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<\/p>\nBecause I just didn’t understand BOOKOFF when I first came to Tokyo. And I got annoyed at its small, weird collection of Japanese craft and sewing books … that’s before I realised BOOKOFF is a secondhand bookshop, with gems like this:<\/p>\n
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ISBN4-529-03959-5<\/p>\n
And odd ones like this:<\/p>\n
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ISBN 4-946496-47-5<\/p>\n
It must be the special edge-sanding<\/a> technique, because when I first came here, I thought the books were new.\u00c2\u00a0 And it’s true what the article says, the stores aren’t dingy and unwelcoming at all … so totally unlike secondhand bookshops I’m used too.<\/p>\n Oh, and BOOKOFFs carry plenty of fashion magazines, often very current ones … my local has a couple of February 2009 issues already!\u00c2\u00a0 And sewing books, knitting books, craft books …<\/p>\n Apparently<\/a>, there’s a legal reason why you never see books on sale here, so if you’re after half-price Japanese craft books … you know where to shop.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve seen BOOKOFFs everywhere in Tokyo, at one stage I tried to find the biggest (Akihabara?) and best for fashion \/ design \/craft (Shibuya or Jiyugaoka?) but actual my local’s been good to me, perhaps because I visit frequently.<\/p>\n P.S. If you’re after English language books while you’re in Tokyo, I recommend Maruzen<\/a> at Nihombashi or Marunouchi, or the bookshop in the basement of Parco<\/a>, Shibuya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Because I just didn’t understand BOOKOFF when I first came to Tokyo. And I got annoyed at its small, weird collection of Japanese craft and sewing books … that’s before I realised BOOKOFF is a secondhand bookshop, with gems like this: ISBN4-529-03959-5 And odd ones like this: ISBN 4-946496-47-5 It must be the special edge-sanding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[78,73,69,68,71,72,77,74,76,70,75,79,243],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tokyo","tag-bargain-books","tag-bookoff","tag-cheap","tag-japan","tag-japanese-craft-book","tag-japanese-sewing-book","tag-jiyugaoka","tag-maruzen","tag-nihombashi","tag-secondhand","tag-shibuya","tag-shop","tag-tokyo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}