There are several ways to source books sustainably without breaking the bank. Here’s where to buy used English books in Tokyo ...

Given the choice between returning to her home in Kyushu or moving into the musty spare room above her oddball uncle's secondhand bookshop in the Jimbocho book quarter of Tokyo, she chooses the ...

Tokyo’s charming neighbourhood of Jimbocho is commonly referred to as Jimbocho Book Town, thanks to the overwhelming number of antique bookstores lining the streets. If you want to learn more ...

But while becoming immersed in the ambience of the historic bookstores in Tokyo’s famous Jimbocho Book Town in person is still impossible for many, store owners have teamed up to make that ...

Takako is now more receptive to all that Jimbocho has to offer, including the bookshop’s many visitors and her uncle’s favourite cushion named Roy. The strength of a book such as this lies in ...

Tokyo's Treasure Trove of Classical Chinese Books Tokyo’s Jimbocho district is a book lover's paradise. The area is home to more than 150 secondhand shops. And among the titles that can be found ...

Almost no one. Ramen – one of the main reasons to visit Jimbocho.Credit: Getty Images And yet, four big reasons to visit. The first? Books. Jimbocho, a relatively low-rise suburb within walking ...

Many of the Japanese books translated into English in the past decade have fallen on one of two sides of the spectrum: sophisticated literary fiction or anime-adapted light novels. Satoshi ...

Nowadays, he pulls a collapsible shopping trolley around Jimbocho, Tokyo’s book district, personally entreating shops to stock the three titles he has to offer as a self-funded publisher.

Writers like Seicho Matsumoto and Sohachi Yamaoka were churning out blockbuster novels while how-to-books on improving everything from English language skills to sex lives sold in the millions.

When they're planning their vacations, literary tourists look for beautiful and historic bookstores, places of bookish importance and cities where the current literary scene is alive and well.