Welcome to 「HEAVY」

Read up on why we love the work of Philly illustrator and muralist, LCAT.

After stocking incense for over a decade, we've been inspired to review our best-selling fragrances. We start off with Nippon Kodo's popular Kayuragi line.

Find out why a single letter determines the two unique meanings of these oft-confused words.

Greetings from Philadelphia! Take a tour of our Rittenhouse location as we step into June.

From the Kanto region to Kansai and back again, read up on where we went, how we traveled, what we ate, what we saw, and where we shopped!

Read and see alllll about our visit to each of the TRAVELER'S Factory shops in Tokyo, Japan.

While we offer many small goods for home, we would hardly consider ourselves specialists. Yet over the years we have sold an admirable selection of items that can make a house...

Guess what, TRAVELER'S fans! Omoi Zakka Shop now has a Partner Shops feature on the official TRAVELER'S COMPANY website. We went to some of our favorite spots in Philadelphia, snapped photos, and wrote...

There's a lot of Christmas music out there, and songs among them that celebrate the wintry snowfall are many. When the holidays roll around, Philadelphians of a certain generation have this song to...

A wide open space where you can work and think, without distraction. That's what a desk is for.  A desk is not for collecting clutter, dirty dishes, or outdated mail. A desk...

“Basically I like to DJ the store” If you’ve ever enjoyed the aural ambiance while shopping at either Omoi Zakka Shop location, then give some props to store owner &...

Hearing "the dude" one might think of a certain Big Lebowski. But here at the shop we are convinced that OHTO's Dude fountain pen takes its namesake from the title track of a Quincy...

The birds are chirping. The plum blossoms are out. The flower bulbs are breaking earth. There's no doubt about it. Spring is arriving. Here at the shop, the shelves are...

Welcome to the third installment of our Well Organized Life series, where we showcase our favorite tools and techniques for... what's that? A well organized life! Today we're going to talk about...

Welcome to the second installment of our Well Organized Life series, where we showcase our favorite tools and techniques for... what's that? A well organized life! Today our focus is how to pack...

Welcome to the first installment of our Well Organized Life series! Keep Reading If: You're frequently carry around too much stuff (just in case!)  It takes forever to find anything...

When the trees are in bloom, it's truly, officially spring. THANK. GOODNESS. We thought it might never come! Sitting in the shop with all our bright merchandise under chilly overcast...

Catching our breath from our best holiday season ever, we offer some quiet stills from around our cozy spot.

It's the end of the month and we're back again with a peek inside our Philly storefront, where all the magic happens. There aren't even any elves working here. We...

In the lull between Back to School season and what every good shopkeeper refers to as "The Holidays", we've been busy receiving new shipments, battling small mountains of brown boxes...

That's a saying I got in a fortune cookie once, and I've kept it in my wallet ever since.  That said, now is a really good time to send someone a letter,...

Enjoy a small peek at the shop here at the very beginning of September. If you come in now, you’ll find us swamped under boxes of our first round of fall...

I had a friend in college who was from Tokyo and, during a conversation about stationery, said that if I ever made it to her home city, to visit the...

"A place for everything and everything in its place" is a saying we never get tired of around here. Sounds a little strict at first, and maybe for some it...

Figure out exactly what you need and get it.

We have a handsome assortment of notebooks at the shop, and with the spring semester starting for lots of people this past week, we laid out some of our favorite...