Cooling Gel Sheet
‘Netsusama sheet'(熱さまシートby Kobayashi Pharmaceutical小林製薬) are necessity for when your kid catches a cold.Many parents should experience the difficulty to apply an ice pack to child moving around, but just stick this to a forehead and it provides a cooling sensation.The heat from evaporation of the high moisture content in a sheet has a vigorous cooling effect that lasts for about 8 hours. In Thailand, it is known as “KOOL FEVER” and people sticks it to their neck to get a cooling sensation.
Price: JPY420 (6pcs), JPY720 (12pcs) Types of kids and adults are available.
Cool Shirt Mist
(Left) Icenon “Shirt Mist”
(Right)Tokiwa shokai “Hinyari Shirt Shower” (Source:https://yamahack.com/432)
Put spray on cloth and can get a cool feeling by menthol effect.Before commuting to workplace, just spray on shirt and you can keep feeling pleasantly cool when you are exposed to wind. Odor eliminating effect makes you forget the smelly sweat.
Hot Eye Mask
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As soon as pouch is opened, this hot eye mask (蒸気でアイマスクby Kao花王) begins to warm up. Amazing ! It lasts for approx. 10 minutes at about 40 degrees Celcius. Put them on your eyes, just like you are using a sleeping mask. It can be used in everyday, but if you use in airplane or during your travel, it must give you relaxzation.
Price: JPY379 (6pcs/pack), JPY980 (18pcs/pack) Fregrance type (lavender, chamomile ginger, rose and yuzu) or non fregrance type
Cooling Leg Pad
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Refresh your tired legs after long hours of standing, wearing high heels or doing sports by cooling them down with Kyusoku Jikan (休足時間) Cooling Leg Pad.The moisture rich sheet of Kyusoku Jikan cools your legs through the vaporization of water to help care for your tired legs. It adheres firmly to the leg till the next morning and yet is gentle on your skin.
Price: JPY379 (6pcs/pack), JPY980 (18pcs/pack) 5 aromatic fragrances
VapoRub
VapoRub is applied cold medicine of Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd which is loved since the old days in Japan.
It can be used at ease because it is applying ointment.You apply a chest, throat and a back and ease symptoms with a cold of a stuffy nose and a sneeze.It has the smell of the menthol.Even a child who can’t take medicine yet (*more than 6 months old), a child who doesn’t like medicine and a person anxious about taking medicine can use it widely.
An active ingredient (※1) of VapoRub heated up by the body temperature becomes steam and it is inhaled through a nose and mouth.Then you can feel breathing easily.The ingredient causing sleepy feeling such as an anti-histamine doesn’t contain, so it’s also good for a driver. When I was pregnant, I was not able to take cold medicine and used VapoRub instead. (If you are pregnant,please consult with your doctor) I recommend to use from the start of catching cold.
(※1) Active ingredient :dl-camphor, turpentine, l-menthol, eucalypti, nutmeg oil and cedar leaf oil
(※) If you concern about the stickiness, please use a gauze on it.
Price : About JPY1,000(50g/bottle type), JPY1,600(tube type)
Eyedrops
Source: santen.co.jp
Sante FX NEO: If you want to get extremly cool sensation to refresh your eyes, or want to shake off sleepiness to keep yourself awake during driving a car, I highly recommend best-seller ‘Sante FX NEO’ (サンテFX NEO by Santen Pharmaceutical参天製薬) As it also has an effect to relieve inflammation of eye by UV, it is useful at the beach in summer.
Reference Price: JPY500～600
※ Please refrain from excessive use and use it safely.
Source :santen.co.jp
“Soft Santear “(ソフトサンティア by Santen Pharmaceutical参天製薬) is an eye drops without the preservatives which my eye doctor recommended. By using artificial tear liquid being very close to tear, it improves dry eyes by lack of tear liquid and it’s possible to apply eyewash wearing your contacts because it does not have any influence on contact lens.
Price: JPY600～(5ml x 4pcs) * It’s necessary to use up in about 1 week because of preservatives-free. * Please refrain from excessive use and use it safely.
Best-selling cosmetic in pharmacy
With the reasonable face wash by Shiseido Senka “Perfect Whip “,skin may be wrapped in a dense white bubble like whip creme to remove deep dirt on pores. What an amazing feather of this face wash is it’s lathering very well. You can find in about only JPY500 at pharmacy, it’s very popular among the wide age of Japanese women and also overseas tourist for bulk-buyong souvernior.
