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Date on Rainy Day? 4 Places to check out in Tokyo!

By Guidable Writers Oct 17, 2017

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When you have a date on rainy days, where shall you go? Cinema, shopping center or maybe staying at home? Why don’t choose something different and interesting? I would like to offer you some unique date places to enjoy on a rainy day with your partner!

 

1.Making original key charms / BOX CHARM Industry

(image: BOX CHARM Industry, HP http://boxcharmindustry.com/)

If you do not have any pair goods with your partner, you should go to BOX CHARM Industry. In this place, you can make original key charms. There are about 2000 of charms which you can choose to make your original charms or accessary. Moreover, all those charms are collected from all over the world, so you can find your favourite charms easily.

 

This BOX CHARM Industry has launched the new business which you can design a package of accessories, which you make, and send them as a gift to someone. Therefore, you can come to BOX CHARM Industry with your partner, and exchange a nice handmade gift with him/her, which will make the date memorable for sure!

 

【HARAJYUKU】150-0001  4-25-10 JINGUMAE SHIBUYA-KU TOKYO

OPEN: 11:00~20:00

TELL: 03-3408-3511

 

【OSAKA】530-8558 LUCUA 1100 5F 3-1-3 UMEDA, KITA, OSAKA

OPEN: 10:00~21:00

TELL: 06-6151-1477

 

HP: http://boxcharmindustry.com/

 

 

2.Making a plate or a mug / at Kiln AOYAMA

(image: at Kiln AOYAMA, HP http://atkiln.com/)

at Kiln AOYAMA is a place you can make your original containers from a soil. You can make your original comtainers and you can bring them back to your home. There are two courses prepared for non-member. The first one is for people who want to make plates or bowls from the beginning of the process to make a pottery. If you do not want to focus on designing, you can choose the other course. You will choose some transfer sheet which you want to have and put them to the prepared vessels. If you want to do it in a more professional way, you could join the membership of this studio. Do not forget to book in advance via phone or Internet!

 

ADDRESS: 22 6-6 MINAMIAOYAMA MINATO-KU TOKYO

TEL:03-5778-3196

OPEN: 11:00〜19:00(CAFE L.O. 18:30)

CLOSED: WEDNESDAY

HP: http://atkiln.com/

 

 

3.Enjoying hot spring and yukata / Oedo Onsen Monogatari (大江戸温泉物語)

(image: 大江戸温泉物語, HP http://daiba.ooedoonsen.jp/ )

If you would like to immerse yourself into the old Japanese atmosphere, you should go to Oedo Onsen Monogatari (大江戸温泉物語).  This place is a theme park which has a hot spring as a main attraction. You can stay at a night here, but also you can enjoy just for a day. Once you enter the place, you will choose to wear a Yukata which is Japanese old style of clothes in summer. Oedo Onsen Monogatari (大江戸温泉物語) is a theme park which has a lot of places to enjoy and eat also, so you can stay here for whole day.

The hot spring is not the only thing which you can enjoy at this place. There is a place imitates the scenery of a Japanese traditional festival that makes the place more nostalgic for Japanese people.

 

ADDRESS: 135-0064 3-6-2 AOMI KOTO-KU TOKYO

TELL: 03-5500-1126

OPEN: 11:00AM – 9:00 AM

HP: http://daiba.ooedoonsen.jp/

 

 

4.Reading Manga for a whole day / Tachikawa Manga Park

(image: Tahichikawa Manga Park, HP http://mangapark.jp/)

Tachikawa Manga Park is a facility which you can enjoy any types of Manga for a whole day with paying only entry fee. The adult fee (above 15 years old) is 400 yen. Therefore, if you read more than one comic, the entry fee easily pays off. This place has offered wide range genres of manga, so you can definitely find the manga you like. If you are not interested in any manga for now, this will be a great opportunity to look for your favourite artists. This place is covered by Tatami which is a Japanese type of floor made of straw, which means you can enjoy a tatami if you have never experience it.

 

ADDRESS: 190-0022  3-2-26 NISHIKI-TYO TATIKAWA CITY TOKYO

TATIKAWA SHI KODO MIRAI CENTER (立川市 子ども未来センター) 2F

 

OPEN: 10:00~7:00 (WEEKDAYS) 10:00~8:00 (WEEKENDS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS)

 

HP: http://mangapark.jp/

 

Even if it is a rainy day, you can enjoy those places with your partner and have a nice memory with self-made accessories or containers, or you might enjoy your time with him/her by relaxing at a hot spring or reading manga at a tatami place. Enjoy your date on a rainy day!