rich_f Wrote:I'm not so familiar with Book-Off. I know there's one in Shinjuku... somewhere... but I have no idea where.

Their website has a store finder thingy -- clicking on the results from this brings up a little map so you can find the store you're after.

In my limited experience, the stores out in the sticks tend to have better prices than ones in Tokyo, especially on the "bulk buy an entire series of manga" shrinkwrap deals.

jlist.com is the best one-stop Japanese shop I've found. They ship anywhere and sell everything, and prices aren't bad. They also have a really good email newsletter every few days about life in Japan.

@rich_f

Thanks for the reco I will be in tokyo for 2 days, 1 in osaka and 1 in kyoto. I guess that is enough time to do some decent book shopping.

pm215 Wrote:

rich_f Wrote:I'm not so familiar with Book-Off. I know there's one in Shinjuku... somewhere... but I have no idea where.

Their website has a store finder thingy -- clicking on the results from this brings up a little map so you can find the store you're after.

In my limited experience, the stores out in the sticks tend to have better prices than ones in Tokyo, especially on the "bulk buy an entire series of manga" shrinkwrap deals.

By "out in the sticks" you mean "suburbs" right ?

By the way, if you're a BK1 customer, and you do the あしあとキャンペーン enough times, you'll get bonus points. If you hit the button 10 days out of the month, you get 10 bonus points, 20 days nets 50, and every day of the month nets 100 bonus points. I pretty much leave a page open to "My BK1" all the time now, and hit the button every morning, because it's pretty much free money.

atreya Wrote:

pm215 Wrote:In my limited experience, the stores out in the sticks tend to have better prices than ones in Tokyo, especially on the "bulk buy an entire series of manga" shrinkwrap deals.

By "out in the sticks" you mean "suburbs" right ?

The Book-Off I was specifically thinking of is in Okazaki, Aichi-ken, so, no, I meant rather further out than that :-) (Suburbs might be cheaper too, but I have no data there.)

Ah, I know that Book-Off! Yeah, they had a lot of cheap stuff there. They had a lot of multi-volume collections of popular manga for dirt cheap prices. That was the one near the 100 yen kaiten sushi place, right? I didn't spend long at Yamasa (2 weeks), but I remember going to that Book-Off and then eating a lot of cheap sushi.

As an example, I remember seeing 25 volumes of Inu-Yasha for about 2000 yen. (If you like that sort of thing.) I also remember seeing that they had 5 or 6 bundles of Inu-Yasha, too...

One other thing about Japanese bookstores you may not know about-- they'll organize manga and sometimes fiction by *publisher*, then author. If you know what you're looking for, it would be a smart idea to get all of that info first.

rich_f do you know if aichi-ken has a website and ship to europe?
sounds like the ideal shop and im sure many others here will agree.

ivoSF Wrote:rich_f do you know if aichi-ken has a website and ship to europe?
sounds like the ideal shop and im sure many others here will agree.

BookOff do have a website, but they do not sell things over the net.

http://www.bookoff.co.jp/

rich_f Wrote:Ah, I know that Book-Off! Yeah, they had a lot of cheap stuff there. They had a lot of multi-volume collections of popular manga for dirt cheap prices. That was the one near the 100 yen kaiten sushi place, right? I didn't spend long at Yamasa (2 weeks), but I remember going to that Book-Off and then eating a lot of cheap sushi.

Yeah, that one was pretty handy for Yamasa. The one at the bottom of the hill if you go the other way down Route 248 is a bit bigger, though.

The Book-offs I found in Tokyo still did the shrink-wrapped sets, but they weren't discounted below the standard 105 yen a volume price single volumes sold at.

Hi

For DVD's I've got loads of stuff from DDDHouse.com (they will take PP but you need to mail them about it).

Request: Anybody know where I can get a Neko no Ongaeshi T-Shirt, one with the DVD cover (grass at the bottom and 猫の恩返し down the middle) Probably not the shirt that first comes to mind for a big hairy biker, but it's the only anime I really like.

~Mex

atreya Wrote:I hope I am not going offtopic by posting this, but can anyone recommend any "offline" bookstores in Japan as well ? I will be staying in Japan for 15 days this month and I am planning to buy some books there while I am at it. Thanks in advance. ^_^

Don't forget Yaesu Book Centre. It must still be there, across the street and a little south from Tokyo Station's east side, (between the station and the Tokyo International Forum building, but on the other side of the street).

And in the same neighbourhood, just a few blocks east is Maruzen, which you can access from Nihonbashi Station. I think someone may have mentioned it already.

Kanda (walking distance from Akihabara) is supposed to be the big used-book neighbourhood, but i didn't visit it when i was there.

Book Off prices will certainly be better than at Maruzen or Kinokuniya, but you may find newer books and better selection at the higher priced places. Oh the money i spent at Kinokuniya at Takashimaya Times Square in Shinjuku! My God!

Ji_suss Wrote:Oh the money i spent at Kinokuniya at Takashimaya Times Square in Shinjuku! My God!

Yeah, seconded. Of course, I also managed to drop some notes at Maruzen, too.