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.

@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 ?

Last edited by atreya (2008 October 03, 1:47 pm)

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.)

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.

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.

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!