Information about the shops
under Itagaki’s direct management
Besides the flagship shop in Akabira, Hokkaido, where the head office is located, Itagaki has three shops under direct management: one in Sapporo, one in Tokyo and one in Kyoto.
These offer on-the-spot basic care and repair services, such as the replacement of fasteners.
Feel free to drop in when you’re in the neighborhood.
Itagaki Flagship Shop in AKABIRA Garden Eco-Factory, a craftsmen’s eco-conscious studio on a verdant hill
113, Horooka-cho, Akabira, Hokkaido 079-1102Tel: 0125-32-0525
Email: kaban@itagaki.co.jp
Hours: 10AM – 5PM
Open year-round
Exit the Hokkaido Expressway at the Takikawa IC, turn onto National Highway 38 toward Ashibetsu / Furano and you’ll find the head office of Itagaki. The office building has a spacious semicircular well-hole where you can see all of our products. As the space is on the same floor as our studio, on weekdays it resounds with the pleasant sounds of leatherworking. We also have a café where you can make yourself at home and enjoy a peaceful view of the rural landscape from a wooden deck.
Access
- Driving directions
- Exit Hokkaido Expressway at the Takikawa IC. Turn left (toward Ashibetsu / Furano) onto National Highway 38. Turn left at the side street before Tokugawa Jo, a doll-making studio that resembles a castle. The shop is immediately on the left-hand side. (There is a sign just before the side street.)
Keio Plaza Hotel Shop in SAPPORO
Keio Plaza Hotel 1F, Kita 5-jo, Nishi 7-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-0005The shop is in the shopping arcade of the hotel.
Tel: 011-280-5555
Email: keio@itagaki.co.jp
Hours: 10AM – 7PM
Closed: 3rd Sunday of the month
A shop directly managed by Itagaki is in the shopping arcade of the Keio Plaza Hotel.
Since opening, the shop has welcomed patrons from Otaru, Ebetsu and other suburbs, and from throughout Hokkaido, as well as welcoming patrons from Sapporo. The shop staff feel that the shop is supported by many kind patrons who come all the way to Sapporo to shop there and to visit the sales staff. Hotel guests often come upon the shop, giving us the chance to make them new patrons.
Valuing our interactions with patrons, we’d like to grow steadily year by year. We devote ourselves every day to earning the support of our customers. We always look forward to hearing the honest opinions of our patrons.
Azabu-juban Shop in TOKYO A shop directly managed by Itagaki at Asabu-juban, a boutique district in the heart of metropolitan Tokyo
1F, 2-21-14, Asabu-juban, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0045Tel: 03-5439-9895
Email: azabu@itagaki.co.jp
Hours: 11AM – 7PM
Closed: Tuesdays
There is a shop directly managed by Itagaki in the Asabu-juban district of Tokyo.
In a corner of the shop is a bulletin board with information on Hokkaido and Asabu-juban. The large table next to it can be used as a space for chats over tea. The shop staff hold workshops there.
Basic care and repairs, such as the replacement of fasteners, can be done promptly. Feel free to drop any time.
Access
A 2-min. walk from Asabu-juban Subway Sta. on the Toyo Metro Namboku Line or the Toei Oedo Line
- Access from Exit 4
- Take the escalator to ground level, then follow the left-hand road and turn left at the first alley. You’ll see the New Matsuya Pachinko Parlor on the corner and a sign for Daikokuya ahead. Go straight down the alley and you’ll see the Korean barbecue restaurant Jojoen on your left. Keep going straight and you’ll arrive at the shop on the left corner of the first intersection.
Kyoto sanjo Shop in KYOTO
Masuya-cho 78, Yanaginobanba-nishi-iri, Sanjo-dori, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto CityTel: 075-222-5656
Email: kyoto@itagaki.co.jp
Hours: 12AM – 8PM
Closed: Tuesdays
The Itagaki Kyoto Sanjo Shop is on the Yanaginobanba Nishi-iru block, at the corner of Sanjo-dori Street. Long ago this was the main street in Kyoto.
(It’s right on the corner where there is a traffic signal.)
A 6-minute walk from Karasuma-Oike Station (Karasuma Line) of the Kyoto Municipal Subway: On Sanjo-dori Street, you’ll find a post office, a museum, old unrestored buildings and eye-catching shops. Walk east on this street until you get to the Sanjo branch of Inoda Coffee Shop. Go on a little further and you’ll find a glass-walled building on the corner. This is the Itagaki Kyoto Sanjo Shop.
From the shop, you’ll see the Meiji-style building of the Nippon Seimei insurance company across Sanjo-dori Street and the YMCA east across Yanaginobaba Street.
In Kyoto, where traditions are cherished and preserved, people treat high-quality goods with care and use them for many years.
Our studio is in Hokkaido, a land where great natural splendor remains. We’ve been making products with traditional manufacturing methods. We’d like the people of Kyoto to see, touch and get to know Itagaki’s leather products.
To those in pursuit of genuine quality, we hope our Sanjo-dori shop will be a good place to encounter Itagaki’s fine products.
The spacious shop is filled with the fragrance of vegetable-tanned leather. It offers basic care and repair services, such as the replacement of fasteners.
