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…
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…
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…
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…
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 & 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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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.