The best things to buy in Japan are: makeup/skin care products, digital products, sports shoes and clothing, daily care products and specialty crafts.
1, make-up / skin care products
In Tokyo, there are a lot of cosmetics specializing in volume stores, the price is more fair, but also often have promotional discounts, if you meet, you will be able to buy very cheap cosmetics.
2, digital products
In Japan, many of the electronic products of the tide of models can not be bought elsewhere, the shopkeeper is very professional, will give very pertinent and valuable advice on the purchase. Note that some products, such as cell phones, rice cookers, toilets, etc., are all in Japanese, so you need to be careful when buying.
3, sports shoes and apparel
Special discount period to go, can be bought at a lower price. Japan's discount season is divided into winter and summer twice. In winter, from the end of December to January for a whole month, and in summer, from mid to late July to the end of August for more than a month. The discounts during this period are huge.
4, day care products
Japanese department stores and stores are mostly in the evening around 7:00 p.m. closed, and Japan shopping can not be directly with the yuan or U.S. dollars to pay, to the U.S. dollar and other foreign currencies in the hotel or the bank to change into the Japanese yen to use.
5, special crafts
Japanese toys, crafts are very delicate production, very humane, it is worth buying, but more expensive. Note that knives, swords, daggers, etc. do not meet the national regulations of size will not be able to pass through the security check.