Muji

If you’re going to hire a security guard to check receipts why would you ask me if I wanted my receipt, making me walk back and get a receipt. And the security guard sassed me too. I don’t need to take this — I can get my notebooks elsewhere

really helpful staff. great pens :)

Large NY outpost for the Japanese Brand Shop. The interior evokes a bit of zen quality, as you walk in the escalators leading downstairs to a shop of Japanese culture and style. I think Muji’s vision is to represent a home and lifestyle of natural/​organic colors, fibers, and trends. I’ve been to a number of their shops in Japan, so the US store is no comparison to the originals in Japan. Especially, when its disappointing to know that although they’re a Japanese brand, all the items are stamped Made in China. Shopping at a Kinokuniya Bookstore, Mitsuwa Market, or even Sunrise Market would be more authentic.

Very nice staff and the store is well laid out with not a thing out of place. They are constantly restocking and tidying up, so despite the amount of customers the store is always near and tidy. I love their yuzu candy, housewares, and especially their socks. The socks come in a multitude of colors and designs and stay in shape despite repeated washing and drying.
On my last visit the cashier mistakenly left two small items that I had purchased out of my shopping bag, but when I returned the next day and showed them the receipt they were deeply apologetic and corrected the problem immediately.

The layout and merchandising in this store is gorgeous! Their products run from home décor to household goods, interesting snacks and clothing. The pricing is very fair and the products are high quality.
The essential oil misters were interesting looking and they had a bunch of unique products that I haven’t seen anywhere else. The staff was friendly and when I needed a dressing room I didn’t have to wait for someone to let me in.
Make sure you check out the room next to the registers because it’s a sale room! I got an awesome sweater for half price. My only regret is that I didn’t purchase more!

Part Japanese Bed Bath and Beyond, part Uniqlo, Muji can always be counted on for a worthwhile browsing experience, even if you don’t purchase anything. Since it’s SoHo, it can be packed; the store feels a bit cramped in general. Last time here, I picked up some clothes (a dress and a long-​sleeved top), and I’ve been pleased with them. The style of clothing isn’t flashy or edgy (more basics in muted colors), but if simple is what you need, it can be found at Muji. If you’d like to try on garments, there is a small dressing room at the back right corner. There’s also bedding, pens, containers, kitchen implements, and other neato stuff to check out. Cool shop!

Yes great Japanese import with many useful well-​designed and inexpensive clothing and household items. I really want one of the beanbag chairs. Very minimalist and Apple-​like. Great for hard plastic containers and some kitchen goods. I got a hard plastic glass for my bathroom which I really love. Go when they have sales.

Muji is a little bit of everything. It’s a stationery store, an apparel store and a kitchen essentials store all rolled into one. What stands out is how they have utilized the space to create a wonderfully diverse experience. Whenever I am in the Times square area, I visit Muji to escape from the lights and the noise.

I am very disappointed in the service I received from this particular Muji store. I recently bought a binder and binder paper here. It turned out that the binder and paper and spiral binder were not a match. I went back to the store to exchange the binder for one that matched the paper. The cashier was very rude, rushed through my interaction, and denying me the ability to exchange binders, stating «the price tag is removed, we done except used merchandise.» I literally bought the binder 4 days prior, and also had the unused wrapped in plastic paper that I bought for the binder specifically. I asked to speak to the manager and he was also sort with me, taking a head nod from the cashier as to not allow me to exchange a cardboard binder. A very petty thing to do given that I have been giving this Muji store my business for years.

If you’re an artist of any kind, you might kinda fall in love with this place. They sell all kinds of supplies you would find at a stationary store! Then as you walk towards the back of the store you find kitchenware, bathroom supplies, makeup brushes, clocks, clothes and even bedding. They’re really trying to be an all around go-​to store huh? By the registers they sell Asian snacks but you can totally find the same snacks for cheaper prices.

I’ve been shopping in Muji for the last six years and on going. I like the Soho location because it’s very close to the R train at Canal Street station.
Muji have many varieties of good quality stationaries, travel accessories, beauty products, furniture, shelves, clothing. The staffs are relatively helpful in finding what you can’t find. Down side is for some reason I can never find .05 lead ~.~, it’s been at least 5 visits in these three months.

Wide selection and great finds. I haven’t been to the one in Japan so I can’t compare, but this is a great stationary store. I’d assume there would be a price difference as the store consists largely, if not solely, of imports from Asia. Nonetheless, this branch is one of the best paper/​stationary stores I’ve found in New York. It’s like the Ikea of stationary!

Love it!

I wish I was a Muji. I wish you were a Muji. I wish everything were Muji.
Just not this Muji.
I give this location a relatively high rating because I love the concept; the brand. But go to the Cooper Square (NoHo) location instead.
I came here primarily to return a rain jacket I had bought the previous day. The person who helped me didn’t seem thrilled. Indeed she seemed icy. She unfurled the jacket and inspected it closely for damage; not a great sign of skeptical when I had bought it the day previous. It’s never pleasant for someone to act suspicious when you’re returning something. It can lead you to feel like you did something wrong, when in fact it’s perfectly normal, acceptable, ethical to take something back. (Indeed it is worse to keep something wastefully, and the Muji ethic is about reducing waste). So that’s frustrating to me.
The store’s like the one in NoHo, with a similar selection. Their products are lovely, from the unbranded /​frosted plastic /​flowing ink ballpoint pens, to the simple snapping pen case. I bought a few small office supplies of this sort.
It’s a real shame that neither this nor the NoHo location have a selection that’s appropriate to the local audience. They stock up way too much on their awful clothes and irrelevant bedding, neglecting goods where they could make a much more targeted impact.
If they entered the art supplies market, they would kill it. They would own it. If they started making rulers and triangles and paper, they’d do a fantastic job, delivering beautiful, thoughtful products at great prices. They’d deliver supplies in a way that appeals to the aesthetic interests of artists, rather than present them with a McDonald’s-like experience (see Blick).
Muji has great potential but they haven’t got the right priorities.