* Photo is Perfect Whie Clay in the series
Sonbayu
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Sonbayu （ソンバーユ by Yakushido薬師堂) is 100% horse oil which was approved as a cosmetics raw material for the first time in the world in 2001. (*Fregrance type contains perfume other than horse oil.) Natural oil Sonbayu helps one’s self-healing power and that effect has been spreaded by word-of-mouth.
Expected effects are not only for rough skin, stain, wrinkles and pores. It’s beyond cosmtic feature and also effect for curing one of acne scar and skin burn. Various effects can be expected, yet it’s low stimulus and can be used for baby’s skin.
Reference price : JPY1,600(70ml size) * In summer, you might want to keep it in refrigerator to prevent from melting.
Shampoo of glasses
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“Megane no shampoo”(メガネのシャンプーby Soft 99 corporation). Glasses cleaner with the concept of making a shampoo like shampoo the hair.Mint berry flavor.
How to use Refrence price：JPY500
Stocking
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Despite of reasonable price, Japanese stocking is high quality with trendy design. Most feature is strongess. It’s hard to run. There are also functional stocking to show your legs thin.
Facial Tissues
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High-grade facial tissues containing moisuture element.
At Japanese 100 yen shop, you can find wild range of goods from gadget, daily commodity to unique item.Its quality is highly evaluated from overseas.Must check 100 yen shop for your bulk-buying of dirt-cheap souvenior ! Click photos to enlarge.
* Handling commodities and stock are depends on each shop. Please confirm at a shop.
* 108 yen including tax.
‘DAISO’, ‘Can ★Do’ and ‘Seria’ are the top three 100 yen shops.
Recommendation in summer
Insect Repellent Ring and Sticker
Lovely Aroma ring accessory repels inspect.Sticker containing lemon eucalyptus repels bothersome inspects and can be stick onto clothes or bag. (18-24pcs/pack) Can be good accompany for your outside activity in summer.
Japanese ceramic
Dishes and teacups.
* Newspaper is prepared near casher. You should pack by yourself.
Japanese gadget
You can buy Japanese gadget such as folding fan, wash-cloth and Mt.Fuji design goods only for 100 yen !
Stationery
All stationeries have high function and good quality.Ball-point pen is selectable for ink thickness. Japanese eraser is soft and easy to erase.
Multiple function pen which 3-4 colors are into one is popular.
Stapler can fix tightly even with a small needle.
‘Funny eraser’ series are artistic.
Cool calligraphy pen.
Snack
Powdered green tea snacks
Kitchen goods
Stainless soup removing bad smell of fish and onion etc from hands.
Housekeeping goods
Laundry hanger with clothespin
Bath goods
High quality fabric towl. Soft body towl for women, super hard type for men. Korean mitton getting rid of dead skin cells.
Travel
One of the most popular 100 yen items among overseas tourist, 100 yen compression bag for travel.
■ Recommended 100JPY Shop Location in Tokyo
Daiso Harajuku (Takeshita street) Hours :10:00-21:00
CanDo Shinjuku Pepe Hours: 11:00-22:00
Seria Asakusa (EKIMISE 7F) Hours: 10:00-20:00
“Hamamonyo Kime” is Tenugui (a cotton cloth) shop located at 6th floor of Tokyu Plaza Ginza which newly opened in the central of Ginza on 31st March 2016. Hamamonyo offers abundant Tenugui by dyeing with Nassen, a stencil dyeing technique born in Yokohama where used to be a distributing center of silk in Japan with history over 120 years. Its traditional technique enables to give a comfortable touch after wiping up and express “fine and delicate” design on Tenugui.
Display like museum
Fine color expression and playful mind
Tenugui has wide practical use such as wrapping cloth, table runner and handkerchief, and its pattern is enjoyable.The traditional Nassen method realized overlay of fine colors.
Japanese classic pattern like white-spotted pattern and a pattern of waves in blue ocean are mixed in the modern pattern.Looking carefully adorable animal patterns, and we can find a cat having green tea and a panda doing a forward roll. Hamamonyo makes us comfortable with playful mind.
