TOKYO'S BEST STATIONERY STORE: "Cute Things From Japan"
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- čas přidán 1. 07. 2024
- "Cute Things From Japan" is a cozy stationery store on the South West side of Tokyo and is arguably the best stationery store in Tokyo. It has a large curated collection of stationery, not only from Japan, but all around Asia. I show you how to get there from Tokyo station, show you around the store and explain why it is, if not the best stationery store in Tokyo, then at least the most fun!
00:00 - Intro
00:34 - Directions from Tokyo Station
02:48 - Arriving at Cute Things!
03:38 - The cute character corner
04:22 - The cool corner
05:55 - The classic corner
06:26 - Ayako
08:06 - Fountain Pens and Ink
10:15 - Cute Things "info" pamphlets
11:20 - Eric
12:30 - Private Stationery Seminars
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Music: Waking Up Next to You by Matt Large on Epidemic
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Happy New Year! Corrected English subtitles and translations are up!
@@GipsyDangerfan I don't review inks anymore unless something is very different. I average around 100 to 200 clips per video and it's just not worth it for most inks. I think Chou Kuro was the last one I reviewed because it was pretty crazy.
Just want to tell you that the style and pace of your videos is something I cannot find anywhere else :) please don’t stop making them :D
I agree 😊
Whoa! Thank you so much! There are days I’m just maxed out a bit making these vids but lovely lovely people like you remind me how great this community is! I really appreciate it. Have a wonderful new year! 💖
I agree! Alesa is one of a kind!
Thanks for taking us with you! Loved it!
Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it. Happy New Year💞
This is the first video I watch of yours, but I'm subscribing straight away. I am also checking out cute things from Japan at the moment and I'm surprised at how affordable shipping is to Spain! I was looking at the site out of curiosity thinking that imported goods would be too costly in shipping but I might actually order from them
That’s awesome! I heard Japanese stationery is expensive in Europe-maybe this will work out! I hope so. Have a great New Year💖
I love the style and pace of your videos. Thank you for sharing Japan with us.
Thanks so much!💖
Happy New year ! Thanks for bringing us along on your journey! Will put this on my list of go tos ❤
Hope you can make it out here one day soon! Have a great new year!💝
This was lovely- i've never heard of this store. Thank you!
Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it💖
Happy New Year!!! 🎉 I so love your videos, photography, and insight. Thank you for sharing your video on Cute Things From Japan. Such a great story on how they came to be. Wishing you all the best in 2024!!!
Thank you so much for your continued kindness and support this past year! I hope you have a really wonderful year!💕
Amazing video! Thanks for sharing with us.
Thanks! So glad you liked it!
❤ your channel! Thanks for all your hard work & sharing the beauty & uniqueness of Japan!
Thank you very much! 💕
Happy new year.. Thanks for yet another beautiful video
Thank you-I really appreciate it! Have a great 2024!💖
Happy new year! and congratulations on a beautifully written video review of this charming store. Looking forward to many more InkyRocks videos in 2024!
Thank you so much. Hope I can keep you entertained! Hahaha! Have a great new year!
I love this store so much and would love to visit one day in person. Thank you for the trip to this wonderful place. Happy New Year!
Awesome! I hope you can make it out here one day. It is a lovely side trip and I really enjoy going out there! Have a great 2024!💝
Happy New Year, Inky! I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the video learning about Cute Stuff from Japan and how she grew her little shop. Thanks for a wonderful 2023 and look forward to more of your cute videos in 2024.
Thanks so much! Faithful viewers like yourself really make it fun for me! 💝
Thank you & Happy New Year!
Happy new year! 🎊💖
Happy New Year. Love this video!
Thank you! Happy 2024!!
I absolutely LOVE this video!
Thank you!! 💕
What a delightful pause in my day, this last day of the year. Thank you for taking us with you on your stationery adventures with your signature style and grace. 🎉
Thank you so much for your kind comment! Sometimes its a real struggle to get these out and I appreciate your support. Have a great new year!💕
Happy New Year to you too! Really enjoyed this year's videos. Thank you and blessings! 😇
I’m so glad! Thanks so much! Have a great 2024 💖
Loved getting to know about the Ayaku’s store origin and the detailed directions are so useful! Definitely on my list for places to visit. You are my very favourite stationery documentarian 🥰
Thank you so much!💕 I hope to meld more fountain pen and stationery topics. I really appreciate your support!
