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Hobonichi Techo - A6  Planner Cover - Tragen (Black)

We created a cover to carry stationery and other useful items along with your techo. Its name is “tragen,” which means “to carry” in German. 

Although the unique pocket holds plenty, the appearance of the cover remains simple and sleek. The design would look great for all users. 

Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Alettone (Olive)
This slim PVC cover has a clear pocket as its main feature. The cover name “Alettone” refers to the part of an aircraft’s wings called an aileron, due to the way the techo cover’s lid can similarly fold shut with a snap. The soft PVC material makes it light and comfortable to carry, while the subdued color scheme gives it a sense of elegance. It closes with a snap button and has a design that fits any user in any setting. Foil-pressed in gold is the thought-provoking message, “Writing by hand is like sending your mind on a journey.”
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Colours Series - Black X Clear Blue

The Colors series is a regular part of our cover lineup, available in a variety of solid colors and always featuring a basic style with pen holders to keep your cover shut. We’ve implemented many improvements over the years in response to customer input, making the Colors series one of the most user-friendly options in the lineup.

Black x Clear Blue is a popular and versatile black cover that returns this year with a clear blue interior that gives the cover a breezy, refreshing look.

Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Colours Series - Dreamy Soda

The Colours series is a regular part of our cover lineup, available in a variety of solid colours and always featuring a basic style with pen holders to keep your cover shut. We’ve implemented many improvements over the years in response to customer input, making the Colours series one of the most user-friendly options in the lineup.

High-quality polyester construction gives this cover its sturdy feel and subtle shine — it’s durable enough to last a long time but light enough to carry with you everywhere.

Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Colours: Caramel Pudding
The Colors series is a regular part of our cover lineup, available in a variety of solid colors and always featuring a basic style with pen holders to keep your cover shut. We’ve implemented many improvements over the years in response to customer input, making the Colors series one of the most user-friendly options in the lineup.

As the name suggests, Caramel Pudding is just like a pudding, with a combination of slightly dull yellow and dark brown. As the delightful contrast between the sweet and bitter of the pudding, we created this cover to be both bright and serene.
 
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Colours: Charcoal Fairy
The Colors series is a regular part of our cover lineup, available in a variety of solid colors and always featuring a basic style with pen holders to keep your cover shut. We’ve implemented many improvements over the years in response to customer input, making the Colors series one of the most user-friendly options in the lineup.

Charcoal Fairy is a light pink Colors techo that resembles a pretty fairy dancing softly. The charcoal color creates a slightly darker mood on the inside, giving a cool impression in contrast to the sweetness on the outside.
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Colours: Olive Grove
The Colors series is a regular part of our cover lineup, available in a variety of solid colors and always featuring a basic style with pen holders to keep your cover shut. We’ve implemented many improvements over the years in response to customer input, making the Colors series one of the most user-friendly options in the lineup.

Olive Grove is a Colors techo with a light green reminiscent of young olive leaves. The light beige color inside gives it a fresh impression, making it a design that brings a sense of peacefulness, as when you are relaxing in a breezy grove.
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Colours: Sunny Beach
The Colors series is a regular part of our cover lineup, available in a variety of solid colors and always featuring a basic style with pen holders to keep your cover shut. We’ve implemented many improvements over the years in response to customer input, making the Colors series one of the most user-friendly options in the lineup.

The pouring bright sunlight, the hot sandy beach, and the endlessly clear beautiful ocean; Sunny Beach is a poppy combination that brings such a vivid sight to mind. This energetic design suits those who are willing to spend their days vigorously.
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Colours: Water Candle
The Colors series is a regular part of our cover lineup, available in a variety of solid colors and always featuring a basic style with pen holders to keep your cover shut. We’ve implemented many improvements over the years in response to customer input, making the Colors series one of the most user-friendly options in the lineup.

The combination of freshwater clear blue and candlelight warm orange has created the Water Candle Colors cover. The contrast between the cool color on the cover and the bright, cheerful color on the inside gives a pleasant feel.
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Hiroko Kubota: The Tone of Illuminated Flowers
Two cats are walking their bikes on a spring evening. The scene is filled with cherry trees in full bloom and the petals fluttering everywhere. 

Illustrator Hiroko Kubota created this enigmatic scene, which combines the stillness of the night with the murmur of the wind scattering cherry blossoms. 

The cats, too, seem to be taken by this overwhelming sight. Oh, it appears that one of them even has their eyes closed.
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Hiroko Kubota: Twinkle-Shells
A train runs along a track high in the gray sky. Look closely, and you'll see that the stars shining in the sky are in the shape of various seashells. A giraffe stands quietly on the ground, looking up at the sky. You can really feel the quietness of the scene.

