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Don quijote is one of the largest discount retailers in Japan, known for its focus on convenience, discount, and entertainment. Stores offer a vast selection of products, with around 40,000 to 60,000 items available, including food, everyday essentials, clothing, home appliances, and brand-name goods.

Nishiki Market is a place where you'll find not only foodstuffs, but also cooking utensils. This kitchen knife store has been in business for 450 years. Although focusing on kitchen knives, the store, which is highly acclaimed by top-class chefs both in Japan and abroad, sells pots, graters, and molds. You can even have them inscribe your name on a kitchen knife.

This attraction features a half-size replica of a Viking ship and exhibits related to the children's book author Hans Christian Andersen. Delightful goods made in Denmark are also for sale.

A general discount store based on the concept of ”convenience, discount, and amusement”. The store offers approximately 40,000 to 60,000 items, including food, daily necessities, clothing, home appliances, and brand-name products.

This museum is linked to the Yotsuya Fire Department. Here you can see exhibits of actual equipment, including the first fire engine introduced to Japan in 1917, as well as the helitack first brought into the Tokyo Fire Department. In addition, you can sit in the helitack set up outside. Why not try considering some disaster prevention?

A general discount store based on the concept of ”convenience, discount, and amusement”. The store offers 40,000 to 60,000 items, including food, daily necessities, medicines, cosmetics, clothing, home appliances, brand-name products, liquor, cigarettes, etc. It is the perfect place to pick up Japanese and Kobe souvenirs.

Located near the famous tourist spot ”Mt. Narita”, which is convenient for shopping and sightseeing. A family-type general discount store with the concepts of ”a wide selection of products” and ”astonishingly cheap prices”. The store offers a wide variety of products to meet the diverse lifestyles of customers, including fresh foods, daily consumables, medicines, home appliances, and clothing, not to mention the typical Donki products.

Haibara is a washi shop in Nihonbashi that has been around for over 200 years. They sell various types of washi, from letters sets to kazari fans and paper products. The shop is also for the fact that Takehisa Yumeji, an artist famous for drawing beautiful women in the Taisho period (1912 - 1926) designed many of the patterns for this shop's letter writing sets, envelopes and uchiwas. The ”Jabara (rickrack/zigzag) letter writing set” is the shop's most popular item, with dotted lines at every folding point, and you can just tear off the part you need to use.

Kannonzaki is a cape protruding into the Tokyo Bay. The cape area is a park with a Western-style lighthouse, a nature museum, and an art museum. You can definitely spend an entire day here.

Kamaasa is a cooking equipment store founded in 1908. Inside the store, various utensils are lined up, starting from kitchen knifes and Nambu ironware, other professional tools like pots , the Yukihira Pot (a pouring pot), frying pans, bamboo draing baskets, graters, but also ordinary daily house utensils. There is a wide variety of carefully selected beautifully designed products with great quality which will fit in your hand better the more you use it. We recommend you to come and try to hold the products for yourself and make a choice based on that.

TUZURU is a select shop with stationery, fountain pens, envelopes, and letter writing paper sheets. The store opened in 2008 as a casual place to buy fountain pens. A lineup of various fountain pens selected by the knowledgeable shop owners are showcased, ranging from simple to authentic styles.

A general discount store based on the concept of ”convenience, discount, and amusement”. The store offers approximately 40,000 to 60,000 items, including food, daily necessities, medicines, cigarettes, cosmetics, clothing, home appliances, and brand-name products. The store is close to the station and is a great place to pick up Osaka souvenirs.

With a large public bath containing a sauna

Gekkoso is an art supply store with a retro atmosphere located along the Hanatsubaki Street in Ginza 8-chome. It was established in 1917. A lot of foreign people come here, too. There are about 90 kinds of cute picture post cards with paintings and poems of modern artists in the basement floor. You write an address and your message on the card and then post it in Gekkoso in-store post. Afterward, the store will have it mailed. You can also use Gekkoso's original watercolor paints to write your post card. Why not send your message with your memory of Ginza from Gekkosho to an important person in your country?

Don quijote is one of the largest discount retailers in Japan, known for its focus on convenience, discount, and entertainment. Stores offer a vast selection of products, with around 40,000 to 60,000 items available, including food, everyday essentials, clothing, home appliances, and brand-name goods.

Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third shogun of the Tokugawa family in the Edo period, established Sanjusangen-do for the peace in the country, national security, and tempering martial arts. The hall built after the manner of ones in Kyoto became the beginning of Yasaki-inari. The name Yasaki also came from ”yumi” (a bow) and ”ya” (an arrow). Fukurokuju (god of happiness, wealth, and long life) of the seven deities is placed at the right side of the worship hall in front of the main building.

Built in 1933, this large museum is the second old municipal art museum in Japan. The collection extends to about 3,300 pieces centered on Kyoto artists from the modern to contemporary period. The museum holds art exhibitions such as Nitten (the largest competition art exhibition in Japan) as well as events organized by fine art associations.