Another great tower records in tokyo is in shinjuku 5 floors or so next to shinjuku station.
Tower records tokyo vinyl.
Tower records will join hmv in the japanese capital as mainstream outlets boasting impressive selections of vinyl alongside the city s multitude of specialist independent record retailers.
But if it wasn t for trying to find jet set that early i walked past it twice i wouldn t have spent all morning exploring and walking around the lovely.
The vinyl factory newsletter.
The bankruptcy of tower records in the u s.
In 2006 did not affect tower records japan as it had been completely independent.
No cds no cassette tapes just vinyl.
Jet set records shimokitazawa tokyo i turned up in the lovely neighborhood of shimokitazawa way too early quickly learning that record stores in japan don t open until about 1 2pm.
Already japan s largest record store tower records was given an extensive overhaul in late 2012 that actually increased its whopping 5 000 square metres of floor space.
The tenth floor at tower records shinjuku will open from 21st march.
Click here for more info.
The shinjuku one has a very nice contemporary experimental section with music by the likes of eno laraaji etc.
Smaller than shibuya but still huge acoording to all standards.
Tower records shibuya shopping music and entertainment shibuya tower records was given an extensive overhaul in late 2012 that increased its whopping 5 000 square metres of floor space.
Even tho all usa branches have closed tower records is alive and thriving in japan with nearly 80 stores nationwide.
And not just a handful of records but 70 000 records of both japanese and western artists.
Here we visit a huge shop located in sh.
Colored vinyl sort featured best selling alphabetically a z alphabetically z a price low to high price high to low date old to new date new to old.