatives and colorings, the sweets are ordered online and finished by hand with shichitou-i grass ties. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yohei Fukuda Aoyama, Tokyo
  One of Japan's finest bespoke shoemakers. Hand-welted shoes of exceptional quality made in a small Tokyo workshop. Appointment required. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yokota Pearl Chuo-ku (Hanakuma-cho)
  Yokota Pearl sells akoya pearl jewelry from a shop in Kobe's Hanakuma-cho, near JR Motomachi and Hankyu Hanakuma stations, in a city that has processed and traded pearls since the early twentieth century. The company sources and sets its own necklaces, earrings and rings under its own name rather than reselling through wholesalers. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yokoyama Shirt 2-13-5 Higashi-Ginza, Chuo, Tokyo
  A bespoke shirtmaker in Tokyo's Ginza district who trained in Naples before returning to Japan. Yokoyama's shirts are a fascinating fusion: Neapolitan softness with Japanese precision. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yoneshima Shuzo Kumejima Town
  Founded in 1948, Yoneshima Shuzo has distilled awamori on Kumejima for more than seven decades, producing small-batch lines such as Chura Botaru and Hoshi no Akari. The distillery pairs its spirits with local oysters and seasonal foods in gift sets sold through its own online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yoshimura Seimen Shinkamigoto (Nakadori Island)
  A Shinkamigoto noodle workshop making Goto tenobe udon, in which each batch is drawn out by hand in the region's traditional hand-stretching method. The range runs across four labels, Kiyo, Sui, Jun and Umakaccho, sold in 200 to 250 gram bundles through the shop's own store and mail order. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yubokumin (遊木民) Kita 7-jo Nishi 19-chome-1, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0007 / Sapporo / Japan
  Shop-plus-workshop opened 2016; father Takuji Kawaguchi founded woodcarving wholesaler Takusho in 1986; son Naoto carves on site. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yuko Tsuji Pottery Studio Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi
  Ceramic artist Yuko Tsuji fires nine-colour glazed, Kutani-style vessels at her Fujikawaguchiko kiln, where finished pieces are sold and wheel or hand-building classes run. The studio operates from the architect-built DEGU workshop near the lake. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yuriya Seienjo (Nmaka Shio) Goto Islands
  A small Goto salt works selling its Nmaka-shio sea salt, drawn from the surrounding waters and offered in 80, 180 and 500 gram sizes as well as discounted bulk lots. The operation runs its own shop under the Salt Meister banner rather than through a marketplace reseller. store page → · open in the atlas →
• かぼちゃん農園 (Kabochaan Farm) Fujimi, Nagano
  At the foot of the Yatsugatake range, this family farm grows Fujimi's prized red rhubarb with organic fertilizer and reduced pesticides, then works the crimson stalks into jam, juice, puree, and frozen and dried preparations. Their own hybrid, Fujimirubee 53, was bred to deepen the fruit's ruby color and gentle tartness. store page → · open in the atlas →
• 八ヶ岳カントリーキッチン (Yatsugatake Country Kitchen) Fujimi, Nagano
  In the Yatsugatake foothills of Fujimi, this long-running country complex bakes bread in a wood-fired stone oven beside a café-restaurant, a shop, and a rental gallery. The loaves lean on slow-proved dough for the toasty, fragrant crust the ovens are known for. store page → · open in the atlas →
• 富士見町ルバーブ生産組合 (Fujimi Red Rhubarb Production Cooperative) Fujimi, Nagano
  Formed in 2006 to bring fallow highland fields back into use, this cooperative of Fujimi growers cultivates red rhubarb at around 1,000 meters and sells the stalks fresh alongside their own jams and processed goods. Autumn harvest reservations and hands-on picking sessions round out a project rooted in the town's cool Yatsugatake plateau. store page → · open in the atlas →
• 菓子工房 ル・キャトル・セゾン (Les Quatre Saisons) Fujimi, Nagano
  This small Fujimi patisserie bakes cakes and French confections each morning around seasonal fruit and Yatsugatake-grown ingredients, working between its shop counter and a separate LABO workshop. The counter opens Tuesday through Saturday, closing on Sundays and Mondays. store page → · open in the atlas →

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