Omiyage list

Tips are not mandatory, but as a good intention you may give staff some presents. Prepare some sets as gifts.

• coffee(in drips format) e.g. your local brands
• postcards with landscapes or cities
• sweets in packages
• mini chocolates
• local snacks
• hand creams

Souvenir list

Quick choice

• Assorted KitKat
• Tea matcha/sencha/hojicha
• Sake/Umeshu(plum liquor)
• Mochi/dango set
• Items from dollar-stores Daiso/CanDo/Seria (chopsticks, erasers, stationary, magnets)
• Toys from Gachapon

Optimal

• Cosmetics (SK II, Shiseido, Biore, Hada Labo, и т.д.)
• Dietary supplements (Collagen, Vitamins)
• Cooling eyedrops (most popular by Rohto)
• Kitchen knives
• Uniqlo/GU
• Chopsticks
• Ceramics
• Whiskey
• Kimono/Haori
• Stationery from Loft, Hands, Itoya

Explorers

• Every prefecture special
• Used top brands clothes (kindal, ragtag, rinkan, 2nd street)
• Hardoff/Bookoff
• Figures
• Themed accessorizes

Live to the next trip

• Rice
• Rice toppings (Furikake)
• Spices sets (shichimi, sanshō, wasabi tubes, shiso & etc)
• Curry packs
• Concentrated Calpis, Pocari Sweat powder

Japan at home

• Furin(glass bell)
• Folding fans
• Umbrellas(paper/transparent)
• Classic figures Kokeshi/Daruma/Maneki-neko
• Ukiyo/Woodblock prints
• Onsen towels(Imabari)

Unique

• Personal stamps(Hanko)
• Engraved chopsticks, knives
• Socks, bags, handkerchiefs, sneakers(like Onitsuka tiger) with customization
• Items from kimono parts(t-shirts, bags, purses, shoes)
• Fountain pens and your own ink mix
• Made by you rings, knives, shurikens, glasses, cups
• Make own watches from parts(like Knot )

Avoid buying

• Fresh wasabi(1 week storage)
• Natto (2 weeks storage is limit)
• Melonpan (fresh is better)
• Katanas (strict customs rules)