What role does bringing the custom ink space and Kakimori together at the Tokyo Kuramae store actually play when browsing?

To speak from 2017, Kakimori moved its store to its current location and annexed the custom ink store, inkstand by kakimori, together into one space^[1]. Originally, Kakimori opened in 2010 in Kuramae, a shitamachi area of Tokyo^[2][3], and separately opened the custom ink store inkstand by kakimori in the same neighborhood in 2014^[4]. It is a setup that brought the two spaces, which had been in different locations, together under one roof^[5].

The movement path becomes simple. Customers can connect the process of mixing custom ink and examining writing instruments in a single flow without needing to go back and forth outside the store. At the Kuramae store, trial writing by holding tools in hand and writing characters is possible^[6]. Trial writing by writing on paper is a process of gauging with your fingertips the extent to which ink bleeds and the touch of the pen nib passing over the paper. The experience of matching suitable tools while immediately checking how the color you blended yourself appears on paper is completed.