Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 94.00

Large Hobonichi 5-Year Techo Leather Cover (Natural)

A5 Size (fits Large 5-Year Techo)

*The 5-Year techo does not fit in covers meant for standard one-year techo books. 
Book not included. Large Hobonichi 5-Year Planner sold separately here.

Specially made as the cover of the Hobonichi 5-Year Techo, Natural is made of tanned cow leather that changes color over time as the leather ages.

The covers were created to protect the book you’ll carry with you for 5 years. It will conform nicely to your hands over time, and you’ll enjoy its classic look for years to come.

The front of the cover is cleanly imprinted with the name Hobonichi 5-Year Techo.



The bottom left interior of all the covers are also imprinted with the Hobonichi logo to enhance the feel of the leather and keep the design nice and simple.



Inside the cover on the right-hand side is a pen hook that can store a pen by its clip. The pen hook has a diameter of 8mm and will not fit pens with extra-wide clips.



The inside of the leather cover spine has undergone a leathercraft process called “skiving” to provide a perfect fit.



Because the cover uses a firm leather, the front cover may rise from the book in the beginning due to a tight fit. Over continued use, the cover will break in to lay flat with the book. The leather’s character and color deepens over time for a transformation that’s a joy to watch. We recommend waterproof spray and other leather care goods for users who would like to protect their covers and keep the leather clean.

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 94.00

Large Hobonichi 5-Year Techo Leather Cover (Red)

A5 Size (fits Large 5-Year Techo)

*The 5-Year techo does not fit in covers meant for standard one-year techo books. 
Book not included. Large Hobonichi 5-Year Planner sold separately here.

The gorgeous and timeless Red cover is specially designed to comfortably fit the Hobonichi 5-Year Techo.

The covers were created to protect the book you’ll carry with you for 5 years. It will conform nicely to your hands over time, and you’ll enjoy its classic look for years to come.

The front of the cover is foil-pressed with the name Hobonichi 5-Year Techo in silver.



The bottom left interior of all the covers are also imprinted with the Hobonichi logo to enhance the feel of the leather and keep the design nice and simple.



Inside the cover on the right-hand side is a pen hook that can store a pen by its clip. The pen hook has a diameter of 8mm and will not fit pens with extra-wide clips.



The inside of the leather cover spine has undergone a leathercraft process called “skiving” to provide a perfect fit.



Because the cover uses a firm leather, the front cover may rise from the book in the beginning due to a tight fit. Over continued use, the cover will break in to lay flat with the book. The leather’s character and color deepens over time for a transformation that’s a joy to watch. We recommend waterproof spray and other leather care goods for users who would like to protect their covers and keep the leather clean.

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 119.00

minä perhonen

ohayo (Gray) [Large 5-Year Techo]

A5 Size (fits Large 5-Year Techo)

*The 5-Year techo does not fit in covers meant for standard one-year techo books. 
Book not included. Large Hobonichi 5-Year Planner sold separately here.

minä perhonen creates timeless, all-original garment textiles that are specially dyed, embroidered, and woven to recreate hand-drawn designs.

We created this Large Hobonichi 5-Year Techo cover in the hope you will spend your five years with this minä perhonen textile growing more attached to it every time you touch it.

The ohayo textile features small flowers embroidered intermittently across the background. The fluffy embroidery of the flowers seem to call out to you and wish you a good morning (“Ohayo” in Japanese), giving this textile an energizing and innocent look. The cover material is cotton linen with a rough, bumpy texture, and the fluffy flowers are pleasant to the touch.



The cover interior is a natural leather to enjoy it maturing, and there is a tag on the bottom-right.



The pen hook on the right-hand side of the cover interior is designed to hold a pen by its clip.



Each cover contains a unique arrangement of the pattern. We hope you enjoy your one-of-a-kind cover.

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 119.00

minä perhonen

ohayo (Gray) [Large 5-Year Techo]

A5 Size (fits Large 5-Year Techo)

*The 5-Year techo does not fit in covers meant for standard one-year techo books. 
Book not included. Large Hobonichi 5-Year Planner sold separately here.

minä perhonen creates timeless, all-original garment textiles that are specially dyed, embroidered, and woven to recreate hand-drawn designs.

