Japanese Craft shopping in Asia

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   Kamawanu

   • Tokyo, Japan
   • Shopping › Japanese crafts

   In Daikanyama, this shop specialises in beautifully dyed tenugui, those ubiquitous Japanese handtowels used for everything from bentō carriers to handkerchiefs. Designs come in a spectrum of colours, incorporating traditional abstract patterns and representations of natural elements.

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   Japan Traditional Crafts Center

   • Tokyo, Japan
   • Shopping › Japanese crafts

   Demonstrations and temporary exhibitions of handmade crafts, such as weavings, mosaics, ceramics and washi, are held on the 3rd floor of this centre. High-quality folk arts and handicrafts are available for purchase on the 1st and 2nd floors.

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   Kurofune

   • Tokyo, Japan
   • Shopping › Japanese crafts

   Kurofune, run for the past quarter-century by a friendly American collector, carries an awesome treasure-trove of Japanese antiques. Correspondingly impressive amounts of cash are necessary to acquire such items, like painstakingly constructed antique tansu (Japanese chests of drawers), but it's a nice place to window-shop.

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   Kamiji Kakimoto

   • Kyoto, Japan
   • Shopping › Japanese crafts

   This place sells a good selection of washi (Japanese paper). It even stocks washi computer paper.

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   Japan Sword

   • Tokyo, Japan
   • Shopping › Japanese crafts

   Hattori Hanzō would be proud – this highly respected dealer has a beautiful showroom and lots of experience helping foreigners choose the right katana for their taste and budget. Priciest are the macabre tameshi-giri blades that have been 'used on humans'.

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   Kagoshin

   • Kyoto, Japan
   • Shopping › Japanese crafts

   This small shop sells a wide variety of inexpensive bamboo products like flower holders and baskets.

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   Morita Washi

   • Kyoto, Japan
   • Shopping › Japanese crafts

   Not far from Shijo-Karasuma, this wonderful shop sells a fabulous variety of handmade washi (Japanese paper) for reasonable prices. It could be our favourite shop in Kyoto.

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   Kyūkyo-dō

   • Kyoto, Japan
   • Shopping › Japanese crafts

   This old shop in the Teramachi covered arcade sells a selection of incense, shodō (calligraphy) goods, tea-ceremony supplies and washi. Prices are on the high side but the quality is good.

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10. Zōhiko

    • Kyoto, Japan
    • Shopping › Japanese crafts

    This is our favourite lacquerware shop in Kyoto. While the outside is non-descript, the inside is a treasure trove of beautiful lacquerware and there's a fine gallery upstairs. It's very near Heian-jingū.

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    Rakushikan

    • Kyoto, Japan
    • Shopping › Japanese crafts

    This downtown Kyoto paper specialist carries an incredible variety of washi and other paper products in its spacious store. You can also try your hand at making your own washi here (ask at the counter for details).

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    Miyazaki Prefectural Products Promotion Exhibition Hall

    • Miyazaki, Japan
    • Shopping › Japanese crafts

    This place sells distinctively coloured, handwoven nubby silk tetsumugi textiles, clay haniwa, Takachiho kagura masks and a wall of shōchū liquors.

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14. Kyoto Sanjō Takematsu

    • Kyoto, Japan
    • Shopping › Japanese crafts

    Just a few doors from Kagoshin, it's almost a carbon copy.

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