It’s so fascinating seeing the reverence the Japanese have for the fine art of writing and the amount of personalization that goes into something most Americans eschew - postcards. Thanks for taking us on your journey to Loft - I’d love to behold the planner section!
Oh that planner section is just plain awful--I get so tired after looking thru it hahaha! It's unbelievable how many kinds of planners there are! Thank you for coming along!
I’ve promised my children and husband a family holiday to Japan when I graduate from my PHD (hopefully this year). We are all stationery obsessed so we will definitely be heading to the loft! Thank you for the virtual tour. X
Oh good luck with your PhD! That is such an awesome reward for an awesome accomplishment. Your family will absolutely LOVE Japan! Bring an extra suitcase to take back all your cool purchases!
OK, I'm sold on visiting LOFT IF I ever get to Japan. But there is so much eye candy in this video. Besides fun stationary (tulips) The park, bike path, there is beauty everywhere. I'm dreaming of Spring! Loved the beaker and ink shot...the tension and anticipation of the overflow!!! Stay happy
I'm a fountain pen lover from Italy. I was sick (Nothing very bad buy annoying) in my bed looking for something that could stop my thoughts countinuously running in my head. This video relaxed me due to your voice and soft speaking and so the Natural healing of my body finally started during a restoring spleep. Thank you wish you the best from Italy. Keep on inkying (and gentle talking). We need videos like yours in fountain pen community.
LOFT Looks really like a heaven for stationary lovers. It is a pitty that these kind of shops do not exist anymore in Germany. Also, thank you so much for showing Showa Koen with it's Japanese Gardens.
Wow, I imagine myself staying more than an hour just browsing through the stationery section of Loft. Thanks for sharing! Love the bike section of the park!
I absolutely agree with you! Japanese stores seem to be so hesitant with overseas customers. But with Covid cutting into their profits, they may loosen up in the future. Some of the smaller stationery stores won't even ship within the country and they have started--so here's hoping!
Wow, the stationary supplies from the Loft store are amazing. The Tea House and Japanese garden were very lovely. I'm kind of hoping you go back in the spring to film and put up the video on your channel. Thank you for sharing it.
Thank you for another wonderful and relaxing video! Both Loft stores looked amazing. The tour of Showa Park was beautiful. Thanks you for the opportunity in win this Loft stationery giveaway!
I know they aren't the ones you picked, but those dinosaur paper clips are incredibly cute! Loft looks like a fun store, and thank you for showing us Showa Koen.
I am, as usual, utterly charmed by the stationery items available in Japan--they seem to think of everything, and to cleverly combine beauty and function. Making a combined trip to Showa Koen and the somewhat more manageable Loft store nearby is a great tip. I can't wait to visit Tokyo Hands with you!
Oh my gosh, every town needs a Loft Stationary store. It would be like going to Disneyland and being overwhelmed with it's sights. I can't wait to visit a stationary store and put things in my little basket just for the heck of it!!! Sometimes spontaneous purchases turn out to be the best decisions. Thank you for this video. I really enjoyed it. Please stay safe and well!
I knew that Loft had a lot of stuff inside but I never imagined everythingwould be so awesome. Even when it lacks a bit on fountain pen items, the stationery looks amazing 💖
I would definitely add any Loft store on my go-to list when I get to visit Japan again. I love the kids' part of the park as well and I hope I can remember to go on a weekday so I can play all I want!
I can hardly wait to visit Japan with my sister and do all the things you showed in this video. I love stationery, so Loft will certainly be on my list of stores to visit!
Another generous giveaway. Loft is very impressive; I loved the gear sign. Beautiful video; Showa Koen and the Japanese Gardens are truly stunning. I agree it's great that the park really has something for all ages.
This Loft's main store looks like a maze I could lost myself for many, many hours! ❤️ I've never been to Loft, but I'd love to go there. Thank you for another relaxing video, have a great day 😊
That was a wonderfully nostalgic video for me... I used to have a lot of meetings in Nihonbashi and there was a LOFT branch in one of the large buildings next door. It was a place I used to go to, partly to browse their interesting stationery and travel/hiking goodies (I bought my wife a small stylish backpack there which she loved) and partly just to relax from long business meetings, or find a cup of coffee in one of the many outlets in that building. There was always some irresistible notebook or similar to buy at LOFT. Japan is a paradise for pen and paper lovers and you are very lucky to have those wonderful shops all around you! Please do more videos of these fascinating shops...!
