17 stores · curated ORBIS register
Sendai chests, Hida chairs, Kiso lacquer: three regional answers to the same question of how wood should age in a house. Sendai Tansu Monmaya has built Sendai tansu chests at its original workshop site for 140 years running. Hida Sangyo (HIDA) shapes Hida wooden furniture for modern rooms. Shoutaro lacquers Kiso lacquerware furniture beside wooden bathtubs and lacquer-painted glassware in Kiso. A well-made tansu drawer runs silently on its runners; that is the test, with the finish a distant second.
Karuizawa
Aspen Karuizawa sources and repairs Western antique furniture from a shop in town dedicated to imported pieces rather than reproductions. The business posts its own company profile and shop details directly on its site rather than through a listings platform.
Best for Western antique furniture
775 Karuizawa, Karuizawa
Icchodo carves furniture and everyday objects in Karuizawa-bori, the relief woodcarving technique specific to the town, from a workshop that also produces Buddhist altar fittings and tableware. The shop sells both museum-grade carved pieces and simpler functional items, keeping the technique in ordinary commercial use.
Best for Karuizawa-bori carved woodwork
Teramachi, Kyoto
Gallery Kazurasei sells antiques including Chinese furniture from the Qing Dynasty, artifacts from across Asia and European artworks, chosen by an owner connected to Kazurasei Roho, a long-established Japanese hair-ornament company. The gallery opened in 2000 on Teramachi Street near the Kyoto Imperial Palace.
Best for Asian and european antiques
Kyoto / Japan
Hiyoshiya has made kyo-wagasa, Kyoto's traditional oiled-paper-and-bamboo umbrella, since the late Edo period — over 160 years — and describes itself as the only Kyoto workshop still carrying the technique through five unbroken generations.
Best for Kyo-wagasa umbrellas and bamboo-and-washi lighting
Hiyoshiya has made kyo-wagasa, Kyoto's traditional oiled-paper-and-bamboo umbrella, since the late Edo period — over 160 years — and describes itself as the only Kyoto workshop still carrying the technique through five unbroken generations. The umbrellas are built the old way: split bamboo ribs, a wooden hub, and washi paper stretched and oiled by hand, a construction largely unchanged since the craft was passed down.
What distinguishes Hiyoshiya from a purely preservationist workshop is what it has done since Kotaro Nishibori took over as president in 2003 under the stated philosophy that tradition survives by continuing to innovate. Rather than keep the wagasa structure confined to umbrellas, Hiyoshiya adapted its ribbed bamboo-and-washi form into a line of interior lighting, using the same folding skeleton and paper diffusion that make a wagasa canopy glow when backlit. That reinvention grew the business well beyond a single craft shop, into consulting, education and a network connecting artisans internationally, while the original Kyoto workshop still turns out hand-built wagasa and teaches visitors the dohari paper-pasting step in short courses.
For a craft with a shrinking number of working hands, Hiyoshiya is a rare case of a centuries-old technique staying commercially alive by finding a second object to live in.
Karasuma district, Kyōto
HOSOO is a Kyoto textile house with roots in Nishijin weaving dating to 1688 and a contemporary interiors range. Its flagship shop offers textiles for furniture and curtains, alongside a gallery devoted to textile exhibitions. The building also has a lounge, while the separate members-only kimono salon is not part of ordinary public shop access.
Best for Nishijin textiles for furniture, curtains and interiors
HOSOO traces its weaving business to Kyoto's Nishijin district in 1688, where patterned textiles are made from pre-dyed yarns. The process involves more than twenty stages shared among specialist craftspeople, rather than a single operation at one loom. That textile tradition now reaches beyond kimono cloth into fabrics and objects intended for use in contemporary interiors.
The Kyoto flagship makes that wider application visible through a shop offering furniture and curtains ordered using HOSOO textiles. The house presents a choice of more than 150 fabrics for this work, giving material selection a central role. Looking at a length of cloth and seeing it on furniture are related parts of the same visit.
A gallery in the building hosts textile exhibitions, while the lounge provides another setting within the flagship. The house also maintains a kimono business, although its members-only salon should not be assumed open to every visitor. For general shopping, begin with the public store and its textile applications rather than planning around access to that private salon.
