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- Yohji Yamamoto Tokyo, Japan
The master of black — Japanese avant-garde tailoring that redefined menswear. Yohji's draped silhouettes and anti-establishment elegance are fashion history. store page → · open in the atlas →
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- Suzuzen (Aizu Lacquerware Heritage Museum) Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima / Japan
Suzuzen traces its founding to 1832, when it operated as Suzuki-ya Lacquerware Shop, an official merchant to the Aizu domain's ruling household. store page → · open in the atlas → - Takashimaya Tokyo
Japanese department-store aristocracy since 1831 — rose emblem, impeccable service, Nihonbashi grandeur. The 1933 Nihombashi main building was designated a national Important Cultural Property in 2009 — the first department-store building so listed. store page → · open in the atlas → - 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 → - Yamadamatsu Kōbokuten Kyoto / Japan
Yamadamatsu began as a wholesaler of medicinal ingredients in Kyoto during the Kyōhō era, then shifted its focus to aromatic woods in 1772 (Meiwa 9), the point the house marks as its transition into incense. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yamaka Ogimura Lacquerware Kiso-Hirasawa, Shiojiri, Nagano, Japan
Yamaka Ogimura Shikkiten has sold lacquerware from its Kiso-Hirasawa storefront since founding in 1912, now run by third-generation proprietor Ogimura Minoru. The shop stocks everyday pieces such as cylindrical cherry-blossom-lacquered cups and red-rubbed cups and plates. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yamanashi Meijo (Shichiken) Hakushu, Hokuto City
Yamanashi Meijo has brewed sake under the Shichiken name in Hakushu since 1750, drawing on subterranean water from the Southern Alps that also supplies the area's whisky distillers. The heritage brewer has since added sparkling sake and whisky-cask-aged spirits alongside its traditional junmai lines, sold through its own site and Hakushu tasting room. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yonezawa Gyu Oki Yonezawa, Yamagata / Japan
Yonezawa Gyu Oki traces to 1923, when founder Yoshimasa Oki opened a small butcher shop (seinikuten) in Yonezawa and, alongside it, a hibachi-grilled beef hot-pot restaurant — the same pairing of retail butchery and prepared food that still defines the business a century later. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yukawa Sake Brewery Yabuhara, Kiso Village, Nagano, Japan
Yukawa Sake Brewery has fermented rice with water filtered through the mountains around Yabuhara since 1650, making its Kisoji and Juroku-dai Kurouemon labels near the trailhead into the Ontake range. The sixteenth-generation family still relies on slow-starting yamahai and kimoto methods that depend on wild airborne lactic bacteria rather than added acid. store page → · open in the atlas →
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- Takahama-yaki Jubo Kiln Takahama, Amakusa, Kumamoto
A historic Amakusa kiln producing Takahama-yaki, the prized white porcelain thrown from the region's high-purity pottery stone. The craft here reaches back to the Edo period. store page → · open in the atlas → - Tokiwagi Yohkanten Sohonten Izusan, Atami, Shizuoka
Official confectioner to Izusan Shrine, this historic wagashi maker is best known for its Tsurukichi yokan. The sweet bean jelly anchors a range of traditional Japanese confections. store page → · open in the atlas → - Tokyu Kobo (Tokyukobo) Igo, Amakusa City, Kumamoto
Potter Masashi Sueishi runs this Amakusa studio, specialising in kohiki, white slip laid over dark clay. The everyday tableware is made to sit quietly alongside daily life. store page → · open in the atlas → - Ubusuna Japan / Online
Japanese craft label named for the ubusuna — the guardian spirit of one’s birthplace; Pitti-shown clothing rooted in native-place tradition. store page → · open in the atlas → - Uchinaa Tea House and Gallery Buku-buku Tsuboya
