Overview

This is Japan's "creative life store," carrying impulse items, gag gifts, and mementos of traditional and contemporary Japanese life as well as a range of do-it-yourself goods. If you can only visit one department store in Hiroshima, Tokyu Hands should probably be it. Highlights include Japanese dollhouses with tatami flooring and sliding paper doors, and paper lanterns. Japanese knives are world famous, and the small fifth floor display suggests another source for unforgettable souvenirs. Mass-produced kimonos, fans, and plastic "body parts" make a different kind of souvenir for the folks back home.