After successful stationery shopping in Japan and Singapore, I was expecting similar stationery shops in Hong Kong. When I started researching for my recent trip I was surprised to find no Hands stores and not too many stationery shops. Here are the ones I did manage to find!

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Tip: Most of the smaller stationery shops prefer cash. Some of the shops are ‘hole in the wall’ places that are easy to miss. Look up the places on Google Maps street view beforehand so you know what the building looks like before you get there.

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Gift Idea

• Address: Hong Kong, Sheung Wan, Des Voeux Rd Central, 306號4/F (電梯按4字 Yue’s House
• Closed Sunday and Monday
• Tuesday – Friday 2:30pm – 8pm
• Saturday 3:30pm – 7:30pm

I walked right past the entrance to this building (Yue’s House’), it’s only about 2m wide! It felt like walking into someone’s private apartment building, like you’re not supposed to be there. Then you go up a few flights of stairs where you’ll see the door in the photo below and inside is a small shop.

I bought these 2 tone Zebra Mildliner highlighters. This was the first stationery shop I went to and I wasn’t sure if I would see them again. I also liked that they were individually shrink wrapped as many stationery shops just leave all the pens out instead of having just one designated tester pen, so you can get caught out buying a pen that’s already half used. Anyway I did see them for a slightly cheaper price at other stationery shops which I’ll get to later in this post.

I was very tempted by the deco tape which reminded me of the Happy Planner deco pens, but they weren’t cheap and I have plenty of washi tape that I use for a similar purpose.

Stationery Lo

There’s a few of these stores, I went to the one in Central as it was near the Gift Idea shop, the store in Queensway and the store on Nathan Road. All stocked similar products.

• Address: Hong Kong, Central, Des Voeux Rd Central, 71號, Wing On House, 地下A號舖
• Open daily 9am – 8pm

This store reminded me of smaller scale Daiso. It had a random assortment of things from stationery to soft drink (or maybe it was a form of tea) to board games.

Hong Kong stationery shops certainly had a great range of pens to choose from and the Zebra Mildliners were in every store I went to.

The only washi tape I could find in the shop had little animals drawn on them, I prefer ‘plain’ washi tape with patterns but I didn’t really see any at any of the stationery shops.

This shop had a few limited edition stationery including Zebra Mildliner Hello Kitty.

And some Pokemon themed pens and highlighters

I hadn’t seen scented Zebra Mildliners before.

The Tree Stationery Co.

• Address: 2/F, 10 Matheson St, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
• Open daily, 12 – 7:30pm
• https://thetreestationery.com/

Another nondescript store you can easily miss the entrance to from the street, all of the signage is definitely needed!

I liked this planner by PaperJoy but the prices were expensive.

There were some open samples you could flick through but the owner was hovering and chatting / watching me so it was too obvious for me to take lots of photos like I normally would. I did manage to find a picture online that someone else had taken of the inside. It reminds me of the roterunner purpose planner.

The paper is very thin and yellowish though. A good layout that you could easily draw up in your bullet journal.

Related post: 7 Bullet Journal Weekly Planner Spreads you probably haven’t thought of

Image Credit: PaperHood Hong Kong

These memo cubes were cute, I hadn’t see ones in black paper before.

Log On

This shops has a few locations around Hong Kong. Similar to Stationery Lo, it has an assortment of things – moreso gift shop / random things – it reminded me of Flying Tiger Copenhagen and Typo.

I visited the store in Causeway.

• Address: Times Square, B1/F, Hong Kong (floor 0)
• Open daily 10:30am – 10pm

This shop had a good range of popular pen brands including Zebra clickart, Pilot pop lol, Pilot Frixion erasable and Zerbra Sarasa.

And plenty of Zebra Mildliners to choose from, including the brush pens and the dual color highlighters.

Some cute pastel sticky notes in a variety of sizes:

I had never heard of these calme pentel pens before, they wrote very smoothly.

Muji

No Asian stationery shopping list would be complete without adding Muji!

Their unassuming pens are worth the hype. At the Muji store in the MOKO shopping centre of Mong Kok, I restocked the 0.3mm gel pen (one of the very few pens whose 0.3mm tip I actually like), as well as highlighters.