On Naha's Yachimun Street, this tea house and gallery serves bukubuku-cha — a frothy Okinawan tea whisked from roasted rice and sanpin (jasmine) tea, once served in the Ryukyu royal court — in handcrafted local pottery, alongside traditional sweets. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yamadaya Suisan Sakimi-cho, Atami, Shizuoka
A kamaboko workshop in Atami, this heritage maker turns out steamed and grilled surimi products. They are sold fresh as a local specialty. store page → · open in the atlas →
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- 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 →
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- Sugiura Tobo Shimoda / Japan
Sugiura Tobo has displayed and sold potter Kenji Sugiura's work from its Shimoda storefront for 47 years, glazing pieces with a distinctive black Izu iron glaze made from local clay. The shop is open four days a week and welcomes browsers even when they aren't buying, though pieces are cash-and-carry only in person. store page → · open in the atlas → - Suicoke Tokyo / Online
Japanese sandal specialists — Vibram-soled, nylon-strapped, and unexpectedly fashionable. The sandal that made socks-and-sandals acceptable. store page → · open in the atlas → - Sumida Aquarium Shop Asakusa, Tokyo
Unique aquarium shop with aquatic-themed gifts, educational toys, and marine-life-inspired design objects. Proceeds support marine conservation. The jellyfish-themed items are particularly beautiful. store page → · open in the atlas → - Sunday Issue Nakameguro, Tokyo
Independent magazine and bookshop with a focus on art, photography, and culture publications. Excellent coffee and a quiet reading atmosphere. Regular events with photographers and editors. store page → · open in the atlas → - Super Potato Akihabara, Tokyo
The world's most retro video game store. Multi-floor paradise of Famicom, Super Famicom, Sega, PlayStation, and arcade cabinets. store page → · open in the atlas → - Super Potato Osaka 3-8-9 Nipponbashi, Naniwa Ward, Osaka
Retro video game shop — Famicom, Super Famicom, Mega Drive, Game Boy, and PlayStation 1 games, consoles, and accessories. Gaming nostalgia heaven. store page → · open in the atlas → - Surugaya Kusatsu Onsen, Gunma, Japan
Surugaya has traded in Kusatsu Onsen since 1935, and its signature item is Yokusei Kusatsu Onsen Happ, a bath powder made with the town's own hot-spring water for recreating the soak at home. The shop also prints original tote bags, towels and hand towels alongside its bath goods and souvenir sundries. store page → · open in the atlas → - Sustainability in Japanese Denim Okayama / Japan
The slow fashion paradox — raw denim lasts 5-10 years (vs. 1-2 for fast fashion), natural indigo is biodegradable, but cotton farming is water-intensive. store page → · open in the atlas → - 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 → - 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 Bandai Spirits’ official flagship shop near Akihabara Station. It sells TAMASHII NATIONS figures, including store-limited and general-release items. store page → · open in the atlas → - Tanukikoji Shopping Arcade Tanukikoji, Sapporo
A kilometer-long covered shopping arcade with roughly 200 independent and chain retail, food, and service businesses. The arcade developed during Sapporo’s nineteenth-century frontier period. store page → · open in the atlas → - Taragawa Miyakojima / Japan
A Miyakojima awamori distillery founded in 1948, known for its Ryukyu Dynasty and Kuon labels aged in a cave storehouse. Visitors can tour the cellars at Sunagawa, and the full range sells through the official online shop. store page → · open in the atlas → - Tasaki Shuzo Ichikikushikino, Kagoshima
Tasaki Shuzo has distilled sweet potato shochu in Ichikikushikino for more than 130 years, built around a spring the founder sought out for its water quality. The distillery pioneered long-term cask aging of raw shochu in the region and still produces its flagship Satsuma Tanabata using rice grown on nearby terraced paddies. store page → · open in the atlas → - TCB Kojima, Japan
