Japan — Page 6

• Sinano Wine Shiojiri / Japan
  Sinano Wine has crafted wine, juice, and brandy from Kikyogahara grapes in Shiojiri since its founding in 1916, now run by the fourth generation of the same family. The winery sells its full lineup through a dedicated online shop and takes phone and fax orders directly from its Nagano address. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Suzuzen (Aizu Lacquerware Heritage Museum) Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima / Japan
  Suzuzen traces its founding to 1832, when it operated as Suzuki-ya Lacquerware Shop, an official merchant to the Aizu domain's ruling household. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Takashimaya Tokyo
  Takashimaya's Nihombashi department store brings a broad shopping selection to central Tokyo. The company began as a Kyoto clothing shop in 1831, well before its Tokyo department-store history. Choose the Nihombashi branch when planning your visit, since Takashimaya operates separate stores across Japan. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tatsumura Textile Nishijin, Kyoto, Japan
  Tatsumura Textile has woven brocade in Nishijin since 1894, when founder Heizo Tatsumura began reconstructing textile patterns held in the Shosoin imperial repository. The house went on to weave ceremonial cloth for imperial enthronements and collaborated with Christian Dior, work still referenced in its current jacquard collections. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Toraya Ichijo, Kyoto, Japan
  Toraya has made wagashi since the early 16th century, when it began supplying confections to the imperial court in Kyoto before following the court to Tokyo in 1869. Its Kyoto Ichijo shop, near the old Imperial Palace, still occupies ground tied to that founding relationship and sells confections shaped to the season. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsuen Tea Uji / Japan
  Tsuen Tea dates to 1160, when its founder — a retainer who had left service to build a hermitage at the eastern end of Uji Bridge — began offering tea to travelers crossing it. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsujikura Kyoto / Japan
  Tsujikura traces back to 1690, when Yamashiro-ya Jinshichi began making and selling umbrellas in Kyoto; the shop is now in its 17th generation and describes itself as Japan's oldest working wagasa maker. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsuruya Hachiman Osaka / Japan
  Tsuruya Hachiman has made wagashi at Osaka's Koraibashi since 1863, carrying on the recipes of an older Kyoto-style confectioner. The shop mills and cooks its own bean paste in house, selecting materials for each sweet from decades of experience. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ueba Esou Kyoto / Japan
  Ueba Esou has made and sold natural pigments for Japanese-style painting from the same corner of Kyoto's Shimogyo Ward since 1751. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Victoria Tokyo
  Spain’s sneaker of the people since 1915 — Gregorio named them for his wife in a Rioja village; vulcanized canvas that shod every Spanish summer since the seventies. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Watanabe Shuzo Honten Tsurajima, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
  Founded in 1909 in Kurashiki's Tsurajima district, Watanabe Shuzo Honten brews using Bitchu toji craftsmanship handed down through the region's brewing guild. Its Yume Kurashiki and Sasa labels span junmai daiginjo to kimoto-method junmai. store page → · open in the atlas →

• SOU・SOU Shinkyōgoku alleys, Kyōto / Online
  Kyōto pop-modern — split-toe tabi sneakers and textile prints that put festival colors on the street; a cluster of tiny shops down one alley. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Takahama-yaki Jubo Kiln Takahama, Amakusa, Kumamoto
  A historic Amakusa kiln producing Takahama-yaki, the prized white porcelain thrown from the region's high-purity pottery stone. The craft here reaches back to the Edo period. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokiwagi Yohkanten Sohonten Izusan, Atami, Shizuoka
  Official confectioner to Izusan Shrine, this historic wagashi maker is best known for its Tsurukichi yokan. The sweet bean jelly anchors a range of traditional Japanese confections. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokyu Kobo (Tokyukobo) Igo, Amakusa City, Kumamoto
  Potter Masashi Sueishi runs this Amakusa studio, specialising in kohiki, white slip laid over dark clay. The everyday tableware is made to sit quietly alongside daily life. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ubusuna Japan / Online
  Japanese craft label named for the ubusuna — the guardian spirit of one’s birthplace; Pitti-shown clothing rooted in native-place tradition. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Uchinaa Tea House and Gallery Buku-buku Tsuboya
  On Naha's Yachimun Street, this tea house and gallery serves bukubuku-cha — a frothy Okinawan tea whisked from roasted rice and sanpin (jasmine) tea, once served in the Ryukyu royal court — in handcrafted local pottery, alongside traditional sweets. store page → · open in the atlas →

• Tottori Folk Crafts Museum & Takumi Kogei-ten Tottori / Japan
  Tottori Takumi Kogei-ten has sold folk-craft pottery, glass, woodwork and textiles from around Japan since 1932, Japan's first dedicated mingei shop, named by folk-craft movement founder Soetsu Yanagi and standing beside the Tottori Folk Crafts Museum founded by Shoya Yoshida. The shop sells in person on Sakaemachi street and through its own online store. store page → · open in the atlas →

• Silver Art Kaori Japan