Thank you so much for your feedback! I enjoy Loft for their kitchen stuff too. And you are right, their bags and backpacks are awesome. I really enjoy living here!
Oh my! I definitely want to go to LOFT! Whenever I visit Tokyo, that park is also gorgeous and the tea house looked like it came out of a beautiful anime.
Wow, Tachikawa is so beautiful, I definitely have to go there on my next trip to Japan. Both the Loft and Showa Koen look like wonderful places to visit.
I have to add Loft to my list of places to visit when I come to Japan. I hope you got the box with the clips of fountain pen and ink for yourself! Enjoyed seeing the beautiful stationary products and scenery in the park. Thanks for a relaxing video to wind down into the weekend with.
I'm so happy you think my video is a good way to relax! I do these giveaways because I can't possibly keep all this stationery stuff and it's fun to share it on a video and in real life--so no, the clips are in the bag! Thank you so much!
I will have to visit Loft someday! Japan looks so beautiful in autumn. If you are ever in San Antonio, there is a wonderful Japanese garden there. This was almost deja vu, with the teahouse and the lake. Thank you for the wonderful video!
I just want to hold my breath at all of the beautiful and innovative stationary at Loft. You're so lucky. I wish we had stores like it here. I also love when you take us around Tokyo. Thank you for taking the time to share your part of the world.
Me: frantically taking notes for Tokyo visit itinerary to include all loft store locations. Also me: squealing about loft giveaway! I just LOVE your videos!
Love the tour of the beautiful park and visit to Loft! I really shouldn’t watch these videos because they send on a search of my favorite items! Thanks for another beautiful video Alesa!!
I wish we had similar stores to Loft here in the UK. Thank you so much for showing us around such a fabulous store. Hope you and yours are keeping safe.
I think that LOFT would be the first place I would visit if I ever get the chance to go to Japan. Although I might spend all my money there and not get to visit all the other amazing places. Thanks for the tour of the store and the park.
I don't know how I missed this video! The shibuya Loft certainly is mind-boggling haha I only visit a couple times a year since it is so overwhelming lol.. Thank you for also showing us the beautiful Showa Park. We visited 1 time and my kids had a blast. We rented bicycles to get around since it was so big, but because of my horrible bicycle skills, we didn't get around much lol Thank you again for a fun video!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I've got a Tokyu Hands one coming up and that new Sailor store called Ancora. I can't wait till we can get together and geek out on stationery haha!
Seriously! There are so many cool things to get over here. When I didn't live here and came an visited, I always traveled to Japan with 2 empty suitcases!
Hi Alesa, you are so spoilt over there to have a Fab store like Loft to browse in. I could spend a day in the Loft store for sure. Cheers Peter. Stay safe...
There are so many cute and pretty stationery items to be had in Japan, e.g. at Loft. I hope to travel to Japan and experience it in person. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much! I hope you can make it out to Japan! I have another video about Tokyu Hands too, which is a great stationery resource. I'll probably post it after our "state of emergency" is over since I don't have enough film of it yet.
@@InkyRocks I'll be looking forward to the Tokyu Hands video. Japan just donated more than 1 million doses of the AZ vaccine to Taiwan. So appreciative!
@@InkyRocks We've had a surge of cases up north mostly which means we went from Level 2 to Level 3 (a "soft" lockdown) and fatality rates have gone up as well, so Taiwan is launching an all-out effort to get as many people as possible vaccinated asap, esp. with two major holidays coming up (Dragon Boat Festival and Tomb Sweeping Day) which could turn into superspreader events... This, too, shall pass.
Another excellent video! I especially liked the visit to the peace park and the Loft branch store. The gardens were beautiful, and the smaller store looked like it would be slightly less overwhelming. :)
Thank you for taking us on a trip in lockdown times :) Showa Park looks amazing, so beautiful and peaceful yet fun at the same time. The Loft store is impressive, I love how Japanese stationery is never just pretty but also very clever and practical.
