Kinokuniya Book Store

Japanese bookstore that has stationary (like Maido) and large manga section. They have many sample books opened for anyone to browse! Don’t forget about their membership for discounts (25 a year) if you are serious!

/​/​, NO RETURNS. It’s on the receipt. It’s on the door.
This place is more pricey than buying online, but a physical location has its advantages, especially for buying pens and stationery, which they allow you to test.

Super cute Japanese book store that carries everything from toys, stationary, writing utensils, manga, magazines and books.
As many have mentioned, items here are overpriced as would be expected for Japanese Domestic Market (JDM) items. It is hard to hold back on buying items as it is, so the steep prices help restrain me. Everything in here is so cool or absolutely cute!
Absolutely great place to get Japanese magazines that provide free goodies in them like bags or shirts. I’m also a fan of all the pencils and pens they have here, super comfortable to use a great Japanese quality! Don’t often buy much when I do visit, but looking through all the items is great enough on is just as great!

Great place if you are looking to get your Japanese magazine fix! I love getting their fashion mags here! :)

I haven’t been to this location in years, which is odd, as this Kinokuniya is closer to me than the SF one, yet I’ve been to the SF a whole lot more than this location. To my surprise, it has moved into the actual market and has shrunk to about ¼ the size it once was. Not too happy about that.
This place is slightly overpriced, but before you had all the room in the world to browse in relative peace and harmony. Now, you have someone bumping into you every ten seconds and you have to move because the isles in the store are too small to fit everyone. It kinda sucks.
Their selection is now much smaller, because as you can guess, it’s a smaller store! They do have cool manga and stationary products, but again, if you’re getting bumped into every ten seconds, it kinda takes the enjoyment out of browsing. If I’m going to pay top dollar for my product, I want to be able to enjoy looking at it without getting elbowed in the back.
Overall, if you can check out the location in SF. Much, and I mean much better.

Pens!!! I love their pens they have the best pens. Very kind staff, but everything is kind of expensive.

Excellent little book and stationary store inside the Japanese mall. My daughters and I love this store. Lots of carefully chosen items. The selection of pens and erasers (they are really cute) and of course books. They carry a pretty good selection of Japanese animation books and DVDs, including Studio Ghibli (Miyazaki) works.

You can order books over the phone. They will give you a call when the book you ordered arrives. I often get the Rurubu Travel guide books.

A nice place for Japanese literature.
It’s next to Mitsuwa so that’s a plus.
This place has a lot of manga and interesting books if you’re into Japanese stuff.

A little on the smallish side, but they carry everything you need without making the drive to San Francisco.
Great selection of kids books, manga, language aids, magazines and even stationary supplies.

Everything you want in novelty Japanese is right here! It’s all so kawaii! There are a lot of books in Japanese as well as English but some books may not always be in stock. Some things are a bit pricy (as novelty items would have it) but you’ll find something of your liking for sure!

**Eats a fried eggs on tortillas for every meal to conserve money.**
**Spends upwards of 7 minutes contemplating purchasing a $ 12 rubber stamp of a tapir playing a trumpet**
A glimpse into the mind of a crazy person…
Spoiler Alert: I didn’t get the stamp. I have some major regrets.
But if I win the lottery, I’m totally coming back here and getting that stamp.
This store is great if you have disposable income to spend on mildly overpriced things that you definitely do not need but feel are too cute to pass up.
They’ve got crap tons of stationary supplies, origami kits, and even a whole section of literature on humorous cat books. HUMOROUS CAT BOOKS.
Much like the rest of the security at this Mitsuwa, they will follow and eye you until even you think you might have stolen something, so I gather thievery must be a pretty big problem here or maybe paranoia is just getting the best of everyone.
If you don’t know how to read Japanese, the selection of stuff in the shop that’s relevant to you is cut in half, but it’s still a cool place to look around and let us not forget that tapir playing a trumpet stamp. Solid 4 stars.

