This is a follow up to my previous post about my Liberty fabric shopping in Tokyo but this one will be dedicated to fabric shopping at Nippori Fabric Town. If you can go to just one place for fabric shopping in Japan, I suggest going to Nippori as the selection is fabulous. To figure out the shops there, I went to this site and downloaded the English map.
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I stayed in the Ginza area and going to Nippori took about 20 minutes by train. Ginza ended up to be a central point to the fabric stores I visited because most trips were between 20-30 minutes by train in any direction. If you take the South exit at Nippori station like I did you’ll end up at this set of stairs. Walk down the stairs, cross the street, and go left.
I saw this sign half way across the street so I knew I was going in the right direction.
This was the beginning of the shops for fabric town.
One of the first shops I stumbled on by accident sold Liberty and it was on sale! The automatic door opened as someone walked out and I peeked in and saw Liberty prints in the front of this shop named Youtou Shoten ( #21 on the English site map ).
Liberty in Japan normally sells for 3,000 yen per meter but here it was half off for 1,500 yen per meter. There was also remnants they had towards the back and I saw Liberty jersey and voile in addition to cotton lawn. I also saw a couple more Liberty prints upstairs but they weren’t on sale. The minimum purchase for this shop and Nippori fabric town in general was 1 meter so that is the downside if you need less than that.
The first Tomato shop I visited was a smaller one ( #31 on the site map ) where I found these lovely Atsuko Matsuyama prints on the second floor.
Next I visited the main Tomato shop ( #61 on the map ). This is a huge store so plan accordingly if you want to look through everything. I saw these cute Sanrio character prints. I really wanted to buy some of these prints but the minimium is 1 meter and I didn’t need that much fabric. There was a small section of remnants I found ( I believe each floor had one near the stairs ) which is a good alternative if you don’t need 1 meter but you’re limited to the selection of remnant prints.
I believe it was the top floor that had an entire section of quilting fabric with a large assortment of fat eighths.
I found a shop very close to Tomato that had a great selection of cute Japanese prints named Tsukiyasu ( #48 on the site map ).
If you don’t need large cuts of the fabric this is a great way to stock up on smaller pieces.
There was also a couple of boxes of swatches. These cats are so adorable!
Finally I had to visit the secret Liberty shop I saw referenced in this blog post that I totally missed going in. It was actually on the left side of the street right before you enter fabric town named Pakira ( #9 on the site map ). Here is a picture of the shop so hopefully you can find it in the beginning as your enter fabric town. I didn’t manage to get a picture of the interior but there was a large selection of Liberty Japan prints and there was a section with Liberty laminate prints as well at fat quarters and fat eighths.
if you’re interested in prints only available from Japan here are a few Etsy shops I’ve purchased Liberty Japan from : lilymeru, petitJapan, washimatta, FloweryInHand, and Essheva. Also refer to my Liberty shopping guide for a list of shops that ship to the US.
I hope you find post useful when you plan your trip to Tokyo. I would love to hear where you shopped for fabric and your experiences when you were in Japan. Thanks for visiting and happy “mad” fabric shopping!