Wasn't able to make it to Loft when I was in Tokyo. We're planning to come back and I'll definitely check it out. Tokyo is a pen and stationery enthusiasts ideal vacation spot!
Wow..My son told me about the LOFT when he was stationed in Japan several years ago...it’s on my bucket list. I am always anxiously await your videos..🙏🏽
Thank you for sharing. I would love to go to the LOFT. It looks like a fantastic store. I definitely know it would hurt my bank account. The gardens were beautiful. Again, thank you for sharing.
Thank you for the tour of Loft stationary store and the beautiful park. It’s nice to see a little ofJapan which is one of the places I’d love to travel to someday! And as usual I LOVE your videos💕
Thank you for your video about Loft! I love how your videos show the passion in Japan (and Asia) for stationary and fountain pens. I realize with each of your videos that if I lived in Japan, I would most certainly go broke shopping at all the amazing stores. Saving up now for when I go to my first ever pen show after the pandemic is under control. Chicago, maybe! Wishing you well and happy new year. Thank you for your videos!
Thank you so much for your kind words. I've not been to the Chicago Pen show and would love to go. I haven't been back to the States in so long! I hope to make it back when this pandemic settles down. Have fun at Chicago (if thats the one you go to!)
Fabulous video! I would love to visit Japan but since I’m not traveling anywhere during the pandemic I’m delighted to watch you visit these enticing places. Thank you!
Great video!! That to me was sooo interesting. I have never heard of Loft before this. If we had a store like that here in the US I would go to it every weekend. Love the park as well. That was a great choice to unwind. Seemed so peaceful there. You showed me things in this video I know I will never see. Again Thanks for such a great video of the Loft and the park.
OK, just sent me one of everything and be sure to wave as I spend lots of time at the park! I love everything at the loft, not to mention the gloss, the clips... oh my goodness: Can I just list everything here?! LOL! Thank you so much, again, for providing such a fabulous video!
I know we should be grateful for what we have... and I am, really, most of the time. But trips into Japanese stationery stores is a real test. What you describe as a "small" pen and ink display in Loft makes me green with envy. And the variety of other stationery items, ah! (Some so mysterious, too, thanks for explaining them : )
I really enjoy watching your videos. I learn so much about Japan. Its like a friend taking me shipping or to a show!! I love the name LOFT, it gives me great feelings my 1st art studio was a loft. Good luck to everyone 💓!!
I went to Itoya in Tokyo before. It was so blissful and I picked everything I wanted. There was a giant windy wall just for their magnetic pinwheels. ... These trips tend to get me wistful.
Your videos of Tokyo are always so relaxing and make me fall further in love with Japan!! While shopping at Loft is definitely on my bucket list now, I hope to be able to visit Showa Koen someday too :)
If only Loft stationary existed in the U.S. I ❤️ everything I just saw!
hahaha! That would be great!
It’s so fascinating seeing the reverence the Japanese have for the fine art of writing and the amount of personalization that goes into something most Americans eschew - postcards. Thanks for taking us on your journey to Loft - I’d love to behold the planner section!
Oh that planner section is just plain awful--I get so tired after looking thru it hahaha! It's unbelievable how many kinds of planners there are! Thank you for coming along!
I’ve promised my children and husband a family holiday to Japan when I graduate from my PHD (hopefully this year). We are all stationery obsessed so we will definitely be heading to the loft! Thank you for the virtual tour. X
Oh good luck with your PhD! That is such an awesome reward for an awesome accomplishment. Your family will absolutely LOVE Japan! Bring an extra suitcase to take back all your cool purchases!
OK, I'm sold on visiting LOFT IF I ever get to Japan. But there is so much eye candy in this video. Besides fun stationary (tulips) The park, bike path, there is beauty everywhere. I'm dreaming of Spring! Loved the beaker and ink shot...the tension and anticipation of the overflow!!! Stay happy
hahaha! I know! I figure watching that ink is so much more interesting than watching me just talk! Thanks!
I've never heard of loft stores before, i'll have to remember that name if i ever come to japan!
Definitely! Plus, you'll love Japan!
I'd be thrilled with a stationery store of any sort near me. Staples just doesn't cut it. Loft looks amazing!
It really is! You are so right about Staples!
