Kobo Shop & Gallery (at Higo) — Local services in Seattle

I LOVE this shop! It was always one of my favorite stops to walk through when showing visiting friends around the international district before covid. They are still open to buy things online and pickup in store—and it’s super easy to do so because they have reserved pickup/drop off parking right in front of the shop. To be honest, a lot of what they stock is a bit out of my price range on a normal day—but if you’re looking for a gift or something special, it’s the perfect place to shop. Everything there is carefully selected and great quality. I’ve never been disappointed when I chose to make a purchase here. Even if you’re just window shopping, getting to peruse the selection of work by local artisans and the exhibits they sometimes have open in the back left of the shop makes it totally worth the stop. Got my dad a a couple Grids and Guides notebooks here for father’s day recently after seeing it as one of their recommendations in their newsletter (which I really recommend signing up for, by the way) and he absolutely loved them. If you’re a fan of beautifully designed objects for the home, I can’t recommend...

Very cool shop with interesting items like funky shaped dishes and bamboo lamps, cute stuff like finger puppet books and handmade night lights, and art supplies.

There’s a lot of cool things to look at, albeit a lot of them have high prices 😅 Highly recommend this store if you are looking to get a unique gift and don’t mind paying a bit for uniqueness and high quality. I realllly wanted to get the night light, they are sooooo LIT haha, pun intended.

If you keep browsing though, there’s some items that are more affordable like the $6 card with a giant bingsoo and dog, soap bars with good scent, and a really cute collection of children’s books with finger puppets that’s actually only $7 per book. I recommend the finger puppet book if you have young kids or looking to get...

I stumbled into this place when taking my cousin out to show her Seattle. She had just returned from living in Japan. We wandered in and I was bummed I had not known about this place sooner. It is a gorgeous and fascinating store. My cousin loved it as well. I'll tell anyone that will listen. I bought a few shirts and plan to return for Christmas gifts. They didn't have my size in a couple of the shirts so they contacted the artist who sent more in my size. To much stuff to rave...