  A jewelry workshop making silver pieces set with gemstones such as synthetic ruby and star sapphire, using hand-chiseling and engraving techniques developed over 30 years, with ateliers in Morioka, Urawa and Suginami offering custom orders and jewelry-making classes. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Snow Peak Niigata / Tokyo / Online
  Snow Peak focuses on Niigata camping luxury, titanium ware and apparel elevating the outdoors to design object. Production is associated with Japan, while the range centers on titanium campware and technical outdoor apparel. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Snow Peak Aoyama Aoyama, Tokyo
  Japan's premium outdoor brand with beautifully designed camping gear, apparel, and titanium tableware. The Aoyama flagship is a design destination. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sorai Olive Farm Shodoshima / Japan
  Sorai Olive Farm has grown olives on Shodoshima since the mid-2000s, earning gold at the Olive Japan competition for its extra-virgin oil pressed from Mission, Coratina, and other varieties. The farm sells its oils and olive saplings through an online shop as well as a farm-side sales counter on the island. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sou Sou Osaka 4-3-20 Minamihorie, Nishi Ward, Osaka
  Kyoto-based textile brand — split-toe tabi shoes, bags, and clothing in bold Japanese patterns. Functional fashion that merges tradition with contemporary design. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sou-Sou Roppongi Tokyo
  Kyoto-based textile brand applying traditional Japanese patterns to modern clothing and accessories. Split-toe shoes, patterned garments, and fabric goods. The bold, graphic prints are instantly recognizable. store page → · open in the atlas →
• South2 West8 Tokyo, Japan
  Nepenthes' outdoor sub-label, founded 2002-03 by Kaname Nagaoka and named for its Sapporo, Hokkaido store address (Minami 2-jo Nishi 8-chome) - not Tokyo. Built around Tenkara fly-fishing gear reworked into pocket-heavy city outerwear. store page → · open in the atlas →
• space1-15 Odori West, Sapporo
  An old apartment building converted into small artisan-run shops and workshops selling ceramics, accessories, bags, books, records, clothing, and household goods. Individual rooms from the second through fifth floors operate as separate shops and studios. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Spiral Aoyama Aoyama, Tokyo
  Landmark design and cultural center with gallery spaces, a design shop, café, and restaurant. The attached Spiral Market carries curated homeware, stationery, and accessories. A hub for Tokyo's design. Established 1985. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Stained Glass DEN Kobuchisawa, Hokuto City
  Brothers Hiroshi and Satoshi Tabata hand-build stained glass clocks, wine-bottle lamps and custom panels at their workshop beside Resonare Yatsugatake in Kobuchisawa. The studio also runs hands-on sessions where visitors assemble their own stained glass pieces to take home. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Stand In Koshien Nishinomiya / Japan
  Tucked into the Koshien Plus complex near Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Stand In Koshien is a baseball specialty shop stocked with gloves, bats, and MLB gear for players of every level. Beyond the shelves, staff offer glove fitting, bat head-carving, embroidery, and custom-order simulations for gear tailored to each player's game. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Star of Hollywood Japan
  1950s American shirt label revived by Japan's Toyo Enterprises, founded in Tokyo in 1965 by Susumu Kobayashi. Produces chain-stitched rayon aloha and western shirts made in Japan, reproducing the label's original vintage patterns. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Steakland Sannomiya / Motomachi
  Steakland runs three teppanyaki counters near Sannomiya station — Kobe-kan, Kobe-ten and Yamasaki — grilling certified Kobe beef at prices below most honten-style restaurants. Chefs cook each course directly in front of diners at the counter, a format kept consistent across all three rooms. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Stevenson Overall Co. Japan
  Zip-fly heresy, hand-finish orthodoxy — American workwear rebuilt with tailoring-grade construction. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Stick Out Shimokitazawa, Tokyo
  Affordable vintage chain known for well-organized racks and fair pricing. Huge selection of denim, workwear, and basic vintage staples. The Shimokitazawa location is the largest and best-stocked. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Studio D'Artisan Kyoto Kyoto / Japan
  The Kyoto outpost — the ancient capital meets raw denim, the D'Artisan Kyoto-exclusive items, and the shop that bridges Japanese tradition with denim craft. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Studio Mule Nakameguro, Tokyo
  Studio Mule combines a curated record shop with a natural-wine bar in Nakameguro. Vinyl retail is genuine, but evening hospitality shapes the atmosphere and may influence opening hours. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Studious Jinnan Shibuya, Tokyo
  STUDIOUS Jinnan is a Shibuya multi-brand store devoted to Japanese labels, useful for discovering domestic designers that are not widely distributed abroad. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sublo Koenji, Tokyo
  Independent stationery shop and risograph printing studio. Original notebooks, cards, and prints by Japanese illustrators. Also offers printing services for artists and small publishers. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Suehirodo Nagoya / Japan
  Established in 1912, Suehirodo upholds the Nagoya folding-fan tradition, handcrafting ceremonial, dance, ladies' and gentlemen's sensu through each divided step of the craft. Fans are sold at its Nishi-ku shop, through a Rakuten online store and made to order as corporate gifts, with fan-making workshops on offer. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sugar Cane Japan
