Where to buy X Japan stuff?
It's very difficult to find shops where you can buy X Japans cds, especially in other countries than Japan. I want to collect addresses of online-stores and of real stores from around the world to help everyone. So if you know an address that is missing here, please tell me!
I don't know these shops and I don't know if they are good or if there are ploblems with them. I just collected the addresses and it's your own risk when you order there...
Most onlinestores ship everywhere around the world but most times it's cheaper if it's from your own country or coninent, that's why I listed the onlinestores under the countries too...
Thanks to Hella for the German and French addresses!
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| They have a good selection. Chris uses them a lot. |
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USA |
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| They have cool hide merchandise, even UFO dolls |
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They have a nice selection. |
| Kinokuniya Bookstore 10 West 49th Street |
Like its twin franchise at Yaohan Plaza, this store has an excellent selection of manga and anime/manga art books, as well as Japanese-language books of all kinds. It has also a lot of music cds from Japanese artists. Phone: 212-765-7766 |
They have a lot of rare merchandise, but are rather expensive. |
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7220 Melrose Avenue |
hide used to shop there and they have some jewelery that he designed... |
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210 Canal Street |
Smack dab in the heart of Chinatown, this shop has the best collection of Asian music in the city. Of interest for its many music CDs and Chinese-translated anime video CDs (many of which can be viewed on a computer with a CD-Rom drive and MPEG-2 or better compliance). Some good wall scrolls, too.
Phone: 212-227-2212 Fax: 212-227-2214 |
| Happiness Audio & Video
2 Elizabeth Street |
Excellent selection of Asian music, although it comes in second to D&V Import. The owner, Charlie Wong, is Chinatown's foremost Chinese-language disc jockey and he keeps a good stock of Asian music including anime soundtracks.
Phone: 212-732-3828 |
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103 West 30th Street |
A very cool midtown anime outlet, especially noteworthy for its merchandise/memorabilia. Nice anime toys, models, and posters and wall hangings and some cd's. Phone: 212-631-0966 |
| Asahiya Bookstore 52 Vanderbilt Avenue |
An upscale NYC Japanese bookstore, located within two blocks of Grand Central Station. Large selection of manga and art books, even a few licensed anime videotapes. It has also a lot of music cds from Japanese artists.
Phone: 212-883-0011 |
| Octopus Kingdom
150 Lafayette Street, Suite 28 |
Good and cheap all-around anime videotape and CD outlet in Chinatown. Some merchandise, but mostly the draw is the tapes and CDs themselves.
Phone: 212-941-8380 |
| Peguin Village Elizabeth Center
Basement Level |
This indoor mini-mall includes a little of everything, including a whole-in-the-wall shop with a great selection of just about everything anime related...
Phone: 212-219-3768 |
| JBC Books Shop 33
725 River Road |
Next to the shopping center to the north of Yaohan Plaza, very walkable. A wonderful and cheap source for manga, laserdiscs, and CDs.
Phone: ( 201) 941-7622 |
| Book-off
Next to Public Libary between 5th and Madison (it's
around 42nd St.) |
Its comes from a japanese franchise that mostly collects used manga and resells them they have an entire section of $1 books and most others are $3, speacial movie turned manga or larger books run to about $5, they alsoo do the same for cds. thanks to Josh for this one. |
Nearly unbelievable, but you can order X Japan cds at Amazon.... but expensive. |
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Germany |
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Marktstraße 8 |
Anime and Manga Store, they sometimes have Visual Kei Cds and they can order them. They also ship items.
Phone: 089/346986 |
There are WOM stores in the larger cities in Germany (e.g. Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart). You can get the addresses of their shops on their website. They can order cds in Japan and have even some X Japan cds in the online-catalogue. Not cheap. |
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Nearly unbelievable, but you can order X Japan cds at Amazon.... but expensive. |
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Pin-Up Ritterstraße 16 |
If you know the name of the cd they can order nearly everything. Tel. 0221/136803 |
| BOOKstore Nippon
Immermannstraße 45 |
Japanese Bookstore, they can order cds but only when you know the number of the cd.
Phone: 0211/365617 |
| Japanische Buchhandlung
OCS GmbH |
Japanese Bookstore, they can order cds but only when you know the number of the cd.
Phone: 069/294047 or 069/294048 |
| Japanische Buchhandlung
Stadthausbrücke 7 |
Japanese Bookstore, they can order cds but only when you know the number of the cd.
Phone: 040/369702-0 |
| Japanische Buchhandlung Pestalozzistraße 67 |
Japanese Bookstore, they can order cds but only when you know the number of the cd. Phone + Fax: 030/3237882 |
They can order cds, but they need the names and numbers |
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Zossener Strasse 33 | "They exclusively have original CDs so they're not cheap but they try to
order everything if you can tell name, number or title of a song, ... -->
I only made good experiences with them" scroll down and klick on the link: J-Pop-Neuheiten to get a a wide range of J-POP and J-Rock albums and infos about their release dates info@groberunfug.de |
Canada |
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They have a lof of cds and also magazines |
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Picadilly Circus, London |
Japan imports so they are expensive |
A UK based webpage. Prices are about £25, delivery
takes about two-five weeks... |
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Maeng Pong Record Bangkok |
Those are chains and there are several shops all over the town. |
| Junkudo
Librairie Junku |
Japanese Bookstore, original Japanese cds Mo-Sa: 10:00am-7:00pm |
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123, Boudouir Voltaire |
Anime-Manga-Store which also sells Visual stuff, mostly Hongkong import cds. Mo-Fr: 10:30am-7:30pm; Sa: 10:00am-7:30pm |
| Stargame |
Stargame at Metz They sell the oversea versions of CDs |
29, rue keller they sell japanese |
Mangarake
11, rue Keller |
Anime-Manga-Store which also sells Visual stuff, mostly cds. Mo-Fr: 10:00am-7:30 |
| Atomic Club
17, rue Trousseau |
original Japanese Cds, also used cds Mo-Fr: 10:30am-12:00am + 1:00pm-7:00am; Sa: 10:00am-7:00pm; So: 2:00pm-6:00pm |
| New City Game 11, rue Confort |
Hongkong Imports of japanese cds |
Virgin |
There are several from those stores over France, they can import cds from Japan |
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Hongkong |
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Sino Plaza |
It is the best place to find X-Japan videos and music.
Some are authentic, some fake. |
Ladies Street Market on Mong Kok |
X Japan t-shirts and other stuff |
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Australia thx to Danny |
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Shinseido Westfield shopping centre |
They sell some X japan music cds and VCDs. Usually you need to order them as they don't keep lots of stock~ |
Kinokuniya Sydney |
They stock X japan band score books and they can order other X japan related books (probably also cds, at least Kinokunya in USA can do this). Its quite expensive. |
Utopia George St (below the hoyts cinema complex) |
They sell original japanese cd version of DAHLIA
and Art of Life albums and they can order cds too. They aren't cheap,
but if you consider the exchange rate, the original cost of the japanese
album and add in the postage its not so bad. |
Switzerland | |
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tuttocomics |
www.tuttocomics.ch
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