🇯🇵 Japan stamp collecting is a fun activity that you must try when you get to travel here! 💯
Where to collect stamps? ☑️ Train stations / subways ☑️ Tourist information centers ☑️ Airports (information centers) ☑️ Museums / special exhibitions ☑️ Onsen (some establishments) ☑️ Select hotels / ryokan ☑️ Michi no eki / roadside rest stops ☑️ Some malls / stores (if they have any stamp rally campaigns) ☑️ Amusement parks (not all) ☑️ Castles / castle ruins ☑️ Traveler’s Factory branches ☑️ Stationery events 🌈 Rainbowholic Stationery Cafe
⚠️Not to be mixed with these commemorative stamps: Goshuin (sacred shrine / temple stamps)
Where to find the stamps? 💡You usually can spot the train stamps (eki stampu) near the ticket gates (can be outside or inside). Sometimes, the train staff would keep it with them. You can ask them politely for the location (“Stampu wa doko ni arimasu ka?”) and show your stamp notebook for reference (if you have).
Notebooks I recommend for stamp collecting: ✨ MUJI passport memo (blank, dotted, or grid) ✨ TRAVELER’S notebook passport size refill ✨ Original Rainbowholic A6 Notebook (for bigger stamps) ✨ JTB stamp books ✨ Goshuincho (note: please don’t mix sacred temple / shrine stamps with other stamps) ⚠️ Check link in bio to buy before your Japan trip: @rainbowholic / rainbowholicshop.com)
What do you think? STAMP or PASS? Let me know below! ⬇️ Check my “Stamp Guide” IG story highlight for more stamp locations. For other Japan recommendations, browse #rainbowholicguide 🍡
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