It’s so easy to get lost in the wonderful world of anime in Osaka, what with all the anime merch that you can easily shop for when in Japan. But if you’re here to look for books and manga to read, you’d be hard-pressed to find them in the usual Japanese bookstores. Instead, you have to really look for English manga in specific anime-themed stores which luckily, are also available in Osaka. On a quest in finding English manga? Here are some of the places where you can find one!
Maruzen & Junkudo
Maruzen and Junkudo is literally heaven for book lovers having seven floors of an eclectic range of books. It’s one of the biggest bookstores in Japan, and they carry a lot of interesting reads from fiction to academic, self-help, and most especially manga. Foreign tourists will surely find English-translated manga here, like the best-selling Spy X Family, Blue Lock, Jujutsu Kaisen, and more. It’s located near Umeda Station, so you can grab your favorite manga series here more conveniently!
Location: 7-20 Chayamachi, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan
Operating Hours: 10 am to 10 pm
Kinokuniya Umeda
Known to be the largest bookstore chain in Japan, Kinokuniya is another go-to store for manga shopping. With its wide selection of books of all genres, you have the best chance to find your favorite mangas like the classics Detective Conan and Slam Dunk. Can’t find what you’re looking for? Use the KINO Navi machine and easily find the book you’re searching for in the bookstore. Aside from manga, you can also find other bookworm essentials here like stationeries, DVDs, magazines, and the like.
Location: 1-1-3, Shibata, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan
Operating Hours: 10 am to 10 pm
Mandarake Grand Chaos Store
If you’re a true blue otaku, chances are, you’d know Mandarake Grand Chaos. It’s a well-known anime collectible store that sells all things anime. From manga to toys, collectibles, CDs, DVDs, board games, illustration books and graphic novels, posters, cosplay items, J-Pop merchandise, and more– you’ll find them all here. Even hard-to-find anime items can be seen here! Shop your favorite anime items like the Blu-Ray Tokyo Revengers to Chainsaw Man stuffed toy and cards in this six-story store!
Location: 4 Chome-12-6 Nipponbashi, Naniwa Ward, Osaka, 556-0005, Japan
Operating Hours: 12 pm to 8 pm
BOOKOFF Osaka Shinsaibashi
Unlike the popular bookstore chains that sell brand-new books, BOOKOFF offers secondhand items to its customers. Expect lots of preloved items from toys to DVD movies, trading cards, video games, books, and assorted manga collections in this store. Anime lovers love to come to this place to buy classics such as the whole One Piece collection set. Not to mention, since everything’s secondhand in BOOKOFF, you get it for a lesser price compared to other bookstores!
Location: 3 Chome-6-21 Minamisenba, Chuo Ward, Osaka, Japan
Operating Hours: 10 am to 10 pm
Tsutaya Ebisubashi
Another bookstore to explore is Tsutaya Ebisubashi, the biggest Tsutaya branch in Western Japan. It’s a five-story bookstore that houses a variety of books and supplies. In the Basement level, you’ll find all sorts of comic books, CDs, Blu-Rays, and DVDs. Here’s where you can find your much-coveted English mangas, like Tokyo Revengers. Meanwhile, on the first and second floors, there’s a cafe where you can chill and read your newly purchased books. On the upper floor is where you can shop for cosmetics and other miscellaneous items.
Location: 1-8-19 Dotonbori, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan
Operating Hours: 10 am to 10 pm
K-Books Osaka Nanba Ichibankan
Another store found in the anime haven Den Den Town is K-Books. They sell secondhand anime goods, so if you’re a fan searching for specific merch, add this store to your itinerary. Most of the stuff they sell is manga and not just any kind– it’s where you can shop hard-to-find manga selections that you probably wouldn’t see in commercial bookstores. Of course, they sell popular anime mangas such as Jujutsu Kaisen, My Hero Academia, Haikyuu, Detective Conan, Genshin Impact, Aikatsu, Project Sekai, and more. But aside from manga, they also sell anime figures, posters, stationeries, and other merchandise.
Location: Nihonbashi Taihei Building, 4-10-4 Nihonbashi, Naniwa-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan
Operating Hours: 12 pm to 8 pm
Animate
With 123 stores all over Japan, Animate is one of the best anime merch shops in Japan to see in Osaka. It’s a popular anime store where you can shop authentic and licensed books like manga, games, CDs, and DVDs, as well as limited-edition anime figures, toys, art supplies, cosplay items, magazines, and all things that every otaku would surely love.
Location: 556-0004 Osaka, Naniwa Ward, Nipponbashinishi, 1 Chome−1−3, Osaka, Japan
Operating Hours: 11 am to 8 pm Monday to Friday, 10 am to 10 pm on weekends
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