New vinyl & CD
Hip looking store on the ground floor of the Spiral Building. Nice but small selection of house, techno, punk funk and electronica. Big queue for the decks. Listening posts in building main foyer.
Spiral Records - 5-6-23 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku
Used Vinyl & CD
‘Specialising’ in music from the sixties to the eighties apparently. Lots of funk and soul plus rock, new wave, indie, Japanese etc. Selection of 2nd hand bootleg concert videos and DVDs.
Otokichi - Nakano Broadway 3F, Nakano 5-52-15
New/Used store spread out over several branches in Nakano Broadway
CD only
Recomints Part 1: J-Pop and dance music
Recomints Part 2: Rock, Jazz etc
Recomints Part 3: Metal and Prog/Folk
Used CD bargains to be had. Noticed a ‘Hendrix bootlegs’ section in Part 2.
Recomints - Nakano Broadway 3F, Nakano 5-52-15
New/Used store in Nakano Broadway
Vinyl & CD
Bulging racks of Kraftwerk and krautrock plus Throbbing Gristle, PTV and all things vaguely new-wave/synthpop. Bananarama anyone?
Mecano - Nakano Broadway 3F, Nakano 5-52-15
New/Used basement store in Nishi-Shinjuku.
Vinyl & CD.
Huge selection of obscure rock and indie plus some free jazz, electronica and a ton of Beatles/Stones/Hendrix etc.
Vinyl Japan #1 - Nishi-Shinjuku 7-4-7 (03-3365-0910)
