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Shop from Japan, ship to you.

author Posted by: kirin on date Jan 5th, 2010 | filed Filed under: Something Interesting

tenso Shop from Japan, ship to you.

Some time ago, I introduced you a way to shop from Japan and get what you bought delivered to you. As you may have noticed, most of Japanese online shops do not ship outside Japan. To solve this problem, there are some companies that offer to let you have your Japanese address at their place, receive and inspect what you purchased from any of Japanese online shops, and despatch them to your address in your country.

This time I happened to reach another company that offers the same kind of service in Japan while I was browsing ZOZOTOWN. (ZOZOTOWN is an online mall specialized in popular apparel brands in Japan.)

That’s TENSO.com. Compare the service with other similar companies that I introduced before, and make good use of them. If you understand Japanese, you can fully enjoy shopping from any Japanese online shops with combination of this service. But even if such service is available, it’s also true that most of online shops do not have English pages. That’s the problem. In that sense, either Rakuten or Amazon.co.jp might be the most convenient places for you to shop items from Japan without any problems about language or shipment. But If you are looking for apparel, Marui web channel also allows you to shop in English and international delivery. If you like Japanese traditional art and craft or nice goods made in Japan, Shokunin.com is a good place to shop. The good news is that they now have English and French pages available.

If you don’t really care about the origin of the shop, whether it’s a shop out of Japan or run by non-Japanese people, japan-shop.com is also available as a collection of online stores of Japanese goods. You can shop there in English and get what you bought delivered to your address. (There are some exceptions, according to the shops.) Japan Online Shop is another option where you can browse several stores gathered at one place.

Do you know any other good online shops you may want to share with other readers of this blog?

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tag18 Responses to “Shop from Japan, ship to you.”

  1. kelsey Said,
    January 5th, 2010 at 8:44 pm edit

    Great post! Even for us in Japan!!!! Much appreciated.

  2. courtney Said,
    January 6th, 2010 at 9:42 am edit

    oooo that sounds useful! im always browsing Japanese shops (even though i cant understand Kanji lol) and now that i know that theres a way to get them to be shipped over without much hassle im all set to shop! :D

    hehe. oh btw have you heard of a shop called Shimamura? its aparently a clothes retail store that sells good clothes for cheap prices :3 i really want t go there next time i go over to Japan! (whenever that may be… maybe ill sudenly come into some money or the prices for tickets to Japan from the UK become cheaper this year? well i can only hope lol)

  3. kirin Said,
    January 6th, 2010 at 2:28 pm edit

    Shimamura? Of course, that's popular among teens. Have you watched this episode yet?
    http://tokyokawaiietc.com/archives/2935

  4. kirin Said,
    January 6th, 2010 at 2:31 pm edit

    Thank you. If you have friends out of Japan who want to shop from Japan, let them know this post. ;)

  5. lau Said,
    January 7th, 2010 at 10:57 am edit

    hello!! great post!!!
    did u use TENSO???how is it??

  6. kirin Said,
    January 7th, 2010 at 12:18 pm edit

    NO, no, I don't have to use TENSO, because I live in Japan. ^ ^; So I cannot tell how it was, I just introduced it.

  7. courtney Said,
    January 7th, 2010 at 6:16 pm edit

    ooo Thanks! i shall go and watch it nows :3

  8. carmen Said,
    January 8th, 2010 at 7:47 am edit

    Hi, are there any online stores that sell deco sweets craft supplies ( like decotti, but decotti is a bit expensive) , as well as charaben or bento accessories / bento boxes etc? I live outside japan as well and i can't read japanese. many thx

  9. sheryl Said,
    January 8th, 2010 at 11:04 am edit

    thanks for sharing the info :)

  10. Tjäna Pengar Roulette Said,
    January 8th, 2010 at 10:31 pm edit

    Sometimes it’s really that simple, isn’t it? I feel a little stupid for not thinking of this myself/earlier, though.

  11. kirin Said,
    January 10th, 2010 at 1:12 am edit

    Please try to search from Rakuten English page, as in the post.

  12. kirin Said,
    January 10th, 2010 at 1:13 am edit

    Hope this helps you. :)

  13. Lisa Said,
    January 11th, 2010 at 4:19 pm edit

    This was really helpful information! I had no idea such a service existed, definitely worth looking into. :)

    For those who aren't comfortable with Japanese, there's also http://www.jlist.com and even http://www.rinkya.com/ which allows you to bid on Japanese auction sites! I'm very familiar with browsing both, but have yet to try them out. They both seem solid, and JList has been around for some time already.

  14. kirin Said,
    January 14th, 2010 at 12:05 am edit

    I have no idea why most of Japanese shops don't count potential customers overseas. Many of them just focus inside Japan only. I don't think it's only a language problem, but I hear there are many credit card frauds outside Japan. :(

    BTW I didn't know "rinkya"!

  15. Jaleesa Said,
    April 22nd, 2010 at 3:13 pm edit

    Hi I'm trying to open a shop in the Netherlands (where I live) that sells (maybe even distributesif possible) japanese stuff like sweets craft supplies,bento boxes, japanese clothing but I'm not good in Japanese so I'm wondering if you know some online wholesale stores thanx BTW great post

  16. kirin Said,
    April 24th, 2010 at 12:54 pm edit

    I'm not pretty sure but how about Aribaba? http://www.alibaba.com/

  17. Nabeel Said,
    November 25th, 2012 at 6:10 pm edit

    Hi I would like to know of reliable company that can provide reshipping of small items i can purchase to my address outside Japan
    any one can guide me ?

  18. kirin Said,
    November 28th, 2012 at 11:52 am edit

    I used to recommend Flutter Scape but they seem to have been closed. So how about White Rabbit Express? http://whiterabbitexpress.com/

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