Nakano Used Cameras: Fujiya’s Four Buildings, and Why It Is Not in Broadway

Fujiya Camera is not inside Nakano Broadway. A current English guide to buying used cameras in Tokyo says it is — “inside Nakano Broadway”, open “10:30–20:00 daily”, “split into a couple of different storefronts within Nakano Broadway. One might have bodies, another lenses.” All three of those are wrong, and they are wrong in a way that will waste an afternoon: you will walk into the mall and not find it.

What is actually here: four separate Fujiya buildings on the street outside the mall, plus one more used-camera shop that opened in 2023 and is not in the guides at all. Checked against the shops’ own pages in September 2026.

The short version

• For bodies and lenses: Fujiya main store — 5-61-1 Nakano, two floors, 10:00–20:30.
• For junk: Fujiya Junk Building — a separate building at 5-63-5. This is the one people come to Nakano for.
• For a late finish: Kitamura Nakano Sunmall — 11:00–21:00, around 1,200 used cameras, and it is tax-free.
• 🔴 What is in Broadway is Fujiya AVIC on 3F — the audio shop, not the camera shop. Its hours (10:30–20:00) are the ones English guides have mistakenly given for Fujiya Camera.

1. Fujiya Camera main store — 5-61-1 Nakano

Nakano Tatsumi Building, 1F and 2F. 10:00–20:30. About three minutes from Nakano station’s north exit, on the street — not in the mall.

Digital bodies, medium and large format, classic cameras, and interchangeable lenses across two floors. This is the anchor, and 20:30 is the headline: it stays open later than any used-camera shop in Shinjuku — Map Camera shuts at 19:00.

One practical thing Fujiya does that the Shinjuku shops do not: it lists UnionPay, WeChat Pay and Alipay alongside the usual cards and Japanese e-money. If you are paying on a Chinese card, this is the easiest camera shop in Tokyo.

2. Fujiya Junk Building — 5-63-5 Nakano, and the reason to make the trip

10:30–20:30. A separate building, a couple of minutes from the main store.

Junk parts, used filters, used lens cases — and, unusually, books: camera manuals for beginners through to technical volumes. A whole building given over to the bin end of photography is not a thing that exists in Shinjuku, where the equivalent is one floor inside a larger shop.

If you have half a day in Nakano and you are a photographer, this is where it goes.

3. The other two Fujiya buildings

• Video Building — 5-62-9 Nakano, KIK NAKANO 1st BLD 1F. 10:00–20:30. Video cameras, microphones, monitors, rigs, gimbals, and switchers and capture cards for streaming.
• Accessories Building — same building, 2F. 10:30–20:30. Tripods, bags and studio lighting.

Note the half-hour difference. The main store and the video building open at 10:00; the accessories and junk buildings at 10:30. English guides give a single blanket “10am–8.30pm daily” for all of Fujiya, which is right for two of the four.

4. Kitamura Nakano Sunmall — the one no guide has

5-60-6 Nakano. 11:00–21:00. Open every day except 1–2 January; 31 December closes at 18:00. Two minutes from Fujiya, on the Sunmall shopping street.

It opened on 1 April 2023, which is why it is missing from almost everything written about Nakano. Its second floor carries around 1,200 used cameras, and its ground floor adds roughly 300 used imported and classic cameras alongside about 300 used watches — an odd pairing that works, because both are things people trade in. Those counts come from the shop’s own opening announcement in April 2023, so read them as the scale of the place rather than today’s shelf count. It buys as well as sells: cameras, lenses, watches, phones and bags, over the counter, no appointment needed.

• ✅ Tax-free: yes, on the immediate-deduction system, stated on the shop’s own page.
• It opens latest. 21:00, against Fujiya’s 20:30 — so it is the one to finish at.
• 🔴 Hours to double-check against old articles: the launch coverage in 2023 printed 10:00–20:30. The official page now says 11:00–21:00. Anything copying the launch article is an hour out at both ends.

Also in Nakano, but not camera shops

• Fujiya AVIC — Nakano Broadway 3F, 10:30–20:00. This is the audio business — and the source of the confusion, because it is in the mall. It is also where Fujiya’s trade-in counter now sits (valuations taken until 19:00); the separate buy-back centre that guides list as its own 3F unit no longer appears on the company’s store list. Closed days: New Year, plus the third Wednesday of February, when Nakano Broadway itself shuts.
• Sofmap Re Collection — Nakano Broadway 1F, 11:00–20:00, open since October 2019. Used PCs, tablets, phones and used digital cameras, over a thousand items. Worth five minutes on your way through the mall; it is not a lens dealer.