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.
Best for Notebooks, organisers, and office supplies, birthplace of the Campus notebook
Odori West, Sapporo
A design-led shop selecting durable furniture, household goods, tableware, and craft products from Hokkaido and elsewhere in Japan. The Hokkaido store is operated by Sapporo design company 3KG. Established 2007.
Best for Durable furniture, household goods, and craft products from Hokkaido
Sendai / Japan
Monmaya has built Sendai tansu chests at its original workshop site for 140 years, and its showroom occupies a registered cultural property building over a century old. The by-appointment showroom sells and restores Sendai tansu furniture, alongside a companion Garage Store selling one-off slab and solid-wood furniture.
Best for Tansu chests / woodworking
Shiojiri / Japan
Motoyama Shikkiten produces Kiso lacquerware in Shiojiri's Kiso-Hirasawa district, working the craft from raw material through final coating for tableware, furniture, and commercial fixtures such as soba-restaurant tools. The shop operates an attached Urushi Craft Museum and takes custom orders plus lacquerware repair and restoration.
Best for Kiso lacquerware tableware and furniture with an on-site urushi museum
Kiso region (Shiojiri, Narakawa), Nagano, Japan
Based in Shiojiri, Nagano, Nakamura Shikki Sangyo sells Kiso lacquerware alongside imported lacquer pieces, folk-craft furniture, textiles and ceramics. It also runs related retail lines, including the contemporary lacquerware brand WABI×SABI.
Best for Kiso lacquerware, gift tableware and folk-craft homewares
Shiojiri / Japan
Shoutaro Co., Ltd. makes Kiso lacquerware, commercial furniture, and wooden bathtubs from Kiso-Hirasawa, and in June 2022 launched an original lacquer-painted glassware line called Noree M's. The company also supplies fixtures such as droplet-prevention screens and takes part in the annual Kiso Lacquerware Festival.
Best for Kiso lacquerware furniture, wooden bathtubs, and lacquer-painted glassware
Aoyama, Tokyo
Immaculately curated design store showcasing Japanese and international contemporary design. Furniture, lighting, ceramics, and accessories in a gallery-like setting.
Best for Immaculately curated design store showcasing Japanese and international contempo
Japan / Online
全国900店以上の店舗とオンラインストア(宅配買取)で、洋服(古着)、バッグを中心に、ラグジュアリーブランド品から家具・家電まで幅広く中古品の買取と販売をしている総合リユースショップです。.
Best for Secondhand clothing, bags, and luxury brand resale, plus furniture and appliances
Agematsu, Kiso District, Nagano, Japan
AGEMATSU WOOD LIFE MAKING is a woodcraft workshop run by young furniture makers trained at the Agematsu vocational school. They produce furniture and small goods from Kiso hinoki cypress using traditional joinery such as arare-gumi.
Best for Kiso hinoki furniture, joinery boxes, small wood goods
Takayama, Gifu
Hida Sangyo makes wooden furniture in the Takayama region, continuing a business that began with bentwood production in 1920. Its work includes designs that use the character of timber rather than hiding every knot or variation. The company's Takayama store displays furniture and offers consultation on repairs and reupholstery, connecting a purchase with the later life of the piece.
Best for Wooden furniture and repair advice in Takayama
Hida Sangyo's furniture grows out of a woodworking business established in the Takayama region in 1920. Its beginnings involved bentwood production using beech, and the company still places the relationship between timber and technique at the centre of its work. The material's character is part of the design vocabulary, including furniture that makes use of knots and Japanese cedar. This gives visitors something specific to examine beyond a general claim of traditional craftsmanship.
The company's Takayama store presents its furniture in person, alongside other corporate stores elsewhere in Japan. Its published services include consultation about repairs and reupholstery, which is useful when thinking about how a piece will be used over time. That is an invitation to discuss an item, not a guarantee that every repair can be undertaken. HIDA describes its furniture as made in Japan and its craftspeople as working in Hida Takayama. The origin of the finished furniture should still be distinguished from the source of every timber species. A visit can focus on construction and the way different woods appear in the finished designs.
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.
Best for Solid-wood furniture and objects
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.
Best for Furniture and craft shop
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