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- 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 →
Heritage House · 25
- 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 → - 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 → - 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 official sake purveyor to the Date clan of Sendai, Katsuyama still brews in Izumi-ku by methods handed down with the house. Its junmai and ginjo sell through its own shop online and a network of listed retail partners. 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 a Japanese maker 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 — a Japanese mill (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 →
Hidden Gem · 12
- 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 makes 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
Kosawa prepares additive-free himono in Atami and sells the dried fish directly from its shop. The available registry copy already states the verifiable substance, and indexed sources did not support a more specific service or process detail. 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 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 →
Worth a Detour · 6
- 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 a Kutani-yaki kiln 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 → - Kyoto Museum of Crafts and Design Kyoto / Online
The permanent exhibition explains all 74 categories of Kyoto traditional craft through objects, panels, video and touchscreens. Demonstrations by local artisans accompany the displays, and price-tagged examples can be purchased. store page → · open in the atlas →
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- 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
Japan Blue is Kojima’s value virtuoso — Momotaro’s sibling delivering Japanese selvedge at entry-honest prices. The range centers on entry selvedge, Kojima denim, with production associated with Japan. 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
Junya Watanabe is Comme des Garçons' technical poet — Rei Kawakubo's protégé, given his own label under the CdG umbrella in 1992 and a menswear line in 2001, and long since a master in his own right. 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; its KUROUMA taru won double gold at the 2021 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, according to the distillery. 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 → - 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 → - 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 → - 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 → - 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 → - 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 → - Kayaba Bakery Yanaka, Tokyo
Kayaba Bakery makes natural-yeast breads and seasonal pastries in a restored Yanaka townhouse. The counter suits take-away food shopping, while coffee and seating add a small hospitality element. 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
Kinotoya Shiroishi Honten is Sapporo's representative Western pastry house; founding shop on Nango-dori in Shiroishi. The range centers on fresh house baking and regional pastry, with production associated with Japan. 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
Koenji is 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 →