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Do you have any trouble to find the perfect table for your apartment ? I did. Until one my Japanese friend gave to me a precious magazine: Interior Shop Guide, from Seibido Mook.

Japanese magazines are often a mine of information. This one is publishing a list of furniture shops in Tokyo. Description of the stuff, a lot of pictures, and most important an access maps to the shops.

My favorite place for shopping is Jiyugaoka, on Touyoko line. This small town looks like Daikanyama, with a lot of fancy shops:

• The Cenozoic, with a choice of South Asian furniture
• Time & Style for modern items
• Moda en Casa, with European designers, like the Italian brand Calligaris

Shinjuku is very convenient as well for the many shops you could find:

• BoConcept with its Denmark design
• in The Room for its modern furniture
• Living Design Center Ozone in Nishi Shinjuku, a 8-floor showroom, with famous brands like The Conran Shop
• IDC Otsuka is offering the biggest choice of furniture, Japanese or Western ones, but it is quite expensive

Shibuya is interesting too:

• Franc Franc for modern and asian taste
• LoFt has a lot of pretty items
• Muji, everywhere in Tokyo as well, is simple but not expensive

There are a lot of area you could find interesting shops in Tokyo. The most difficult is to know where. Some places I’m sometime visiting:

• In Odaiba, in Tokyo bay, with Decks and Aqua City department stores you could find several funriture shops
• Takeya, in front of Naka Okachimachi station, near Akihabara, is very cheap, but no so much choice
• Quojati, in Meguro, introduces itself as a Bali Resort

Enjoy your shopping !