What are the best Souvenir Shops in the world in 2025?
- Valerie Charoux
- 3 days ago
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Travel & Tourism News – Here are the Top 10 best Souvenir Shops in the world in 2025 with images, according to the Financial Times report published on August 24th, 2025:
Top 10 best Souvenir Shops in the world in 2025:
1 - The Fife Arms – Aberdeenshire, Scotland
The gift shop sells malt whiskies, decanters (from £550), tweed and tartan blankets, and carbon-fibre fishing rods with traditional thistle-topped cork stoppers at £1,550 - Birken Tree.
2 - A Vida Portuguesa - Lisbon and Porto, Portugal
Here you’ll find the full gamut of traditional crafts, subtle and timeless design objects, comestibles, clothing, textiles and posters – across several stores in different locations in Lisbon and Porto. It doesn’t look like a souvenir shop, proof that tourism needn’t be tawdry. It makes tourists feel like they are shopping like locals, and locals feel like they are being catered to as well.
3 – GiftShop – Paris, France
GiftShop in Paris [re-opening in the historic area of Palais Royal in September] is the best shop to load up on souvenirs from Paris’s most iconic institutions: wine glasses from Tarantula (£19), red-rimmed plates from Bistrot Paul Bert (£34) and handcrafted pocket knives from Le Liadou – great for lovers of typography and all things French.
4 – Charvet – Paris, France
Located just beyond the stone arches at Place Vendôme, the original Parisian shirtmaker Charvet (est 1838) has served an impressive clientèle over the years, from Marcel Proust to Charles Baudelaire and Coco Chanel. It also boasts a strong accessories offering – think knitted ties, delicious suede slippers and silk and cashmere socks.
5 - Lis Furlanis - Gonars, Italy
Lis Furlanis in the Friuli region of Italy has been creating one-of-a-kind espadrilles from recycled materials (velvet, denim, jacquard) for over a decade.
6 - Gunia Project - Kyiv and Lviv, Ukraine
Founded by designers Natalia Kamenska and Maria Gavryliuk, the store was one of the first to embrace traditional Ukrainian culture and reimagine it for today. Offering ceramics, which feature charming depictions of angels and saints inspired by church art, and hand-beaded jewelry inspired by a kyrza and herdan (traditional adornments worn by Ukrainian women), it also has an extensive ready-to-wear line drawing on motifs recovered from museum archives or documented during ethnographic work. The rooster quickly became a symbol of resilience during the war, and Gunia has turned it into wearable art.
7 - V&A and The London Transport Museum – London, England
Scarves, T-shirts, jewelry, even a bag of assorted ceramic buttons that completely transformed the jacket I bought them for. The London Transport Museum, in Covent Garden, is also especially good for children’s presents.
8 - Drake’s – London, England
Head to Drake’s on Savile Row for its bountiful tie selection (see the Tussah hand-rolled styles in silk), rugby shirts (for more casual fare) and suede and canvas totes.
9 - Jean-Paul Hévin – Paris, France
Jean-Paul Hévin is the king of French chocolate alongside Ducasse. Try the macarons (the brand offers several dual blends from caramel and coffee to yuzu and almond, from €14 for five) or golden box tabletino (€21) for an assortment of their famous chocolate bars.
10 - Kyukyodo and Itoya – Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo has some amazing stationery stores, from traditional ones like Kyukyodo (est 1663) in Ginza to chains like Itoya. The former served as the official stationer to the Imperial House of Japan between 1891 and 1945. Visitors can find everything from incense sets to silkscreen-printed postcards and paper ornaments.
