A Guide to Yokohama’s Best Vintage Stores

Once a cool fishing village, Yokohama has developed in one of the most metropolitan cities in Japan since opening its ports for international trade in 1859. It was the first city in the country to establish a railway connection to Tokyo-now a 30-minute ride ride, it is the oldest and largest Chinto home for the capital. Recently, however, Yokohama has obtained a reputation as a hidden gem for vintage shopping – especially for the secondhand designer bags.

Tokyo -based fashion stylist Hana Uwazima says, “The revival of fashion of the 1970s and 80s is running the demand for fuel, fuel by a retro boom, vintage designer bags.” “Cultural emphasis on preserving Japan’s strict certification standards and individual accessories means that you are likely to discover the pieces that are caring out to be authentic and impeccable.” Weak yen has only increased global interest, which is even more attractive to Japan’s second luxury market for international buyers, calling Uwazima. In addition, Yokohama Tokyo’s premiere shopping hub, is much less eye-watery house than Ginza-its packed, its packed, both famous and notorious for the high-end department stores come to the weekends of the loving shopkeepers over the weekends to find rare luxury. Below, your guide is packed with impossible-se-vintage channels from the spaces of the tragedy, smooth showroom-style to the boutique near the boutique.

how to get there

From Tokyo, take JR Tokido or Yokosuka line from Tokyo station (30 minutes, $ 3.30). Shibuya to Toku Toyoko line also provides a direct passage for minatomirai. A small ride of just 10 minutes from there brings you to motorchi shopping street-a fascinating stretch with coblastone walkway and a long-standing local outfitters and curate secondhand designer bags mixture.

Where to shop

Yokohama’s Motomachi district is known for Chok-e-Block shopping, where you are being sold on the same block from Kimono Fabrics to Hawaii Jewelery to Vintage Hermes.

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Brand bay

The distant tuck in Motak -tuck -a generous purchasing area is packed with a boutique that is selling everything from handmade aerial jewelry to kimono fabrics – the brand bay feels more like a luxury showroom than a second place shop. A laminate white marble storefront leads to an equally smooth and minimal interior, which is filled with ancient selene, Harmes and Louis Witon bags with chic velvet effigies and glass cases. Needle-in-the-Hestac items such as an electric-blue channel live on piece shelves, barely worn, with leather in ancient condition, silver hardware shining like new and without a scuffle in sight.

One thing to notice while shopping in Yokohama – and especially in the brand bay – is just how patient and attentive sales workers are. They actually invest to help shopkeepers find their dream bags – an avatar of the Japanese concept of “omotenashi”, an honest, up and beyond the commitment to customer service and hospitality.

Rapid sophisticated techniques are being applied to “dupa” reputed designer styles, Okura has educated its shopkeepers on surefire methods to certify luxury handbags to educate that they are getting real deal.

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Channel bag selected from 1990s

Okura

A fashion scenario is rushing with dups rapidly, it can also be difficult for the most intelligent eye which clothes and luggage are authentic. In Okura, it is possible to sit in the crash course of an internal formula on luxury authentication. Encyclopedicly knowledgeable employees are eager to share their expertise – how to decode the serial code on Louis Wuiton bag to check the seal of authentication on a vintage channel.

The list of Okura is impressive. The collection extends from near-ancient contemporary pieces to ultra-durlabh vintage gems. The showstoping item includes a 1996 channel Ivory Roy Caveriyar Metalas Turnlock Flap Bag – a seasonal color that is almost impossible to find today, especially in such a notable situation. The channel bags of this era are observed for their craftsmanship – often considered more durable and careful than some modern recurrences, especially they are prized among collectors.

Originally established in 1996, 2 Street has carried out its first Kagawa store for a long time, expanding over 700 stores across Japan and America.

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second Street

In 1996, 2 Street opened its first store at the beach Kagawa at the north -east end of Shikoku Island. Nearly three decades later, his name has become a secondhand Empire with more than 700 shops including the US. While shopping for secondhand in Yokohama, be sure to make a stop in place of 2 street in the city’s Kohoku neighborhood. The region is a real mixture between the sightseeing ruins of its Remon Museum, Corozue Castle and a real mixture between Yokohama Arena – fit the environment for a shop that is surprisingly diverse.