Drawing Tenugui like art
Pictorial Tenugui that can be displayed as interior in you room is like an art. The unique design capturing seasonable daily life in Japan is what you can only find in Japan. The leftmost tenugui of Ginza scenery is made at the 1st anniversary of Kime with the passion of Kime staff. Brushwood dog is adorable.
Tenugui Book MOMA remarked
“Tenugui book” is a folded piece of tenugui like a book and it was exhibited at MOMA (The Museum of Modern Art) in New York. It can be used as a piece of usual tenugui by unfolding. Vivid coloring tenugui book with the concept of Japan or Tokyo must be a perfect souvenir.
Tokyo with brushwood dog Japan series
Let’s make original Furoshiki bag in a reasonable price！
Item FEEL TOKYO especially paying attention is a original bag made of “Furoshiki”. Furoshiki are square shaped tough cloths used in Japan to wrap box or bottle etc and carry them. Furoshiki is part of Japanese culture based on Japanese mind that takes care of thing and makes full use of.
At Kime, you can select favorite furoshiki among approx. 30 patterns,and make you own bag with the combination of handle. The bag of above picture(blue one) is about less than 35 bucks. It is happy price,isn’t it ?
I asked to make bag with bigger furoshiki (35 inches wide)
Bigger than expected
The process of making bag is simple than expected. Manual leaflet in English is available and you can also shoot the process video.
If you are looking for some nice souvenir in Ginza, Hamamonyo Kime is the place to go !
Lattice ball design (Ginza shop limitation)
■ Shop Information
濱文様 きめ Hamamonyo Kime Ginza shop
Location: Tokyu Plaza Ginza 6F
Hours: 11:00～21:00
Official website
Some no Anbo
染の安坊
Tenugui is a thin Japanese hand towel made of cotton. Some no Anbo is a tenugui special shop who has protecting their tradition since 1907.With passion for quality, they use high-quality bleached cotton which realizes toughness and smoothness at the same time. Because craftsperson breach one by one by “Tenasen”, hand printing method, they can create design with bright and deep colors.
Only about 2 minutes from Kaminarimon in Asakusa.
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Captures the essence of the Japanese grateful four seasons. Because you can meet new design in different season, you can enjoy your visit any number of times.
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Wild range design from primitive classical pattern to lovely modern pattern. Design is created by 7 designers.
Cool apron.
<How to use>
As a towel :Wash in water without detergent and wring out tightly.Because thin tenugui dries fast, it is clean. Not obstructive if you wrap it around your neck.
For washing face :Skin will be smooth by washing your face and body with it.
As a tapestry :By putting in frame or suspending on the wall, it makes the atmosphere of Japanese in your room. Frame and tapestry bar is also sold at shop.
Some no Anbo shop info.
■ Location: Asakusa
■ Hours：10:30～19:00
Pilot FRIXION Ball
It’s best-selling erasable ball-point pen sold since 2007, and 1.2 billion pens have been sold over the world. A color of ink is changed by temperature change. Character can be erased with frixion heat by rubbing out with special rubber at the back of a pen. 30 years have passed to develop this amazing pen. Must-buy souvenir in Japan!
Source:www.opening.jp
ITOYA
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After the reconstruction in about 2 years, ITOYA main store with long history since 1904 has been remodeled at the center of Ginza in June, 2015.
You can find greeting cards, notebook and paper goods with the wild range color and design from Japanese to modern. New main store is 13 stories. Along the concept such as Desk, Meeting, Travel which is set up on each floors, they make space not for just buying stationery but ‘People spend the time’ in creative space. There is a drink shop on 1st floor, and you can walk around in the store with drink.
■ Location: Ginza (main store)
■ Hours: Weekdays,Sat/10:00～20:00, Sun,holiday/10:00～19:00
■ G.Itoya is for general stationery, K.Itoya is for fountain pen etc.
Official website (Japanese)
KYOKYUDO
Kyokyudo(鳩居堂) is a shop specializing in Japanese stationery, incense,calligraphy tools, postcard and letter set since 1663.Kyokyudo pursues genuine goodness and valuable goods beyond the time, and offer traditional yet new collection. With good Japanese atmosphere, Ginza main store is creating space where you feel Japanese beautiful four seasons with healing fragrance.
On the 3rd and 4th floor of the same building, there is Kyokudou gallery where exhibition focusing calligraphy is took place frequently. Admission free.