  Sugar Cane reproduces American workwear and denim while experimenting with sugar-cane fibre blends. The wider range includes military pieces and Hawaiian shirts, so each sub-line has its own historical reference. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Suginoya Yakushima / Japan
  Suginoya is a Yakusugi woodcraft workshop and store one minute from Yakushima Airport, producing and selling crafts made from the island's ancient buried cedar. Visitors can also join a hands-on chopstick-making workshop led by the shop's craftsmen. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sugiura Tobo Shimoda / Japan
  Sugiura Tobo has displayed and sold potter Kenji Sugiura's work from its Shimoda storefront for 47 years, glazing pieces with a distinctive black Izu iron glaze made from local clay. The shop is open four days a week and welcomes browsers even when they aren't buying, though pieces are cash-and-carry only in person. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Suicoke Tokyo / Online
  Japanese sandal specialists — Vibram-soled, nylon-strapped, and unexpectedly fashionable. The sandal that made socks-and-sandals acceptable. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sumida Aquarium Shop Asakusa, Tokyo
  Unique aquarium shop with aquatic-themed gifts, educational toys, and marine-life-inspired design objects. Proceeds support marine conservation. The jellyfish-themed items are particularly beautiful. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sunday Issue Nakameguro, Tokyo
  Independent magazine and bookshop with a focus on art, photography, and culture publications. Excellent coffee and a quiet reading atmosphere. Regular events with photographers and editors. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Super Potato Akihabara, Tokyo
  The world's most retro video game store. Multi-floor paradise of Famicom, Super Famicom, Sega, PlayStation, and arcade cabinets. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Super Potato Osaka 3-8-18 Nipponbashi, Naniwa Ward, Osaka
  Retro video game shop — Famicom, Super Famicom, Mega Drive, Game Boy, and PlayStation 1 games, consoles, and accessories. Gaming nostalgia heaven. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Surugaya Kusatsu Onsen, Gunma, Japan
  Surugaya has traded in Kusatsu Onsen since 1935, and its signature item is Yokusei Kusatsu Onsen Happ, a bath powder made with the town's own hot-spring water for recreating the soak at home. The shop also prints original tote bags, towels and hand towels alongside its bath goods and souvenir sundries. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Susumuya Kagoshima
  Susumuya grew from a century-old Kagoshima tea-wholesaling family into a retail shop in 2012, adding a Tokyo Jiyugaoka café in 2016. It sells single-origin Chiran and Kirishima sencha sourced and roasted in-house, and runs its own tea school. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Suzu Seien (珠洲製塩) Suzu / Japan
  Suzu Seien makes salt on the Noto Peninsula using traditional agehama and ryuka methods, some dating to the Muromachi period, at its production site at 13-17-2 Nagahashi-cho in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture. Its salt and natural nigari are sold through the company's online shop, with a separate sales office in Tokyo handling mail orders. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Suzukake Nakasu-Kawabata, Hakata, Fukuoka
  Suzukake has made Hakata wagashi since 1923, working from the teachings of first-generation master Saburo Nakaoka. The Nakasu-Kawabata main shop pairs a confectionery counter with a tearoom serving seasonal sweets that rotate monthly. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Suzuki's Guitars Shimokitazawa, Tokyo
  Family-run guitar shop specializing in vintage American and Japanese electric guitars. Fender, Gibson, and rare domestic brands at fair prices. store page → · open in the atlas →
• TAAKK Tokyo / Online
  Takuya Morikawa's label — oversized silhouettes, experimental fabrics, and a distinctly Japanese approach to contemporary menswear. Former Issey Miyake designer. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tabi no Kiseki (タビノキセキ) Itoshima, Fukuoka, Japan
  A small studio in Itoshima's Shimakoganemaru district hand-forms borosilicate-glass accessories and earthenware pieces, working glass that its maker describes as lighter yet stronger than conventional glass so pendants and jewelry hold up to daily wear. The shop also repairs its own pieces, including cracked ones, for a flat fee plus return shipping. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Taiichiro Kiln Okawachiyama, Imari, Saga
  Taiichiro Kiln works from Okawachiyama making indigo Nabeshima ware alongside contemporary pieces, including hand-built hina dolls and ceramic awamori bottles decorated with island and wave motifs. It also runs an on-site restaurant that serves food on its own tableware. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Taikeian Higuchi Pottery Hagi / Japan
  Taikeian Higuchi Pottery is a kiln in Hagi that specialises in the traditional craft of Hagi-yaki. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Takahashikusu Sakai, Sakai, Osaka
  Takahashikusu forges yanagiba, gyuto and other Japanese knives in Shirogami, Aogami and Ginsan steel with handles in ebony, Japanese magnolia or Chinese quince burl, and has operated for 100 years in Sakai, a city known for knife-making for over 600 years. It is based in Sakai-ku, Sakai City, Osaka. store page → · open in the atlas →
• TAKAHIROMIYASHITA TheSoloist. Tokyo, Japan
