[Tsuchiya Bag] Started selling leather products including school bags at a physical store for the first time in Portland, USA
*Tsuchiya Bag Manufacturing*
Press release: September 4, 2024
[Tsuchiya Bag] Started selling leather products including school bags at a physical store for the first time in Portland, USA
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Tsuchiya Bag Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Adachi-ku, Tokyo, hereinafter referred to as Tsuchiya Bag), which handles school bags and leather products, has started selling leather products, including school bags, at physical stores in August 2024 in Portland, Oregon, USA. * * This will be the first time that this product will be available at physical stores in the United States, with the exception of a limited-time POP UP in November 2023. *
At the opening party
Tsuchiya Kaban will start selling school bags overseas in 2020. Currently, “LaLaport” opened in April 2023.
Including the Taichung store, we have four directly managed stores (three in Taiwan and one in Hong Kong). Our global website sells products to more than 50 countries and regions around the world through cross-border e-commerce.
Now that it is available at select shops in the United States, there is a new opportunity for you to take your time and get your hands on it.
*Tsuchiya Kago’s first shop-in-shop development*
Portland is a city in Oregon, located on the west coast of the United States. The area is attracting increasing attention both domestically and internationally as a culturally conscious city that stands out from other American cities. This time, Tsuchiya Bag has announced the opening of this Portland select shop “Frances”.
May’s shop-in-shop (an independent sales area in a part of another store) is Tsuchiya Kaban’s randoseru, and the adult leather goods brand TSUCHIYA.
KABAN” has started to be sold in stores. *Currently, this is the only store in the United States where you can see the actual product.* This is a valuable store.
An opening party will be held on the evening of July 31st, the day before the opening. Approximately 100 Tsuchiya bag users and local regular customers who were looking forward to landing in America visited in three hours.
A visitor receives an explanation of school bags from Frances May store manager Logan.
Visitors could also be seen receiving explanations about school bags from Frances May store manager Logan. *
Mr. Logan has also been using Tsuchiya Bag’s school bags for about 3 years. *
A wide range of about 20 products, including pistachio and red school bags made by craftsmen in workshops in Japan, luxurious leather tote bags, and wallets, will be on display and on sale at all times. At the opening party, visitors who actually held the products in their hands made exclamations such as * “wow” and “beautiful!” *.
One happy comment was, “Where is the Tsuchiya Kaban store in Japan? I want to visit it when I travel.”
The capsule toy machine is so popular that there is a long line. An original capsule toy machine wrapped in leather was also installed, and visitors were able to experience spinning a capsule toy, which is now one of the pastimes of foreign visitors to Japan. Prizes include Japanese sweets and TSUCHIYA, which are very popular overseas. KABAN wallets and other items were provided.
*Store information*
*Frances May TSUCHIYA KABAN SHOP-IN-SHOP*
Address: 521 SW 10th Ave. Portland, OR 97205
Business hours: Mon – Sat 11am – 6pm, Sun 11am – 5pm
Products handled:
Approximately 20 items of “TSUCHIYA KABAN” and “TSUCHIYA KABAN”
・Tsuchiya kaban shop-inshop:
https://www.francesmay.com/pages/tsuchiya-kaban-shop-in-shop
・Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/francesmayshop/
Product introductions and party videos are also posted.
* Delivering Japanese “politeness” to the world, valuing people, things, and time. *
Tsuchiya Bag Manufacturing Co., Ltd. was founded in 1965 and is a long-established bag manufacturer that handles leather products. We provide high-quality school bags as a representative brand of workshop-based school bag manufacturers that are handmade by craftsmen one by one. To date, we have produced and sold more than 1 million units. Purchasers also support the quality of our services, which our craftsmen continue to provide, including a guarantee of free repairs for six years until the day of graduation.
Approximately 200 craftsmen support this high-quality manufacturing. We are dedicated to manufacturing at three workshops in Japan. The founder, Kunio Tsuchiya, will be recognized by the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare as a “Modern Master Craftsman” in 2022, and will be recognized by the “Japan Leather Industry Federation” as a “JAPAN LEATHER GOODS”.
Selected as MEISTER (bag category).
Craftsmen make bags that give you peace of mind and satisfy your soul just by being around them. The value of “politeness” runs at the root of the manufacturing that creates such lovely things.
Through manufacturing, Tsuchiya Kaban will spread the Japanese value of “politeness”, which values people, things, and time, to the world.
* ■TSUCHIYA KABAN global website:*
https://tsuchiya-kaban.com/
Limited to cross-border e-commerce, we sell school bags with shoulder straps 1.3 times longer than normal ones. It can be carried
comfortably by a wide range of customers including adults.
* Company Profile*
Company name: Tsuchiya Bag Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Representative Director and President: Shigenori Tsuchiya
Address (head office): 7-15-5 Nishiarai, Adachi-ku, Tokyo 123-0841 Business details: Planning, production, and sales of original brand leather products such as school bags, bags, and accessories. Tsuchiya Kaban (leather products for adults) https://tsuchiya-kaban.jp/, Tsuchiya bag (school bag) https://tsuchiya-randoseru.jp/
grirose (school bag) https://grirose.jp/, CRAFTCRAFTS
https://tsuchiya-craftcrafts.jp/
[Customer inquiries]
Phone: 0120-907-647 (Weekdays 10:00-17:00)
Email: support@tsuchiya-kaban.com