This fantastic view, which looks to each person to have a different season, time, and place, was created by illustrator Hiroko Kubota. She brushed up a previous work of art in order to extend the story to the back of the cover as well.
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Keiko Shibata: Bread Floating in the Wind
Keiko Shibata’s unique artwork has now become Hobonichi Techo covers. “Bread floating in the wind” is one of the works drawn in 2022 on the theme of “wind.”

Black, yellow, and red cats ride on the bread, flying through the air. The cats move forward with the wind blowing directly before them, making their legs and tails perky. Where are they traveling to?
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Keiko Shibata: Bus management by Mr. and Mrs. Inoue
We’ve turned this unique piece of art by Keiko Shibata into a Hobonichi Techo cover. “Bus management by Mr. and Mrs. Inoue” was originally drawn for Shibata’s personal art gallery held in 2017. 

This piece depicts an affectionate married couple riding in the driver’s and passenger’s seats of a bright red bus. We can only imagine where the bus is headed as it drives through an open field.
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Leather: Brilliant Yellow
This is a cover with “butterfly-stopper” pen holders made of classy, deep yellow leather. The Italy-made leather is soft to the touch, and the fine grain on the surface creates contrast and depth. 

We named it “Brilliant” Yellow, hoping the user’s year will be full of happiness and brightness like the overflowing light. 

The leather for this cover is “Dollarino,” a chrome-tanned leather produced by Monfrini Pellami. This long-established tannery, founded in Milan in 1898, has produced four generations of leather for fashion and accessory items. The leather is characterized by its touch, volume, and beautiful coloring unique to this traditional Italian tannery.
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Leather: Taut (Brown)
This leather design is specially designed to fit snugly around your Hobonichi Techo book while keeping it slim and comfortably portable. It does not contain butterfly stopper pen holders, and pockets are kept to a bare minimum. 

For the 2025 edition of Taut, we selected brown leather with a beautiful luster: the “Alba Lux” by “Yankee,” a tanner established in 1989 in Tuscany, Italy. The finest French belly is tanned with vegetable tannin, with vegetable oil and grease added to give the leather its unique softness. You can enjoy the full charm of deep Italian leather, carefully created with the power of nature.
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Leather: TS Basic - Black
We created this black leather cover with graphic designer Taku Satoh, who is in charge of the Hobonichi Techo’s design direction.

TS stands for the initials of Taku Satoh. Out of all the various Hobonichi Techo covers, this has been a staple in our lineup and has been a popular choice for over ten years.
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Liberty Fabrics: Michelle
This “butterfly-stopper” style cover is made from a beautiful textile from the venerable fabric brand Liberty Fabrics. 

Michelle is a flower pattern launched in 1933 designed by artist “DS,” whose works also include Liberty Fabrics’ signature patterns Betsy and Wiltshire. It is sprinkled with flowers of various colors and shapes, such as pale pink, orange, vermilion, and other red tones, pale navy, sky blue, and other blue tones.
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Lined Fabric: Herringbone (Ivory x Black)
Woven fabric in which many threads are combined vertically and horizontally to create a stunning pattern — the Lined Fabric series is designed to create different patterns through diverse weaving techniques. 

For the Original size cover, the ivory and black threads create a herringbone pattern. The thick, durable fabric, woven in a traditional Lithuanian weaving factory, has been given a stylish pattern used for coats and jackets. 
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Masamune Kusano x junaida: Himitsu Stranger
The song-art book Himitsu Stranger is based on the lyrics from 13 songs recorded by Masamune Kusano for the music album “Himitsu Studio” by his rock band Spitz. Artist junaida illustrated the lyrical stories for each of the songs. This techo cover is packed with all the charm of Himitsu Stranger as it features an all-over print of the illustrations on the front cover of the special book. 

The array of strange characters and items are all straight from the book and were drawn in response to Kusano’s suggestion to draw them in a deformed style. 
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - mina perhonen: hutte
minä perhonen creates timeless, all-original garment textiles that are specially dyed, embroidered, and woven to recreate hand-drawn designs. 

Huts that create a forest; in the “hütte” design, the houses we live in are lined up like trees in the forest.
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - mina perhonen: jellybeans + tambourine
minä perhonen creates timeless, all-original garment textiles that are specially dyed, embroidered, and woven to recreate hand-drawn designs. 

We created a techo cover using two textiles: “jellybeans,” which once appeared in the Hobonichi Techo lineup, and “tambourine,” which has been popular among many. The playful design features two shapes of “circles” that happily overlap: the fluffy, sweet-looking watercolor drops and embroidered dotted circles.
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - mina perhonen: pomppia (Light Blue)
minä perhonen creates timeless, all-original garment textiles that are specially dyed, embroidered, and woven to recreate hand-drawn designs. 

