Thinking of cultivating your very own urban garden? Soak up inspiration and stock up on pots, plants and other necessities at Toky, a specialist gardening store hidden inside a remodelled Higashi-Nihonbashi warehouse. Run by Rentaro Fujiwara and Mayumi Kamiya, directors at website-building and app-producing company HaraHara, the shop is an outgrowth of the duo's personal hobby. After assembling quite a collection of rare plants, Fujiwara and Kamiya embarked on a hunt for pots that would enhance their plants' characteristics, and eventually founded an online shop to get rid of excess paraphernalia.
Toky's owners now regularly collaborate with craftspeople to produce one-of-a-kind pots and unique gardening equipment for serious enthusiasts. Some of their pots may initially look like simpler versions of traditional Japanese tea bowls, but are actually far more detailed and polished than you'd imagine. As for the plants themselves, the shop stocks everything from 'air plants' (no soil needed) and ones that look like roses to more familiar growths. There's just one catch: the shop only opens on two days every month, with the dates announced on Toky's official website at the beginning of the month. Although their online store can be accessed at all times, only the physical shop stocks their full line of products. Planners at the ready, all you wannabe horticulturalists...