Happy New Year! I’m grateful for all the wonderful videos you’ve shared with us this year. Cute Things from Japan is one of my very favorite online stationery shops. One day I hope to travel to Japan and your video has given me confidence that I might visit their brick and mortar store!
Oh you would love it! Japan is very safe and easy to travel around in. Hope you can make it out here one day!
I agree, this shop is my favorite. Glad to see you back. Happy New Year!
Thank you so much! Have a great 2024!💕
Another enjoyable video!! I love CTFJ and I've been a customer since her days on etsy and then her brick and mortar store!!!! Ayako is so helpful and nice! Thank you for the tour and welcome to the rabbit hole of cute Japanese stationery.
Thank you so much! I've always been a big fan of Japanese stationery since I was a kid, but it was with all the big Japanese companies (like Itoya, Loft, Campus etc). She has really given me an appreciation of the individual artists and her support for them is admirable. And you are right--it's a rabbit hole hahaha!
Happy New Year from Canada !🎉🥳🇨🇦 Thank you for the many years of interesting & informative videos! This one was “heart warming” for me. That little shop was sweet!
It IS a sweet shop! I so enjoy going there! Thank you so much and have a great 2024! 🌸💕
Happy new year! I started really fine finding your channel today ❤
Hahaha! Thank you and have a great new year! 💕
Another top notch video. One of the best channels in the business.
Thank you so much! 💖
Beautiful video, as always. Thank you.
Thanks! 💝
Happy New Year 🥳 Wonderful video 🥰
Happy new year! 🎊. Thank you so much!
Happy New Year, Inky!! The shop really lives up to its name, very cute stuff. =)
hahaha! Thank you! Have a great 2024!
All of your tours of Japanese sights and locales are such a delight. Cute Things from Japan is like a little treasure box stuffed with temptations. It would be such a fun place to visit. Thanks for sharing the experience, and all the best in the new year.
Thank you so much! They are a labor of love as these don’t do as well as say “top ten pens” etc. I really appreciate your comment. Have a great 2024!
I am cursing my luck at only seeing this after my trip. Happy New Year! and thank you so much for these videos!
That’s a bummer! Maybe next time. Have a great 2024! 💖
Horatio Lyle! Loved seeing that book.
Great video. The shop looks so quaint.
Thank you! I haven’t read the book yet. I found it in a used book store in New Zealand last month!
Thanks for this, great review and now a new 'checkbox' for the next trip.
Absolutely! It’s a nice little trip and the Italian restaurant next to the station is excellent!
This is such a relaxing video to watch - Just what I was looking for this weekend to de-stress. I’m a stationery fan by proxy - don’t really know what to do with stickers. BUT I love to use fountain pen and ink.
Awesome-glad you like the vid! One of the best things to do with stickers is when I mess up something while writing with my FP, I just cover it with a sticker hahaha! (Also Washi tape)
Amazing video, amazing place/things, amazing voice... Just subscribed!
Hahaha! Thanks-you’re amazing!
Happy New Year! I'll have to put that shop on my list for the next time I make it to Tokyo.
Absolutely! Thank you 💕
Absolutely fascinating. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you so much for bringing us amazing videos! Happy new year :)
Thank you so much. And thanks for your lovely posts-when I do manage to get on social media, I enjoy your esthetic so much! Have a great 2024!
Your videos are a wealth of information! I'm planning a trip for November (hopefully to pen show) so these have been brilliant for giving me an idea of what to expect!!!
Glad it was helpful! Hopefully you can make it to TIPS, it well worth it! 💖
Very cool I hope to visit the shop soon. Thank you for your video
I hope you get a chance to-you’ll love it! Thanks 💕
This was such a wonderful adventure! It almost felt like being there! Making a stamp with eric sounds like a lot of fun. I am looking forward to your next video, as always. Happy New Year!