  Boutique in Tokyo's Aoyama district for TAKAHIROMIYASHITATheSoloist., designer Takahiro Miyashita's label launched in 2010; opened in 2011 as 'grocerystore.', later renamed TakahiromiyashitatheSoloist.AOYAMA. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Takaokaya Honpo Himi, Toyama
  Takaokaya Honpo hand-stretches Himi udon, the thin, springy Toyama noodle it presents as the original local style, working from a shop on the shore of Toyama Bay. Bundles of dried noodles and gift sets ship year-round from the Himi premises. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Takara Records Kokusai-dori area
  A longstanding independent Naha record store carrying Okinawan music and wider genres. Established 1949. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Takashimaya Osaka 5-1-5 Namba, Chuo Ward, Osaka
  Upscale department store in Namba — international luxury, Japanese designer fashion, and an extraordinary depachika with wagashi, bento, and premium produce. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Takatori Hassen-gama (髙取八仙窯) 812-1 Oaza Koishiwara, Toho-mura, Asakura-gun, Fukuoka, Japan / Toho Village (Koishiwara) / Japan
  Hassen-gama is a Takatori-yaki kiln in the Enshū seven-kiln tea-ware lineage, with a public gallery at Koishiwara 812-1 open 9:00–17:00, closed Wednesday. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Takayasumi Lacquerware Shop Uozu / Japan
  Takayasumi Lacquerware Shop has sold Uozu-crafted lacquerware for more than 100 years and is now run by fourth-generation proprietor Masato Takayasumi. It carries everyday soup bowls, chopsticks, and trays alongside ceremonial gift boxes for weddings, longevity celebrations, and memorials. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Takoyaki Glico 1-6-12 Dotonbori, Chuo Ward, Osaka
  Glico's official takoyaki shop beneath the running man sign — consistent quality, tourist-friendly, and the takoyaki is actually good. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Takumikan Takayama / Japan
  Takumikan occupies a three-floor building near Takayama's old town, combining a first-floor shop for its own TaKuMi craft woodware and Hida souvenirs with upper floors of Hida furniture from maker Shirakawa. Its wooden trays, vases, and accessories are also sold through the shop's Rakuten storefront for customers who can't visit in person. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tamashii Nations Akihabara, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
  Tamashii Nations Store Tokyo is the Bandai Spirits flagship for Tamashii Nations collector figures, one minute from the Electric Town exit of JR Akihabara Station. It reopened at this address on June 23, 2022 with three times the former floor area. The shop is laid out in a New Item Zone, a Shop Zone and an Event Space. S.H.Figuarts, Figuarts mini and Chogokin lines share the shelves with store-limited editions. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tanukikoji Shopping Arcade Tanukikoji, Sapporo
  A kilometer-long covered shopping arcade with roughly 200 independent and chain retail, food, and service businesses. The arcade developed during Sapporo’s nineteenth-century frontier period. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Taragawa Miyakojima / Japan
  A Miyakojima awamori distillery founded in 1948, known for its Ryukyu Dynasty and Kuon labels aged in a cave storehouse. Visitors can tour the cellars at Sunagawa, and the full range sells through the official online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tasaki Shuzo Ichikikushikino, Kagoshima
  Tasaki Shuzo has distilled sweet potato shochu in Ichikikushikino for more than 130 years, built around a spring the founder sought out for its water quality. The distillery pioneered long-term cask aging of raw shochu in the region and still produces its flagship Satsuma Tanabata using rice grown on nearby terraced paddies. store page → · open in the atlas →
• TCB Kojima, Japan
  TCB Jeans reproduces vintage denim and workwear through its Kojima factory, studying pattern, fabric and hardware closely. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tenjin Works Fukuoka / Japan / Online
  Leather and denim — vegetable-tanned leather jackets, the 'Birth' leather, and the Fukuoka brand that treats leather with the same obsessiveness that denim brands apply to fabric. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tenku no Kamago (Koishiwara/Takatori kiln group) Koishiwara, Koishiwara, Fukuoka
  A group of Koishiwara and Takatori kilns making wood-fired tableware, mortars, cocottes and tea ceremony wares using the kicking potter's wheel, slipware and tobikanna carved patterns; one kiln in the group, Yanase, was founded 350 years ago, and Takatori-Yaki Soke is a 400-year-old kiln. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tenryu-gama Hagi, Yamaguchi
  Tenryu-gama, run by the Hattori family, produces plainly designed Hagi-yaki-plates, bowls, cups, teapots, and sake vessels-for daily use. The kiln sells directly through its online store and keeps a separate corporate site. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tenzan (太宰府参道 天山) By the first torii, Dazaifu sando
  Just past the first torii gate, Tenzan hand-makes Onigawara Monaka, pairing Hokkaido azuki paste with crisp glutinous-rice wafers shaped like the shrine's ridge tiles. Seasonal sweets follow the Amaou strawberry and chestnut harvests. store page → · open in the atlas →
• The Chino Revived Japan / Online
  Japanese chino specialists — army twill resurrected with Made-in-Japan precision; among the Japanese labels showing at Pitti Uomo. store page → · open in the atlas →
• The Flat Head Nagano, Japan
  Nagano’s dense-denim perfectionists — 3009 jeans engineered to fade into personal topography. store page → · open in the atlas →
• The Flat Head 'King of Slub' Nagasaki / Japan
