We received a nice present from a customer🧺 They are baskets and coasters for small items, made from the waste ‘rings’ that are inevitably produced during the sock-making process.
The customer had attended our Christmas workshop before and had just visited us the other day and asked to share the waste materials with her friends so she could make them again ✨
The staff are still learning how to make the baskets, so we can’t explain how they are made, but once you get used to it, it takes about an hour, and they use about 180 rings to make it! We are very impressed with the beautiful workmanship!
We hope to hold some fun workshops and events in our shop again 🌾
On 13 February, our president appeared in a phone-in interview on tbc radio in the Tohoku region.
Our president appeared in a telephone interview on the ‘Weekly SDGs Recommendations’ corner of the ‘GoGo Hamimikoi Radio Na Mood’ program on 13 February.
The SDGs have 17 goals, and I spoke about Goal 12 “Responsibility to Create, Responsibility to Use”.
Suzuki Socks started by manufacturing children’s socks and later entered the sports socks market.
In the past, the company also manufactured stockings for the Japanese national football team and still produces many football stockings for the J-League through sports manufacturers.
In 2004, the company combined its experience as a farmer with its knowledge of sock production and embarked on the development of ‘rice bran socks’.
Rice bran fiber is made by kneading rice bran components into rayon fiber, which has properties such as moisture retention, antioxidant properties, and deodorant functions.
The development process was driven by our president’s passion for the reuse of rice bran, and after numerous trials and errors, the first socks using rice bran fiber were born.
Today, approximately 200,000 pairs are produced annually, using approximately 900 kg of rice bran annually.
In the future, the company aims further to expand the potential of this unique rice bran fiber and communicate its appeal both domestically and internationally.
Thank you to everyone at tbc radio for listening to the radio.
Yesterday, members of the Nara Chamber of Commerce and Industry Women’s Association visited Suzuki Socks. They had a tour of the factory and watched a video about the president’s passion for rice bran and the story of its development ✨
While holding the products in their hands at the shop, they said, “I want to recommend these products to my acquaintances! We also had a lot of happy comments such as “I want to recommend it to my friends”.
We hope you will feel free to come and visit us again while you are at work or having lunch.
The Cofufun Shop next to Cofufun, Tenri, will close at the end of February.
As a result, Suzuki Socks products will no longer be sold at the Kofun Shop as of 12 February. *The product range and other products are limited to stock. We hope you can visit the Cofufun Shop.
Thank you very much to everyone at the Cofufun Shop and everyone who has come to know and patronize Suzuki socks and Nara products through the Cofufun Shop. 🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♂️♥️
From March onwards, Suzuki Socks products will continue to be available in our shops and online shop below.
Suzuki Socks Store 636-0216, Nara, Japan 1-1 Koyanagi, Miyake-cho, Isogi-gun, Nara Opening hours ▷ 10:00-12:00, 13:00-17:00 Closed: ▷Sundays, public holidays, 2nd Saturday
Suzuki Socks Main Shop https://www.suzuki-socks.co.jp/shop/
Every year in Nara, the Wakakusa Yaki, a traditional event that heralds the early spring in the ancient capital of Nara, is held. This year, it will be held this Saturday, 27 January: ⛰️ The Shinto and Buddhist shrines of Kasuga-Taisha, Kofuku-ji, and Todai-ji will unite to pray for the repose and comfort of the souls of their ancestors, as well as the prevention of fire throughout Nara and peace for the people of the world.
On the day of the festival, various events will be held, including a torchlight procession and the Nogami Shrine Festival, as well as a deer cracker-tossing competition. Come and see Nara’s winter traditions 🦌.
I want to have lunch while visiting Suzuki Socks ♡.
For those who want to… 5 minutes by car or 20 minutes on foot from Suzuki Socks. miimo shokudo🍴.
Bread, pizza, sweets, burgers, soup, sandwiches, rice bowls… Café menu and lunch boxes that change depending on the day… You can enjoy various food from different restaurants on different days of the week in this takeaway type ✨ Please check @miimo_miyake before visiting as it may be closed on certain days🥤🍱
POP UP at Shibuya Hikarie from 11 Jan. Nara no Tobira”, a limited-only time antenna store that travels around all prefectures with Nara’s goods.
At the Suzuki socks corner, there have been repeating purchases of the socks that Onfille bought yesterday, saying “I bought these socks yesterday and they were so good that I didn’t even need slippers on the flooring, so I came back to buy more ♡” and the heel care socks have also been trendy 😌
The project is a grand project to visit all prefectures in Nara with Nara’s good products, no matter how many years it may take! This is a grand project! Thank you Suzuki Socks for participating in this project ✨
Nara no Tobira” at Shibuya Hikarie The “Nara no Tobira” exhibition at Shibuya Hikarie will be open until this Sunday only 🦌
Nara no Tobira” is back with its second edition, this time in Tokyo! The Tokyo edition will open at aiiima on the 8th floor of Shibuya Hikarie!
We also participated in the first Osaka edition last year. We are looking forward to welcoming you to the Tokyo edition of this event, Please visit “Nara no Tobira”, an antenna store for limited time that travels around all prefectures with Nara’s goods!
Nara no Tobira aiiima1.2, Shibuya Hikarie 8F, 2-21-1 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-8510 Opening hours: 11:00 – 20:00 Period: 11 Jan (Fri) – 21 Jan (Sun) https://naranotobira.com/