✏️stationery to bring home for a friend who's never been to Japan

for the person who wants a piece of the trip that fits in a tote bag.

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The brown leather regular-size kit is about $45 and she can keep adding inserts forever. Gateway drug, basically.

Tsubame Note (W180, plain)

Under $3 and it's the paper fountain pen people fight over online. Buy five, they're light.

Kokuyo Jibun Techo

a planner system that basically bullies you into structure. ~$35 for the set.

Pilot Frixion pens (set of 3)

Uni Kuru Toga mechanical pencil

Lead rotates as you write so the tip never goes flat. Sounds gimmicky, isn't. ~$8

Maruman Mnemosyne notepad (N180A)

Midori MD Notebook, A5 blank

Hobonichi Techo (Original, A6)

she has to write in it daily for a year to get her money's worth. tell her anyway. ~$30 for cover plus book.

Kakimori, build-your-own notebook (Kuramae)

A shop in Kuramae, she picks cover and paper and they bind it while she waits. The one that actually says she went to Japan.

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