  The XXX series — maximum slub, maximum nep, maximum texture, and the Flat Head denim that looks like it was woven on a broken loom (in the best possible way). store page → · open in the atlas →
• The Real McCoy's Tokyo, Japan
  Reproduction as religion — A-2 jackets, loopwheel sweats and military replicas indistinguishable from originals. store page → · open in the atlas →
• the shop at MOA Museum of Art Atami / Japan
  The shop at the MOA Museum of Art in Atami offers kōgei craftworks made by prominent artists. store page → · open in the atlas →
• The Strike Gold Kojima, Okayama / Japan / Online
  The Strike Gold is Klaxon’s Japanese denim brand, created in Kojima in 2007 by Yūji Hamamoto. Its jeans use original denim recipes and construction developed around long-term fading and texture, including current heavyweight selvedge models. store page → · open in the atlas →
• The Viridi-anne Tokyo, Japan
  The Viridi-anne is a Japanese brand creating asymmetric, dark-toned garments with architectural construction. Production is associated with Japan, while the range centers on asymmetric dark fashion. store page → · open in the atlas →
• ThoroughBrace Kuramae, Tokyo
  ThoroughBrace sells leather bags, wallets and school bags, including randoseru and backpacks, and runs a leather craft experience where customers make their own pieces. It describes its products as artisan-made individual pieces from Kuramae, a Tokyo district it calls a city of craftsmanship, where its flagship store is located. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tightbooth Tokyo / Online
  Tightbooth makes graphic-heavy skate clothing, outerwear and accessories rooted in Tokyo skate culture. Loose cuts support movement, while prints and seasonal videos give the brand its visual identity. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tobeyaki Kanko Center Honoo no Sato (砥部焼観光センター炎の里) Matsuyama / Japan
  Run by the Senzan kiln, this Tobe centre sells hundreds of pieces of blue-and-white Tobe-yaki porcelain and offers hand-forming and painting workshops. The hillside complex also holds a café and a viewing deck over the town. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tohgoro Chawanzaka, Kyoto, Japan
  Tohgoro sells Kiyomizu-yaki ceramics from a gallery on Chawanzaka, the sloped lane leading to Kiyomizu-dera that has supplied the ware's potters for centuries. The shop curates pieces from working Kyoto ceramicists rather than mass production, rotating stock as individual kilns finish new work. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tojiro Tsubame / Japan
  Tojiro is a knife manufacturer in Tsubame, Niigata Prefecture — the Tsubame-Sanjo metalworking district that has produced Japanese nails, tools, and tableware since blacksmiths were invited there in the early Edo period, and which today supplies most of Japan's domestically made tableware. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokiwa Kissa 1-4-28 Nipponbashi, Chuo Ward, Osaka
  Showa-era kissaten (coffee house) — unchanged since 1960, with siphon coffee, classic jazz on vinyl, and elderly regulars reading newspapers. Time-travel to old Osaka. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokuzo Knives Namba, Osaka
  Tokuzo Knives sells Japanese kitchen knives -- santoku, gyuto, deba and nakiri among others -- in steels including Aogami Super, White Steel No. 1, VG10, AUS8 and SG2. Its Osaka Namba location, the brand's second shop, opened October 29, 2021. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokyo Art Beat Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Tokyo
  Community art space and gallery showcasing emerging Tokyo artists. Regular openings, workshops, and talks. The attached shop sells prints, zines, and artist-made goods. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokyo Bike Yanaka, Tokyo
  Minimalist urban bicycle brand with lightweight, beautifully designed city bikes. Flagship showroom with test ride area. The 'Tokyo Bike' has become a global symbol of urban cycling simplicity. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokyo Midtown Tokyo
  Roppongi’s design-forward complex — Suntory Museum, 21_21 Design Sight and refined retail. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokyo Pipe Ginza, Tokyo
  Specialist pipe and tobacco shop with Japanese-made briar pipes and curated international blends. The owner is a pipe collector who sources rare pieces. Smoking lounge for members. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokyo Skytree Town Asakusa, Tokyo
  Retail and entertainment complex at the base of the Tokyo Skytree. Over 300 shops including character goods, Japanese crafts, and specialty food. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokyu Hands Tokyo
  Hands Shibuya is a multi-level shop in Udagawacho, with a product-location tool to help visitors find items such as notebooks and pens. Its branch website lists cutting and processing services alongside personalisation, with separate reception times for these activities. Workshops and temporary displays add another reason to consult the store's programme before planning a visit. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokyu Hands Osaka 1-7-1 Shinsaibashisuji, Chuo Ward, Osaka
  Creative lifestyle store — DIY supplies, kitchen gadgets, stationery, beauty tools, and bizarre Japanese inventions you never knew you needed. 8 floors of discovery. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tokyu Hands Shinjuku Shinjuku, Tokyo
  The original creative life store with eight floors of DIY supplies, homeware, stationery, and quirky lifestyle goods. From woodworking tools to skincare to travel accessories. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tonami Seimen (Okado Somen) Tonami / Japan