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 → - 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 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 → - 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 → - Tokyo Art Beat Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Tokyo
Community art space and gallery showcasing emerging Tokyo artists. Regular openings, workshops, and talks. The attached shop sells prints, zines, and artist-made goods. store page → · open in the atlas → - Tokyo Bike Yanaka, Tokyo
Minimalist urban bicycle brand with lightweight, beautifully designed city bikes. Flagship showroom with test ride area. The 'Tokyo Bike' has become a global symbol of urban cycling simplicity. store page → · open in the atlas → - Tokyo Midtown Tokyo
Roppongi’s design-forward complex — Suntory Museum, 21_21 Design Sight and refined retail. store page → · open in the atlas → - Tokyo Pipe Ginza, Tokyo
Specialist pipe and tobacco shop with Japanese-made briar pipes and curated international blends. The owner is a pipe collector who sources rare pieces. Smoking lounge for members. store page → · open in the atlas → - Tokyo Skytree Town Asakusa, Tokyo
Retail and entertainment complex at the base of the Tokyo Skytree. Over 300 shops including character goods, Japanese crafts, and specialty food. store page → · open in the atlas → - Tokyu Hands Tokyo
Japanese lifestyle retailer with multi-floor assortments spanning stationery, tools, craft, home goods, beauty, travel and hobby products in major city stores. store page → · open in the atlas → - Tokyu Hands Osaka 1-7-1 Shinsaibashisuji, Chuo Ward, Osaka
Creative lifestyle store — DIY supplies, kitchen gadgets, stationery, beauty tools, and bizarre Japanese inventions you never knew you needed. 8 floors of discovery. store page → · open in the atlas → - Tokyu Hands Shinjuku Shinjuku, Tokyo
The original creative life store with eight floors of DIY supplies, homeware, stationery, and quirky lifestyle goods. From woodworking tools to skincare to travel accessories. store page → · open in the atlas → - 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 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 → - Tsukemono Mikura Komachi-dori, Kamakura
Mikura is a pickle specialist on Kamakura's Komachi-dori shopping street, selling tsukemono such as pickled eggplant, cucumber, radish and umeboshi plums by weight for tasting and takeaway. The shop lets browsers sample pickles before buying, a practice that has made it a regular stop on the pedestrian street leading to Tsurugaoka Hachimangu. store page → · open in the atlas → - Tsurumi-gama (鶴見窯) 2514-3 Koishiwara-tsuzumi, Toho-mura, Asakura-gun, Fukuoka 838-1602, Japan / Toho Village (Koishiwara) / Japan
Kiln opened Showa 49 / 1974 by Wada Yonetoshi; second generation Wada Yoshihiro still throws Koishiwara ware for daily use. store page → · open in the atlas → - Tsuruya General Store Hirayu Onsen, Okuhida
Run since April 1966 beside the Hirayu Onsen bus terminal, Tsuruya Shoten stocks Okuhida sake and shochu, hoba miso and Hida wagyu curry alongside its own hot-spring cosmetics blended with Tsuru-no-yu spring water. The shop also carries the area's soft-boiled onsen eggs, sansho spice blends and mineral bath salts drawn from the surrounding springs. store page → · open in the atlas → - Tsutsumi-yaki Kenba Kiln Sendai / Japan
Tsutsumi-yaki Kenba Kiln has fired Sendai's 300-year-old Tsutsumi pottery tradition using locally sourced clay and glazes, working from a kiln and exhibition hall in Izumi-ku on the edge of Sendai. Visitors can buy hand-thrown pieces directly at the exhibition hall, which is open daily, and arrange a look at the working kiln by request. store page → · open in the atlas → - Tsuyuki Woodworking Hakone (Odawara)
The Tsuyuki family workshop, in the Hayakawa district of Odawara at the foot of Hakone, produces marquetry tableware, trays and boxes including an original sunflower-field pattern. Its gallery shop displays the drawers, monochrome white-yosegi trays and desk pieces made behind it. store page → · open in the atlas → - Uehara Meat Ichibamae Honten Makishi, Naha