Thank you so much! The ladies looked like they had so much fun and it was enjoyable filming them. I hope you have a wonderful 2024!💝
Wow, what a nice vi...Oooh there's an entire channel!! 🤩🖋 This is so well done, subbed instantly!
Hahaha! Thank you! 🥰
Happy New Year! It's nice to know good stationery shop.
Happy new year! It certainly is! 💖
Happy new year! Thank you for your wonderful videos. I savor every one of them.
Thank you so much! When I move to the DMV, I'm going to wrangle you into being in one of them hahaha! Happy New Year!💝
@@InkyRocks it would be my pleasure
I had no idea that's a physical store as well, but then, I haven't looked at their website for ages...! Man, they have fantastic stuff, maybe I will get tempted into ordering one day.. I heard about this store but seeing everything live just hits different... The little zines look so cute, and it's so hella you will also be doing something for them... The community feels so amazing... Thank you for all the eye candy, this video definitely gave me the fuzzies!!! It looks so cozy and delightful... Also, happy new year!
I'm so glad I gave you the fuzzies!! The store really is so different and fun. You are right--this community is the best! Have a great 2024!💖
This was a great feature! Now I really need to order some cute things from her cute store 💖
Hahaha! Enjoy the shopping! 💝 thank you!
Great to see a new video. I’ve missed your ink videos. Have an inky new year.
Perfect! I hope you have a wonderful inky 2024 too! Thank you!
I really enjoyed this one! I hope to visit the store next time I'm in Tokyo. Thanks for the train instructions! Happy New Year (still 2023 here)!
Glad you enjoyed it! I think you would enjoy the store. There is a cute Italian place right near the train station as an excellent place to get lunch! Have a great New Year!
Thank you, as always, for sharing these wonderful places and people. Her shop is lovely. Wishing you much happiness, peace and kindness for 2024.
Thank you so much! And thank you for your kind support this past year. Have a lovely 2024💝
I always love your commentary 🩵 Happy New Year !
Thank you so much! Have a great 2024! 💝
Such a relaxing video. Happy New Year's!
Glad to help hahaha! Have a great 2024! 💖
😊 omg, I love this presentation! Happy to find you… greetings from Brussels, Belgium
Greetings from Tokyo! So glad you enjoyed this! 💖
Cute? You mean COOL! Really really cool!! Thanks for sharing, and Happy New Year, Alesa! 🥂🎉🍀
Hahaha! I agree! COOOL!! Have a great 2024! 💖
love all your vid’s: thanks:)
Thank you so much!! 🌸💖💕
Happy New Year! May many blessings come to you in 2024! Thank you for your lovely videos!
Thank you so much! I appreciate your support this past year and hope you have a wonderful 2024 💝
Happy New Year! Cute Things From Japan looks adorable. 😍
It is! Have a wonderful 2024💕
This is like a new year gift, thank you very much!!! XD ♥Happy New Year! 🎉Thank you for your hard work! ✨
Thank you so much! I hope you enjoyed it and comments like yours keeps me going!💕
Happy New Year Alesa! Wonderful video!
Thanks so much 💖 Have a wonderful 2024!
Thanks for showing this lovely shop and I wish you a very pleasant 2024.
Thank you! Happy New Year💕
Happy New Year🎉🎉I so enjoyed this video. ❤
Thank you so much-so glad you enjoyed it! Hope your 2024 is the best! 💖
What a lovely shop. I will definitely check out her online store. Thanks for sharing.
It IS a lovely shop. Glad you got something out of the vid! Happy New Year!
And there goes one of my New Year‘s resolutions before I had even realised how badly I needed to formulate it. The beauty of the things you show and the beautiful way you do it are always something else. So there I was stopping the video and searching for the online shop while you were still on the journey to it… Have a great 2024!
Hahaha! Thank you so much for your kind comment! Helps me start the new year right! Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! 🎉❤ So glad you're covering Cute Things From Japan! 🙏 I love ordering their beautiful items and particularly appreciate their pamphlets. Interesting that they sell inks instore but not online. Hope that changes in the near future. Great to see Miraikat on YT!