I'm a fountain pen lover from Italy. I was sick (Nothing very bad buy annoying) in my bed looking for something that could stop my thoughts countinuously running in my head. This video relaxed me due to your voice and soft speaking and so the Natural healing of my body finally started during a restoring spleep. Thank you wish you the best from Italy. Keep on inkying (and gentle talking). We need videos like yours in fountain pen community.
hahaha! Thanks so much! I've had other people say the same thing--I put them to sleep! (I'm kidding). I'm glad you found it relaxing!
The Loft is why I want to visit Japan. The tulip stationery is absolutely beautiful ❤️
Loft is definitely a must-see in Japan! Thank you!
LOFT Looks really like a heaven for stationary lovers. It is a pitty that these kind of shops do not exist anymore in Germany.
Also, thank you so much for showing Showa Koen with it's Japanese Gardens.
Thanks! It really is. I would love to see a German stationery shop!
You did a great job explaining many of the items unique to Japan. Stationary in Japan is so diverse and always inventive
Thanks so much. It’s pretty much a stationery heaven here!
Wow, I imagine myself staying more than an hour just browsing through the stationery section of Loft. Thanks for sharing! Love the bike section of the park!
Thanks so much! You can spend several hours there!
You have the coolest stuff. Your home must be like it’s own store with beautiful things to look at with stories behind each item.
Thank you! I try to keep the clutter down, but sometimes it's just clutter hahaha!
out of all of the things you showed, that lipgloss page flag thing is my fave! How adorable!
The marketing for some of this stuff is amazing--so clever!
I am so jealous of these Japanese stores, and so incredibly annoyed that they never ship internationally.
I absolutely agree with you! Japanese stores seem to be so hesitant with overseas customers. But with Covid cutting into their profits, they may loosen up in the future. Some of the smaller stationery stores won't even ship within the country and they have started--so here's hoping!
Loft was definitely my first stationery shopping destinations in Japan when I went a few years ago. I spent 4 hours there the first time!
hahaha! I totally understand! I love the place, but it wears me out!
Our trip to Japan was cancelled last year. This gives me a chance to add LOFT to the shops we will visit when we can travel again!
Silver lining to that cancelation! I can't wait till I can travel again too!
Wow, the stationary supplies from the Loft store are amazing. The Tea House and Japanese garden were very lovely. I'm kind of hoping you go back in the spring to film and put up the video on your channel. Thank you for sharing it.
I might put up another one of the park when it's prettier on a "shorts" video! Thank you so much!
That garden is lovely, but your haul from Loft was amazing. I particularly like the Gloss-stick markers, and ring leaf. Very handy!
Aren't they crazy--and cool? Japanese stationery is always so much fun!
I love your videos, so soothing! Thanks for sharing Japan and its culture; and of course, thank you also for sharing your visit to the Loft store.
Thank you so much! I wish I could make exciting videos hahaha!
Wow! Thank you for this gorgeous video of armchair travel through the Park and the guided tour of Loft!
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
Today I learned about LOFT, and now I have an extra reason to go to Japan! They’ve got so many cute things!
That is so true! So many cool places and things to do here!
Thank you for another wonderful and relaxing video! Both Loft stores looked amazing. The tour of Showa Park was beautiful. Thanks you for the opportunity in win this Loft stationery giveaway!
Thank you so much for your supportive words! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Keeps me wanting to make these videos!
Thanks for the Loft and garden tour. It made me feel like I was able to travel and vacation. Beautiful!
Thank you so much! I can't wait till I can actually travel again!
Basically every time you make a video about a location, I add it to my Must-Go list. LOFT is now on the list!
Yaaay! Loft is super fun, and it has all kinds of other stuff there. I have a titanium insulated cup I bought there 5 years ago and still use it!
I know they aren't the ones you picked, but those dinosaur paper clips are incredibly cute! Loft looks like a fun store, and thank you for showing us Showa Koen.
I know! They were so cute--I just thought the stationery ones would be better for a giveaway. Thank you!
I am, as usual, utterly charmed by the stationery items available in Japan--they seem to think of everything, and to cleverly combine beauty and function. Making a combined trip to Showa Koen and the somewhat more manageable Loft store nearby is a great tip. I can't wait to visit Tokyo Hands with you!
Thanks so much! You need to come out and visit--you'll love Tokyo!
