Joe Tomei here with the start of an ongoing (I hope) feature that I will call Funky place Friday. Each Friday, I’ll try to introduce a place, which might be a shop, a restaurant, or something that I’ve come across while walking. We’ll start in the city and environs, but anywhere in Kumamoto is fair game, if I can get out there. Bearing in mind that one person’s funky is another’s futsuu, here goes.
The first place is a little store behind the Crowne Plaza ANA New Sky hotel, towards Kumamoto station, halfway between the densha stops Gofukumachi and Gionbashi. It has tenugui, zori, men’s kaku obi and some obi that were not as wide that I had never seen before as well as other items with Japanese printed designs.
I’ve dropped a pin on the Second Hand Kimono map, which you can see at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1yZ6nxp5RJ9WhhUpz69JbFGTEaqwdu0Uc&usp=sharing
If you have a suggestion for a place to add for the Funky place Friday series, please put something in the comments or drop me an email at tomeiter at gmail.