Matsumoto (Nagano)
Local Guide
A chandler in Matsumoto and a bookstore, unexpectedly. I'll find one piece you like at Shinshu.

There are a lot of fashionable grocery stores in the Matsumoto city which is also learned about as a town of a craft. The book selected by owner's commitment, miscellaneous goods, the one which made the local specialty of Shinshu a theme and a handicraft of the author who plays an active part locally are a spot Matsumoto. It's introduced from the store loved lengthily to the new grocery store.

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The grocery store you delight by wide selection

The grocery store established attached to an atelier of a candle author and Mr. Nishimaki Takayuki. Candle atelier lifart... shows TOCA= "light", and when I'd like to make the store to do "of casual daily life, happily", is open 5 years before. Some kinds, various culture, domestic and abroad, expectation of Mr. Nishimaki who thinks the Japanese daily life which is being taken in is abundant and fascinating without caring, is the transmitted selection.
The author's handicraft by which Mr. Nishimaki is playing an active part by every region of the country as well as a candle of production, Arita ware of the area brand and southern ironware. There even are an accessary and a food, foreign-made, and, the old and the new are selected widely from a handicraft of one point thing which isn't investigated to industrial goods of mass production. The sense to hunt treasure is a fun store.

The "fragrance candle" I'd like usually to use and do

There are little smoke and soot, so "fragrance candle" using original wax of vegetable material 100% of soybeans and a palm raw material can use it casually at the place where I'd like to relax. The "kodama" etc. fragrance using the oil of "shinano" and the Kiso cypress based on the fragrance of the apple which is also local specialty of Shinshu is 10 kinds. The "this month's fragrance series" you can get only at a storefront is also attention.

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There are also many unusual candles a vivid Calla candle and the candle which can enjoy the various fragrances the appearance.

TOCA by lifart...
  • The addressNagano Matsumoto city major 4-3-17 MAP
  • DirectionFrom JRMatsumoto station, 12 minutes on foot
  • Business hours12:00-19:00
  • Days closedWednesday . Thursday
  • TEL0263-87-8942
  • ParkingI don't have that.

The comfortable book cafe circled by a book

The book cafe where a renovation did the store which was an electrical appliance store formerly using Japanese old material and retrospective furniture. It was made so that the expensive ceiling might be utilized, big, small, various bookshelves. The seating comfort depends on the type, so a retrospective chair can sit down on a favorite chair and enjoy reading.
The independent-system publication which turns "hint of pleasant living" into a selected book with the standard and is called Litle press is the center. The magazine, the photograph collection and the art book the person who read can utilize for daily living equal.
A craft work for the carpenter author, stationery kinds on a postcard, a hood of a CD and a truck and a bag of the Swiss maker which reuses a seat belt and makes goods "FREITAG" are sold. Time frame limitation fairness is being held and temporary exhibition is being performed irregularly by a gallery on the 2nd floor.

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The Litle press, ZINE and the miscellaneous goods on which I don't lay eyes at a large bookstore equal, and 1 copy you like slowly can be chosen while having coffee.

The morning coat and the lunch enjoyed comfortably

The morning coat cafe business which feels the fragrance of the coffee and the smell of the book from a morning is to 7:00-11:00. The toast baked by a gridiron+ a morning coat set of a drink is popular. The beans Kyoto roasted by "KAFE factory ship" are offered to coffee by month replacement. Feeling good also has a donut, a cooky and a pound cake baking snack, and can spend good time.

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  • The addressNagano prefecture Matsumoto city 3-7-8, Fukashi MAP
  • DirectionFrom JRMatsumoto station, about 10 minutes on foot
  • Business hours7:00-20:00
  • Days closedWednesday (There is temporary closing.)
  • TEL0263-50-5967
  • ParkingFree

The item with the light sense of the owner is in a row.

The store of craft miscellaneous goods open for more than 30 years at Matsumoto and Nakamachi street. "Something to have that daily is beautiful." Mr. Kobayashi, the owner has complete set of the various articles you make the life which was chosen by the thought that he says "Ordinary every day was beautiful." abundant in which. Only the item by which tableware, a cooking tool and illumination charm a tool lover though it's practical.

