Japan — Page 2

• 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 →

• 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 →
• 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 →
• 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, 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 →

• 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 →

• Hachijojima Shuzo Okago, Hachijojima
  Founded in 1915, this Okago brewery is a 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 house for hoto — the region's flat wheat noodles stewed with pumpkin and vegetables in miso broth, across four lakeside branches. The north main store is a landmark of billowing white shells by the 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. 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
  A 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 a sake brewery 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 →

• 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
  GARB DOMINGO selects Okinawan and Japanese pottery, lacquerware, bingata textiles and glass in Naha. Maker-led presentation helps shoppers distinguish regional techniques and choose contemporary craft with clear authorship. 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
  Katani sells gold-leaf-decorated craft objects and materials from its Kanazawa workshop. Hands-on sessions let visitors apply leaf themselves, turning the stop into both a purchase and a technique demonstration. 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 →
• 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 →
• Goldwin Toyama, Japan
  Toyama technical refinement — the minimalist ski-and-city line that runs The North Face Japan. Production is associated with Japan, while the range centers on experimental sustainable design; Refined outdoor, skiwear; Ski wear. 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
  This large Japanese outlet center brings 290 stores together beneath views of Mount Fuji. 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 →
• 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 in 2005, as recorded in Hakuhodo's company history, 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
  Hakuichi’s Higashiyama store sells gold-leaf tableware, accessories, cosmetics and decorative crafts. The range demonstrates how Kanazawa leaf moves from traditional ornament into practical gifts and contemporary surfaces. 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 →
• 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 →
• 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 →
• 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
  Seven floors of Japanese and international designers in Shinjuku, with the 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 →
• 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 →

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