As a word meaning “bounce” in Finnish, “pomppia” features rabbit faces drawn in different touches, expressed as one continuous pattern. It is adorable, showing the connection between living creatures and events in the world.
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - MOTHER: Ness’ Bike
This cover design is based on Shigesato Itoi's 1994 Super Nintendo game, MOTHER 2 (EarthBound in North America). It features Ness riding on a bicycle, debossed on the leather surface of this A6 size cover. 

The deep brown, genuine leather is stamped firmly enough to feel it with your fingertips. The leather is tanned with tannin, a vegetable-derived ingredient. The more you use the cover, the deeper the color becomes, and the more character it develops. You can enjoy this transformation of the leather over time.
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Naoki Ishikawa: Denali in the Midnight Sun #1
This cover features a photograph of Denali, North America’s highest peak, as taken by Naoki Ishikawa. 

This photo, capturing the full extent of Mount Denali at 6190 meters above sea level, was taken from inside a Cessna heading towards base camp for the summit. The view of the mountain composed of deep blue and white looks like a watercolor painting at a glance. This photograph is processed with cyanotype, which is a photographic process that involves a chemical solution and exposure to UV light. The appeal in this design comes from the brush marks that let you see where the solution was applied. 
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - ONE PIECE Magazine: Straw Hat Luffy
In the smash-hit manga One Piece, Straw Hat Luffy goes on an adventure with his friends in search of “the One Piece,” a legendary treasure. ONE PIECE magazine dives into the charms of the hit manga series in order to help fans further enjoy the world of One Piece. We have a special collaboration with ONE PIECE magazine.
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Only is Not Lonely (Ivy Green)
This techo cover is designed to offer users a simplified cover for their book. The cover excludes standards from our usual covers, including the pockets and butterfly stoppers, and instead prioritizes being compact and portable. The cover material is made with faux leather for easy use. 

The front cover includes the short message “Only is not lonely.” This phrase was coined as a slogan in 1998 when Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun was founded. 
 
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - PAMM: Thanks Sea
This techo cover was created with PAMM, who focuses on the idea of “Wear my thought.” The brand features attractive pajama sets designed to be worn during the time when you are truly all to yourself: in your dreams. 

Thanks Sea is one of PAMM’s most popular pajama designs.
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Phoolon (Small Flowers)
We created a techo cover featuring “block printing,” a traditional Indian technique. The cover’s name is “phoolon,” meaning “flowers” in Hindi. 

The two fabrics applied to the front side are from “chahat,” a store that sells handcrafted materials from Nepal and India. Both patterns are created by Indian artisans by hand-pressing wooden blocks. The three-dimensional colors and blurring produced by the wooden blocks are unique to block printing and cannot be expressed by screen printing, which has become mainstream today. Please enjoy the individual differences of the misalignments and ink splashes as the character of each piece. You can cherish the warm texture of the handmade work and the endearing and refreshing blue color. 
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Single Color: Lago
We’ve designed a simple Zippers cover that can fit well into any scenario. 

The calm color scheme is also well-suited for both business and personal use. 

The cover material is a high quality Italian polyurethane faux leather that makes it lightweight and easy to carry around. The embossing on the entire surface gives the material a sophisticated look.
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - SPY x FAMILY: After Class Group 1
We created a techo cover inspired by the TV animation series “SPY x FAMILY,” in which a distinguished spy, a telepath, an assassin, and a future-predicting dog spend their days as a temporary family.

At first glance, it is a simple and classy techo cover. The navy trifold provides good protection for your important techo.
 
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - SPY x FAMILY: Forger Family Group 1
We created a techo cover inspired by the TV animation series “SPY x FAMILY,” in which a distinguished spy, a telepath, an assassin, and a future-predicting dog spend their days as a temporary family.

The Forger Family cover has a cool visual of Loid, Anya, and Yor printed on it. The black and white illustrations on a smoky green background inspired by the “SPY x FAMILY” TV animation series create a calm atmosphere, making it suitable for users of all ages. The “SPY x FAMILY” TV animation logo is three-dimensionally printed in gold foil.
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Taut Zipped (Cafe au Lait Plaid)
We created a smart Zippers cover that fits snugly over the techo. The gussets are minimized to make the techo as compact as possible. 

