Must-see shopping in Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

  • Isetan

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    Isetan is Tokyo's most fashion-forward department store. Head to the 2nd-floor Tokyo Closet and 3rd-floor Re-Style boutiques in the main building, and the…

  • Beams Japan

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    Beams, a national chain of trendsetting boutiques, is a Japanese cultural institution and this multistorey Shinjuku branch has a particular audience in…

  • Street entrance to building with Kinokinuya bookstore on the 6th floor, Shinjuku & Ikebukuro

    Books Kinokuniya Tokyo

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    A long-time lifeline for Tokyo English-speakers, Kinokuniya stocks a broad selection of foreign-language books and magazines. Particularly of note is its…

  • Street entrance to Bingoya, a shop specialising in the traditional crafts., Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo.

    Bingoya

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    Bingoya has five floors of quality, unpretentious crafts sourced from all over Japan. There’s a particularly good selection of folksy pottery and textiles…

  • Shinjuku Tokyu Hands facade, Shinjuku & Ikebukuro

    Tokyu Hands Shinjuku

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    Ostensibly a do-it-yourself store, Tokyu Hands stocks a wide-variety of totally random (but oddly enticing) household, beauty and office supplies. Though…

  • Disk Union Shinjuku

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    Keeping the dream alive for fans of physical music, Disk Union has eight (cramped) storeys of used CDs and records, including whole floors for genres like…

  • Animate Ikebukuro

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    Akihabara might get the most attention but Ikebukuro is a major player in the anime-manga-gamer universe. Case in point: Animate's Ikebukuro store is the…

  • Don Quijote

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    Fluorescent-lit bargain castle 'Donki' is filled to the brink with weird loot. Chaotic piles of electronics and designer goods sit alongside sex toys,…

  • Akomeya Shinjuku

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    Spacious branch of famed Ginza gourmet shop Akomeya, and convenient for picking up last-minute gifts and souvenirs before catching the train to the…

  • Union Record Shinjuku

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    Music chain Disc Union is doubling down on its commitment to analogue with the opening of this new record shop, with crates full of new and used,…

  • Facade of NEWoMan mall from the south exit of JR Shinjuku Station, Shinjuku & Ikebukuro

    NEWoMan

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    Awkward name and unlikely location (within the Shinjuku Bus Terminal complex) aside, this newish mall is one of Tokyo's swankiest places to shop. There's…

  • Entrance inside Sunshine City mall, Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo.

    Pokémon Center Mega Tokyo

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    Japan's largest official Pokémon shop sells every piece of the series' merchandise with goods geared towards kids and grown-ups alike. Around the store…

  • Seibu Ikebukuro Honten

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    This massive department store attached to Ikebukuro Station has the city's largest depachika (department store food floor), decent-sized outlets of…

  • Acos

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    Acos is otaku superstore Animate's cosplay speciality shop, but you don't need to be a fan to appreciate the mesmerising selection of reasonably good…

  • Hanazono-jinja Flea Market

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    At this long-running market on the grounds of Hanazono-jinja, vendors deal in antiques, old prints, used kimono and more. You'd have to have a…

  • Bicqlo

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    This mash-up store brings two of Japan's favourite retailers – electronics outfitter Bic Camera and budget clothing chain Uniqlo – under one roof. So you…

  • Mandarake Ikebukuro

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    The Ikebukuro branch of the go-to store for all things manga and anime leans heavily on stuff that appeals to girl geeks – fitting, given its Otome Rd …

  • Lumine Est

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    Connected to Shinjuku Station (enter from the east exit), this Lumine (there are several) stocks trendy and youthful fashion and cosmetics brands.