What the listing sites get wrong

• 🔴 “Fujiya is inside Nakano Broadway.” It is not, and it never was in its current form. The “several storefronts inside Broadway” description is a stale memory of Fujiya AVIC PART1 and PART2, which were in the mall — and which merged into the new Video Building on 1 October 2020. The accessories and junk buildings moved on the same day. Five years later, English guides are still describing the 2019 layout.
• 🔴 “10:30–20:00 daily.” Those are Fujiya AVIC’s hours — the audio shop. The camera buildings run 10:00 or 10:30 to 20:30.
• One blanket address and one blanket opening time. There are four buildings on three different street numbers, with two different opening times. A guide that gives you “5-61-1 Nakano, 10am–8.30pm” has described a quarter of the operation.
• One major English site files Fujiya under “Kichijoji.” The address it prints is correct and it even counts the four shops — it has simply put the whole thing in the wrong neighbourhood.
• Kitamura Nakano is missing entirely from most guides, because it opened in 2023.

The six-month warranty on used gear

This is the part that actually separates buying a used body in Nakano from buying one at home, and no English guide we found mentions it. Fujiya puts a six-month guarantee on used equipment priced at ¥11,000 and above, including tax — cameras, lenses, strobes, motor drives and battery grips. You are issued a used-goods warranty certificate at the till, and it covers free repair up to what you paid, for failure in normal use.

The exclusions matter as much as the cover, so read the grade on the tag before you decide:

• Two condition grades are excluded outright: anything sold as as-is (現状品) or as a collection piece. Bargain-bin classics are very often graded this way — that is why they are cheap.
• Accessories are excluded — tripods, bags, binoculars — as are consumables. This is a guarantee on cameras and lenses, not on everything in the shop.
• Voided by modification, disassembly, impact, water or sand, poor storage, fire and natural disaster. Routine overhaul is not covered either.
• You must produce the certificate. No certificate, no claim — so it goes in the camera bag, not the hotel bin.
• Separately from the warranty, an initial defect can be exchanged within 10 days in store.

The practical reading: if you are spending real money on a body or a lens, buy it at a grade that carries the guarantee and keep the paperwork. If you are digging in the junk building, you are buying as-is and you know it — that is the whole point of the building.

Getting things home, and what we could not verify

🔴 Fujiya does not ship abroad. Its own shipping page says delivery is within Japan only. It will not even ship to a forwarding address you arrange yourself — its FAQ refuses that explicitly. What it does instead is run one official route, a partnership with a proxy buying service called WorldShopping BIZ, which buys domestically on your behalf and exports for you. Three conditions before you plan around it: used products only (new items cannot be bought this way at all), a 10% service fee calculated on the product price plus Japanese domestic shipping, with international freight billed separately afterwards, and cancellation if the item turns out not to be in stock. If you are buying new, you are carrying it.

Tax-free: Kitamura states it plainly. Fujiya publishes its own conditions in English: a minimum of ¥5,001 excluding tax, per person per day, and the original passport — photocopies are not accepted. Eligibility runs to visitors staying under six months, Japanese nationals resident abroad for two years or more, and diplomatic passport holders. Two things it does not publish: whether the deduction is taken at the register or handled separately, and which of the four buildings process tax-free at all — the page is headed for cameras and shooting-support equipment, which reads like the main store and the accessories building, but it does not say. Ask at the counter before you pay.

Closed days: Fujiya publishes none that we could find for the four camera buildings. The only Fujiya-group closed day we could verify officially is AVIC’s, in the mall. Assume the camera buildings are open and check if you are travelling a long way.

There is also a camera-branded tenant on the Broadway upper floors whose official site we could not open at all. We are not naming it as a shop we have verified — if you find it, treat it as a bonus.

Practical notes

• Everything here is within five minutes of Nakano station’s north exit, and all of it is on the street rather than in the mall — except the two Broadway entries above.
• Do Nakano in the afternoon and Shinjuku in the morning, not the other way round. Map Camera shuts at 19:00; Nakano runs to 20:30 and 21:00. Nakano is four minutes from Shinjuku on the Chuo line.
• From 1 November 2026 Japan switches to an airport refund for tax-free purchases, with the goods leaving as carry-on. Fine for a body; weigh the bag if it is lenses. Detail in our guide to the November 2026 changes.
• If you find something you cannot carry, Buyee bids and buys on Yahoo! Auctions and Mercari on your behalf and forwards the parcel abroad.
• Check on the day. Four buildings, two opening times, and a fifth shop that most sources have never heard of. A prepaid Japanese eSIM is the least painful way to read a Japanese store page while standing outside it.

Nearby

You are two minutes from the best collectors’ building in Tokyo. Our Nakano Broadway guide covers the floors and which Mandarake branch is for what, the Nakano card shop guide covers the four trading-card shops including the one selling cards Japan stopped printing, and the wider Nakano guide covers the rest of the district. For the other side of Tokyo’s used-camera trade, the Shinjuku guide has four shops, six floors of Leica — and the duty-free rule that catches out anyone buying two bodies.