We created this Large Hobonichi 5-Year Techo cover in the hope you will spend your five years with this minä perhonen textile growing more attached to it every time you touch it.

The ohayo textile features small flowers embroidered intermittently across the background. The fluffy embroidery of the flowers seem to call out to you and wish you a good morning (“Ohayo” in Japanese), giving this textile an energizing and innocent look. The cover material is cotton linen with a rough, bumpy texture, and the fluffy flowers are pleasant to the touch.



The cover interior is a natural leather to enjoy it maturing, and there is a tag on the bottom-right.



The pen hook on the right-hand side of the cover interior is designed to hold a pen by its clip.



Each cover contains a unique arrangement of the pattern. We hope you enjoy your one-of-a-kind cover.







The Hobonichi 5-Year Techo will be delivered in a turquoise blue paper box. The box will contain a user manual and a test sheet of paper for you to get a feel for the paper and test pen or ink compatibility.

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 100.00

Large Hobonichi 5-Year Techo Cover (Search & Collect)

A5 Size (fits Large 5-Year Techo)

*The 5-Year techo does not fit in covers meant for standard one-year techo books. 
Large Hobonichi 5-Year Planner sold separately here.

We’ve made a cover that’s perfect for the 5-Year Techo, where you can augment all the little things that happen in your daily life for five years.

The herringbone material is made with wool tweed. The complex blue-gray color scheme gives the cover a high-end and eloquent feel.　

The brass button shining in the center of this cover is by button and jewelry specialty shop CO-, which handles everything from antiques to modern items. They’ve specially created these buttons for the Hobonichi Techo cover by reprinting antique buttons originally made in England.

Etched into the button is an old symbol of good luck, the honey bee, and a dainty flower.



The button starts out bright and shiny, and gradually darkens and dulls over time for that classic brass look you can enjoy while your cover matures alongside you.



There are two button snaps so the cover can accommodate your techo’s growing thickness if you paste in items like photographs and ticket stubs.





Search & Collect was initially made as A6 Original and A5 Cousin covers in the 2020 lineup. We soon realized that the concept of the brass button maturing alongside you perfectly matched the that of the 5-Year Techo, so we decided to renew it as a cover specially for the 5-Year Techo.

The features on the interior are made as simple as possible. The pen holder is designed to store the pen body. This cover doesn’t come with a bookmark, so please use the bookmark on the 5-Year Techo itself, or a bookmark of your choice.



Just as a honey bee seeks and collects nectar, so you should seek out all of life’s joys and gather them little by little, all in your 5-Year Techo.

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 8.00

This is a special bookmark that you simply affix to the interior of any classic-style Hobonichi Cover with outer pen holders. The Page Keeper automatically flips along with your page-turning and stays on the page you last opened using a rubber band.

The Page Keeper works for the A5 Cousin. When using it for the Cousin, you place the Page Keeper in the bottom right corner pocket of the interior and place the rubber band in the page you’d like to bookmark.

The Page Keeper is ideal not only for keeping your place in your book, but also securing your book shut while it’s in your bag.

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 159.00

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anemone (Beige)

Book (Cousin English Edition / English / January Start)

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 60.00

Hobonichi Techo Cousin Book (January Start)

A5 Size / Monday-Start Week / Japanese

The Hobonichi Techo Cousin is an A5 sized planner with one page per day.

Not only is it useful for writing down your plans for the day, jotting down memos, doodling, pasting event tickets or photos, the spacious Cousin is easy to use as a techo to write down everything work-related, as a family notebook, tracking the growth of children and pasting in pictures to create a family album or sharing pages among family members. It’s also frequently used as a planner that is always kept on a desktop or table rather than carrying around.

The book contains many useful calendars and schedule-tracking tools, such as the yearly calendar, monthly calendar, and yearly index page. The Cousin also has an exclusive section: the popular weekly pages track a week in each two-page spread for easy planning and contain a handy time schedule.

The back of the book includes useful and informational pages, such as an address book and a page for drawing out a custom graph, as well as pages titled “My Favorite Things,” “How to Better Enjoy Conversation,” and “Enjoy Learning at the Hobonichi School.”

