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As per a request from Cath, one of my blog readers, followings are collection of Japanese interior magazines. I may have missed some but I tried to list as many interior magazines as possible. You may find them familiar when you go to Kinokuniya, a Japanese book store also available abroad. Most of them are for non-professional people so they can read for fun. But some of them are for the professionals to learn details of their work such as how to install something, where to contact for the new product information, showroom information and etc.

Also some of them are magazines that do not always focus on interior. As you can see, interior samples from European houses are pretty much adored by the Japanese. We are trying to learn modern interior from Europe, because in Japan housing (interior and exterior) is way behind when compared with foods and clothes. We have developed our foods, apparel, and house to be mixed with western style but also to be compatible with Japanese culture. That’s why we eat western cuisine with steamed rice as known as “Youshoku (洋食)”. That’s why we wear western clothes usually but we do not forget to wear Kimono at a special occasion. It’s just the same, we don’t give up taking off shoes at the entrance of house even if all the other parts of our houses are western alike. We also do have tatami rooms.

As spoken at this old post, we have to live in a very small house in Japan especially when we are located at the city area. For example, my husband, Pi-chan (our dog) and I live in an apartment house of the area about 75 square meters. But this area is usually for a family with 1 or 2 kids in the city area of Japan. (Many other families with 1 or 2 kids live in the same apartment.) We happened to have no kids after all, and I now wonder how we could’ve shared such a limited space for 1 or 2 more people. Getting back to the subject, I wanted to say that how to make use of storage space is the No.1 concern for the most of Japanese people. Thus, when it comes to interior book or magazine, storage planning will become the hottest issue to be concerned to us. Noriko Kondo is the professional storage planner in Japan. She’s so famous she writes many books and she appears on TV several times. In other words, we may have no room to think of nice, relaxing interior as long as our space for living is very limited as “rabbit hutch”.

I personally like to browse Shoutenkenchiku to see nice interior design works at commercial facilities such as stores, restaurants, or izakaya, bar, beauty salon, and etc. But I like to see house interior, too. I liked to read I’m home and LIVES well. I think I’ll enjoy browsing foreign interior styles regardless of Europe or Asia or anywhere whenever I have a chance to visit local’s house overseas. Tokyo Interior Shops and Tokyo Interior Showroom Guide are sort of a yellow page to interior shops and showrooms sorted by category.

If you find something interesting, remember you can also shop from Amazon.co.jp, as they ship worldwide. Or you can shop anything from Japan and get them delivered to your home as I’ve already introduced in this post.