  Tonami Seimen has hand-stretched Okado somen noodles using a technique passed down for over 160 years, alongside yuzu-infused udon made with citrus from Toyama's Shogawa Kanaya district. Orders ship from its Gorōmaru facility in Tonami through its BASE-powered online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Toshimaya Komachi-dori / Wakamiya-oji, Kamakura
  Toshimaya has baked its butter-rich hato sabure, a dove-shaped sablé biscuit, in Kamakura since the Meiji era, and the recipe and pigeon silhouette have stayed the local souvenir of choice ever since. The company operates multiple shops around the city and Kanagawa but remains a single family confectionery business rather than a national chain. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Toukazan-gama Hagi, Yamaguchi
  Toukazan, the kiln of potters Matsuo Sofu and Yuko, makes Hagi-yaki cups, bowls, plates, and dinner sets across a range of traditional glazes. The workshop pairs hand-throwing with contemporary forms and sells both in its shop and online. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Toukoubou Hiro (陶工房 浩) Tofuroᴍinami, Dazaifu
  A small pottery workshop and gallery in a residential quarter of Dazaifu where the potter throws simple everyday tableware including cups, plates, teapots, and tea bowls for Japanese and Western tables. Pieces are sold at the studio and through an online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Toundo Hakata, Fukuoka
  Toundo has baked Niwaka-senpei since 1906, crisp egg biscuits shaped like the half-mask of Hakata Niwaka street comedy. The family firm sells the senpei boxed with a paper mask from its Hakata base. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tower Knives Osaka Osaka
  Tower Knives Osaka sells Japanese kitchen knives that customers can test before buying, and offers engraving, resharpening and handle repair services. The shop is in Naniwa-ku, Osaka, with multilingual staff. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tower Records Shibuya Shibuya, Tokyo
  Nine floors of music. A Tokyo institution that refuses to die, with in-store performances and endless vinyl. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Toyo Enterprise Tokyo, Japan
  Toyo Enterprise develops multiple reproduction labels, including Sugar Cane denim, Buzz Rickson’s military clothing and Sun Surf shirts. Each sub-brand has a distinct historical focus, so shoppers should browse by label rather than company name. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Toyooka Koubou Toyooka / Japan
  Toyooka Koubou is the retail brand of Oda Sei Co., a leather goods maker with over a hundred years of history in Japan's bag-making capital of Toyooka. The line focuses on simple, durable cowhide and Italian leather bags and wallets sold through its official online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Trader Akihabara Akihabara, Tokyo
  Used video game specialist with rare retro titles, import games, and gaming hardware. The three-floor shop is meticulously organized by console and genre. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Traveler's Factory Nakameguro, Tokyo
  A notebook lover's paradise. The Traveler's Notebook brand with customizable leather journals and a cozy, creative atmosphere. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Trophy Clothing Japan
  Tokyo motorcycle-Americana label founded in 2005 by Masaki Egawa; garments are made entirely in Japan, including its 'Dirt Denim' fabric woven on old power looms in Ibara, Okayama, sold from the Trophy General Store in Shibuya. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Trophy Clothing Denim Osaka / Japan / Online
  1606XX Dirt Denim — the 1960s reproduction, the Dirt colouring (natural soil wash), and the Osaka brand that adds an earthy, organic dimension to vintage reproduction. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsuboya Kashiho (つぼや菓子舗) Matsuyama / Japan
  Founded in 1883 near Dōgo Onsen, Tsuboya is the originator of the three-colour Botchan dango immortalised in Sōseki's novel, still hand-rolling each skewer in small batches. Buy them at the little Matsuyama shop or through the online store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsuda Chokoku Takayama, Gifu
  Tsuda Chokoku is run by sixth-generation carvers continuing the ichii ittobori tradition founded in Takayama by Matsuda Sukenaga. The shop carves yew wood without applied color into netsuke, zodiac figures and tea utensils, sold from its Honmachi storefront. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsuda Mizuhiki (津田水引) Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
  Based in Kanazawa's Nomachi district, Tsuda Mizuhiki works in Kaga mizuhiki, the local style of decorative paper-cord tying used for noshi wrapping and celebratory gifts, and extends the craft into three-dimensional cord sculptures depicting seasonal motifs. The studio also makes mizuhiki jewelry and DIY kits, one of which earned a Kanazawa Brand Excellent New Product distinction, and offers hands-on cord-tying workshops. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsujiya Honten Tokyo / Japan
  Tsujiya Honten has fitted geta, zori and setta sandals to customers' feet in Asakusa since 1912, with resident craftsmen hand-lacing the thong (hanao) to each sole in about ten to fifteen minutes. Displaced from its longtime Denboin-dori shop by a rebuild, it is currently operating a temporary storefront in nearby Hanakawado. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsukamoto Mashiko
  Makes Mashiko-yaki pottery, including cups, bowls, sake vessels, teapots and vases, across collections named SABI, PLAIN, kamacco, SEN, HAKO and NENRIN, some finished with the carved shinogi line technique. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsukemono Mikura Komachi-dori, Kamakura