The Hobonichi Techo includes quotes specially chosen from its parent site, the Japanese web magazine Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun. Each daily page has a quote in Japanese.

After years of testing, the graph paper has been set to 3.7 mm for optimal writing comfort. The graph paper design allows users to write from any starting point on the page, and the lines have been printed in light colors so users can either customize it to their own layout or ignore it completely.

The Cousin is only available with a Monday-start week for the monthly calendar.

(See the Exploring Each Type page for more details.)



The Hobonichi Techo Original Book has special stitch-binding that allows the book to lay completely flat without having to hold it down.



From the 2023 edition, we changed the packaging from plastic to paper. You can take a peek at the techo book from the window.

Book (Cousin / Japanese / January Start)

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 60.00

Hobonichi Techo Cousin Book English Edition (January Start)

A5 Size / English / Monday-Start Week

The A5 size daily “Hobonichi Techo Cousin” is now available in English!

This English edition Cousin techo was created in response to requests from our growing international customer base.

The book layout is the same as the Japanese edition, as it also contains a page per day, a yearly calendar, monthly calendar, yearly index, and the handy weekly diary where you can view a week at a glance to track your upcoming schedule. In anticipation of the English edition being used in various countries around the world, the calendars do not list holidays.



The page design features 3.7mm graph paper, which is sized to accommodate writing in plans or entries, or drawing charts or pictures. Similar to the Japanese edition, the English edition Cousin has each month printed in a different color.



Each daily page spread includes one quote at the bottom of the page that has been pulled from the Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun website and translated into English.



The back of the book includes bonus pages, including “Addresses,” “Graph Paper,” “My Favorite Things,” “How to Better Enjoy Conversation,” “Words to Remember,” and “365 Days: Check Off Sheet.”

The English edition Cousin has special stitch-binding that allows the book to lay completely flat without having to hold it down.



Starting with the 2023 edition, we changed the packaging from plastic to paper. You can take a peek at the techo book from the window.

Book (Cousin English Edition / English / January Start)

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 65.00

Hobonichi Techo Cousin Avec Books (January Start)

A5 Size / 6-Month x 2 Book Set / Monday-Start Week

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.



The Avec version splits the Japanese A5 Hobonichi Techo Cousin, design and all, into a 2-book set at six months each with only slight variances in calendar spans and the number of extra pages in the back. This allows you to fill the pages to your heart’s content with scheduling, diaries, little notes, tickets, photographs, doodles, and anything that strikes your fancy.

The Hobonichi Techo Cousin Avec Books has special stitch-binding that allows the book to lay completely flat without having to hold it down.



From the 2023 edition, we changed the packaging from plastic to paper. You can take a peek at the techo book from the window.

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 60.00

Hobonichi Techo Simplified Chinese Book (January Start)

[A5 Size / Monday-Start Week]

Simplified Chinese version daily planner with daily pages spanning from January to December 2022. A5 size. Monday start. Lined with 3.7mm squares. Uses thin, light Tomoe River paper resistant to bleeding and designed for planners.

Contains yearly calendar, yearly index, monthly calendar, and Cousin-exclusive weekly pages to track a week in each 2-page spread.

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 81.00

Large Hobonichi 5-Year Techo A5 Size (2023-2027)

A5 Size / Japanese / 2023-2027 / Five Years in One Book

*The 5-Year techo does not fit in covers meant for standard one-year techo books.

This A5-size book has pages dated across a 5-year span. The textured cover is a calming shade of brown with the years foil-pressed in gold, and the book contains a dark brown bookmark for a complete look that works well without adding an additional cover.

Each page contains the same, easy-to-use 3.7 mm graph paper as the A6 Hobonichi Techo Original and A5 Hobonichi Techo Cousin, making it perfect for writing or drawing. The paper is a subtle cream color that’s easy on the eyes, and the printing is charcoal gray to allow handwriting to stand out from the page.

On each spread, the left page has the date and day of the week for all 5 years, with days of the week written in Japanese.

Because it's the “Large” Hobonichi 5-Year Techo, you’ll be able to write about your everyday life to your hearts content. There’s plenty of space to record your five years as freely as you like — you can write using a thick pen or add drawings. (Holidays are not listed in the book.)



