This tiny shop along the Yanaka Ginza shopping street is where you can create your own hanko or personalised seal. While hanko are commonly used to sign off documents and contracts in Japan, you can create quirky versions at this specialty shop to use for fun.
Shinimonogurui offers hanko stamps in four different sizes (from ¥2,600) and includes space for your name (in English or Japanese) as well as one of the cheeky designs, from which there are over 500 to choose from. Some of these fun images include classics such as a shiba inu, Mt Fuji and a bowl of ramen, while among the more unorthodox doodles are a drunk bunny, a penguin holding a camera, and a snake preying on an innocent mouse. You can have your stamp in one of five colours: red, black, orange, blue or green. This cheeky gift gets our stamp of approval.