As other mentioned, not the cheapest place to get your Japanese origami paper, dreamy stationary with the cutest designs and hundreds of fashion magazines with gift included (and nicely boxed!) but is truly awesome! You will find everything to satisfy your need for ‘Japaphernalia’. Embedded inside the Mitsuwa market, this bookt store shines with its own light. I don’t read Japanese, but can not resist to open each book, smell them, contemplate the beauty of their designs and illustrations, And oh, all those fashion mags are incredible. This bookstore is very recommendable for Japanese culture lovers.

I really like this place; the only thing holding me back from giving 5 stars is their prices, but they have some novelty Japanese stuff that I can’t really find anywhere else.

Excellent Japanese stuff like books, comics, cards, puzzles, toys, stationary, and lot of gifts.
It is located just next to Mitsuwa Japanese grocery store and Daiso, so it is very convenient for shopping.
The customer service is Japanese grade, so you can’t beat that and the reason for me to come back and recommend it.
A bit pricey, but it worths it for the quality and service you get.
Parking is huge, but difficult to find an available spot.

Kinokuniya!!! Number one best animé store around! Always updated with their items, plenty of animé EVERYWHERE~
Here you will find scale figures, nendoroids, manga (in japanese and english), children books, plushies, stationary, magazines so much to love!
The prices could be a little too much at times but everything is still wonderful! This store is indeed a A++!! ALL JAPAN LOVE MUST GO

It’s sad, because this store became smaller to get inside the building of Mitsuwa Japanese grocery store. Some of kind staff left after this book shop moved in (it used to locate in other building, just outside of Mitsuwa).
The price of the book and stationaries is more than what you can get in Japan, but it is cheaper if you think about flying there, of course.
When you can not find a book at the store, they will help you to find it from other Kinokuniya or they will order the book from Japan.

After class on Friday, I decided to take a trip to kinokunyia since I realized they reopened. Last time I went, they were closed due to them moving into Mitsuwa. I was pretty disappointed that that was my first experience.
Anyways inside, its like a fairly big newspaper stand with a huge assortment of magazines, guides, books, and manga. They also had some stationary items too.
However, I was kinda disappointed that the manga were shrink wrapped. Manga should be enjoyed. I also came here to browse their figure collection. They only had a few and most of them were superhero based and a few animé based. LAME!
They had decent totoro selection in their stationary items, but spending 60 dollars on a medium-​small sized plush was ridiculous! I could buy that size at half the price at Animé palace.
So overall, I left the store feeling pretty disappointed.

Fun place to kill some time. I usually come here to get pens and perhaps folders or anything for school/​studying. It’s similar to Maido but with tons of books + magazines + cds + ect.
Tons of cute things where you find yourself in a situation where it seems like this:
«Aww look at this cute keychain! its a little cat paw keychain! It’s so soft!»
Then you look at the price.
«$ 15?! What? Oh heck no»
But then why do you keep looking at it like you’re gonna buy it? And then you seriously contemplate on spending $ 15 on this cat paw key chain that up until this moment in your life you never needed. But its so soft! Meowwww…
It’s that type of store. lol.

It’s hard to leave this book store empty handed. I usually buy their Nylon magazines, or one of their many cute toys dispersed around the store. They also have some really cool design books.
There’s a sale going on right now, because they are changing locations. 20% off on all items in the store, 30% off for members! I actually just bought a little Pedobear in a cow suit iPhone jack this past weekend for $ 8, hehe.

Great Japanese magazine and bookstore whether you are japanese or not. In addition to the books and magazines, they have toys, cds, clothing and stationary. Price wise, all items are a little more expensive then your standard mainland stuff… but since everything is imported from japan its understandable. The magazines usually come a few weeks after publication… but if there’s a popular magazine, they will ship it sooner but the price would be more as it would be considered a premium item. In addition you could buy a yearly subscription of your favorite japanese magazine so next time you could simply just go to the front desk to pick up your magazines.
its a fun place to check out magazines… whether your into fashion, sports, guns, music… its pretty interesting to breeze through the magazines and see it through the japanese perspectives…

I stopped by here just because I had gotten done eating at Santouka.
It’s pretty much the same as every other Kinokuniya Book Store, just not really a part of a bigger mall.
You’ll always find the «check in your bag at the counter» sign because Americans love stealing things I guess.