  Mikura is a pickle specialist on Kamakura's Komachi-dori shopping street, selling tsukemono such as pickled eggplant, cucumber, radish and umeboshi plums by weight for tasting and takeaway. The shop lets browsers sample pickles before buying, a practice that has made it a regular stop on the pedestrian street leading to Tsurugaoka Hachimangu. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsurumi-gama (鶴見窯) 2514-3 Koishiwara-tsuzumi, Toho-mura, Asakura-gun, Fukuoka 838-1602, Japan / Toho Village (Koishiwara) / Japan
  Kiln opened Showa 49 / 1974 by Wada Yonetoshi; second generation Wada Yoshihiro still throws Koishiwara ware for daily use. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsuruya General Store Hirayu Onsen, Okuhida
  Run since April 1966 beside the Hirayu Onsen bus terminal, Tsuruya Shoten stocks Okuhida sake and shochu, hoba miso and Hida wagyu curry alongside its own hot-spring cosmetics blended with Tsuru-no-yu spring water. The shop also carries the area's soft-boiled onsen eggs, sansho spice blends and mineral bath salts drawn from the surrounding springs. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsutsumi-yaki Kenba Kiln Sendai / Japan
  Tsutsumi-yaki Kenba Kiln has fired Sendai's 300-year-old Tsutsumi pottery tradition using locally sourced clay and glazes, working from a kiln and exhibition hall in Izumi-ku on the edge of Sendai. Visitors can buy hand-thrown pieces directly at the exhibition hall, which is open daily, and arrange a look at the working kiln by request. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tsuyuki Woodworking Hakone (Odawara)
  The Tsuyuki family workshop, in the Hayakawa district of Odawara at the foot of Hakone, produces marquetry tableware, trays and boxes including an original sunflower-field pattern. Its gallery shop displays the drawers, monochrome white-yosegi trays and desk pieces made behind it. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Uehara Meat Ichibamae Honten Makishi, Naha
  A butcher shop retailing Okinawan beef, pork, poultry, sausages, and prepared meat products near Makishi Public Market. Founder Zenshi Uehara began the business as a small retail butcher inside Makishi Public Market. Established 1955. store page → · open in the atlas →
• UES Japan
  Osaka-based Japanese workwear and denim label; the manufacturer began as a 1967 babywear maker, relaunched its heavyweight denim and tee line under designer Chuji Matsumoto, opened a Kobe flagship in 1997, and has been based in Osaka since 2014. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Umeya Zuikoudou Minobu / Japan
  Umeya Zuikoudou in Minobu carries a range of Buddhist items and miscellaneous accessories. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Un Cafe Sucre (Karuizawa Roasting) Karuizawa
  Un Cafe Sucre traces back to 1998, when it opened as 'Mr. Beans' in Tokyo's Sumida ward under representative director Yuko Nirei. The company now roasts and sells beans from its own shop and factory in Karuizawa. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Un Cinq Nakameguro, Tokyo
  Vintage boutique in Nakameguro. A highly curated selection of French and European vintage clothing in a beautifully styled space. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Unazuki Brewery Unazuki / Japan
  Brewing since 1995 in Kurobe, Toyama with Tateyama snowmelt water and local barley, Unazuki Brewery serves four house beers, including a Rice Ale and the Kamoshika bock, at its 100-seat Beer Hall, plus malt barley tea and beer curry to go. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Undercover Tokyo / Online
  Jun Takahashi’s Undercover has spent three decades combining punk references, graphic streetwear and runway fashion in a Japanese label that moves between T-shirts, tailoring and conceptual seasonal collections. The useful distinction is the punk-meets-luxury design language and long evolution across streetwear and fashion. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Undercover Aoyama Tokyo
  Undercover Aoyama is the Tokyo shop of Jun Takahashi's label at 5-3-18 Minami Aoyama in Minato. Takahashi started Undercover in 1989 as a Bunka student and founded it formally in 1993 with the Nowhere store in Harajuku alongside Nigo. The label has shown in Paris since 2002. The shop carries the men's and women's collections, the kids' line and collaborations from Vans and George Cox to Medicom Toy. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Union Tokyo Tokyo
  Tokyo outpost of LA streetwear institution Union, opened 2018 in Jingumae/Harajuku (2-26-5 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku) by founder Chris Gibbs as a franchise with Japanese distributor Jack Inc., stocking Union's in-house line and partner labels like Fear of God and Brain Dead. store page → · open in the atlas →
• United Arrows Tokyo / Online
  Japanese multi-brand retailer and private label — the Japanese Barneys. Curated selection of global luxury with strong in-house lines. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Urakasumi (Saura Co.) Sendai / Japan
  Sake brewer Saura has crafted Urakasumi in the port town of Shiogama for three centuries, most famous for developing the widely used Association No. 12 yeast strain. The company runs its own "Urakasumi Sake Gallery" storefront alongside a dedicated online shop for its junmai ginjo and seasonal releases. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Urvin Okayama / Japan / Online
  The craft jeans maker — hand-finished details, custom hardware, small batch, and the Okayama brand that bridges artisan production with contemporary design. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Usui Orifu Tsu, Mie
