Paper, pens and the stationery floor

紙、ペン、文房具の階かみぺんぶんぼうぐのかい

Shopping · Craft · Rainy day

Japanese stationery is a craft with its own department stores: Itoya's twelve floors in Ginza, the washi rooms of Haibara and Ozu in Nihonbashi (Ozu has a paper museum upstairs and sells paper by the sheet from three hundred years of stock), Kakimori in Kuramae where you assemble a notebook from cover, paper and binding. An afternoon, and the lightest souvenirs there are.

How to arrange it: No booking; Kakimori's custom notebooks take thirty minutes to make while you wait.
Price band: ¥
Allow: 120 min
Where: Ginza, Nihonbashi, Asakusa

Where to book it

Ginza

Ginza Itoya

銀座伊東屋

¥ · 45 min · English: yes

Founded in 1904 and still on the same Ginza corner, Itoya's flagship is less a shop than a stationery department store, with floors themed around notebooks, pens, paper crafts and a rooftop garden, staffed to serve an international clientele in English. It is the reference stop for the "stationery floor" experience precisely because of that scale and depth of range.

Asakusa

Kakimori

カキモリ

¥¥ · 45 min · English: yes

In the paper-and-craft district just north of Asakusa, Kakimori works with Japanese paper and bookbinding artisans to let a visitor build a fully custom notebook page by page at the counter, rather than simply selling pre-made stationery. Its English-language site and international following make it an easy stop to add to a "paper and stationery" itinerary alongside the bigger Ginza names.

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