A butcher shop retailing Okinawan beef, pork, poultry, sausages, and prepared meat products near Makishi Public Market. Founder Zenshi Uehara began the business as a small retail butcher inside Makishi Public Market. Established 1955. store page → · open in the atlas → - UES Japan
Osaka-based Japanese workwear and denim label; the manufacturer began as a 1967 babywear maker, relaunched its heavyweight denim and tee line under designer Chuji Matsumoto, opened a Kobe flagship in 1997, and has been based in Osaka since 2014. store page → · open in the atlas → - UES (Brand) Osaka / Japan / Online
The flannel and tee specialist — heavyweight flannels (15oz), loopwheel T-shirts, and the Osaka brand that focuses on the garments you wear with your raw denim rather than the denim itself. store page → · open in the atlas → - UES Heavy Flannel Osaka / Japan / Online
The 15oz flannel — heavy Japanese cotton flannel shirts, the Nepenthes-adjacent aesthetic, and the Osaka brand that makes flannel substantial enough to stand next to raw denim. store page → · open in the atlas → - Un Cafe Sucre (Karuizawa Roasting) Karuizawa
Un Cafe Sucre traces back to 1998, when it opened as 'Mr. Beans' in Tokyo's Sumida ward under representative director Yuko Nirei. The company now roasts and sells beans from its own shop and factory in Karuizawa. store page → · open in the atlas → - Un Cinq Nakameguro, Tokyo
Vintage boutique in Nakameguro. A highly curated selection of French and European vintage clothing in a beautifully styled space. store page → · open in the atlas → - Unazuki Brewery Unazuki / Japan
Brewing since 1995 in Kurobe, Toyama with Tateyama snowmelt water and local barley, Unazuki Brewery serves four house beers, including a Rice Ale and the Kamoshika bock, at its 100-seat Beer Hall, plus malt barley tea and beer curry to go. store page → · open in the atlas → - Undercover Tokyo / Online
Jun Takahashi’s Undercover has spent three decades combining punk references, graphic streetwear and runway fashion in a Japanese label that moves between T-shirts, tailoring and conceptual seasonal collections. The useful distinction is the punk-meets-luxury design language and long evolution across streetwear and fashion, not an unsupported claim that Takahashi is 'the most influential Japanese designer you have never heard of.' store page → · open in the atlas → - Undercover Aoyama Tokyo
Jun Takahashi's influential brand blurring the lines between streetwear and high fashion. Punk-inspired collections with artistic, often political references. A defining voice in contemporary Japanese fashion. store page → · open in the atlas → - Union Tokyo Tokyo
Tokyo outpost of LA streetwear institution Union, opened 2018 in Jingumae/Harajuku (2-26-5 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku) by founder Chris Gibbs as a franchise with Japanese distributor Jack Inc., stocking Union's in-house line and partner labels like Fear of God and Brain Dead. store page → · open in the atlas → - United Arrows Tokyo / Online
Japanese multi-brand retailer and private label — the Japanese Barneys. Curated selection of global luxury with strong in-house lines. store page → · open in the atlas → - Urakasumi (Saura Co.) Sendai / Japan
Sake brewer Saura has crafted Urakasumi in the port town of Shiogama for three centuries, most famous for developing the widely used Association No. 12 yeast strain. The company runs its own "Urakasumi Sake Gallery" storefront alongside a dedicated online shop for its junmai ginjo and seasonal releases. store page → · open in the atlas → - Urvin Okayama / Japan / Online
The craft jeans maker — hand-finished details, custom hardware, small batch, and the Okayama brand that bridges artisan production with contemporary design. store page → · open in the atlas → - Usui Orifu Tsu, Mie
Usui Orifu has woven Ise cotton, a soft, breathable fabric first produced in the region during the mid-Edo period, on vintage Toyoda shuttle looms at its Tsu workshop. The mill turns its own bolts into kimono, pouches, and other everyday textiles rather than selling raw cloth alone. store page → · open in the atlas → - Utsuboya Takayama, Gifu
