There are numerous variations of chopstick rests in Japan and many people collect them as a part of their hobby, but at restaurants they actually use them for serving foods, especially when the restaurants serve Kaiseki style meals (Kaiseki is a multi-course Japanese dinner which generally consists of 8 or so courses and they serve one course at a time and they bring another course once the guest finishes eating the earlier one, so we use the chopstick rest to put the chopsticks on while we are not eating and it has been considered impolite to keep holding chopsticks all the time and/or put them on the plates, so we use a proper chopstick rests) and izakaya restaurants where are more casual pub style restaurants (at izakaya restaurants, we usually drink alcohol while we eat and we need to put the chopsticks on somewhere while we drink and chat with your friends or colleagues, so the chopstick rests are very useful). Lots of people also use the chopstick rests at home too.
The Japanese samurai armour and sword shape chopstick rests are pretty and also practical!
It is a set of two and they are pretty as a display without putting your chopsticks.
they come with the gift box which is made of paper, so they will be a perfect gift as a souvenir from Japan .
The price is only 3,000yen (excluding tax) for the set.
To purchase them, please read the later section of this page.
Tax Free Shopping
When the total of your purchase exceeds over 5,000yen, you can claim for tax free shopping. We need your passport to do that to purchase at our store in Tokyo, so please do not forget to bring it with you, when you visit our store in Tokyo.
How to purchase them?
You can either visit our store in Tokyo or you can send us emails and we can send them overseas by EMS or send them to those designated hotels or places within Japan where you specify after confirming your payment.
Please tell me how many of the cube you want and we will calculate the cost of EMS (we normally provide cheaper option if it is available) and we will request the payment with PayPal to you by email. We will send it to you right after we confirm your payment.
For domestic delivery within Japan, the shipping cost is only 660yen and it is free when the total goes over 11,000yen.
Shipping cost will be around 1,400yen to Asia, 2,000yen to the USA and 2,200yen to European countries with EMS (the fastest delivery taking only 2 to 3days), but cheaper service, which is called epacket, is also available and the price will be about half of EMS (730yen to Asia, 860yen to the USA, 1,000yen to Europe), but it will take longer to deliver (e.g. EMS to the USA is about 3 days for the delivery, but it will take about a week for the epacket service).
Contact address is info(at)mabysoshite.com (please change the (at) to @).
When you order from outside of Japan, the tax will be extracted.
<Order flow>
- Choose the product you want and send an email to us (Please tell us your address)
- We will reply to you with the cost of EMS and cheaper option price for you to choose.
- We will send you PayPal payment instruction by email
- We will send the goods as soon as we confirm your payment.
How to visit us in Tokyo?
The shop is only 1min walk from Gaienmae station （外苑前駅）Exit 1b on Ginza line Tokyo Metro. When you walk up the stairs of the exit 1b, you just need to walk straight for about 100m and our store is on the right side of the street on the ground floor.
Gaienmae station is only 2 stops away from Shibuya on Tokyo Metro Ginza line.
If you are a visitor, please bring your passport, so you can enjoy tax free shopping!
You can also find a map on our HP!
https://www.mabysoshite.com/access/acces
MA by So Shi Te
2-22-15 Minamiaoyama, Minato-ku,
Tokyo Japan 107–0062
Tel: 03-3401-0922
Opening hours: 11:00 – 19:30 (Sat, Sun, NH until 19:00)
*Please check our homepage for holiday information.
If you can read Japanese and live in Japan, you can also order online from our online stores
Yahoo : https://store.shopping.yahoo.co.jp/maaoyama/226-14.html
Aoyama market: https://www.aoyamamarket.com/ma/kitchen-chopsticks/16.html
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