Oh my gosh, every town needs a Loft Stationary store. It would be like going to Disneyland and being overwhelmed with it's sights. I can't wait to visit a stationary store and put things in my little basket just for the heck of it!!! Sometimes spontaneous purchases turn out to be the best decisions. Thank you for this video. I really enjoyed it. Please stay safe and well!
Thank you so much! It really is a fun store. Take care!
I knew that Loft had a lot of stuff inside but I never imagined everythingwould be so awesome. Even when it lacks a bit on fountain pen items, the stationery looks amazing 💖
Yes! I can certainly forgive it for it's weak fountain pen selection because the stationery is so good!
Loft looks like such a fun store to browse, and that park is beautiful!
Yes to both! I so enjoy going out to Tachikawa!
Arm chair traveling. Thanks for shopping at a stationery store like Loft. Really makes me miss Japan
Thanks for watching! You need a return trip!
I’m sitting in my loft craft room watching this gorgeous video. Thanks for this 🥰
Thanks so much! If you really do have a loft craft room, I am so jealous!
@@InkyRocks I do, if you count the second floor of our house. It has some slanted walls and a small bay window. ☺️
I would love to go to Loft. All the different stationery options would be so much fun to browse and try out. The parks seem really beautiful too!
It really is! I enjoy going out to Tachikawa! Thanks!
Thank you for another wonderful video showcasing Japanese stationery. Loft is definitely a destination when in Japan.
Thanks so much for watching!
The leaf note is very clever.
It is!
I would definitely add any Loft store on my go-to list when I get to visit Japan again. I love the kids' part of the park as well and I hope I can remember to go on a weekday so I can play all I want!
It's the best--fresh air, nature, exercise...and stationery!
I can hardly wait to visit Japan with my sister and do all the things you showed in this video. I love stationery, so Loft will certainly be on my list of stores to visit!
It will be so much fun! I'll be doing a video on Tokyu Hands in another couple of weeks--it has an awesome stationery area too!
Another generous giveaway. Loft is very impressive; I loved the gear sign. Beautiful video; Showa Koen and the Japanese Gardens are truly stunning. I agree it's great that the park really has something for all ages.
Thank you very much! Showa Koen is one of my favorite places to go to near Tokyo!
I've never even heard of loft! I love all the new things you're always showing us - also, those were beautiful gardens!
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Your kind comment keeps me making these videos--thanks so much!
This Loft's main store looks like a maze I could lost myself for many, many hours! ❤️ I've never been to Loft, but I'd love to go there. Thank you for another relaxing video, have a great day 😊
You can definitely get "lost in Loft"! Thank you so much!
Wonderful video as usual. After the sensory overload of Loft, your tour of that lovely, peaceful park was most appreciated!
Thank you so much! It really is a beautiful and fun park. I didn't even show a fraction of it!
I bet! Hope you’re having a relaxing afternoon as NYC (mostly) goes to sleep!
That was a wonderfully nostalgic video for me... I used to have a lot of meetings in Nihonbashi and there was a LOFT branch in one of the large buildings next door. It was a place I used to go to, partly to browse their interesting stationery and travel/hiking goodies (I bought my wife a small stylish backpack there which she loved) and partly just to relax from long business meetings, or find a cup of coffee in one of the many outlets in that building. There was always some irresistible notebook or similar to buy at LOFT.
Japan is a paradise for pen and paper lovers and you are very lucky to have those wonderful shops all around you!
Please do more videos of these fascinating shops...!
Thank you so much for your feedback! I enjoy Loft for their kitchen stuff too. And you are right, their bags and backpacks are awesome. I really enjoy living here!
Thanks for sharing your stationary expedition Inky. I look forward to the day when I can fly to Japan again and experience such Loft-y delights.
hahaha! I look forward to the day when I can fly just about anywhere! You will certainly enjoy Loft! Thanks so much!
Oh my! I definitely want to go to LOFT!
Whenever I visit Tokyo, that park is also gorgeous and the tea house looked like it came out of a beautiful anime.
Thanks so much! I go to that park several times a year, i like it so much!
Thank you for this wonderful visit to Loft and to the park. Such a relaxing visit!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
Thank you for taking us along on an adventure through Loft!