■ Location: Ginza (main store)
■ Hours: Weekdays,Sat/10:00～19:00, Sun,holiday/11:00～19:00
Official website (Japanese)
Japanese electronics retail stores offer wild variety of high quality products in reasonable price !
Rice cooker
Japanese rice cooker has a function to select the softness of rice. High-range class in about JPY 50,000 seems popular among overseas tourists.Toshiba 「備長炭本丸釜鉄釜」(Binchotan honmaru tetsugama) is not only boiling to the perfect degree of softness, but preventing rice from loosing whiteness during keeping warm.
Electric facials
The type having cleansing and moisturizing are popular. Many chargeble types are available to use in overseas and English manual come with. The best selling electric facials for overseas tourist is Beauty Bar(Japanese facial roller massager beauty bar 24K golden pulse BM-1) made in Japan. A slight electric current flows in human body.Head part processed by pure gold work for electifying and bring good effect on slackness and smile lines of one’s face.
About JPY19,000
Camera
Olympus,Nikon,Canon,Sony,Panasonic …. Made in Japan cameras are loved all over the world.
Canon “EOS M”
Mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera.Lens are changed according to a shooting target.
Source:dc.watch.impress.co.jp
Instant camera “CHEKI”
Lovely shape and body color. Picture being developed that instant is convenient. Good accompany with your travel in Japan.
Source:instax.jp
G-SHOCK(Wristwatch)
Its strongness feature, Casio wristwatch 『G-SHOCK』 is loved all over the world. Japanese electronics retail stores offer a wild production line-up which cannot be seen in other countries. From casual line in about JPY10,000 to high-end in about JPY50,000.
Wild variation
Audio instrument
‘beats by dr.dre’ by Apple is one of the popular products. It has good combination with Apple and beautiful bass sound.Color variation is so cool.
<Other popular item>
NINTENDO
Watter bottle with good quality
■Large Japanese electronics retail stores in Tokyo
Yodobashi-AKIBA
BIC CAMERA Yurakucho Official website
BICQLO BIC CAMERA Shinjuku Official website
Ikebukuro LABI
Muji(無印良品) products came into being in the early 1980’s as a result of a new mood, calling for a return to simplicity in daily life. This is in direct contrast to the usual marketing ploy of producing heavily branded, expensively designed, over packaged goods. Clothes feel good on, stationery is practical and household goods are easy to use.
Its refined design of stationery, storage and living goods became a big topic in Soho area of London. There are a lot of fans for Muji simple and functional design.
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Basic design clothing unaffected by trend
Food section has wild selection from a homemade kit of a snack to pasta sauce and curry. Especially Muji curry is equal to the taste of restaurant. Butter Chicken Curry, Green Curry is about 300-350 yen.
High quality stationery with simple design.
■ Muji Shop Location info
Yurakucho (The largest store in Tokyo), Ikebukuro Seibu , Shinjuku , Shibuya Seibu, Tokyo Midtown (Roppongi) etc.
Official website
As the sister store of UNIQLO, GU is leading brand of Japanese fast fashion. While UNIQLO offers selection of reasonable and high-quality clothes, GU pursues dirt-cheap items on trend.
GU has a large choice of ‘under 990yen’ bottom like leggings pants. Most standard line-up including popular ‘loose pants’ and ‘maxi one-piece dress’ are less than 2,000yen. GU also supplies shoes, accessory and men’s casual clothes. GU clothes moderately on trend must be used pretty frequently.
Source :uniqlo.com
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Regular Straight Jeans
■ GU Shop Location info :Ginza, Shinjuku(BICQLO 7F), Ikebukuro etc.
Official website
Sportsmen and businessmen must check !
Please try on Tabio’s socks and feel new sensation of sticking on a foot. Tabio original socks are fit perfectly yet comfortable for business use, high functional for sports use, and offer trendy design for ladies.
For its manufacturing style perusing highest level performance and quality of Made in Japan, Tabio was taken up by Japanese television as “domestic manufacture of the next generation “” not beaten by dirt-cheap overseas socks”.
Source: tabio.com
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Racing Run
Source: tabio.com
The most popular Tabio item is 5 finger racing running socks which boasts great popularity among men and women runners.Total 300,000 socks have been shipped by 2012, and also it won a good design award.
This socks support your running by having arch support function.By adopting solic process, It’s difficult to move, and improve conformity to wear. For a tip of the toe,mesh is used which enable to improve ventiation. It also has deodorant function and absorb sweat quickly by using special material. The price is starting at 1620 yen.
