TOMATO Fabrics (Main Shop) — Attraction in Tokyo

Definitely a place worths a visit for anyone who's into handcrafting! PLEASE ADD this place to your list when you come! You WILL like it! It's almost a steal when you buy fabrics here (and they're decent fabrics!) However I would suggest to do some homework before buying fabrics in Japan. At first, you grab the fabric, tell them how many meters you want to cut, then they'd cut for you. Then you go to the counter and pay it *They accept multiple payment methods but JCB. *You cant grab the fabric to another floor, you cut&pay at the current floor

My favorite thing is you get to know the components of (most of) the fabrics without asking them (learning a bit Katakana and relevant Kanji...

Five floors of fabric! It gets busy, but there are lots of staff members there to keep the queue moving. You have to pay for your purchases on each floor, and you take the fabric to the cutting table first, and then join the payment queue. There is a small selection of Nani Iro on the 4th floor, and lots of character prints (think Hello Kitty, Doraemon, Anpanman, etc), and a small amount of Sou Sou Kyoto. The prices were good (matched what I found in Okadaya and Cocca) and start as low as 100 yen per metre. Nani Iro was around 1400 yen per metre for double gauze, more for linen. I will definitely come back here on my next...

I love this whole neighborhood. But the creme de la creme is this five-story plus two separate buildings store. The five-story has the top level for quilting and bag accessories. If you can't find something that sparks your creative bug here, you aren't thinking hard enough. I would be in great trouble if we had anything close to this at home. This time, I left it for last in my trip so I didn't spend all my money here. I went first to look, buying very little. The next day, when I had nothing planned, I returned with a plan. That would be the best way to shop. Just make sure they aren't closed because...