Other ones of the work there is a fan in the whole country and which is an author of arts and crafts "the one one wants, but which isn't being sold", there are also original goods by which one designed an owner.

The long seller goods which have a fan in the whole country

It would melt, but the candlestick which fills a saucer with water and uses it floats on water.
It would melt, but the candlestick which fills a saucer with water and uses it floats on water.

The floating butter knife which can't worry about dirt in an original item and can put it in the table, popular goods of an earthenware mortar and a cutting board of the crescent type of the long seller are a lot. It's the feature that a cutting board of the crescent type tends to be independent and drop the ingredients on a bat. Word-of-mouth communication from a bought way, functionality and the beautiful design are echoed and are the gem an order enters from the whole country.
It's the shop at which a foreigner visitor often drops in on the popular Nakamachi street a tourist takes certainly.

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The atmosphere of the selection is quiet, and the miscellaneous goods equipped with beauty and usability are even.

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  • The addressNagano Matsumoto city central 3-5-10 MAP
  • DirectionFrom JRMatsumoto station, about 12 minutes on foot
  • Business hours9:00-18:00 (I fluctuate by a season.)
  • Days closedWednesday, 3rd Tuesday and January 1
  • TEL0263-32-0646
  • ParkingI don't have that.

The fashionable craft grocery store you make every day fun where

The colorful craft goods conspicuous in the store the white was made valuable where
The colorful craft goods conspicuous in the store the white was made valuable where

The selection shop where a craft, sundry goods and an art work have complete set of colorful goods with the theme of "enjoyed living and art". It opens, and the 7th year per 2019 years is received into one on the main street in Matsumoto city and Nakamachi street. Though they're simple, the craft a male owner who likes the atmosphere full of art sense selects is rich in a variety, and goods always change. Excellent designability catches eye both a bag made of felt, slippers, the kitchen towel which made the cat a motif and an accessary.

An original art work is also sold.

The art work displayed on a wall in the store
The art work displayed on a wall in the store

An art work also lines up casually with a craft in the store, and it's possible to buy everything. It's possible to have an original accessary of a Japanese jewelry designer of Spanish residence in its hand including the lithograph and the art work a printmaker from Matsumoto city handled.
Temporary exhibition is held irregularly. The contents collect works of a specific artist and narrow a theme down to a jewelry, and change with that case. It's one I'd like to visit by all means in case of Matsumoto sightseeing.

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  • The addressNagano Matsumoto city central 3-4-19 MAP
  • DirectionFrom JRMatsumoto station, about 14 minutes on foot
  • Business hours10:00-18:00
  • Days closedWednesday
  • TEL0263-34-4111
  • ParkingI don't have that.

By clothes, an appetite and a craft for a dwelling, living, abundantly.

As it is being seen, the beautiful display which can be enjoyed
As it is being seen, the beautiful display which can be enjoyed

The craft shop where it's opened in 2019 and the 20th year is met. The work the originality an author in every region of the country as well as in the Nagano handles overflows equals. When the business was started, pottery and a glass container were being developed in the center, but clothes, a bag and shoes are enriched at present. It's easy to look at each and I have a plenty of leeway, and it's exhibited by a hand so that it may be easy to take, and indeed it seems to be a gallery. Staff/staff member makes a contact with authors densely including an owner, and a work also goes to a production site and selects. It has complete set of the craft which makes the daily life fun much.

Usability as well as the design and the feel of a material are also emphasized.

An owner is particular one point one point, and I select.
An owner is particular one point one point, and I select.

On the presumption that usability as a tool as well as originality with the design are also equipped, the item to which I stand next in the store selects. An owner and Staff/staff member are using actually, are making sure whether it can be used comfortably in the daily life and are selling the one to which I consented.
Temporary exhibition is held by the pace of the twice a month. I don't ask about famous name-lessness, and the craft with the author's abundant individuality with the force equals, and you can sometimes meet a thing one point.

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  • The addressNagano prefecture Matsumoto city central 2-2 - 6 more Beautiful bookstore 2nd floor MAP
  • DirectionFrom JRMatsumoto station, about 7 minutes on foot
  • Business hours11: 00-18:00 or 3-Friday . Sat. December -19:00
  • Days closedWednesday
  • TEL0263-38-0022
  • ParkingI don't have that.
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