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Hobonichi Techo 2027 Weeks, Moomin Special Edition (Japanese): Same Cover, Different Book

Hobonichi's 2027 Weeks has a Moomin cover in two scenes, At the Table and A Day in the Life of Snufkin. Each exists twice: as a Japanese-edition special edition and as an English edition. The covers are the same. This page is for the reader who likes the cover and has to choose which of the two books to put under it, and who cannot read Japanese. It does not ask whether a weekly book is the right type of planner, which is the planner guide's question, or what the English Weeks is in general, which is the English Weeks' file.

Before the rest: I work for a Japanese planner maker, which competes with the makers named on this page; none of them is a customer or a supplier of mine, I have no business with any of them, and I do not use my employer or its products as a source or an example. I have not handled either book. The sources are Hobonichi's English product and feature pages for the Moomin covers, read with its store set to ship to the United States, and two Amazon US listings for the Japanese-edition books, read logged out under two US ZIP codes, all in the days around 10 and 11 October 2026. Everything here is assembled from published specifications, not from testing; opinions are marked as opinions.

The short answer. Hobonichi's page for the Japanese special edition opens with this note: "The special specifications are for the Japanese edition (January start) only." The maker's feature page says the English edition with this cover has the contents of the standard edition. So the choice is between a Japanese-language planner with Moomin quotes on its weekly pages and Moomin illustrations on its weekly, memo and monthly pages, and an English Weeks with the Moomin on the cover and standard contents inside. In my view, if you want the Moomin art inside and can live with not reading the words, take the Japanese special edition; if you want to read the week's quote, take the English one. By the descriptions I read, no single book does both. What I did not check is how a weekly page of the special edition writes the weekdays and months, which decides how usable it is as a planner if you cannot read Japanese; I have not seen a photograph of one.

Hobonichi's own store is the unpaid route: on 10 October 2026 it priced the At the Table special edition at $32.00 before shipping and import charges (store page, not a paid link). The Amazon listing below is the other route; compare the two on the day you buy.

→ Hobonichi Techo 2027 Weeks, Moomin: At the Table, Japanese edition, on Amazon US (ASIN B0H6P1CGND; seller was Hobonichi on 11 October 2026, check the "Sold by" line) (paid link; it returns once at the end)

The same cover in two books

The left column is the Japanese special edition, the right the English edition with the same cover. Both columns are from Hobonichi's English store pages for the At the Table cover, read on 10 October 2026; the Snufkin pages gave the same strings except where the covers section below says otherwise.

The bonus-page lines are counted by name: a page counts as shared if both editions' specification lists carry the same name. Hobonichi's Japanese-language page for the special edition describes the holiday entry more fully than the English page does, as holidays and observances, naming Valentine's Day, Hinamatsuri, Mother's Day and Father's Day; the English page stops at Japanese holidays. I have not seen a photograph of a special-edition page, so where the Japanese sits on a weekly page, and how the weekdays are written, I have not checked.

One opinion, marked as one: the differences that matter to a reader of English are the weekly quote and the Moomin art inside; the extra Listed Information and the Japanese-only bonus pages are things you would use only if you read the Japanese beside them.

The two covers

Hobonichi's specification lists for the two special-edition covers match except for the weight and the cover material. The printing of the cover and the bookmarks differs by scene, and I did not check whether the endpapers or bookmark colours differ between the two.

On 10 October 2026 Hobonichi's store, set to ship to the United States, showed the Snufkin special edition with a notice that the product was expecting a restock. On 11 October I looked again without the US shipping setting, which the pane did not hold that day: the notice was on the Snufkin pages of both editions, and the At the Table pages of both carried none. Whether the notice varies by shipping country, I did not test.

When another page is the right one

• You want to read the weekly quote. Take the English edition. On 11 October 2026, read without the US shipping setting, its At the Table store page carried no restock notice and the Snufkin one did. Hobonichi's English-store pages for it are the At the Table page and the Snufkin page (not paid links), and the English Weeks in general is its own file.
• You want a page for every day. A weekly book is the wrong shape; the A6 daily book in English is the English Original.
• You want a different cover. The Weeks' covers are listed in the English Weeks' file.

Not assessed on this page, among others: the Japanese-edition Weeks in covers other than these two, the April-start books, the other Moomin products, and any other maker's weekly planner. They are listed so you know they were left out, not because they were weighed and found wanting.

Buying it

Two routes, in this order.

So read the "Sold by" line before you buy; the seller on the day you look may not be the one I found. How Hobonichi's seller name is tied to its seller ID is described in the English Original's file. Price and stock are on the listing.