Glad you enjoyed it!
My daughter and I would love to travel to Japan someday and one of the first stops would be Loft. Thank you so much for sharing with us!
I hope you can make it out here soon! It will be a wonderful trip! Thanks so much!
Beautiful Japanese Gardens and Loft Stationery oh my!
Oh my! Thanks!
What incredible stationery at LOFT.
Thank-you for the work you put into making these videos
Thank you so much! I appreciate comments like these when I'm desperately trying to get a video posted at 2 in the morning hahaha!
Wow, Tachikawa is so beautiful, I definitely have to go there on my next trip to Japan. Both the Loft and Showa Koen look like wonderful places to visit.
They really are! I go several times a year because I enjoy it so much!
I have to add Loft to my list of places to visit when I come to Japan. I hope you got the box with the clips of fountain pen and ink for yourself! Enjoyed seeing the beautiful stationary products and scenery in the park. Thanks for a relaxing video to wind down into the weekend with.
I'm so happy you think my video is a good way to relax! I do these giveaways because I can't possibly keep all this stationery stuff and it's fun to share it on a video and in real life--so no, the clips are in the bag! Thank you so much!
I’ve always wanted to visit Japan with my daughter, now I know I need to go!
It would be a wonderful trip--hope you can make it out here!
I will have to visit Loft someday! Japan looks so beautiful in autumn. If you are ever in San Antonio, there is a wonderful Japanese garden there. This was almost deja vu, with the teahouse and the lake. Thank you for the wonderful video!
Thanks so much! You definitely need to come to Japan if you like that garden!
I just want to hold my breath at all of the beautiful and innovative stationary at Loft. You're so lucky. I wish we had stores like it here. I also love when you take us around Tokyo. Thank you for taking the time to share your part of the world.
Thank you so much! Comments like yours keep me going--I so appreciate it!
Me: frantically taking notes for Tokyo visit itinerary to include all loft store locations.
Also me: squealing about loft giveaway!
I just LOVE your videos!
hahaha! You will love ALL the stationery stores here! Thank you so much!
Love the tour of the beautiful park and visit to Loft! I really shouldn’t watch these videos because they send on a search of my favorite items! Thanks for another beautiful video Alesa!!
Thank you so much for your continued support and positive messages! Glad you liked it!
I want a LOFT store, I would go nuts shopping there. Fun video, thanks.
Thank you so much! I have, on occasion, gone nuts there hahaha!
It would be a wonderful day to be able to spend the morning at Loft and then take my purchases to the park and play.
Throw in a cup of really good Japanese coffee and that would be a perfect day!
I wish we had similar stores to Loft here in the UK. Thank you so much for showing us around such a fabulous store. Hope you and yours are keeping safe.
Thank you so much! Take care💞
Thank you 😊 for your Loft video! Finding good stationary stores in Los Angeles has become harder and harder!
Thanks! I'm sure it is but you are in so much better position than many parts of the States. Thank goodness for being able to shop on-line!
I think that LOFT would be the first place I would visit if I ever get the chance to go to Japan. Although I might spend all my money there and not get to visit all the other amazing places. Thanks for the tour of the store and the park.
hahaha! It is so hard to pace yourself here in Japan because there are so many cool things here! Thank you!
I don't know how I missed this video! The shibuya Loft certainly is mind-boggling haha I only visit a couple times a year since it is so overwhelming lol.. Thank you for also showing us the beautiful Showa Park. We visited 1 time and my kids had a blast. We rented bicycles to get around since it was so big, but because of my horrible bicycle skills, we didn't get around much lol Thank you again for a fun video!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I've got a Tokyu Hands one coming up and that new Sailor store called Ancora. I can't wait till we can get together and geek out on stationery haha!
I'll have to add Loft to my list of places I'll want to visit in Japan. At this point, any travel to Japan will be one giant shopping trip.
Seriously! There are so many cool things to get over here. When I didn't live here and came an visited, I always traveled to Japan with 2 empty suitcases!
Loft looks amazing, but I’d be totally overwhelmed by it! Great video.
You and me both! Thanks so much!
Loved this video on LOFT. I think I would have lost days wandering there. I really loved Peace Park too!
Yes, it really is a lot of fun! So happy you enjoyed it!