This Muji, larger than the Astor one, is pretty solid.

I had a disappointing experience at the Muji store… I have been looking forward to coming here for years! I skipped over a lot of gorgeous Muji pens at the MoMA store because I was expecting an even better selection here. I don’t know what was going on… but there were only a few basic colors (blue, black, red) available. I came only a week after Christmas, which may have been the issue…

I’ve been a huge fan of Muji ever since I first discovered it in a mall in Shanghai, and I’ve been hooked ever since. When I moved to Michigan, my Muji supply was cut off, and oh was I EVER itching to get a fix again. Weeks, months, and years passed. I am not exaggerating; I used to buy EVERYTHING here. Minimalist sofas, notebooks, hoodies, facial cleanser, storage boxes… Fucking white chocolate-​covered freeze-​dried strawberries… You could probably imagine the pure euphoria on my face when I found out there was a Muji nearby.
This location is pretty small compared to the locations in Asia, but still offers a wide variety of goods. And if you haven’t tried the oil-​based ballpoint pens yet, YOU ARE MISSING OUT.

Muji is a Japanese purveyor of no-​brand name goods whose aim is to be the ubiquitous, everyday essential item that you can rely on, quietly working in the background with a minimalistic design and functionality in mind.
One quality I appreciate about Muji’s items is that they take up very little space in your life, unlike Ikea pieces (which I must respectfully disagree with the comparison). The items are originally modelled to fit the Japanese household, which are typically small and aware of the space furniture takes up (whereby it is also eco-​conscious).
I’m a fan of their stacklable clear acrylic drawers and pencil cases with inner organising tabs that can be easily modified to fit your small items. The clear acrylic drawers are great to store mail/​notes while being able to see them and the pencil cases for the ingenius tabs (purchased seperately) that allows me to hold several pieces of jewelry, writing instruments and perfume vials at once. Both items I have had for many years.
Sure, most are pricey but only some items are worth purchasing. The pens are terrible quality and not worth it in the long run. Personally I would visit Kinokuniya by Bryant Park or visit JetPens online instead for quality inks.
Muji also sells stationery, housewares, various containers and organisers, clothes, and some quirky items like shirts vaccuum-​packed into 3″ in cubes, puzzles and toys. Service is good here and it’s always a pleasure to come back here to browse.

I have been a fan of Muji for a long time for the pens that they sell here. Muji also sells clothing, home goods and organizational items. Their products are costly in price. If you are shopping here you need to be more selective because it can add up. Some people will misunderstand the high prices but the products are design in a very unique way. When I come here, I usually go to the stationery section of the store. They have all these different type of pens that you can try before you buy it.

aaaghhh! my favourite kind of store!
Stationary! pens! bathroom stuff!
Travel bottles so cute that i wanted to throw out all the travel sized stuff i brought just so i could buy these ones!

I stumbled in here on my way to Pearl River Mart and was fascinated by this Japanese store. There’s a lot organization stuff for the home, luggage packing cubes, stylish home décor items, pens, stationary, container bottles (spray bottles, travel bottles etc), clothes. My favourite item in the store was this circular ring that comes in different colours where you can rest your toothbrush. It was so simple yet it worked but for some reason I didn’t buy it though I should have.
All the items are very clean, modern lines and just minimalistic — so Japanese. Most of the items in the store were very affordable so you can easily buy lots here. I wasn’t a huge fan of the service or lack thereof. There were a group of staff who were hanging out near the packing cubes and I was there looking at that stuff for a good 5 mins yet no one acknowledged me. They were just yapping away which is so irritating and so disappointing.
But this place is worth stopping by if you’re in SoHo.

I’ve been a huge Muji fan after visiting their locations in Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, and Korea. It was mostly for the apparel. This store has a few clothing items but nothing really piqued my interest. The stationary has never really worked out for me. The pens all die prematurely and it’s all just very cheaply made. I admit they’re designed remarkably well, unfortunately they just don’t function. I look forward to going back to Mujis in Asia, some of my favorite articles of clothing are from the «no brand» brand.
Oh another annoyance is the security, there’s nothing more I hate during my retail shopping then when a rent a cop tails me around the store. It’s uncomfortable and unsettling. I don’t blame Muji though, it was likely out of necessity.

I first visited Muji back in Japan in 2000 and was amazed how it was like a more clever version of Ikea (Japanese style) with some lotions and clothing. I’ve been to the SOHO location a few times and love their selection of pens and organizational items. Their products are a bit higher priced but they bring them across the ocean so you can understand that they cost a bit more. Muji to me really represents what Japanese design is good at. clean, simplistic, organized, and minimalistic. I’m sure Steve Jobs would have been a fan!
When I come to Muji I usually buy smaller items as I live a bit far away to take anything larger. It’s a great substitute to Office Depot as a place to get some office supplies and organizational or office pieces!

I have a vacuum packed tshirt from muji that is the size of a 3“x3“x3″ cube. I have no idea when I will ever use it. I just bought it because it was cool. One day I will just need a spare t-​shirt that I can throw in my bag. This is also a good gift for someone who needs to pack light (or small).
Another thing they have there is swiffer cloths for much less than swiffer.

The store is super neat and clean.
Plenty of things in here to help organize your room, work place, life, etc. Items are on the pricier side but they do have sales. I appreciate the simplicity of their designs. Their build your own pen section and stationary section are my faves.
Very minimalist designs.