“TABIO SPORTS for GOLF”.
Source: tabio.com
Developed for athreat golfer with the passion for quality realizing “Stable walking movement” “the stable address” and “comfortable fit feeling”.
‘Wishing all lady can change bags just like changing clothes’ That is the concept of Smantha Thavasa who offers high-quality bag in reasonable price.In Japan,Smantha has overwhelming brand rating mainly among ladies in twenties. All process from design to manufacture are made in Japan.Their product line-up covers bag and accessory, which are more than 200 kinds in all brands.
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‘Smantha Thavasa’
Source: samantha.co.jp
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Samantha’s representative brand with the concept “on overflowing aura of happiness”. Lovely gorgeousness product line-up with trend design from casual to elegant. An array of colors such as pastels, vivid hues and monotones should make you feel happy.
‘Smantha Vega’
Source: samantha.co.jp
Casual style for adult lady. Smantha Vega offers functional bag with lovely trend design.
Plenty charm and an accessory line-up is also attractive.
‘Smantha Tiara’
Source: samantha.co.jp
Jewelry with trend and rich design. For lady who put on a jewelry by feeling on a day and TPO like clothes.
‘Smantha Thavasa Deluxe’
Source: samantha.co.jp
Leather square bag JPY 27,000(US$240)
Source: www.sonline.samantha.co.jp
Feminine and mode line-up for office lady.
Rather formal bag series can be found in a reasonable price.
Hello Kitty loved all over the world was chosen as top 15 of “The most influential fictional character in 2014” in American TIME magazine.
Lovely Kitty captures many worldwide celebrity like Mariah Carry, Lady Gaga, Paris Hilton,Cameron Diaz and Britney Spears.
Source :dailymail.co.uk Source: world-celeb.jugem.jp
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Adorable character in Japan is not only Kitty. Too pretty RIRAKKUMA bear should make you feel relax.
Source: san-x.co.jp
KIDDY LAND Harajuku
KIDDY LAND Harajuku is a department of Japanese character. In five floors, they offer various goods with new trend, Disney Kawaii goods for women, “TOY’S Wonderland” with figure doll and plastic model, Rirakkuma shop and Hello Kitty shop. You can also find the limited items at
Harajuku shop.
■ Location: Harajuku
Collaboration with Skytree
At Solamachi shopping moll at base of Skytree, you can find wild collection of original goods and souvenir snack.
Hello Kitty x Skytree
Rirakkuma x Skytree
Source: tokyo-solamachi.jp
■ Location: Oshiage (Solamachi)
At Duty Free shop LAOX Ginza located in the center of Ginza where many people collect all the time, you can find the largest store of Nambu ironware in Japan. LAOX Ginza handle watch, electronics and home appliances for overseas, cosmetics, food stuff and Japanese souvenir etc. for international tourists. They provide multilingual specialists for customers to support not only inquiries about the store and products but any sight-seeing spots or popular areas in Ginza or Tokyo.
Source :www.wwdjapan
Nambu ironware(南部鉄器, NANBU TEKKI) is getting attention also from non-Japanese for its effect. Nanmu ironware is Japanese traditional craft having 400-year history in Iwate area.
Iron begins to melt in poured water, and it provides people effect on replenishing iron. It’s said that they also have the effect on anemia prevention and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease dementia by keeping drinking water of Nambu ironware.
Iron material is a little heavy, but it’s difficult to break. Casts surface with the peculiar feel of a material and texture are making the warmth and beauty.
Source : www.prtimes.jp
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LAOX Ginza main store info
■ Location: Ginza
Official website
Fans of Japanese Warring States Period definitely must check ! Sengokudama(戦国魂, Spirit of Warring States Period) is the largest store specializing in popular Warring States Period history-based goods in Japan, and they offer the original design of cell phone strap,T-shirt and note pad.
Don’t miss ‘Armor collection strap’!
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It’s excellent design of armor charm which samurai bring to the war with themselves for victory blessing.It was developed with armor craftsperson in Kyoto over one year and realized to duplicate the exact structure of armor with the exquisite detail of the shapes, the tradition colors, the hole position and making flat yarn.
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Limited item at store, “Armor bottle Cover”
Source :sengokudama.co
■ Location: Oshiage (Solamchi)
