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Shopping

Shin-Marunouchi
1 stores devoted to beloved comic
Building
book and TV characters, including
MAP M3 • 1-5-1 Marunouchi, Hello Kitty and Ultraman.
Chiyoda-ku • 5218-5100
Muji
The expansive shopping mall housed 5
in this skyscraper boasts more than MAP M4 • 3-8-3 Marunouchi,
150 stores and eateries, ranging from Chiyoda-ku • 5208-8241
boutiques and jewelers to bakeries. This all-purpose, “no-brand goods”
store has become a byword for
stylish, good-value clothes,
furnishings, and housewares.
Hara Shobo
6
MAP E3 • 2-3 Kanda-Jinbocho,
Chiyoda-ku • 5212-7801
This specialist offers a huge variety of
woodblock prints. These range from
affordable prints that cost around
¥10,000 to pieces that are worthy
of being exhibited at museums.
Ebisu-do Gallery
7
MAP E3 • Inagaki Bldg, 4F,
1-9 Kanda-Jinbocho, Chiyoda-ku
• 3219-7651
This gallery specializes in ukiyo-e
woodblock prints. Originals start at
Interior of the Kitte shopping mall ¥25,000, but you can pick up a good
reproduction for only ¥3,000.
Kitte
2 Yamamoto Yama
MAP M3 • 2-7-2 Marunouchi,
Chiyoda-ku • 3216-2811 8
MAP P3 • 2-10-2 Nihonbashi,
The old Central Post Office building Chuo-ku • 3281-0010
was saved and incorporated into In addition to fine-quality Japanese
this shopping mall. It offers an and Chinese teas, tea-ceremony
excellent selection of local retailers instruments, such as bamboo
specializing in fashion, household whisks, iron water pots, and ceramic
goods, and traditional crafts with a tea bowls, can be bought here.
contemporary twist. Ohya Shobo
Oazo
3 9
MAP E3 • 1-1 Kanda-Jinbocho,
Chiyoda-ku • 3291-0062
MAP N2 • 1-6-4 Marunouchi,
Chiyoda-ku • 5218-5100 Established in 1882, this store sells
This dazzling glass complex of stores, ukiyo-e woodblock prints and antique
restaurants, and cafés also has a books at reasonable prices.
massive English book store, Maruzen. Isseido
Tokyo Character Street
4 0
MAP E3 • 1-7 Kanda-Jinbocho,
MAP N3 • B1 First Avenue
Chiyoda-ku • 3292-0071
Tokyo Station, 1-9-1 Marunouchi, Dating from 1913, this antiquarian
Chiyoda-ku • 3210-0077 bookstore retains all its original Art
Lovers of Japanese pop culture Deco features. The second floor has
should zone in on this collection of old English books and rare maps.

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