Thanks! So nice to have CTFJ pros on here hahaha! The ink may be a problem because of the Japan Postal system. They are really picky about liquids. Have a great new year!💖
@@InkyRocks Ah, that's good to know about the Japanese postal system. I hear they've become ever more strict and expensive in recent months. Super excited to watch soon your interview with AdventureDenali! ❤
I love the video so much! Happy New Year! I am planning to visit Japan someday. But - First I am working on a huge stationary budget, lol! This pen is beautiful. 😍❤🖊
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it. You will definitely need to save up for a huge budget and have a huge suitcase hahaha!💕
Great vid today and can't wait until next week when you visit with Adventure Denali!
Thank you! She is an amazing person and it’s a fun vid!
I loved how detailed and informative your videos are. ❤
I had a chance to meet Erik at the San Francisco pen show this past August 2023z
Thank you! Glad you got to meet her-she is very talented! 💖
Such lovely people in this video... Happy New Year my dear !
Thank you! Hope you have a great 2024!
Very cool!! 🎉❤😊
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you for all the wonderful videos in 2023 😊
Glad you like them! And thanks for your support!
I’d love to visit Cute Things From Japan. I would undoubtedly fill up my suitcase with cute things from the shop 😂. Happy new year!!! 🎉. Wishing you lots of inky goodness in 2024!!
Bring a huge suitcase hahaha! Thank you so much and have a wonderful 2024!!💝
Truly, such a treat! I have been wanting to purchase items from her shop.
Oh Awesome! I hope you have a better feel for it now. Thanks!
Happy new year. Happy to see your videos again. Nice to see how to travel again. Travel in Japan certainly got easier with Suica. Cool to see Me. Khue and that funky shop.
Happy new year! Thanks Andrew! I laughed at “Funky” shop hahaha!
@@InkyRocksgood to start the year with a laugh. Lovely blue ink in that video too.
Thank you for introducing me to a new shop.
It’s my pleasure. Have a great new year!
Happy New Year!! Crap I missed this in my trip! I love the color of that pen :)
I know!! Maybe next time. See you this summer!
You’re videos are such high quality. Interesting content presented in a masterful way. I wish you and your team ( I hope you have some assistance making these videos) a Happy New Lunar Year.
Thanks so much! I WISH I had a team hahaha! Happy New Year to you! (This year is interesting because of all the cool dragon posts!)
Happy New Year Inky and everyone ✨️ 🎉
Thank you! Have a wonderful 2024!!
What t a gorgeous shop .happy New Year ✨️
It really is! Have a great 2024!🌟
I love your videos 💛
Thank you so much!!💖
What an awesome shop.❤
It really is! 💕
What a charming store. I would love to visit someday!
I hope you can make it out here-it’s a fun store and Japan is a great tourist destination!
Always happy to see another video of yours appear. What pen with the flexy nib are you writing with in this?
That’s great-thank you! It’s a MB 149 Calligraphy nib!
Thanks! I definitely want to go to CTFJ when I am in Japan...details coming up!
Absolutely! Some weird news-we are leaving in June! Moving to the DC area. We had to move up the dates.
@@InkyRocks Great for you but sad for me! I'd like to interview you for my project anyway, but in North America if I can! All best as you get ready.
Nice to finally get a proper tour of the Cute Things From Japan store. I watched another youtubers visit about a month ago, He was just there to buy Travelers Company stationary and some of the Travelers limited edition stuff, making me want to see more of the store. So a big Thank You
Oh awesome! Glad you found it useful. She does have an extensive TN collection. 💕
The pen is cuteness overload
hahaha! I agree!
testimonials from Inky Rocks is the only recommendation or review i need. 👑🔥
Hahaha! Thanks! I’ve not shopped on her website (as I live here) but if it has the stuff she has in her store, it will be a lifeline for me when I move back to the States. Take care 💖
Great vid Inky, Thanks. We will be in Japan in April but I am not sure our itinerary will have time for visiting Cute Things.
and, All the best for 2024!
That’s a bummer but just visiting Japan is so much fun and you will undoubtedly run into a cute stationery store as there are many here! Thanks!
