"The hobby of bike rises to leather craft" The appeal of "manufacturing experience" spoken by workers at hands-work shops

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Tokyu Hands is planning a variety of workshops every month, including making silver accessories from flower arrangement, eraser ginkgo classroom and so on. In the Shibuya branch, workshops are held about 40 to 50 times a month, about 70 times each month, mainly on the 6 A floor.

The sales staff of 6 A floor, Mr. Hideo Nagai, is responsible for the planning and operation of the workshop. It is one of the "G4" members I introduced last time.

| Shibuya Store Specialist Group "G4"

▲ Mr. Nagai's self-made rider's best to wear
"G4" stands for "Great 4". It is an original specialist group of Shibuya branch composed of 4 veteran staff of Tokyu Hands who retired in retirement age. Mr. Nagai familiarly nicknamed "Baiker Nagai", one of the G4 members, is about forty years to make motorcycle a hobby as its name suggests. Tied to the charm of the leather craft which is a "must - have item of biker" with its high hobby, now it is skillful enough to make his own riders' best from the paper pattern. When a friend's pet has bad feet, he sometimes produced a dog shoe protecting his feet from a paper pattern and gave it.

| Popular workshops full in a few minutes

「クラフト&ワークショップ」をテーマとした6Aフロアには、3か所のワークショップ専用スペースが設置。長井さんは、普段店頭で接客をしつつ、来客の少ない時間帯を見計らってバックオフィスに戻りワークショップの企画を進めています。「常に次のワークショップについて考えている」という長井さんは、フロアでの接客の中から企画のヒントを得ることも。
▲ From the voice of the customer "Kids' mobile phone case lecture" which is pretty cell-phone type.
The workshop to be held in the Shibuya branch has been planned until about three months ahead, and it is said that there are already already held at the end of the year as it is early. It seems that now workshops at hands are "a little status" among creators, "It is easier to find instructors than before", but it will be held tens of times a month There are not many workshops where Hands employees taught themselves. Of course Nagai is also a leather craft instructor, mixed with professional creators.

Leather craft is a major lecture that occupies about one-third or more of all workshops held in Shibuya branch. Among the participants who mainly focus on women in their 30s and 50s, there are regulars who visit from Omiya. It is said that popularity is the first since it says "It will be full in just a few minutes" when you openly recruit participants for workshops on the net.

| The chance was gifts from wife

▲ The starter kit that Ms. Nagai bought for the first time is still on sale at the shop front.
"Leather hand-sewing tool set of 18" premium "" 13,000 yen (tax excluded)
Originally Mr. Nagai got into leather craft, it seems that leather long wallet gifts gifts for her birthday from the wife nine years ago was triggered. It also says that he also began to think that he wanted to make his own ideal leather goods, which is compatible with the bike, durable, long lasting, tasteful enough to taste the attractiveness of leather. Ms. Nagai says that he belonged to the Study Group for Children's Culture in his school days. The "Kraft Spirit" cultivated through the production of cut-and-drawn pictures, for example, comes with a fire, the next is for the wife "Leathercraft" starter kit. After that, I've mastered my skills by self taught.

| Attraction of leather craft that you want to tell while enjoying

We also made wooden equipment "Racing Pony" sandwiching leather.

Most people think that "I'd like to start a leather craft," many of the visitors to the floor can not begin without special tools such as dedicated sewing machines and needles. However, they say that most things can be replaced with things in their homes. Mr. Nagai says that "I want to lower the hurdle of leather craft with advice from the customer's perspective that made use of his experience. "Even though I am interested in it, it is quite necessary to have courage to visit the wholesale street of Asakusabashi at the wholesale street, but if I think that" If it's a hands, I'm going to be casually dropped. "I aim for such a familiar floor I want to go. "
▲ Assortment of Leather Craft Supplies boasting Koichi Shibuya
Recently, Mr. Nagai speaks with a smile that the participants of the workshop came to show the work made by customers who had previously been visited by the customer and sometimes visited "I want to make something like this". Actually it is a floor business saying that it has been around for 30 years, it seems like I am enjoying it with such a customer from the bottom of my heart.

Mr. Baiker Nagai, a "workshop wrestler" that tells her hot feelings about her hobby while enjoying herself. On the floor where he is, many craft associates gather today.

◎ details of the workshop of Tokyu Hands Shibuya storeThis direction.

Tokyu Hands Shibuya
〇 Address: 12-18 Udagawa-cho, Shibuya-ku
〇 Phone: 03-5489-5111
〇 Sales: 10:00 to 21:00
〇 Official:Http://shibuya.tokyu-hands.co.jp/

Emi Tsuchiya (sunflower Daikanyama)

NPO corporation "Himawari Daikanyama" to be based in Daikanyama. Belong to mom's writer will deliver the Shibuya information.