Hobonichi Techo Weeks 2025 Paper Series: Platinum White

Hobonichi Paper Series uses unique paper by specialized paper trading company Takeo. Hobonichi Weeks Platinum White uses Takeo’s Gmund Gold paper, best known for its graceful shine. Hobonichi selected the platinum color for this year’s edition. The white planner seems simple and clean at first glance but shows a sparkling white and silver shine at different angles.

The cover has been constructed as a light hardcover book with some give to it, so it still bends. The paper’s surface has a fine micro-embossed finish, giving it a slightly rough feel that makes you want to keep touching it. The year 2025 is foil-pressed in silver.

When you order this Hobonichi Techo Weeks, you’ll receive a clear, adhesive corner pocket you can stick anywhere you like. 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.

The Weeks book has space for writing in plans or journal entries, and it also has 69 pages of grid paper memo pages in the back (73 pages in the English edition). The back of the book contains bonus pages, including Sample Symbols and Icons and Oodles of Noodles. The Hobonichi Techo 2025 Weeks book comes in either English or Japanese. If you love this cover, then you can pick out which language you’d like in that book.