Best Other Shopping around Tokyo and Surroundings Spot List

A bakery that makes additive-free bread using natural yeast and sells Japanese-style breads and pastries.

“Iira manju,” traditional steamed buns with four types of fillings

A stationery store with a fountain-pen-shaped signboard and the slogan “A Hideout for Adults.”

One of Japan's biggest anime specialty shops. Loaded with DVDs, comics and original goods you can't get anywhere else.

A progressive stationery store identifiable by a big red paperclip.

This is a chic cafe that offers delicious galettes. Misobuta galette dog, which uses pork preserved in Chichibu miso (soybean paste), is a popular item.

A famous tamagoyaki (Japanese omelet) shop established in the Edo period

The Pokémon Official Shop is easily accessible from Shibuya Station. You are welcomed by a life-size 2-meter tall Pokémon Mewtwo.

Sells a variety of household goods including stationery and DIY goods

Steamed bread, a traditional Atami favorite

Nostalgic kashi-ya (snack vendors) line the cobbled-glass street. An exciting spot for both children and grownups.

Akihabara Gachapon Kaikan, with an array of approximately 500 gachaphon machines. Various events are also held.

A townscape with a classy atmosphere reminiscent of Edo. A shopping street where you can see the sights on its famous jinrikisha (rickshaw).

A community-based shopping mall crowded with shoppers and well-known for its Awa-Odori.

Funawa Honten (Main Store) is a store selling sweet‐potato pastes since 1902. It also has a cafe where you can enjoy the sweets.

The Gakugei-daigaku shopping district consists of six different shopping streets and areas all situated around the Gakugei-daigaku Station on the Tokyu Toyoko Line. It has an attractive and homey atmosphere.

Rokkakubashi Shopping Street (Yokohama) where the events enhancing the streets' good-old-Japan atmosphere are attracting lots of shoppers.

Kakimori is a shop that doesn’t only specialize in high-quality fountain pens but all kinds of stationery items, including pen cases, business card holders, and notebooks. Among those items is a great number of genuinely unique goods, with one of the most popular and representative being the refillable ink ball pen. As the name suggests, this ingenuous pen can be filled with ink of various different colors, refillable as many times as you like. This is the perfect gift for friends, family, or just for yourself!

The Pokémon Official Shop is easily accessible from Tokyo and Nihonbashi Stations. Enjoy the original menu at the café.

Asakusa Naniwaya is a sister restaurant to Ganso Taiyaki Naniwa Sohonten in Azabu-Juban and sells crispy taiyaki baked in the traditional manner.