Shopping Tips

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

English guides put Fujiya Camera inside Nakano Broadway. It is not — it is four separate buildings around the station, and the junk building is the one to come for.

2026.09.08

Shopping & Merch Guide

Akihabara Junk and Electronic Parts: What Is Left, and What Time It Opens

The Radio Depart still has four levels of component shops — but some open three hours a day and four have closed since 2024. Verified floors, hours and closed days for September 2026.

2026.09.08

Shopping & Merch Guide

Ameyoko for Secondhand Shopping: 5 Shops, and Two the Guides Get Wrong

Ameyoko is 400 shops in 500 metres. Five verified stops for military surplus, vintage and trading cards in Ueno-Okachimachi — plus the branch that is no longer a shop at all.

2026.09.08

Shopping & Merch Guide

Jimbocho: 6 Used Bookshops Worth It If You Do Not Read Japanese

Around 130 bookshops, and most guides send you to the wrong ones. Six Jimbocho shops that work without Japanese — film posters, photobooks, manga original art — with the closed days that ruin trips.

2026.09.08

Shopping & Merch Guide

Shinjuku Used Camera Shops: 4 Stores, and the Tax-Free Rule Nobody Mentions

Shinjuku has four verifiable used-camera shops, six floors of Leica, a whole floor of junk — and a duty-free limit that catches out anyone buying two bodies.

2026.09.08

Shopping & Merch Guide

Ochanomizu Guitar Street: 6 Shops, and Which Days They Close

About fifty instrument shops in a few blocks, and they are not interchangeable. Five Ochanomizu shops worth the walk, including Japan’s left-handed guitar specialist.

2026.09.07

Shopping & Merch Guide

Japan Tax-Free Shopping Changes November 2026: What Otaku Shoppers Need to Know

From 1 November 2026 Japan refunds the tax at the airport, not the till, and you must carry the goods out yourself. What that changes for a shopping trip.

2026.08.03

Japan Travel Basics