1 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:28,080 Hi everyone! I'm here today in the fabric district with Kaila! 2 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:28,580 Hey! 3 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:32,520 The fabric district in Tokyo is called Nippori? 4 00:00:33,260 --> 00:00:33,760 Kaila: Yes 5 00:00:34,020 --> 00:00:38,520 And I've been told that it is really big 6 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:40,640 And I'm very excited! 7 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:44,660 So I'm gonna take you all with me as I go and explore Fabric Town! 8 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:45,260 Yay! 9 00:01:00,060 --> 00:01:01,260 It's big alright - 10 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:07,280 Nippori's fabric district has a total of 90 fabric, bead, haberdashery and craft stores 11 00:01:08,700 --> 00:01:10,940 These are all of the fabric stores 12 00:01:10,940 --> 00:01:12,980 For reference, that's ninety 13 00:01:12,980 --> 00:01:14,720 *Ninety* fabric stores 14 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:17,340 We've been to... three? 15 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:18,600 Three so far? 16 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,360 This is the damage that's already been done... 17 00:01:21,380 --> 00:01:22,740 We can't go to ninety 18 00:01:24,060 --> 00:01:26,700 I could spend a whole two weeks just here! 19 00:01:27,660 --> 00:01:31,820 Make sure you pick up one of these guides to help you get around Fabric Town. 20 00:01:31,820 --> 00:01:36,280 These guides can be found in stands at the entrance of many of the fabric shops. 21 00:01:43,960 --> 00:01:48,740 However, I think the best method of exploring Fabric Town is to simply walk up and down 22 00:01:48,740 --> 00:01:52,040 the kilometre long street and go into any store that piques your interest. 23 00:01:52,180 --> 00:01:55,700 I'm going to show you around just a couple of the fabric stores I visited 24 00:01:56,020 --> 00:01:59,380 just so you can get an idea of the magic of this place. 25 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,920 If you're a DIY-er of any kind, this place is actual heaven! 26 00:02:05,660 --> 00:02:08,140 In this one trip to Fabric Town alone, 27 00:02:08,140 --> 00:02:09,880 which only lasted a couple of hours, 28 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:13,960 I managed to go into ten stores before my arms were suffering 29 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:15,560 from the amount of fabric I was carrying - 30 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:17,600 Not to mention my bank account! 31 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:22,640 The number one fabric store that I suggest going to if you only get a couple of hours here 32 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:24,000 is the famous Tomato. 33 00:02:25,140 --> 00:02:27,920 There are four Tomato stores on this one street, 34 00:02:27,940 --> 00:02:32,420 with one of the Tomato stores having five huge floors of fabrics 35 00:02:32,420 --> 00:02:34,320 in just about any print that you can imagine. 36 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:44,360 Annika: Wait, there's three Tomatoes! 37 00:02:45,660 --> 00:02:46,940 Kaila: Hahaha, I'm sorry! 38 00:02:47,420 --> 00:02:47,920 Annika: Woah! 39 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:48,880 Kaila: I thought only two... 40 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:49,520 Good luck! 41 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:50,360 Good luck... 42 00:03:15,460 --> 00:03:17,200 Annika: Look what I found 43 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:20,680 Blue... fluffy... fabric... 44 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:26,060 So many of you have asked me to recreate the blue fluffy shorts from Make Thrift Buy 45 00:03:26,060 --> 00:03:27,020 Like, episode four 46 00:03:27,220 --> 00:03:28,500 - I can finally do it! 47 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:31,720 Just had to go all the way to Japan for it! 48 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:32,960 I'm pretty dedicated, you guys. 49 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:36,840 And if you're travelling and need to save room in your suitcase, 50 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:42,740 there's plenty of smaller items like buttons and patches and beads and lace, and all the notions you could want, 51 00:03:42,900 --> 00:03:47,220 that will take up considerably less room on your flight back home 52 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:51,480 And finally, this! 53 00:03:52,900 --> 00:03:54,340 Here is my fabric haul. 54 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:58,940 I actually didn't do too badly, this is about two and a half, three kilos 55 00:03:59,100 --> 00:04:03,680 When you go fabric shopping, and especially here, it's good to go with a goal in mind 56 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:06,840 so you don't just end up with a bunch of random crap. 57 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:11,800 My main goal for visiting Neppori was to find some particular fabrics 58 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,700 that I haven't been able to get my hands on in either Australia or online, 59 00:04:16,060 --> 00:04:18,300 because Nippori has everything! 60 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:20,200 So let me show you what I got. 61 00:04:20,540 --> 00:04:21,820 The first thing is: 62 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:24,480 - Fluff is gonna go everywhere - 63 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:25,420 Let me show you anyway - 64 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:27,480 Fluffy blue fabric! 