A confectioner in Takayama since 1890 making about thirty kinds of dagashi folk sweets from soybeans, sesame and peanuts, including its award-winning mameita bean crackers. The house also sells genkotsu kinako and black-sesame kokusen from its shop and online. store page → · open in the atlas → - Vermicular House Takanawa, Minato, Tokyo
Flagship showroom for Vermicular's enamel cast-iron cookware. Features an in-house restaurant where chefs demonstrate the pots' capabilities. Also offers cooking classes using their precisio. store page → · open in the atlas → - Vest Pocket Sapporo
Vest Pocket is an independent vintage and antique shop specializing in small objects and collectibles. Its practical focus is small vintage objects and collectibles, presented through a physical retail setting in Sapporo. store page → · open in the atlas → - Village Vanguard Shibuya Shibuya, Tokyo
Eclectic novelty store often described as 'the store that sells everything interesting.' Books, toys, accessories, home goods, and quirky Japanese inventions. store page → · open in the atlas → - Visvim Tokyo / Online
Hiroki Nakamura's artisanal label — hand-dyed indigo, natural materials, and footwear that costs as much as rent. The pinnacle of Japanese craft-driven fashion. store page → · open in the atlas → - Wabi-Sabi in Denim Japan
Wabi-sabi offers one way to read denim’s irregular weave, indigo variation, wear and repair as accumulated character rather than manufacturing perfection. store page → · open in the atlas → - Wacko Maria Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo streetwear label founded in 2005 by former J-League goalkeeper Atsuhiko Mori and Keiji Ishizuka, growing out of a Tokyo record store into leopard-print and aloha-shirt fashion rooted in music and film culture. store page → · open in the atlas → - Wacoal Kyoto
Japanese fit science since 1949 — engineering-grade bras of Kyoto precision. Stocked at Galeries Lafayette in Paris. store page → · open in the atlas → - Wajima-nuri Daiou Wajima / Japan
Wajima-nuri Daiou plans, produces, and sells its own lacquerware from a shop on Route 249 in Wajima, open every day of the year from 8:30am to 7pm. The shop also takes custom orders and repairs, drawing on decades of in-house craftsmanship in wood-base carving, undercoating, and gold-and-silver decoration. store page → · open in the atlas → - Wajimanuri Studio RAKU Wajima / Japan
Tucked in the countryside outside Wajima city, this small studio is one of the few workshops that carries out every stage of Wajima lacquerware, from undercoating to final polish, under one roof. Master craftsman Rikio Hikimochi and his family sell tea utensils and everyday lacquerware pieces from the studio, alongside repair and custom-order services. store page → · open in the atlas → - Wakamatsu Olive Farm - Okashi to Kurashi no Mono Rita (お菓子と暮らしの物 りた) Itoshima, Fukuoka, Japan
Wakamatsu Farm converted a former lumber warehouse in Itoshima into a farm-direct shop and cafe selling its own olive-leaf lattes, natural-yeast pizzas, and baked goods alongside olive oil and other harvest products. The operation covers growing, processing, and retail itself, built around what it calls a philosophy of working with air, water, and microorganisms rather than against them. store page → · open in the atlas → - Wako Ginza Ginza, Tokyo
Recognizable by its landmark clock tower. An exceptional selection of fine watches, jewelry, and meticulously crafted objects since 1881. store page → · open in the atlas → - Warehouse Osaka / Japan / Online
The archaeologists of denim — Kenichi and Koji Shiotani's obsessive reproduction of vintage Levi's down to the thread count, rivet shape, and fabric irregularities. store page → · open in the atlas → - Warehouse & Co. Japan
The fabric archaeologists — Osaka twins re-engineering 1940s American cotton down to the slub. store page → · open in the atlas → - Watanabe Nouen (渡辺農園) Fuefuki, Yamanashi, Japan
Watanabe Nouen farms organically in Fuefuki's Misaka district, raising peaches and grapes for direct sale and pick-your-own visits. The orchard ships its fruit straight to customers through the growing season. store page → · open in the atlas → - Wazan Hasami (Shikisase), Nagasaki, Japan
