Muji

I like Muji for simple plain high quality items, mainly the gel pens they sell here. It’s a small store with limited collection, but they have a lot of useful items you would never find in Western stores. I like the travel kits and kitchen items they sell like the Japanese square plates, rice bowls etc. The design is plain with no frills (Muji in Japanese means «no brand or symbol»), their own logo isn’t even on anything, so the notebooks, folders and other stationary seem great for work or business.
The only thing I would say it’s expensive. You can see the Yen price on everything, so it’s fairly obvious that everything is x3 or x4 of the original price. But everything is imported and the shop needs profits so that’s to be expected. But the quality is good though not cheap, and Easons is much cheaper for stationary. But it’s my one stop shop for pens!

MUJI!!! I’m so happy to see you in Ireland!
During the past year, I visited the Muji store in NYC, and after so many years of admiring their goods online, it was pretty darn cool to see them «live.»
The Dublin store features a selection of storage materials, unique stationery, a very small range of clothing and furnishings, housewares, gifts, and some fun travel items. I’m definitely coming back some of the clever little travel-​size containers and products before I take my next weekend trip.
Muji offers great quality, unique objects, and pretty decent prices.
The footprint of the shop in NYC was larger, and so they had a greater range of personal/​beauty products, more furnishings, etc., but Muji is always available online, so check them out there, too.

A Japanese shop
Full of Things I wouldn’t buy,
Because Price too high

Muji is a store which has branded itself with ‘not having a brand’. In other words everything is minimalist, devoid of character or whimsy. Flat blocks of colour, simple non-​complex shapes and designs so admired by the clean-​cut Japanese.
It is technically a ‘lifestyle’ shop with some home gadgets, furnishings and clothes in its downstairs section, but mostly it’s just known for selling over-​priced stationary, picture frames and candles.
I will admit that, as an artist, I love their blank sketch pads, brush pens and mechanical pencils, but they are too damn expensive. So nowadays it’s off to Eason’s to fill that bracket.

do you enjoy spending vast reserves of discretionary budget on well-​designed travel minutiae? then MUJI is the store for you! Seriously though, this place is super cool. with a focus on the mundane, muji attempts to solve everyday problems with elegant, simplistic design and functionality. in this endeavor it is successful– however, as an import store, it is also almost prohibitively expensive. Despite the cheapish price tags on most items, its easy to overdo it and buy too much. its not until you get home that you realize you just spent 50 euro on a sixteen piece soap transportation accessory kit that you don’t really need.
it has a pretty wide, but relatively shallow, selection, focusing on a breadth of products without much choice in individual categories. This may be part of the concept, but its annoying when they don’t have many patterns in the clothing section despite the flawless simplistic design.
the staff is nice, if a bit taciturn, and so far not a single thing I have purchased there has failed me.
Don’t get the tangerine soap though. the smell gets old fast.

MUJI is one of the general grocery store in Japan. Prices are twice as in Japan because products are imported. This store is smaller but helpful for me!

Minimalism. Form and function, without fanfare. I really enjoyed seeing such a variety of goods in one shop, unified by style rather than by type. You wouldn’t imagine that notepads, scarfs, jackets and travel accessories would form a cohesive stock, but it certainly does make sense when you are in there.

Muji amuses me, while I find and buy somne fantastic little travel /​bathroom accessories, the prices of some of the stuff there make me smile… «huh? It’s how much for a pencil parer?». The stuff they stock is quality though.
As I fly semi regularly and I love order in my little suitcase, I really like their travel bottles etc. They do a great clear zipped bag thats the same size of the airport security regulation clear plastic bags. My latest find there are brown hairclips, cheaper and nicer than the ones I used to buy in a certain UK chemist chain.

My mission to find an erasable marker took me here, I have such an exciting life to be honest, I really am the life and soul of any party.
So guess what? They don’t stock that type of marker, they haven’t for quite sometime I was told. OK so fail for not having the marker but big win for just being a really cool store.
As one reviewer put it, it’s like minimalist heaven. Everything is just so pretty and there are a myriad of fun quirky and functional things to get. For funky office supplies for example I would absolutely shop here, offices by their very nature imply work and work is not the most fun thing to do, so if you can jazz up your grey cubicle with some Japanese fun — rock on with your good working self.

