Name: Our Favorite Japanese Home Improvement Store: Kuroganeya | Life in Japan Episode 147
Uploaded: 2021-12-22T17:45:56.000Z
Duration: 11 min 44 s
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Today we have come to my favorite Japanese home improvement store.

There's all kinds of fun goodies hidden inside.

Ok, so it's hard to even walk into the store because right in front are the plants, and I just love plants.

Kuroganeya is a chain of stores that operates across Japan, but our favorite one of them all is only 15 minutes away from us by car.

They're plum or sakura. Oh, so pretty, huh?

Start envisioning where everything can go.

Japan has it's own unique solutions for everything, and at Kuroganeya you can discover some of them.

Oh boy. Ok, so they have like farming stuff.

I don't know what. Bags of potatoes? I don't know what they are for? Are they to plant or to eat?

Thats a good question. I'm assuming they are to plant.

Then they have all the small hand tools that you need for gardening.

One thing that I find very interesting is this.

They lay this black stuff down so that weeds can't grow.

I don't know what it is, I don't know what its for, but it's really cool.

If you need something for home and garden, chances are you can find it at Kuroganeya.

Often the biggest challenge is just finding what you need.

Then I'm always very thankful for pictures on things, because,

If I have a problem with my flowers or plants, I come and look

Then I can buy the appropriate medicine. The appropriate response.

And then as probably a lot of you know, stationery is my downfall. I just love stationery.

And my kids love stationery. So if my kids come to this store, they spend a lot of time in this area.

And it's great because this store is not too far from my house,

And we can come get school supplies in a pinch if we need it.

And if you've ever been to Kuroganeya, you know that the music is something very special.

You need these stickers on your car. That's right.

Thankfully its been a while since we've had our license so we don't need it anymore.

When you start walking the aisles, you start envisioning how your life could be different with the products they show.

Yes, they're counting on you finding something you can't live without.

You can put all your dishes in it and hang it up.

So, throughout the store there are little nits and crannies with camping - they are kind of spread out everywhere.

But this is like the main aisle for camping and they just have everything you need.

And the problem is, you come and you think, oh, I better buy this because I'm going to need it.

And then you end up buying all this stuff

And then you only camp one time a year and you have to store all this stuff.

I've never seen a place that cares so well for their pets as well as Japan does.

And I mean, it feels like you are shopping for kid supplies.

There's diapers, mats, I mean, there's everything you could want.

You can get pink ones, blues ones, or military.

Nate would probably get that if he had a dog because he likes camp.

It's just hilarious to me. I just got my kids out of diapers, I don't want a dog in diapers.

If we were to get a pet, I'm sure we'd end up buying supplies here.

I have bought many shelving units here, because,

They have quite the supply and all sizes.

And, it just a fun store to come shop at.

As we go through the store, you can see how each section has its own personality that matches the products they sell.

So they have home organization, everything you need to organize your bathroom,

Everything to organize your storage units,

Everything! I mean its kind of like a home supply store,

Plus, at one end its all lumber and things to build stuff. I don't know, I don't build.

So, but it's still fun to look through and you can smell all the wood.

In Japan, we all hang our clothes out on our balconies.

So you get these long polls and you put them out.

Then you hook your laundry hanging things, hangers, to it.

And they have really amazing hangers because everything hangs outside and needs to stay on even with the wind.

See, you push it like this, you put it on the poll, and it holds the hanger on.

I mean, your clothes might fly off, but the hanger will not move.

Look at that one's intense. 20 different arms that come out.

They have a great selection of kitchen items.

So like here you can buy nabe - the pots for the nabe.

And, they are just so beautiful. These clay pots.

Then you have all your regular pots and pans, all your coffee carafes,

Oh, I need to buy stuff for my...to make Tonkatsu.

Yes because, you go getting out all the little crumbs that fall in the oil. So it keeps the oil clean.

This is all stuff for sushi, and rice. These are the little mats you roll your sushi out in.

Then these are just beautiful for putting your food in.

These are buckets that you can put water in and take a bath. Because you sit on the little stools,

Before you get into the bath, you take a shower, outside of the tub,

To get all washed off, then you just go in the tub to soak.

So you are all clean already so everyone can use the same water.

They have kid ones. Little ampanman ones.

The longer we've lived here, the more we've discovered some of the Japanese products that help make life here more convenient.

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Our Favorite Japanese Home Improvement Store: Kuroganeya | Life in Japan Episode 147

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