Wazan is a Hasami kiln in the Shikisase area producing bowls, plates, cups and single-flower vases across collections such as Modern Matte, Ronde and Flower Parade. Its premises include an outlet shop, and its tableware also reaches customers through Rakuten and other channels. store page → · open in the atlas → - WEGO Harajuku Harajuku, Tokyo
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 2-8-27 Nishitenma, Kita Ward, Osaka
Tiny coffee shop that rents picnic sets — buy coffee, borrow a blanket and basket, and walk to the nearby Nakanoshima riverbank for an impromptu picnic. store page → · open in the atlas → - Wild Things Tokyo / Online
Tokyo-based Japanese line of the American alpine brand Wild Things (founded 1981, New Hampshire), reworking its military and mountaineering gear - insulated parkas, Primaloft pieces - through a streetwear lens tied to Tokyo's Ura-Harajuku scene. store page → · open in the atlas → - Workman Japan
Workman sells durable workwear and technical outdoor clothing at value-focused prices across Japan. Functional fabrics, pockets and weather protection attract both tradespeople and shoppers using the pieces as everyday streetwear. store page → · open in the atlas → - Workshop Nuriton Yaese, Okinawa / Japan
Workshop Nuriton is a small Okinawa studio working in two adjoining crafts, Ryukyu lacquerware and woodworking, based at Nakaza in Yaese Town, Shimajiri District — a rural district south of Naha, distinct from the Kokusai-dori tourist-shop corridor most Ryukyu lacquerware retail is concentrated in. store page → · open in the atlas → - WTAPS Tokyo / Online
Tetsu Nishiyama's military-inspired label — the most respected name in Japanese streetwear. Clean lines, functional details, and an aesthetic that influenced a generation. store page → · open in the atlas → - Y-3 Japan / Germany
Yohji’s Adidas — the 2002 collaboration that invented luxury sportswear, still fashion’s sharpest three stripes. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yabeya Konomi Honke / Konomien (矢部屋 許斐本家／このみ園) 126 Motomachi, Yame-shi, Fukuoka 834-0031, Japan / Yame / Japan
Tea merchant from Hoei era (1704–1710); 14th-generation Konomi Hisayoshi still sells from a Yame City tangible cultural-property townhouse at Motomachi 126. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yachiya Sake Brewery Kanazawa
A historic Kanazawa sake brewery with shop, tours and tastings. The merchant house and brewery preserve Edo-period fabric and traditional craft details. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yaesen Shuzo 1834 Ishigaki, Ishigaki City, Okinawa
Established in 1955 on a hilltop overlooking the Yaeyama islands, this awamori distillery still uses traditional direct-flame pot-still distillation while pairing it with long-term aging in western oak barrels, a combination it pioneered locally. Alongside its core awamori it now also makes habu-snake liqueur, fruit wine and vinegar, and runs distillery tours and tastings from its Ishigaki City plant. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yahagi Yoshu (矢作洋酒) Fuefuki, Yamanashi, Japan
Yahagi Yoshu traces its Fuefuki roots to 1914 and specialises in additive-free wine grown under chemical-free viticulture in the Ichinomiya district. The small family winery bottles and sells its natural wines directly to visitors and by telephone order. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yamada-Shunkei Takayama, Gifu
Yamada Shunkei-ten, founded in 1971 in Takayama, produces Hida Shunkei lacquerware, a clear-lacquer finish said to originate about 400 years ago under craftsman Takahashi Kishichiemon. It makes trays, bento boxes, chopsticks and tableware in transparent amber lacquer. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yamada-ya Miyajima, Hiroshima
A long-established Miyajima confectioner, Yamada-ya bakes momiji manju and is known for Toyoka, a chewy maple-leaf cake wrapped in a thin skin around chunky adzuki bean paste. The company runs its own directly operated shops around Hiroshima and offers hands-on baking sessions at its Miyajima main store. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yamadai Okura Nagiso / Japan
