Best Other Shopping around Kansai Spot List

A select shop with a wide selection of books and goods

A shopping street for cooking supplies

Packed full of nutrients from plants from Japan and China

Refined, high-quality Japanese stationery and incense

A huge offering of fresh seafood. Perfect for meals and souvenir-hunting

Steps from Osaka-Umeda Station! Find outdoor gear, apparel, and a dedicated fishing corner.

Various kinds of stores are lined up together, making a unique scenery

Search for your favorite aroma

Enjoy stunning views of Osaka Bay! Shop for gear and apparel, then relax at the scenic café.

Daily necessities, stationery, and more. There’s also a theater!

Experience how the locals lived during the Showa period

Discover Western Japan's only Snow Peak Apparel flagship store, right here in historic Kyoto.

This is a branch store of a nationwide sock chain. At the Nara Konishi-dori store, you can buy unique and original socks named ”Shika-chan” socks, which were designed by the store’s staff and a young designer in Nara. Various colors and designs are available, including a design featuring cute Bambi lying on the grass.

Founded in 1904, this cosmetic products store boasts its primary product called Aburatorigami (facial oil blotting paper), which was born out of Kyoto women’s pursuit of and wisdom about beautiful skin. Located in Seiryu-en, which is a strolling spot in the Higashiyama area, the purely Japanese-style store creates a tasteful harmony with the surrounding landscape. You'll find the Kiyomizu store near the bus terminal.

A store carrying many unique items from Kyoto where the concept of etiquette in daily life is deeply rooted

Originally an antique book district before the war, stores selling electrical appliances started to appear, and Den Den town developed into an electrical appliance district around 1950s. Nowadays there are some 200 stores that deal with household appliances, personal computers, audio devices, mobile phones, and lighting equipment. Recent years have seen stores related to pop culture such as anime and games springing up, and in response to the increased number of foreign tourists, there are now plenty of tax-free shops, too.

Founded in early in the Edo Period in 1615, this store, which has been run by the same family for 14 generations and over 400 years, is said to be the oldest cotton product store in Japan. There, you can always find a variety of tenugui (hand-towels) with over 200 designs, such as reprinted early Showa period designs and new designs by the current 14th owner, Ihee Hosotsuji. The second floor is a free-admission machiya tenugui gallery where tenugui made from the Meiji period to the early Showa period are on display.

The Pokémon Official Shop is easily accessible directly from Shinsaibashi Station. Enjoy an original menu at the café.

Covering an area of 2,970 square meters, this large bookstore has a million books on its shelves, including Japanese books and foreign books, as well as stationery goods and 10,000 DVDs. The store provides 12 information retrieval machines called KINO Navi, so you can easily find the book you're looking for. Kinokuniya is easy to reach, being right underneath Hankyu Umeda Station.

This is the largest complex in the Kansai region occupied by household goods stores. Each floor hosts a wide variety of items totaling approximately 150,000, ranging from kitchen items to cosmetic products to stationery and bags.