Kimono House has a wide selection of gifts from Japan. High quality and hard to find Japanese clothing, accessories and traditional items in every price range. Please visit us in Soho when you are doing your gift shopping. We are close to subway stations and parking is available on the street or in nearby parking garages. Give us a call if you need directions 212-5050-0232. Find us between Houston and Prince Street at 131 Thompson Street. We are located in the trendy Soho, New York City area, filled with many interesting boutiques and restaurants.
The days are becoming warmer and sunsets later - spring time is almost here, and that means that so is the hanami season! Every year, Kimono House helps prepare people of all ages for the flower viewing ( hanami ) season. If you walk around parks in Japan during the hanami season, you can find people enjoying the blossoms from underneath and around the trees at all times of day with bento lunches and drinks (even beer and sake). It's a great example of enjoying life's fleeting moments of beauty. You can never be sure when the next rain will fall and wash away the blossoms in full bloom - so don't wait, plan your cherry blossom viewing now! In NYC, the blossoms generally start blooming at the end of March, peaking at mid April, and the last of the blossoms tapering off in May. This year has been warmer than usual, so everything may happen a little sooner than previous years. The Central Park Conservancy also debuted their cherry blossom tracker this year, so it will make i...