I found Japanese shopping bags are beautiful.  Some of them are elegant and some are cute.  So I cannot resist from collecting them.  But I don’t want to use them because they look nice and I end up finding my closet full of them.  This is a bad habit maybe but I just love to see creative bags.  Well, I even keep shopping bags of Trader Joe’s, Wholefoods and Barnes & Nobles so maybe I just like to keep collecting things.  Anyway, even so, it may be interesting to see the designs of Japanese shopping bags so I will show them to you.

Shopping Bag of Traditional Shops

Traditional shops have shopping bags of traditional designs.  For example this is a bag of a chopstick shop in Asakusa.  The design has a Japanese taste but it uses English letters so that oversea visitors can also understand.

Chopstick Shop in Asakusa “Mansaku”

Another interesting design is a bag of Japanese sweets shop “Azabu Karinto”.

Azabu Karinto, Japanese Snack Shop

The blake thick line is a shape of “karinto” which is sweet and deep-fried and is made of flour, yeast and brown sugar.  You can see if you look at the photo of real karinto🙂

Karinto

Shopping Bags of Sweets Shop

Japanese traditional sweets shop often have beautiful souvenir bags.  For example, see the bag of Kikyo-ya.  Kikyo-ya is a shop of Yamanashi prefecture.

Japanese Sweets Shop “Kikyo-ya”

Kikyo-ya’s flagship sweets “Shingen Mochi”

Shingen Mochi is a rice dumpling in bean powder and you eat this with brown sugar syrup.

This is a shopping bag of Fukuju-do in Ningyo-cho, Tokyo.  Ningyo-cho is a town near from Nihombashi and has many traditional shops and a historic shopping street.

Japanese Sweets Shop “Kotobuki-do”

Kotobuki-do”s Flagship Sweets “Kogane Imo”

Kogane Imo is made of sweet potatoes with lots of cinnamon inside.  The yellow shopping bag has a retrospective taste.  And so does the package of Kogane Imo.

Many More Designs

Here are a collection of photos of shopping bags.  Since there are wide variety of design, It is like looking at the exhibition or something.

Sweets Shop Gargantua in Imperial Hotel

Electric Appliance Shop “Big Camera”

Mitsukoshi, the Department Store

Cloths Shop “Nico and …”

Koshi no Ittou, Japanese Knife Shop in Kappabashi

Shopping Bags of American Shops

Here are bonus photos.  They are the bags of international brand (or maybe American brand, to be precise).  They have their own original taste, I think.  But I wonder if they use the same design back in the States.  Does anyone know?

Shake Shack in Korakuen

TACO BELL in Korakuen