Kanaya Brush (かなや刷子)
KANAYA BRUSH — Kappabashi, Tokyo
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A brush shop going back to the Taisho era. Toothbrushes and hairbrushes, the flat brushes used in a kitchen, shoe brushes, calligraphy brushes, wire brushes for metal.
What makes it worth the stop is that the household things and the craftsman’s things sit on the same shelves. Brushes are also light and hard to break, which makes them one of the easier things to carry home.
What you can buy here
- Kitchen and food brushesfor pastry work and cooking
- Body caretoothbrushes, hairbrushes, body brushes
- Make-up brushesfor the face
- Shoe and leather brushesfor looking after leather
- Calligraphy and painting brushesthe fine ones
- Wire brushes, abrasive cloth and whetstonesthe craftsman's end of the shop
Getting there
About a 4-minute walk from Tawaramachi Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, on the ground floor of the building facing the Kikuyabashi crossing, at the southern entrance to Kappabashi Kitchen Town.
If you are walking the street from south to north, this is the first shop you reach.
| Hours | 10:30–17:00 |
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| Closed | Year-end and New Year holidays |
| Address | Keisei Kikuyabashi Building 1F, 1-8-9 Nishi-Asakusa, Taito-ku, Tokyo 111-0035 |
| Phone | 03-3841-1113 |
| Official site | https://www.kanaya-brush.com/ |
| Online shop | https://www.kanaya-brush.com/ |
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Services
| Overseas shipping | NoThe shop's own online store ships within Japan only. |
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Good to know
- Anyone after a light Japanese souvenirbrushes are light, hard to break, and get used
- Anyone who looks after their thingsseparate brushes for shoes, leather and metal
- Anyone who paints or writes with a brushthe fine brushes are here too