I loved visiting Loft, I'd be there for a couple of hours, the stationery department is my favorite area.
It's mine too--though the kitchen floor is fun too!
Thank you for sharing this outing with us. What beautiful places. It's a joyous adventure, getting to either Loft, for sure.
Thanks so much for watching! It really was a fun trip!
@@InkyRocks I can only imagine how beautiful the park is when the sakura bloom.
@@ad6449 it's gorgeous. But interestingly, when the ginko trees turn yellow in the fall, it looks golden!
Hi Alesa, you are so spoilt over there to have a Fab store like Loft to browse in. I could spend a day in the Loft store for sure. Cheers Peter. Stay safe...
Thanks so much Peter! Take care!
There are so many cute and pretty stationery items to be had in Japan, e.g. at Loft. I hope to travel to Japan and experience it in person. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much! I hope you can make it out to Japan! I have another video about Tokyu Hands too, which is a great stationery resource. I'll probably post it after our "state of emergency" is over since I don't have enough film of it yet.
@@InkyRocks I'll be looking forward to the Tokyu Hands video. Japan just donated more than 1 million doses of the AZ vaccine to Taiwan. So appreciative!
@@yuklimka7251 Wow, I did not know that! Hope you are doing good in Taiwan. I hope I can make it out there this year--still too early to tell!
@@InkyRocks We've had a surge of cases up north mostly which means we went from Level 2 to Level 3 (a "soft" lockdown) and fatality rates have gone up as well, so Taiwan is launching an all-out effort to get as many people as possible vaccinated asap, esp. with two major holidays coming up (Dragon Boat Festival and Tomb Sweeping Day) which could turn into superspreader events... This, too, shall pass.
Loft will definitely be on my list of places to go if and when I ever get to go to Japan
It is so much fun! Hope you make it out here!
Another excellent video! I especially liked the visit to the peace park and the Loft branch store. The gardens were beautiful, and the smaller store looked like it would be slightly less overwhelming. :)
Thank you so much! The big store is fun, but you are right, the smaller one is in some ways, more enjoyable.
Thank you for taking us on a trip in lockdown times :) Showa Park looks amazing, so beautiful and peaceful yet fun at the same time. The Loft store is impressive, I love how Japanese stationery is never just pretty but also very clever and practical.
Yes, the clever part always amazes me! Thank you!
Wasn't able to make it to Loft when I was in Tokyo. We're planning to come back and I'll definitely check it out. Tokyo is a pen and stationery enthusiasts ideal vacation spot!
It really is! You definitely need to go there or Tokyu Hands. I'll do a video on that in a few weeks!
Wow..My son told me about the LOFT when he was stationed in Japan several years ago...it’s on my bucket list. I am always anxiously await your videos..🙏🏽
Thank you so much! It really is a cool stationery place--I'm sure your son enjoyed it!
Thank you for sharing. I would love to go to the LOFT. It looks like a fantastic store. I definitely know it would hurt my bank account. The gardens were beautiful. Again, thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much! Trips to Tachikawa are fun, but they definitely hurt my wallet!
Thank you for the tour of Loft stationary store and the beautiful park. It’s nice to see a little ofJapan which is one of the places I’d love to travel to someday! And as usual I LOVE your videos💕
Thank you so much! I hope you can make it out here one day!
The sticker selection at Loft is 😍
It is pretty insane. The washi tape selection is mind boggling too!
Would love to shop there in the future. Nice insight in the store and overwhelming assortment. Loft seems like fun.
It really is fun! There are all kinds of other stuff there too. Their kitchen area is amazing along with their unusual "electronics".
Thank you for your video about Loft! I love how your videos show the passion in Japan (and Asia) for stationary and fountain pens. I realize with each of your videos that if I lived in Japan, I would most certainly go broke shopping at all the amazing stores. Saving up now for when I go to my first ever pen show after the pandemic is under control. Chicago, maybe! Wishing you well and happy new year. Thank you for your videos!
Thank you so much for your kind words. I've not been to the Chicago Pen show and would love to go. I haven't been back to the States in so long! I hope to make it back when this pandemic settles down. Have fun at Chicago (if thats the one you go to!)
Loft looks amazing!!!
