Jimbocho and other used bookstores nationwide participate Japan's largest used book database and mail order site Japanese used bookstore" was introduced on TV!

``Japanese Used Bookstore'' is Japan's largest used book database and mail order site operated by the Tokyo Used Book Association, which lists used bookstores from all over the country, including Jimbocho.

“Japanese used bookstores” was featured on TV Asahi’s “Yoko Oshita Wide! Scramble” broadcast on November 12, 2024.

The featured feature was ``A treasure hunt for foreign tourists? The charm of the used bookstore district.

The program introduces the charms of Jimbocho and used bookstores, explaining why there is an influx of inbound tourists, given that the number of domestic customers at used bookstores has been decreasing in recent years, while the number of tourists from overseas has increased dramatically.

Among them, ``Japanese used bookstores'' were taken up as a survival strategy for used bookstore districts.

The broadcast is available on TV Asahi's official YouTube page.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN5N-CMFJ5o

Outline of "Secondhand bookstores in Japan

Nihon no Furuhon-ya" is one of the largest database and mail-order sites in Japan, with approximately 7 million items ranging from Japanese and Chinese classics to animation goods, which are displayed by approximately 1,000 used bookstores among the members of the nationwide used book associations. The company had the foresight to launch the site in 1996, ahead of other major mail-order sites, and has responded flexibly to the changing times.

Other used book online shopping sites rarely sell books that do not have barcodes, but ``Japanese Used Bookstore'' sells everything from books published in the Edo period and before that do not have barcodes to new books that have just been published. A major feature of the store is that it handles a wide range of old books.

"Japanese used bookstores"

The site is also used as an information site, with a search for antiquarian bookstore members and a newsletter that provides information on used book events and book-related articles from around the country.

"Japanese used bookstores"

https://www.kosho.or.jp/