Hobonichi Techo Cousin Book A5 2025

The Hobonichi Techo Cousin is an A5 size 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 planner 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.

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 Hobonichi Techo includes quotes specially chosen from its parent site, the web magazine Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun.

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 book has the same thread-stitch binding as a dictionary, allowing it to lay flat open for comfortable writing. It stays flat even if you don’t hold it down. The book uses thin and light yet durable Tomoe River paper. This paper that underwent an overhaul with the 2024 edition planner is more resistant to bleed through, lighter despite being the same thickness, and has a smoother surface by adjusting the fibers of the paper.

Hobonichi Techo 2025 Cousin A5 book comes in either English or Japanese, then you can pick out which language you’d like in that book.