Traveler’s Notebook Tokyo Edition

 

If there was a notebook made for adventure, it’s this one: the Traveler’s Notebook from Japan.

 

The Traveler’s Notebook is a system with a leather cover, and a variety of inserts you can select from to put inside, making it highly customizable to each user but also the specific season of life that user is in. Most TN users I know change their set-up often or every once in a while, discovering new purposes or projects.

 

And I’ve been so excited about the new special edition Tokyo cover that they just released. We have them available on pre-order right now, and they’re arriving

soon—sometime in August.

 

 

It is gorgeous. I naturally gravitate towards the camel or brown colours of leather, but the richness of the black along with the subtlety of the foil designs is such a great match, and maybe even better in my collection because I have so few black leather items. I think the leather only looks richer with time, from being held and used, and from the scuffs of being knocked about.

 

There’s something special about each TN cover, and the journeys it goes on with you. The analogue supplies we use create a much more emotional and sentimental attachment: the iPhone you use to snap those photos isn’t quite the same as that Diner’s TN that snuggled in your bag over long winter commutes or the Pelikan pen that scribbled away while you were in those work meetings or the journal that you brought with you over an ocean. I have several TNs now, and each one holds its own meaning—my first TN that we carried as a Partner Shop, a TSL gift, this Tokyo one that will have held my Taiwan adventures in it.

 

 

 

 

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And stay tuned for another Traveler’s Notebook meet-up we’re hoping to have sometime in these remnant days of summer, maybe to celebrate a new Tokyo TN, or maybe to celebrate one that’s been on a few adventures with us already.

 

Can’t wait to see you all again soon.