Guide to Tokyo Shopping - including Shibuya, Ginza, Odaiba and Harajuku. Tokyo shopping is some of the best shopping in the world.
People from Tokyo and Japan in general love to go shopping, so they have some of the best shops in the world.
The crowded sidewalks of fashionable Shibuya
Tokyo Shopping - Shibuya Shopping
Shibuya is a major shopping area and a definite place to visit for anyone interest in Japanese fashion. Not only are there many very trendy fashion stores, but you can see many young Japanese people wearing the latest and some just outrageous fashion in the streets.(Picture - Two young Japanese ladies reading photographers contracts they were just offered in the street outside Shibuya 109).
Tokyo Shopping - Shibuya 109 Building
Shibuya 109 Building (ichimarukyū) shopping centre filled with many very trendy clothing boutiques. It is very popular among young people, especially teens, and it is famous as the origin of the kogal subculture. Kogals are known for wearing platform boots, a miniskirt, copious amounts of makeup, hair coloring (usually blond), artificial suntans, and designer accessories.
On the Shibuya 109 Building site (Japanese language, but with enough English to navigate) you can see pictures of all the stores in the shopping complex.
The main branch of the Tokyu Hands department store, specializing in all sorts of home decorations and D.I.Y. gear (with a heavy emphasis on the all sorts, this place is much more interesting than it sounds!), can be found toward the end of Center-gai.
Book First (Bunkamura-dori) is one of Tokyo's largest bookstores and carries a good range of foreign language magazines, add to a huge array of venues to eat and drink.
Music lovers will wish to check out HMV and Tower Records (for a while the largest record store in the world) on Koen-dori, but expect some sticker shock as Japanese CDs often clock in at ¥3000+; imports are usually cheaper!
Good shopping for second-hand music is to be had at RECOFan (numerous outlets) and Disk Union (Center-gai) along with many other specialty music stores.
Takeshita-dori
Opposite Harajuku Station, Takeshita-dori is a narrow street packed with young fashionable people and lined with fashion boutiques and cafes. This is definitely the place to be seen if you are young Tokyoite, but well worth visiting as a tourist. Takeshita-dori represents the cutting edge of fashion in Tokyo where you can see all the latest in Japanese street fashion and then buy in the boutiques. Omotesando
Omotesando is broad, tree-lined avenue leading downhill from the southern end of the JR Harajuku station. This is the other side to Harajuku Fashion and its challenge to Shibuya and Ginza. Not only is the street full of cafes and international brand clothing boutiques, but now features the very up market Omotesando Hills. If Paris or Milan is the center of the world of fashion design, then Omotesando is the center of world fashion consumption.Tokyo Shopping - 100 Yen shop
In Australia we have the "$2" shop and other various discount stores, but nothing had prepared me for the 5 floors absolutely packed with bargains and shoppers. Nothing in the store was more than 100 Yen (approximately US$1 or A$1.20). We found a battery powered massager, pedometer, wall size map of Japan, dogs rain coat and many other things. In most cases the quality was very good regardless of the price, but the packet of ten pens headed quickly for the bin.
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