Yamadai Okura hand-turns bowls, tea caddies, dishes and tea chests on the lathe in Nagiso, Nagano, following the region's rokuro woodworking tradition, selecting and finishing each piece by hand to show the timber's natural grain, sold from its shop and online store. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yamaga Toro (Washi Kogei Yamaga Toro) Yamaga, Kumamoto
Yamaga toro are paper lanterns built entirely from handmade washi and paste, with no wood, wire or metal, a technique refined over more than 500 years in this castle town north of Kumamoto City. The Yamaga Toro Promotion Society trains the toro-shi who keep the craft alive and sells finished lanterns alongside the adjoining folk museum's historic examples. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yamamoto Kansai Boutique Shinjuku, Tokyo
The flamboyant Japanese designer's boutique showcasing his bold, theatrical creations. Colorful, avant-garde pieces that embody the exuberant spirit of 1980s Japanese fashion. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yamashiroya Ueno, Tokyo
Massive 6-floor toy and hobby emporium across from Ueno Station. Action figures, models, games, character goods, and collectibles. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yaseuma Honpo Taguchi Kashiho (やせうま本舗田口菓子舗) Oita / Online
This Oita confectioner reworks the local yaseuma dish into bite-sized wagashi, wrapping self-roasted, self-milled kinako filling in soft gyuhi. Free of preservatives and colorings, the sweets are ordered online and finished by hand with shichitou-i grass ties. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yohei Fukuda Aoyama, Tokyo
One of Japan's finest bespoke shoemakers. Hand-welted shoes of exceptional quality made in a small Tokyo workshop. Appointment required. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yokota Pearl Chuo-ku (Hanakuma-cho)
Yokota Pearl sells akoya pearl jewelry from a shop in Kobe's Hanakuma-cho, near JR Motomachi and Hankyu Hanakuma stations, in a city that has processed and traded pearls since the early twentieth century. The company sources and sets its own necklaces, earrings and rings under its own name rather than reselling through wholesalers. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yoneshima Shuzo Kumejima Town
Founded in 1948, Yoneshima Shuzo has distilled awamori on Kumejima for more than seven decades, producing small-batch lines such as Chura Botaru and Hoshi no Akari. The distillery pairs its spirits with local oysters and seasonal foods in gift sets sold through its own online store. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yoshimura Seimen Shinkamigoto (Nakadori Island)
A Shinkamigoto noodle workshop making Goto tenobe udon, in which each batch is drawn out by hand in the region's traditional hand-stretching method. The range runs across four labels, Kiyo, Sui, Jun and Umakaccho, sold in 200 to 250 gram bundles through the shop's own store and mail order. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yubokumin (遊木民) Kita 7-jo Nishi 19-chome-1, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0007 / Sapporo / Japan
Shop-plus-workshop opened 2016; father Takuji Kawaguchi founded woodcarving wholesaler Takusho in 1986; son Naoto carves on site. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yuko Tsuji Pottery Studio Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi
Ceramic artist Yuko Tsuji fires nine-colour glazed, Kutani-style vessels at her Fujikawaguchiko kiln, where finished pieces are sold and wheel or hand-building classes run. The studio operates from the architect-built DEGU workshop near the lake. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yuriya Seienjo (Nmaka Shio) Goto Islands
A small Goto salt works selling its Nmaka-shio sea salt, drawn from the surrounding waters and offered in 80, 180 and 500 gram sizes as well as discounted bulk lots. The operation runs its own shop under the Salt Meister banner rather than through a marketplace reseller. store page → · open in the atlas →