This larger version works great as a shared diary among family members or a team notebook shared among several people at work.

The right page is a blank page for anything you’d like — continuing entries you couldn’t fit on the left, jotting notes you’d like to leave for the future, pasting items, and more. The Japanese daily quotes on the bottom of the page are excerpts from Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun articles from the past years. We renewed the daily quotes five years after its first release.



The book has the same thread-stitch binding as a dictionary, allowing it to lay flat open for comfortable writing. The Tomoe River paper provides an especially smooth writing experience, with thin, light paper that allows the book to have 752 pages while staying compact.



The start of the book contains a yearly calendar across the 5-year span. The back of the book contains useful pages such as “A Year Per Page” memo pages, “Gifts” for tracking gifts given and received, “Addresses” to list important contact information, “My Lists” for making a list of any theme of your choice, “My Favorite Things” to write down your favorite things by answering questions, and “Personal Notes” to record information about yourself. (These pages are in Japanese.)









The Hobonichi 5-Year Techo will be delivered in a turquoise blue paper box. The box will contain a user manual and a test sheet of paper for you to get a feel for the paper and test pen or ink compatibility.

Book (Large 5-Year Techo / Japanese / January Start)

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 41.00

Hobonichi Techo Day-Free 2023 A5 Size

A5 Size / January Start

The Day-Free Original Size is an A5 size 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.

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



The monthly calendar is the same calendar you’ll find in the standard Original book, designed with graph paper to make it easy to use. The 2023 edition will contain entries for December 2022 through March 2024.



The blank graph paper notebook contains a total of 171 pages and is comprised of 3.7 mm squares. Each page is numbered.

You can fill in as much as you want at a time without feeling constricted to dates. Keep a journal, draw a picture or graph, paste in ticket stubs, scribble on the pages, and fill the pages with capricious whims or meticulous plans — it’s all up to you.



The Day-Free blank notebook section includes the Hobonichi Techo’s characteristic daily quotes in Japanese.

The bottom right corner of each spread features a flipbook comic titled “One Pencil,” illustrated by 100%ORANGE.



The Hobonichi Techo Day-Free has special stitch-binding that allows the book to lay completely flat without having to hold it down.



Starting with the 2023 edition, we changed the packaging from plastic to paper. You can take a peek at the techo book from the window.

You can also try out covers that are designed to give the Day-Free a snug fit: BS Lite (Black) and BS Lite (Blue).

Book (Day-Free / Japanese / Monthly)

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 93.00

Colors

Black x Clear Blue

A5 Size (fits Cousin)

Book (Cousin English Edition / English / January Start)

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 93.00

Colors

Cloudy Moon

A5 Size (fits Cousin)

Book (Cousin English Edition / English / January Start)

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 93.00

Colors

Dreamy Soda

A5 Size (fits Cousin)

Book (Cousin English Edition / English / January Start)

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 96.00

Hiroko Kubota

Tokyo Metronome

A5 Size (fits Cousin)

Book (Cousin English Edition / English / January Start)

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 93.00

Colors

Night Flamingo

A5 Size (fits Cousin)

Book (Cousin English Edition / English / January Start)

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 109.00

Ichiro Yamaguchi

Hanataba No. 1

A5 Size (fits Cousin)

Book (Cousin English Edition / English / January Start)

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 96.00

Gurunpa’s Kindergarten

A5 Size (fits Cousin)

Book (Cousin English Edition / English / January Start)

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 109.00

Eri Shimatsuka Hedelmäpuu

A5 Size (fits Cousin)

Book (Cousin English Edition / English / January Start)

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 109.00

Izumi Shiokawa

Polar Bear - Relax

A5 Size (fits Cousin)

Book (Cousin English Edition / English / January Start)

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 142.00

Marine Stripes

A5 Size (fits Cousin)

Book (Cousin English Edition / English / January Start)

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 101.00

Classic Fabrics Wildflowers

A5 Size (fits Cousin)

Book (Cousin English Edition / English / January Start)

Vendor: Hobonichi
Type: Hobonichi 2023
Price: 136.00

Liberty Fabrics

Betsy (Neon Blue)

Book (Cousin English Edition / English / January Start)