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If you want to go to Tokyo and have a different kind of fun, punch in antique markets and antique shops.
In the antiques, it is a fun experience to find your favorite objects!
1. Oedo Antique Market
Venue: Tokyo Kokucho Tokyo Convention Center and Harajuku Yoyogi Park Beech Avenue
Highlights: Global Antiques, 250 shops at tokyo convention center, 180 shops on beech avenue in Yoyogi Park
When: Tokyo Convention Center Every 1st and 3rd Sunday of every month
Yoyogi Park Beech Avenue Time varies
9:00-16:00
2. Ape Mountain Antique Market
Address: Minato-ku Moto Azabu 3-12-46 Wako Apartment 101 (5 minutes walk from Metro Azabu Juban Station)
Highlights: A 25-year-old shop that displays antiques and modern artifacts such as teapots
Time: Irregular (13:00-18:00)
3. Machida Tenmangu Antique Market
Location: 1-21-5 Haramachida, Machida City, Machida Tenjonai (8 minutes to JR Machida Logistics)
Highlights: More than 130 shops from all over Japan exhibited, and you can also find ancient kimonos.
Time: 7:00-16:00 on the 1st of each month (subject to change in November and January).
4. Antique shop TORITORI
Address: 1st floor, 1st floor, 4-5-24 Shiraya Apartment, Nishi-Ogi-ku, Tokyo, Jr. Nishi-Ogiwa Station, 5-minute walk
Highlights: Nishi-Ogiwa, the westernmost district in Tokyo's 23rd ward, is attended by more than 60 antique shops, and the Nishi-Ogiwa Antique Festival is held once a year in spring and autumn. The antique shop TORITORI opened here, 22 years old, selling antiques with a unique female style. Such as home mini toys, handicrafts, etc.
Time: 12:00-18:00
5. Tokyo Flea Market
Address: Tamagawa 4-31-1 Tokyo Keiokaku Racing Ground, Chofu City (1-minute walk from Tamagawa Station on the Keio Sagamibara Line)
Highlights: More than 230 second-hand goods stores, antique shops, grocery stores, and handicraft shops from all over Japan. A total of 12 sessions were held.
When: May and November every year. 9:00-17:00
Fee: 500 yen (free for elementary school students and younger)
6, Nihira Ko Furniture Store Mashiko Store
Address: Mashiko 3435 Mashiko, Yoshiko-cho, Katakari-gun, Tochigi Prefecture (25-minute walk from Mashiko Station on the Mangaoka Line of the MangaOka Railway, about 2.5 hours from Tokyo to here)
Highlights: The famous Mashiko Pottery Market is held here every year in April and November, and this shop is also a must-see.
Time: 11:00-18:00
7. Antique shop Dentonsdelion
Address: 2-4-13 Taitung, Taito-ku (JR Akihabara Station)
Highlights: The shop is full of antiques – Imari porcelain, as well as high-end collections of lacquerware and cabinets.
Time: 11:00-19:00
8. Tomioka Hachimangu Antique Market, Aoku Market
Address: Koto-ku Tomioka 1-20 (6 minutes walk from Nakacho Station in front of the subway)
Highlights: A market event held at the site of the largest Hachiman deity in Edo.
When: Antique Market every 1st and 2nd Sunday of the month, 1st Sunday Western Antiques; 2nd Sunday Oriental Antiques; Qingkong Market every 15th and 28th of each month, handicrafts and daily necessities
(The content is from the book "Tokyo Art Tour - Japanese Antiques")