No trip to Japan is complete with looking around a 100 Yen store – if you are looking for fun souvenirs, cute stationery or even toys for your pets back home, 100 Yen stores in Japan are a treasure trove of gifts (plus to be honest, some terrible tat)!
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100 Yen shops in Japan are some of the best places to get cheap Kawaii gifts like Disney stickers in Daiso or Snoopy toys in Seria 100.
We love Japanese chain stores and there are three big brand 100 Yen stores in Japan you’ll see everywhere: Can Do, Seria 100 and perhaps the best known discount store Daiso.
Please note not all items cost 100 Yen – this is more of a starting price to get you through the doors. Plus we also take a quick look at the new upmarket versions of these shops like 3 COINS Japan and THREEPPY, which cost a little more but are still very cheap.
From the best products to big brands, here is our ultimate guide to 100 Yen stores in Japan.
This article was originally published on 13 July 2024.
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What can you find in a 100 Yen shop in Japan?
To be honest, it should be more of a question of what can’t you find in 100 Yen stores in Japan?!
There are literally thousands of discount items in every shop – for instance, Daiso Japan is said to have over 100,000 products (although not all are 100 Yen).
Typical gifts and homeware to buy in 100 Yen stores in Japan include:
- Stationery (sushi rubbers are popular)
- Filing and storage systems
- Desktop toys like USB lights or fans shaped like vintage cameras or telephones
- Cute and kawaii gifts like character ice cube trays
- Ceramics, mugs and storage units
- Kitchen utensils including dinosaur training chopsticks for kids
- Toiletries, skincare, beauty and health products
- Winter accessories like scarves and gloves – so useful if you visit Japan in winter from a hot country.
- Kids toys
- Snacks, food and drink
- Inexpensive clothing like socks and hats
100 Yen Shops in Japan – Traveller Tips
For travellers, 100 Yen shops are a bargain hunters paradise (although given the low price, some of the quality can be a little dubious).
With most (but not all) products costing 100 Yen plus tax – the Japanese consumption tax rate in Japan is 10% on most items but the 110 Yen shop doesn’t sound so catchy. And yep, some products cost more than 100 Yen so do keep an eye on the price tags.
100 Yen for overseas visitors roughly converts to £0.50 in the UK, $0.85 SGD or $0.65 USD – Yen conversion rates are correct as of late 2025.
Given all the bargains to be had in 100 Yen shops like Daiso and 100 Seria, it might even be worth buying a new suitcase in Japan and filling it full of souvenirs to take home. Many travelers go to Don Quijote to buy cheap suitcase and take them back home.
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The big 3 100 Yen shops in Japan
There are over 10,000 100 Yen shops in Japan, although over half over those are managed by the big three 100 Yen shops and discount chains – Daiso, Seria 100 and Can Do.
Let’s take a look at each in more detail:
Daiso Japan
Daiso Japan is one of the best lifestyle and discount shop chains in Japan, with branches now popping up all over the world.
Of their 6,500 worldwide shops, there are 4,600 Daiso stores in Japan, with over 100,000 different products across their range.
With many Daiso products costing around 100 Yen (£0.50 / $0.65 USD equivalent) and upwards, Daiso Japan makes it easy to fill your home, garden or school-bag with affordable items and budget buys.
Daiso was founded in 1972 and basically sells nice household items at very low prices – at Daiso Japan you can buy everything from cute cat outfits to epic egg timers.
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Can Do
Can Do is one of Japan’s biggest 100 Yen chain shops, with over 1,000 Can Do stores across Japan.
Selling everything from miniature furniture to super-cute stationery, Can Do has over 20,000 products all of which cost just 100 Yen (excluding tax).
Can Do’s biggest selling items include Tenugui Hand towels (traditional Japanese patterned cloth), microwave cooking equipment and health and beauty products like stick-on nail art.
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Seria
When talking about Japan’s famous 100 Yen shops, most people think of Daiso but Seria is a serious contender to the best 100 Yen shop in Japan crown.
There are around 2,000 Seria stores across Japan and they are owned by Aeon, one of the largest Japanese retail companies with brands like the konbini chain Ministop and the Aeon malls.
Whilst the Seria stalls are usually much smaller, the quality of products seems to be a bit better and you’ll usually find them tucked away in Japanese shopping centers.
Bargains include dog hats, chair protector socks shaped like cats plus loads of useful household items like glasses repair kits or USB connectors – and yep, they also sell lots of sublime stationery and pretty pencil cases.
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Upmarket 100 Yen Stores – Standard Products, 3 Coins and THREEPPY
We talk about this in more detail in our Daiso guide, but there is a new trend in Japan for more upmarket discount stores, very different from the likes of Don Quijote and say Seria.
Daiso also own two other chain discount stores, Standard Products and THREEPPY – they are similar in style and layout to Muji stores but the prices are much cheaper.
Prices in Standard Products, 3 Coins and THREEPPY usually start from 300 Yen (hence names like 3 Coins) and go up to 1,000 Yen.
Typical products in these plush Japanese discount stores include furnishings, fixtures and fittings and more upmarket lifestyle products.
With a broad market appeal, these cheaper better quality discount stores are growing rapidly with over 200 3 Coin stores across Japan, and around 50 Standard Product stores in Japan (plus a couple overseas in Taiwan and Singapore)
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Our favorite 100 Yen products in Japan
There are literally thousands of cheap household items in Japan to choose from but these are our best Japan 100 Yen store products, all of which are light and easy to take back home overseas:
100 Yen Erasers
All of the 100 Yen stores in Japan have lots of super stationery products but some of the best are the fun erasers.
From sushi erasers to animal character rubbers (easy), this is one of the cheapest gifts you can buy and a simple souvenir to take home from Japan.
With 6 pieces in each pack, just remember you can’t eat the sushi erasers no matter how good they look – stick to Kura Sushi instead.
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Mini animal skewers and transport picks
Another cute but practical utensil is the sandwich skewers – they come in packs of 8 to 10 skewers and aim to make your lunch look pretty or differentiate similar looking food types.
Our favorites are the picks shaped like trains or the animal lunch series which includes a panda pick – it almost makes your lunch too pretty to eat.
Toothpaste tube squeezer
Trying to squeeze that last bit of toothpaste out of the near empty toothpaste Tube has always been of our lives (well, that and pineapple pizza).
But now, thanks to the Daiso deities, you can now easily squeeze out the tiniest bit of toothpaste by using this 100 Yen toothpaste squeezer!
Children’s training chopsticks
Before kids in Japan can eat oodles of noodles or taste Tsukemen, they have to learn how to use chopsticks.
Daiso has animal themed training chopsticks for kids so they can learn to use them without constantly dropping the sticks on the floor.
You can get dinosaur training chopstick holders, pandas or even bears.
Chair leg covers / seat socks
How can 100 Yen buy you this much happiness?! We adore these charming chair leg covers (or as we like to call them, seat socks).
They come in packs of four (obviously) and are available in neutral / basic patterns as well as more awesome animal patterns like sloths, cats, shibas and pandas.
Protecting your floors from scratches and squeaks, these chair leg covers are cheap and an easy gift to take home.
Animal storage bag clips
Snap to it with these awesome animal storage bag clips available in most Japanese Daiso stores (and a lot of the international Daiso branches too).
The packs consist of 8 character clips including cats, dogs and pandas.
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