If the art supplies store Michael’s and a drag dressing room had a child, it would look like Okadaya. This is where serious costume people go. It’s the kind of place you enter with one idea and leave with six wigs, vampire fangs and a prosthetic scar you didn’t know you needed. The basement floors are lined with fabrics, boas, sequins, coloured contacts and everything you could glue to your body. There’s even a section for realistic mustaches and beards. It’s a chaotic heaven for people who celebrate Halloween like Christmas.

Kurage is for the committed. Their in-house designed leather, latex and PVC outfits are less costume and more character arc. Everything feels one-of-a-kind: sleek, dystopian and slightly unhinged. You’ll see club kids and drag performers shopping next to people preparing for Shibuya’s annual street chaos. Walk in looking human, walk out looking other-worldy.  

Ctctyo leans Mecha-club over classic costume, which is exactly why it works for Halloween. You can build an android nurse, Y2K racer or chrome-goth idol with a few well-chosen layers. Accessories do the heavy lifting here: arm warmers, belts, leg harnesses, visors, chunky platforms and head gear.
Prices swing from affordable add-ons to full look-at-me sets, so you can upgrade a basic costume or commit to a head-to-toe transformation.

This Harajuku boutique is where things get seductive. Between latex bodysuits, harnesses and disturbingly realistic masks, For Your Pleasure turns Halloween into performance art. The racks move from fetishwear to fantasy. It’s the kind of store where you start browsing for ‘sexy vampire’ and end up looking like a post-apocalyptic idol.

An OG Harajuku drag and stagewear institution, Takenoko is about spectacle. Feathers, sequins, towering wigs, and sparkle for days. You’re as likely to see drag queens and cabaret performers shopping here as you are fashion students trying to one-up last year’s look. Nothing subtle exists here – and that’s the point.

The sacred ground for slutty Halloween done right, Love Merci stocks every cliché imaginable – sexy nurse, schoolgirl, maid, devil, angel. This is where you go when subtlety’s dead and you want something that photographs like a scandal. Expect lots of sheer fabrics, micro-skirts, and accessories that will definitely break workplace rules.

Inside the Akhibara Gee! Store complex, Cospatio is a hidden cosplay staple. Everything here is official: school uniforms from your favourite anime, military jackets almost off the battlefield, and wigs that could pass for production-level styling. These are serious-level character replicas made for people who actually live this. The staff know it too, treating cosplay with the same respect most stores reserve for luxury fashion. Walk in curious, walk out looking like you’ve stepped off a light novel cover.

Part otaku archive, part cosplay junkyard, Mandarake is a gold mine of used character outfits and props. It’s where anime dreams go to die and get reincarnated as Halloween fits. You’ll find cheap wigs, armour pieces, props, and accessories that can easily be reworked into horror versions of your favourite characters.

Shimokita is where the cool kids thrift their identities. Stores like Stick Out and New York Joe Exchange have racks of vintage jackets, sequin dresses, ’80s power suits and forgotten uniforms. Half the fun is DIY-ing something freaky out of old fashion. A zombie bride made from a ’90s wedding dress? A disco ghost? Whatever you end up with, it’ll look more original than any pre-pagacked setup.

The 100-yen shops can be shockingly solid. Daiso and Can Do drop full Halloween lines every year: wigs, hats, props, masks, even entire outfits that vanish before anyone notices. You can walk out with a full costume for less than a Starbucks order.