For my birthday I was presented with a well wrapped box no bigger than a kitten (aw) and very, very light. Inside — Muji’s own Tea for One pot, a clever and elegant glass and brushed metal affair that let me brew a few cups of my favourite loose leaf blend without the huge teapot.
Best thing about it is that lip that saves the last drop in a pour from spilling onto the table. Genius.
Actually, it’s a lot like the rest of Muji’s offering; cool and contemporary and incredibly useful. In my agency life many a trip was made to Muji for their unique binders to house presentations. And on weekend walks through town, we’ll stop in to ogle the utilitarian bits and bobs that add up to serious space saving cool.
I’m taking this place at total face value: any shop that sells a smart little tea pot like mine wins hands down, every time!

This shop was originally known as Mujirushi Ryohin, this is japanese for, «no label quality goods». the name was abreviated to Muji so that us Irish folk dont trip over our tongues trying to say it I imagine!
this is a shop that i totally love! unfortunately the stock is always the same, it never changes. but i love the simplicity of it all, i love how plain most of the stuff looks. sometimes plain stuff is the nicest stuff in my opinion and if you don’t like it too much you should think of it as a blank canvas ready for you to make something unique out of it!
this shop is great for storage solutions and good quality paper and the range of colored pens is just so cool!

Even though Muji in Dublin are a bit more expensive than you would expect if you’ve been to other Muji stores around the globe, I still find them comparatively cheap considering the quality of their products. I bought gloves here two years ago and they still look like new despite having been worn pretty much every day for most of the cold season. They sell absolutely everything, from beds and couches to clothes and stationery and kids puzzles and games. I especially find their lack of branding great and wish there was more stores like this one around. Simple, good quality and well worth the price.

Many will be surprised to learn that Muji, meaning ‘no-​brand’, is essentially Japanese Dunnes Stores. The company started as an in-​house brand of a supermarket chain but quickly grew in popularity. Their design ethos is that of function, simplicity, efficiency and low cost and it has seen a company that started as Japanese Bernard Cola become a global phenomenon.
I find the minimalism and function of everything seriously refreshing and easy to get on with when so much is labelled and logoed completely to death. One of the most intriguing cost cutting and style adding measures they used was U-​shaped spaghetti, which is essentially the off-​cut from reams of straight spaghetti.
In Japan you can literally get just about everything in Muji but in Ireland this is far from the case, this outlet mostly serves as a poncy stationary shop. However at the end of the day the insurmountable problem with Dublin’s Muji is the price. Whilst still quite affordable, Muji in Dublin is no where near cheap and frankly at this added premium the whole concept stops adding up.
So it is with heavy heart that I must say three stars for Muji in Dublin, it could have been so different but you had to push the envelope didn’t you Muji?

Muji eschews branding, so much of its stock of stationery, homewares and clothing is devoid of any nasty writing and stands alone, revelling in its own simplicity.
This Japanese store is a big fan of sleek design and the colour white — think the set for the Michael Jackson video, Leave Me Alone. Prices are steep enough and despite its modest, no branding stance, there is often a fella on Grafton Street with a Muji sign, pointing customers towards Chatham Street.

Muji stores are the strangest little thing… at first i thought they did stationery and all that stuff… then i went into their store in paris and it was full of furniture and storage solutions… then there was a bunch of cards and travel accessories in the store i saw in London… and now i realise that Muji sell everything…
Except all of their products are very much Zen… very clean… very clear, white and plain pine coloured funiture… the textiles are all white and simple. yet functional and perfect in every way…
And while it may seem to be an elite store at first glance, the prices are fairly reasonable.
Some of the stuff they have is pretty clever too including cardboard speakers for your iPod that fold up … how strange

The words innovative and minimalist spring to mind when thinking of the Muji shop on Chatham Street.
Wanting to capitalize on Japan’s reputation of having a superior style and design, the shop sells made in Japan supplies for all the rooms of the house: for the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. Metallic bins and racks, plain and wooden crockery, plastic soap dishes and toilet scrubbers, cotton slippers and pyjamas are some of the items found here. Muji also has a large selection of office supplies: pens, folders, notepads and storage boxes.
The colour scheme of the merchandise is for the most part neutral with a concentration of white, grey and beige. When you walk into the shop, you feel like you’ve stepped into a sterilized hospital. Everything seems so clean and clinical.
The merchandise is practical and pretty, but also expensive. A set of cotton sheets costs 75 Euro and a minuscule pad of paper is 2.50 Euro. The shop targets a fussy and wealthy clientele who would willingly pay these prices.