The fabric is made by “Bonotto,” a Northeast Italian brand that has established a solid position in the Italian fashion industry as a manufacturer that creates cutting-edge fashion every season. It has a plaid pattern with an imposing milky brown resembling café au lait.
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Unsodo: Bijutsukai (Ferry)
Bijutsukai and Shin Bijutsukai are craft design books published during the Meiji period (1868–1912). Both contain beautiful designs created by various Japanese painters and designers. This collection of multicolored woodblock print designs was published by Unsodo, a Kyoto-based art publishing company and the only publisher of hand-printed woodblock books in Japan.

We created a cover with a craft design from Bijutsukai, depicting a ferryboat.
 
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - yuge fabric farm: Fish Scale Crest
Kinran is a Japanese brocade made by cutting thin slices of paper covered in gold foil and using them as threads to weave together the design. We created a simple techo cover using this technique. 

The fabric comes from yuge fabric farm, a handicraft shop run by Enima Design. The company also runs Essential Store, a shop that stocks antiques, artwork, and clothing from within Japan and overseas. 
Hobonichi Techo - A6 Original Planner Cover - Yumi Kitagishi: Travel Journal
Illustrator Yumi Kitagishi’s artwork has made waves all over the world, and this year her work returns to our lineup for another techo cover. This 2025 edition cover features brand new artwork. 

The world in Kitagishi’s acrylic gouache paintings evoke lovely, warm feelings of gazing at an enchanting picture book.
Hobonichi Techo - Cover on Cover (A5)
Cover on Cover is an optional, extra covering that fits select Hobonichi Techo covers to protect them from wear and tear. (Not for use directly on book.) It also provides a place to store postcards, pictures, and other decorations to spruce up the look of your cover. Feel free to fill it with family pictures, travel post cards, and other things that cheer you up!
Hobonichi Techo - Cover on Cover (A6)
Cover on Cover is an optional, extra covering that fits select Hobonichi Techo covers to protect them from wear and tear. (Not for use directly on book.) It also provides a place to store postcards, pictures, and other decorations to spruce up the look of your cover. Feel free to fill it with family pictures, travel post cards, and other things that cheer you up!
Hobonichi Techo - English Original Book 2025 (A6) - January Start
This is the English edition of the A6 size Hobonichi Techo Original book with a page-per-day format. 

This original form of the Hobonichi Techo has been loved by many users since its introduction in 2002, and the 2025 edition marks the techo’s 24th year. Its daily pages offer plenty of space to fill despite the book’s compact A6 size. The graph paper offers an open layout for you to neatly lay out writings, clippings, and drawings. 
Hobonichi Techo - English Planner Book 2025 - A6

A6 Size / Daily / Jan start / Mon start

Select shop and brand Arts&Science owner Sonya Park directed the creation of this English-language Hobonichi Techo book, which has been refined and simplified to make it easy to use in all countries and languages. The refined layout, the color scheme of charcoal gray and red, and the bonus pages exclusive to the Planner are part of its charm.

The book has a matte cover subtly engraved with the Japanese characters for “techo” alongside the Arts&Science logo.

Hobonichi Techo - Japanese Day Free Book (A5) - 2025

The Day-Free A5 Size is a monthly techo that is split into two main parts: monthly calendars and a graph-paper notebook. The book fits nicely into covers designed for the standard Hobonichi Techo Cousin book. 

Because the book is half the size of the full-year Cousin, it’s also light and portable.

Hobonichi Techo - Japanese Day Free Book 2025 - A6
The Day-Free A6 Size is a monthly techo that is split into two main parts: monthly calendars and a graph-paper notebook. The book fits nicely into covers designed for the standard Hobonichi Techo Original book. 

Because the book is half the size of the full-year Original, it’s also light and portable.
Hobonichi Techo - Japanese Original (A6) Avec Books 2025
We first introduced the Avec in response to customers who struggled with bulging books after collecting a year’s worth of pasted material in the daily pages. The Avec splits the year into books of six months each. Book 1 (January–June) is a bright lime yellow and Book 2 (July–December) is a cool ice blue. 

Because it’s split into two books, it’s lightweight which makes it easy to carry around, and it also won’t get bulky even if you paste many things into your techo.
Hobonichi Techo - Memo Pad Set for Original (A6)
This set of 3 memo pads is designed to fit perfectly into the back pocket or inside of an A6 Hobonichi Techo Planner / Original cover. Pages are made with the same thin and strong Tomoe River paper from the planner book. The 3.7 mm plain graph paper allows ample writing space, with perforations on each sheet to make it easy to rip out for those important notes to pass on. It's also useful as a notebook around town. The page size is slightly smaller than that of the planner, which makes it easy to pull out a sheet and paste it onto one of your planner pages. The memo pads come in three fun colors.
Hobonichi Techo - One Piece Collection - A6 Cover Ace, Sabo & Luffy
The Hobonichi Techo is back with another collaboration with ONE PIECE magazine, which dives into the world of the hit manga series One Piece. This techo cover features a scene from the childhood of the main character Straw Hat Luffy, described in “Brothers’ Sake Cups” of the 60th volume of the comic series. 

