What do you want to buy as souvenirs when you leave Japan? How about Socks, Kimono, Replica Food?

I often heard that many tourists from foreign countries bought Japanese colorful socks, low priced kimono and replica food.

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Fashionable and Funny Socks
Second-hand Kimono
Replica / Plastic Food

Fashionable and Funny Socks

Why don't you buy these socks as souvenirs when traveling in Japan?
The price is usually 3 for 1000 yen.

Socks are an important fashion item for the Japanese people.
The reason is, because we often have to take off our shoes, when we enter a house or a building.
Causing many young people to care a lot about their socks design.
Japan focuses in producing and selling many new sock designs to cater everyone's needs.

Recommended store
Don Quijote ドン・キホーテ

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Second-hand Kimono

A brand new and high quality kimono is really expensive. Some kimonos cost more than 1 million yen.

If you are looking for reasonably priced and real kimono, I recommend that you go to a second-hand kimono shop in Japan, where they offer many more types of antique design kimonos than the modern ones.

Store name
TANSUYA たんす屋

Website (in Japanese)

中古・リサイクル着物の販売・買取ならたんす屋

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Before they sell the kimonos, they hygienically wash and clean them. The company also has skills of antibacterial washing to get rid of the smell.

The company has many shops in Tokyo. Why don't you stop by those kimono shops?

I introduce some stores around popular sightseeing places in downtown Tokyo.
Check out Google Maps below!

Kitasenju 北千住

 Asakusa 浅草
Find たんす屋 or Tansuya

Ikebukuro 池袋
on the 4F in Tobu Department Store

Ginza 銀座

 Shinjuku 新宿

 Shimokitazawa 下北沢

 Nakano 中野

They also offer Yukata 浴衣.
Kimono 着物 is formal dress, but Yukata 浴衣 is casual wear and cheaper. Yukata design looks like Kimono though.

Replica / Plastic Food

These items look delicious!
Replica Food is good as a souvenir. It is called Shokuhin-sample 食品サンプル in Japanese.
It looks like real food and artistic.
When you go sightseeing at TOKYO SKYTREE you can stop by a shop of replica food.

There are minimize ones as well.