I think I would be overwhelmed there too!!
hahaha! It IS fun but definitely exhausting!
Thank you for sharing LOFT and the park with us. I will hopefully be visiting Japan in 2021 or 2022, and will def stop at the LOFT!
I hope you make it out here! You will really enjoy Japan--it is so much fun and beautiful! Thank you!
Thank you for the visit to the LOFT!
Thanks for coming along!
I definitely have Loft envy. I really love the pencil case.
Loft is such a fun store--for stuff other than stationery too!
Oh how I loved your video about this awesome store Loft! Thank you for sharing, and the beautiful park too
Thank you so much--glad you enjoyed it!
Fabulous video! I would love to visit Japan but since I’m not traveling anywhere during the pandemic I’m delighted to watch you visit these enticing places. Thank you!
Thanks so much! We aren't doing any traveling either. Haven't been home in over a year!
So wish I could visit Tokyo to go to Loft and play in the park! Thank you for sharing so that we can travel with your video! ❤️
Thanks so much for stopping by! France and EU is on my bucket list for stationery shopping!
Great video!! That to me was sooo interesting. I have never heard of Loft before this. If we had a store like that here in the US I would go to it every weekend. Love the park as well. That was a great choice to unwind. Seemed so peaceful there. You showed me things in this video I know I will never see. Again Thanks for such a great video of the Loft and the park.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed watching--very gratifying for me!
Agreed 😊
OK, just sent me one of everything and be sure to wave as I spend lots of time at the park! I love everything at the loft, not to mention the gloss, the clips... oh my goodness: Can I just list everything here?! LOL! Thank you so much, again, for providing such a fabulous video!
Thank you so much for your always appreciated support! "Everything" is such a good response to the question "What do you like at Loft?" hahaha
Thanks for showing that something like loft exists, even if it is too far from europe for a shopping trip.
hahaha! Yes, it's a little far. But I would love to go to Europe for a shopping trip!
This a great video. I love the little tour of the Peace Park, and oh god, Loft looks great, all you need for your lofty pursuits 😁
hahaha! Thank you! it really is a fun store!
Omg I want to go to Loft so much!!!!!! gorgeous items.... let's be honest I would need a WHOLE suitcase with just stationery.....
Seriously. People do travel here to Tokyo with empty suitcases to fill with stationery. Sounds totally reasonable to me!
it's either that or I give all my clothes away... or wear just one outfit the entire time to have more room lol 🙃😂
@@CraftingVicky hahaha! naked, but happy!
I know we should be grateful for what we have... and I am, really, most of the time. But trips into Japanese stationery stores is a real test. What you describe as a "small" pen and ink display in Loft makes me green with envy. And the variety of other stationery items, ah! (Some so mysterious, too, thanks for explaining them : )
I hear you! It really is nice living near these stores, and I am thankful. And some of the stationery is pretty clever!
Oh wow that was awesome! I really want to visit Loft. You found so many cool and pretty items!
Thanks so much!
Thank you for inspiring me to visit Japan! I could live in Loft!
hahaha! me too!
I need to visit one of those Loft stores sometime in my lifetime!
I hope you can one day!
Thanks for taking us through Loft
Thanks for coming along!
I would love some of that LOFT stationery, I was born in the year of the Ox and thse stickers are so cute!
They really are! Good luck!
I really enjoy watching your videos. I learn so much about Japan. Its like a friend taking me shipping or to a show!! I love the name LOFT, it gives me great feelings my 1st art studio was a loft. Good luck to everyone 💓!!
Thank you so very much! I'm glad you get something out of my videos--keeps me going! Have a loft art studio is the coolest!
I went to Itoya in Tokyo before.
It was so blissful and I picked everything I wanted.
There was a giant windy wall just for their magnetic pinwheels.
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These trips tend to get me wistful.
I can imagine! You need to make another trip out here! I love Tokyo.
One day I hope I get to visit Japan and Loft. Thank you for this video. I really enjoyed it!
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it--I hope you make it out here someday soon!
Your videos of Tokyo are always so relaxing and make me fall further in love with Japan!! While shopping at Loft is definitely on my bucket list now, I hope to be able to visit Showa Koen someday too :)
Thanks so much! The nice thing about Tachikawa is that you can do both! Hope you make it out here!