Happy New Year! From South Africa, johannesburg. Thank you for this last video for 2023. Most enjoyed. I enjoy your stationery and fountain pen videos. It gives me the oppertunety to see Japan and stationery information, what is happening in another side of the world! Im a new starter in this adventure of fountain pen and ink. LOVE Pen's 🖋
Wow, really? I moved back to England after 37 yrears in Jhb and 13 years in Amanzimtoti. I would never have guessed that there are stationary people in Jozzie!
Happy New Year to you too! It really gives me great pleasure to have viewers from all over the world. I'm so glad you enjoy my videos and it encourages me to make more. Thank so much!
Oh great! I lived in Jhb my whole life... that is 54yrs now. For sure here are stationary people here 👍 though I think fountain pens are a bit not the normal stationery interest. I am a pen fanatic and practice art projects on small scale. So the past few years slowly collecting a few fountain pens. Im still learning the basics. Busy with a calligraphy coarse currently. @@stefanstefan5269
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They are Cute things! Wishing you a happy and healthy new year!
They are!! Thanks so much for your wonderful support this past year! Have a great 2024!💖
Happy New Year!
Happy new year!🎊
I love that wax seal and the wide washi tape, among other things. What an amazing store, you're so lucky to live where stationery is so readily available.
I so agree! Have a great new year Jackie!
@@InkyRocks Happy New Year! 🎆
happy new year!
Happy new year!🎊
I’m in love with the detailed travel description. I guarantee I’d be lost and end up in harajuku or something
Yeah but Harajuku isn’t a bad place to get lost hahaha!
Thanks for the tour! I'm not into stickers either, but I'll admit that it's fun to discover that you actually like something you didn't expect! The "book memo" is actually a useful concept. I often use sticky notes for book marks but this would be better.
Somehow, I imagine Japan's stationary stores to have a wonderful / natural fragrance -- a combination of wooden shelves, paper and card stock, leather journal covers, ink, new fountain pen resin and, maybe, a pot of tea brewing somewhere in the back. A resident "mouser" cat would be a significant plus too! I have no idea how real that expectation is though. Older (pre-owned book) bookstores often have an old, comfortable, fragrance that makes me want to linger and browse. We frequently lunched in a small "shotgun" style Delicatessen like that with "comfy" chairs for those who wanted to linger and read, but our visits were necessarily brief to get back to the office. Cold snowy days were the best!
Thank you for all your videos and I hope you have a very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year with many more videos to come!
Thank you so much! I totally get that bookstore vibe. An interesting area that I may do a vid on is the Kanda and Jimbocho area. They have a lot of old bookstores and you can get Ukio-e Japanese prints there for cheap. Have a wonderful 2024!💞
@@InkyRocks I looked up the Kanda and Jimbocho areas ... and Ukio-e art. I'm less than a new-born novice. In my younger days, I could get happily lost places like that and never return. My eyesight isn't as acute as it once is, so I don't read as much as I used to. Now, I mostly "remember those days" of getting lost in old books! :D
I think that's one of the main reasons I enjoy your posts as i do -- there is an unexpected connection between old books, fountain pens and ink. I'm certain I'd enjoy a video or three in that genre.
ps: I very much hope all is OK after today's earthquakes near the coast of Honshu, Japan.
Happy New Year from Honolulu! 🎉🎇🤙🏼
Happy new year!! Great to hear from 808!!🥰
Placed my first order with Cute Things ❤
Awesome! I hope you get some good stuff!!🎁
i still have an obsession with "starter" or what i call, "pencil case" fountain pens. it started when i was in second grade and never left me. i adore, collect and use any and all vintage plastic fp's from the 80's. Those Sizzle Stix🔥 There's no hope for me. lol
That’s actually pretty cool. I think we get so wrapped up in special editions and what -not, but simple easy to use pens are really the best. That is why I consider the Kakuno my GOAT.
@@InkyRocks Yes! The Kakuno is a real contender for The Pencil Case. 👑
Great video!!! Thank you and happy new year!!! 🎉
Thanks so much! Have a great new year!
Happy New Year
Have a wonderful 2024!!💞
I really do hope all is well in Japan❣️✨
Thank you. It’s fine in Tokyo. The west coast people had to evacuate.
Cute stuff! Happy New Year!! ((off to IG I go…))
Thank you! And thanks for being such an awesome support for my media! Have a wonderful 2024! 💕