65 00:04:27,820 --> 00:04:32,460 In the end, I decided on a pastel blue colour instead of a dark navy blue 66 00:04:33,100 --> 00:04:37,180 because I'm much more likely to wear this colour than a dark blue 67 00:04:37,300 --> 00:04:39,940 and I have a bias towards pastel colours. 68 00:04:40,100 --> 00:04:43,380 I was also really keen to get some knitted fabrics. 69 00:04:43,380 --> 00:04:45,620 Like not just knit fabric, but knitted-- 70 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:47,060 I'll show you what I mean. 71 00:04:47,140 --> 00:04:47,860 Like this! 72 00:04:48,340 --> 00:04:54,740 I've never really sewn with these kinds of fabric before so I'm really excited to see... how it goes. 73 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,960 So, they were the two things that I "needed" 74 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:04,460 I also, of course, ended up with some fabrics that I probably, like... I mean, they weren't on my list, 75 00:05:04,840 --> 00:05:07,480 I didn't technically "need" them... 76 00:05:07,700 --> 00:05:10,660 But I *needed* them... if you know what I mean. 77 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:16,320 Because, I mean, obviously... I needed dog fabric 78 00:05:18,220 --> 00:05:21,140 It's so magical *sobs* 79 00:05:21,140 --> 00:05:23,800 I don't even know what I'm going to do with it, but... 80 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:26,840 *sighs* I have a metre of the stuff. 81 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:31,080 Maybe I'll do a video on what you can do with one metre of fabric... 82 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:32,820 Shorts? 83 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:35,240 A crop top and short set? 84 00:05:35,660 --> 00:05:37,260 A billion cute dog pouches? 85 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:39,840 Endless possibilities! 86 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:41,520 And I guess I was going for a theme here - 87 00:05:41,820 --> 00:05:43,660 Here's my second dog fabric! 88 00:05:43,980 --> 00:05:49,300 French bulldog fabric on a denim coloured background! 89 00:05:49,780 --> 00:05:54,580 And the final fabric that I needed but didn't need but definitely needed: 90 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:57,360 is polar bear fabric! 91 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:02,440 It's a comic about a polar bear and a penguin talking about cooking together 92 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:04,000 It's the best 93 00:06:04,460 --> 00:06:10,620 It's a quite thick, sturdy cotton, so I wanna make a backpack, hopefully, out of it. 94 00:06:11,060 --> 00:06:12,540 Gotta learn how to make them 95 00:06:12,540 --> 00:06:13,800 next year in 2017. 96 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:16,740 And if I have any leftovers, endless makeup pouches! 97 00:06:16,740 --> 00:06:22,020 And all these fabrics, best that I could tell, along with most of the fabrics I saw at Nippori, 98 00:06:22,020 --> 00:06:23,140 are made in Japan. 99 00:06:23,140 --> 00:06:27,680 Although obviously it was a little difficult to actually ask people because of the la nguage barrier - 100 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:32,460 But on the bottom edge - the selvedge - it'll often tell you where the fabrics are made 101 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:33,740 so you can figure it out. 102 00:06:33,740 --> 00:06:38,100 I've been posting a lot of photos and some videos of my trip over on my Instagram, 103 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,880 if you wanna go and see what I've been up to so far! 104 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:43,700 Thank you so much for watching this video, 105 00:06:43,700 --> 00:06:45,320 and I will see you all next time. 106 00:06:45,540 --> 00:06:46,040 Bye! 107 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:51,520 A huge thank you to Kaila for meeting up with me and taking me around Nippori! 108 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:53,800 I have been an admirer of Kaila's work for years now, 109 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:57,680 so it was a dream to finally be able to meet up with her. 110 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:00,920 And she was just as lovely in person as she is online. 111 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:04,860 Kaila's mission is to change the world through positivity and kawaii culture 112 00:07:04,860 --> 00:07:10,220 and she runs the most wonderful blogs and Youtube channel, works for Japan Lover Me, 113 00:07:10,220 --> 00:07:13,520 and helped establish the Kawai Philippines movement. 114 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:16,260 If you like journaling, definitely check out her Youtube channel 115 00:07:16,300 --> 00:07:19,580 And if you don't like journaling, I promise you'll be addicted after watching her videos. 116 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:25,840 Annika: Why is there a giant Buzz Lightyear? 117 00:07:31,820 --> 00:07:32,620 *laughter* 118 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:35,760 Kaila: So random, in Nippori there's a Buzz Lightyear. 119 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:41,060 Thank you to all my supporters on Pateron for making these videos possible! 120 00:07:41,140 --> 00:07:45,620 To become my Pateron supporter go on patreon.com/annikavictoria!