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Tokyo offers astounding shopping experiences. You will find sprawling and elegant
shopping malls, extensive departmental stores, elegant and stylish designer boutiques,
and fashionable garment shops. Excluding these, the city also features some modern
and trendy flea street markets reflecting Japanese street fashion. AsiaRooms.com
offers excellent ideas on Where to Shop in Tokyo.
Apart from garments, shoes and accessories, traditional handicraft items depicting
Japanese art and culture are also sold out extensively. Exclusive Japanese products
like good luck charms, kimonos, karate-wear, Japanese swords, paintings, green
tea and special Beanie Babies are also found in abundance in the International
Arcade. Tokyo is a place for electronic items equipped with modern technology.
Electronic goods like, computers, laptops, mobile phones, digital cameras, televisions,
music systems, CD and DVD players are sold at best possible prices. Ginza, Shinjuku
and Akihabara are the perfect places for such goods. The highly modern Odaiba
Rainbow City is an attractive shopping destination.
Some major shops are 100 Yen Shops selling souvenirs, the street market of
Ameyoko Arcade providing goods at reasonably fair prices, the sprawling Matsuzakaya
Ginza Store, the kids' toyshops Hello Kitty and Kiddyland, the camera and electronic
goods' shops Yodobashi Camera and Sony Building.
The city of Tokyo is also famous for its fashion statement. The stores of
Uniqlo sell trendy t-shirts and jeans. Some designer boutiques are Yohji Yamamoto,
Comme de Garcons and Issey Miyake. Apart from garments, accessories like jewelries,
watches and hand bags are available at Garret. Sophisticated outfits and trendy
shoes are sold out in the Minami-Aoyama and Ura-Harajuku areas. The upscale
shops sell products of brand names like Versace, Prada, Chanel and Fendi. The
flea markets provide stylish and classy goods at reasonable prices.
A varied Japanese handicraft items are found in the International Arcade near
the Ginza station. The Bingoya area also offers traditional hand made goods.
The Oriental Bazaar in Harajuku features unique items like toys and garments.
The shops in the areas of Yuzawaya and Kyoto-kan display handicraft products
ranging from jute bags, cane baskets and embroidered works, to puppets and goods
for home decorations.
If you wish to put on a smart, casual and sportive look, the Planet Tokyo
Gear is just appropriate for you. This department features two sections - Planet
Tokyo Apparel and Planet Tokyo Merchandise. The former sells garments, while
the latter items like coffee mugs and bags. Sports accessories are available
at the shops of Victoria Sports. For booklovers, the stores like Tower Records
and Kinokuniya are perfect. For music lovers Disk Union and Tsutaya are the
perfect places to shop for CDs and the Yamaha Music Store in Ginza for musical
instruments. Toiletries are sold out at Body Shop and Boots. Other department
stores are Odakyu and Parco. Antique items are sold at Art Plaza Magatani. Tokyo
also offers some specialty stores like Beishu, selling Japanese dolls, Kuroeya
displaying crockery, Yushima No Kobayashi Co. selling hand-made paper of fine
quality, and Shimakame specializing in traditional Japanese kimonos.
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