There’s plenty of MUJI stores all over Hong Kong.

Chan Sheung Kee Book Store

I accidentally stumbled across this shop while checking out Goldfish street in Mong Kok. It had a very good selection of pens and highlighters and they were all reasonably priced. The shop was cash only, they did not accept card or the Oyster card.

• Address: Hong Kong, Mong Kok, Tung Choi St, 130號地下
• Open Monday 11am – 7:30pm, Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 8pm
• Closed Sunday

There’s another store in Wan Chai (near Causeway Bay).

This shop had the most affordable prices I had seen in Hong Kong. I purchased a Zebra highlighter for only $0.75 AUD (would typically cost $2.50 AUD).

Frixion erasable stamps converted to only $2.65 AUD. These are usually $2.80 – $3.75 AUD.

The Zebra Mildliners I’d purchased from Gift Idea were actually far cheaper at this shop too (unfortunately this was the last stationery shop I visited!).

I also picked up some small tab sticky notes (this size is good for marking pages in a bullet journal and all the different colors are great for color coding).

The Sakura Gelly Roll pens were in a few shops but this is the only one I remember selling them individually.

Chung Nam Book & Stationery Co. Ltd. (CN Square)

I thought this shop was going to rival some of the ones in Japan but sadly I was disappointed. It was more bland office suppliers, not cute stationery for planners.

• Open daily 10am – 10pm
• Address: 503 Nathan Rd, Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong

Unfortunately the range of planner inserts and calendars was extremely limited.

Decent pen selection:

This shop was the only one I found that had dot grid notebooks for bullet journaling.

Huge range of white out tapes.

Had never seen these highlighters before, if they’d come in bright colors instead of pastel I’d have bought them.

Related post: Best pastel highlighters for planning and bullet journaling

Prices in the CN Square store were some of the most expensive of all of the stationery shops I visited.

Other shops

Normally department stores or discount stores offer a small stationery section but I didn’t really see any in Hong Kong.

Don Donki is a discount variety store you can find in Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong. I didn’t manage to find any stationery in the Hong Kong stores, but they’re a bit of a rabbit warren so I may have missed it. In Japan I found a small stationery section including cheap Zebra Mildliners, but they were stored vertically so I questioned if the ink was drying out (pens and highlighters should be stored horizontally for even ink distribution). Still worth seeing if you can find any stationery if you’ll be visiting Don Donki anyway.

There’s a Moleskine shop in Hong Kong but I stopped bothering to visit these a long time ago. Moleskine paper is horrendous – very very thin.

Journalise is a store in Causeway but it has very short opening hours (only 1pm – 7pm most days) and from the photos online it looks tiny and stocked brands you can find elsewhere so I didn’t end up visiting.

Artland is another option, but it looked more like art supplies rather than stationery.

Sometimes bookstores also sell stationery (that was certainly the case in Sweden). I had the eslite bookstore on my list but unfortunately ran out of time to visit it. There’s a large store in Causeway Bay that’s open daily from 10am to 10pm.

At first I thought the shops staying open until 10pm was a good thing, but they don’t open until 10am so it really limits what you can get done of a morning.

There are a few tiny stationery shops like this. They stocked similar items to other stores so I wouldn’t seek them out but if you happened to be walking past one it could be worth popping in.

Do I recommend Hong Kong for stationery shopping?

Yes and no. There were only a few stores and their product ranges weren’t amazing.

Japan and Singapore have loads more stores with far more variety of stationery (stamps, stencils, notebooks – basically just more of everything). Japan in particular, has far more unique items and larger stores dedicated only to stationery.

I really only saw pens and highlighters in Hong Kong, with very few stencils and stamps to be found. Some of the stores on this list had small washi tape collections but none that had any standout washi tapes. It was also hard to find dot grid notebooks.

The brands and stationery sold in each store was similar.

Overall the stationery shopping in Hong Kong was disappointing but the prices of well known brands such as the Zebra Mildliners and Pilot products were very reasonable – the cheapest prices I’ve seen compared to online and in other countries.

Stationery I bought in Hong Kong

See this post for the stationery I bought in Hong Kong.

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