  Usui Orifu has woven Ise cotton, a soft, breathable fabric first produced in the region during the mid-Edo period, on vintage Toyoda shuttle looms at its Tsu workshop. The mill turns its own bolts into kimono, pouches, and other everyday textiles rather than selling raw cloth alone. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Utsuboya Takayama, Gifu
  A confectioner in Takayama since 1890 making about thirty kinds of dagashi folk sweets from soybeans, sesame and peanuts, including its award-winning mameita bean crackers. The house also sells genkotsu kinako and black-sesame kokusen from its shop and online. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Vermicular House Takanawa, Minato, Tokyo
  Flagship showroom for Vermicular's enamel cast-iron cookware. Features an in-house restaurant where chefs demonstrate the pots' capabilities. Also offers cooking classes using their precisio. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Vest Pocket Sapporo
  Vest Pocket is an independent vintage and antique shop specializing in small objects and collectibles. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Village Vanguard Shibuya Shibuya, Tokyo
  Eclectic novelty store often described as 'the store that sells everything interesting.' Books, toys, accessories, home goods, and quirky Japanese inventions. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Visvim Tokyo / Online
  Hiroki Nakamura's artisanal label — hand-dyed indigo, natural materials, and footwear that costs as much as rent. The pinnacle of Japanese craft-driven fashion. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wabi-Sabi in Denim Japan
  Wabi-sabi offers one way to read denim’s irregular weave, indigo variation, wear and repair as accumulated character rather than manufacturing perfection. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wacko Maria Tokyo, Japan
  Tokyo streetwear label founded in 2005 by former J-League goalkeeper Atsuhiko Mori and Keiji Ishizuka, growing out of a Tokyo record store into leopard-print and aloha-shirt fashion rooted in music and film culture. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wacoal Kyoto
  Japanese fit science since 1949 — engineering-grade bras of Kyoto precision. Stocked at Galeries Lafayette in Paris. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wajima-nuri Daiou Wajima / Japan
  Wajima-nuri Daiou plans, produces, and sells its own lacquerware from a shop on Route 249 in Wajima, open every day of the year from 8:30am to 7pm. The shop also takes custom orders and repairs, drawing on decades of in-house craftsmanship in wood-base carving, undercoating, and gold-and-silver decoration. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wajimanuri Studio RAKU Wajima / Japan
  Tucked in the countryside outside Wajima city, this small studio is one of the few workshops that carries out every stage of Wajima lacquerware, from undercoating to final polish, under one roof. Master craftsman Rikio Hikimochi and his family sell tea utensils and everyday lacquerware pieces from the studio, alongside repair and custom-order services. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wakamatsu Olive Farm - Okashi to Kurashi no Mono Rita (お菓子と暮らしの物 りた) Itoshima, Fukuoka, Japan
  Wakamatsu Farm converted a former lumber warehouse in Itoshima into a farm-direct shop and cafe selling its own olive-leaf lattes, natural-yeast pizzas, and baked goods alongside olive oil and other harvest products. The operation covers growing, processing, and retail itself, built around what it calls a philosophy of working with air, water, and microorganisms rather than against them. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wakan Silversmith Japan
  Handmakes silver jewelry, including rings, necklaces, bracelets, bangles and beads in horseshoe, breastplate, feather and cross designs, using 925, 950 and 1000 silver plus K10 to K18 gold and turquoise or tourmaline, made without wax or CAD by hand-stamping raw sheet and wire. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wako Ginza Ginza, Tokyo
  Recognizable by its landmark clock tower. An exceptional selection of fine watches, jewelry, and meticulously crafted objects since 1881. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Warehouse Osaka / Japan / Online
  The archaeologists of denim — Kenichi and Koji Shiotani's obsessive reproduction of vintage Levi's down to the thread count, rivet shape, and fabric irregularities. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Watanabe Nouen (渡辺農園) Fuefuki, Yamanashi, Japan
  Watanabe Nouen farms organically in Fuefuki's Misaka district, raising peaches and grapes for direct sale and pick-your-own visits. The orchard ships its fruit straight to customers through the growing season. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wazan Hasami (Shikisase), Nagasaki, Japan
  Wazan is a Hasami kiln in the Shikisase area producing bowls, plates, cups and single-flower vases across collections such as Modern Matte, Ronde and Flower Parade. Its premises include an outlet shop, and its tableware also reaches customers through Rakuten and other channels. store page → · open in the atlas →
• WEGO Harajuku Harajuku, Tokyo
  WEGO Harajuku sells affordable, trend-responsive street fashion and accessories aimed at younger shoppers. The store reflects Tokyo youth style through frequent drops, broad sizing and fast-changing graphic pieces. store page → · open in the atlas →
• White Mountaineering Tokyo, Japan
  White Mountaineering focuses on Yosuke Aizawa’s outdoor couture, Gore-Tex with runway patterning, technical fabric as luxury. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wife & Husband Koyama Shimouchikawara-cho, Kita-ku, Kyoto
  Tiny coffee shop that rents picnic sets — buy coffee, borrow a blanket and basket, and walk to the nearby Kamo River bank for an impromptu picnic. store page → · open in the atlas →

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