Ace, Sabo, and Luffy are sworn brothers. The design incorporates their respective image colors: orange (Ace), blue (Sabo), and red (Luffy). 
 
Hobonichi Techo - One Piece Collection - A6 Cover Banquet Blue
The Hobonichi Techo is back with another collaboration with ONE PIECE magazine, which dives into the world of the hit manga series One Piece. The Banquet (Blue) cover features a banquet scene from Volume 66 in the manga, when the main character Luffy and his band of pirates finished their battle on Fish-Man Island and are celebrating with the rest of the island inhabitants. The cover has been designed as a casual trifold cover. 
Hobonichi Techo - Pencil Board - Ice Grey X Yellow
These pencil boards are specially fitted for the Hobonichi Techo A6 Original size, A5 Cousin size, and Weeks size. Keeping it underneath the page you’re writing on allows the reinforcement to provide an enjoyable writing experience. You can also choose the A6 or A5 size pencil board that fits your HON, Day-Free book, Planner, or 5-Year Techo. 

Since the Hobonichi Techo that has many pages uses thin and light Tomoe River paper, you may be concerned about leaving indentations on the opposite pages when writing with a lot of pressure. 
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Hobonichi Techo - Pencil Board - Naoki Ishikawa: Denali in the Midnight Sun #2
Out of the Hobonichi original accessories, the Hobonichi Pencil Board is one of the most popular items. Keeping it underneath the page you’re writing on allows the reinforcement to provide an enjoyable writing experience. They fit perfectly to the size of the techo book, and will prevent your pen from sliding on the page, and not leave indentations on the opposite page, making for a comfortable writing experience. 
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A5
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Hobonichi Techo - Pencil Board - SPY x FAMILY: Group 1
Out of the Hobonichi original accessories, the Hobonichi Pencil Board is one of the most popular items. Keeping it underneath the page you’re writing on allows the reinforcement to provide an enjoyable writing experience. They fit perfectly to the size of the techo book, and will prevent your pen from sliding on the page, and not leave indentations on the opposite page, making for a comfortable writing experience.
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A5
A6
Hobonichi Techo - Pencil Board - Unsodo
Out of the Hobonichi original accessories, the Hobonichi Pencil Board is one of the most popular items. Keeping it underneath the page you’re writing on allows the reinforcement to provide an enjoyable writing experience. They fit perfectly to the size of the techo book, and will prevent your pen from sliding on the page, and not leave indentations on the opposite page, making for a comfortable writing experience. 
Size
Weeks
A5
A6
Hobonichi Techo - Pencil Board - Yumi Kitagishi: Animal Condo
Out of the Hobonichi original accessories, the Hobonichi Pencil Board is one of the most popular items. Keeping it underneath the page you’re writing on allows the reinforcement to provide an enjoyable writing experience. They fit perfectly to the size of the techo book, and will prevent your pen from sliding on the page, and not leave indentations on the opposite page, making for a comfortable writing experience. 
Size
Weeks
A5
A6
Hobonichi Techo - Pencil Board A6 - Jin Kitamura (Love It)
Out of the Hobonichi original accessories, the Hobonichi Pencil Board is one of the most popular items. Keeping it underneath the page you’re writing on allows the reinforcement to provide an enjoyable writing experience. They fit perfectly to the size of the techo book, and will prevent your pen from sliding on the page, and not leave indentations on the opposite page, making for a comfortable writing experience.
Hobonichi Techo - Pencil Board A6 - Keiko Shibata: Upwind Alpacas
Out of the Hobonichi original accessories, the Hobonichi Pencil Board is one of the most popular items. Keeping it underneath the page you’re writing on allows the reinforcement to provide an enjoyable writing experience. They fit perfectly to the size of the techo book, and will prevent your pen from sliding on the page, and not leave indentations on the opposite page, making for a comfortable writing experience.
Hobonichi Techo - Plain Notebook (A6) - Keiko Shibata: Who is it?
After many years of customer requests for a plain notebook that feels just like the Hobonichi Techo, the Hobonichi Plain Notebook made an appearance from 2019. We added a cover design in collaboration with an artwork by picture book author and illustrator Keiko Shibata.

“Who is it?” depicts cats noticing the sound of a guest that has come to their house and staring at the front door from the room door and even from outside the window. Are the cats in a welcoming mood, or are they trying to see if they can let the guest inside?
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