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March 16, 2008

I Love MUJI.

Do you know MUJI? It's a Japanese company (http://www.muji.net/) that sells clothes, stationery, food, furniture etc. and their concept is '' good quality things with no name brand''. I do like this MUJI shop and I often go one of their shops in Kyoto. Their products are simple and a bit cheap but fashionable. I found their branches in London and Turin when I was there.

You can buy MUJI products in overseas, however, don't you feel like going to their shop in Kyoto? In Japan, they manage also cafe called 'Meal MUJI' or 'Cafe MUJI' and you can eat cheaply (It depends what and how much you order, though).
Now there's only one MUJI shop in Kyoto and it's in city centre. While you're looking around this shop, you'll be healed by their original music.

MUJI has already become a big name brand (for me)!!

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March 9, 2008

Tenshinbashisuji Shotengai


"Where can I get Cheap and Nice Japanese souvenirs?"

We're often asked by our guests, and I recommend them to go to "Shinsaibashi-suji Shopping street".
There are many kinds of stores, restaurants there and most of them are cheaper than Kita(North of Osaka city.
We call this Shinsaibashi and Namba area "Minami".) It's also a tourist spot in Osaka, and there are a lot of people include tourists everyday.

However, if you're getting fed up with typical sightseeing, I recommend you to go to "Tenjinbashi-suji Shopping street."
It's the longest shopping street（2.6km) in Japan, and there are about 600 shops.
However, they're not for tourists. There are a lot of local people who look like coming to buy their ingredients for dinner.

I walked whole street the other day after a long time( I used to go there when I was a student), and I took hours!
Used book shops, furniture shops,Japanese candy shops, stationery shops,100 yen shops,music stores, boutiques, beauty salons, drugstore, antique shops, Japanese tea shops,flower shops..Even a gun shop!
Japanese, Itarian,Chinese etc. restaurants, Udon, Soba, Sushi, Cafe, First foods, Okonomiyaki,Crepe etc stalls..
You're never in a trouble when you get hungry, and you can have a massage when you tired.


I promise you'd look and feel normal Japanese life though there aren't typical souvenirs shop.




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December 23, 2007

Happy T-Shirts!!

We're supposed to be in winter, but it's not as cold as usual here in Kyoto...I can't believe Christmas is coming very soon. Do you feel like putting T-shirts under your coat? I do recommend you to go to one T-shirts shop called Graniph!! Of course, they also sell long-sleeve T-shirts. All designs of their T-shirts are cute and they're seldom worn out. There are 4 sizes, SS, S, M, L. The number of desings is....many many!! If you'd like to show off your T-shirts when you take off coat, please pop in this shop and choose one!! The price for one is 2625 yen, but if you buy two of them, 4200 yen. Do you want to be fashionable by wearing T-shirts in winter? Why not??

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