Buy the Suica Penguin at Hobonichi Tokyo Station Before the Mascot Changes

Black, A6 original size

The penguin’s face printed large on black cloth. The bookmark charm is shaped like its feet, and the butterfly stopper that holds every Hobonichi Techo shut has been remade as the penguin’s flipper, so a pen through it stops the planner falling open in a bag. This is a cover on its own. The A6 book goes inside it.

Beige, A5 Cousin size

The larger Cousin-size cover in beige, with the penguin printed big on the front and walking across the back. More of them turn up on the inside. Two bookmark charms rather than one, the penguin’s face and a baby penguin’s. Also a cover only, sized for the A5 Cousin.

Brick red, Japanese and English editions, both 3,190 yen

A complete planner rather than a cover. The penguin poses in front of the Marunouchi station building on a matte brick-red board, with the illustration alone printed glossy so it stands off the surface. There are more penguins on the back cover and down the spine. The Japanese and English editions cost the same.

Mint green necktie fabric, Japanese 3,520 yen and English 3,630 yen

The other Weeks, bound in mint green necktie fabric. The penguin walks across it, stops to pose, sits down for a rest, and now and then appears alongside a baby penguin. The English edition costs a little more than the Japanese one.

Keyring charm

A Hobonichi Techo shrunk to roughly a tenth of full size and hung on a ring. Of everything here it is the piece that reads most clearly as a Hobonichi object rather than as a souvenir with a penguin on it.

Sticky note pad

Penguin sticky notes, and the cheapest thing in the collection after the two sticker sheets. They go into a planner you already own, which makes them easy to bring home for someone who does not want a whole new Techo.

Sticker sheet

A sheet of the walking penguin, and at 550 yen the least expensive item in the collection. Stickers ask nothing of you beyond the page you put them on.

Raised sticker sheet

The same idea with a puffed, raised finish, so the penguins sit proud of the page rather than flat against it.

Small, drawer style

A small pouch in Hobonichi’s drawer style, carrying the tokotoko penguin design, for the pens and oddments that travel with a planner. The more expensive of the two drawer pouches.

Flat pocket style

The flat pocket version in the same tokotoko design, and 1,650 yen less than the small drawer pouch above. The one to take if it has to slide in beside a planner rather than sit next to it.

Full size

The stappo is Hobonichi’s standing case, meant to sit upright on a desk and hold what you are working with rather than lie flat in a bag. This is the full-size one in the tokotoko design.

Mini

The smaller stappo in the same tokotoko design, at a little over half the price of the full-size one.