Bookstores in Fukuoka
If you judge a town by its bookshops, Fukuoka, Fukuoka gives you 84 to judge by. That's 84 bookshops mapped around Fukuoka, each with its own shelves and specialties. The used sections are where the real bargains hide. Staff picks shelves are the fastest way to read a shop's personality.
This guide covers every bookstore we could verify in and around Fukuoka (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include 明林堂書店 and フタバ図書, plus TSUTAYA. If a bookshop's missing from Fukuoka's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Fukuoka bookstore lineup
84 mapped within about 40 km — showing 60:
明林堂書店
Bookstore
明林堂書店 is Bookstore.
フタバ図書
Bookstore
フタバ図書 — Bookstore.
TSUTAYA
Bookstore
TSUTAYA is Bookstore.
ブックオフ
Used bookstore
ブックオフ is Used bookstore. ブックオフ also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-22:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-22:00
Phone: +81 92 436 2285
古書 入江書店
Bookstore
古書 入江書店 is Bookstore. 古書 入江書店 also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Phone: +81-92-741-0115
福岡金文堂
Bookstore
福岡金文堂 — Bookstore.
とらのあな
Bookstore
とらのあな is Bookstore on 22, 福岡市. とらのあな also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as 11:00-20:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
22, 福岡市, 730-0031
Hours: 11:00-20:00
Phone: 0570-031-400
Books Kubrick
Bookstore
Books Kubrick is Bookstore. Books Kubrick also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
積文館
Bookstore
積文館 is Bookstore.
紀伊国屋書店 久留米店
Bookstore
紀伊国屋書店 久留米店 is Bookstore. 紀伊国屋書店 久留米店 also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Phone: 0942-45-7170
ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore on 8, 福岡市. ブックオフ also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as 10:00-21:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
8, 福岡市, 810-0001
Hours: 10:00-21:00
Phone: 092-737-3918
BOOKOFF 楽市街道くるめ店
Used bookstore
BOOKOFF 楽市街道くるめ店 — Used bookstore. Also worth knowing about BOOKOFF 楽市街道くるめ店: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Phone: 0942-45-6789
ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore.
Books kubric
Bookstore
Books kubric is Bookstore. Books kubric also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as PH,Tu-Su 11:00-19:00.
Hours: PH,Tu-Su 11:00-19:00
ゲオ福岡土井店
Bookstore
ゲオ福岡土井店 is Bookstore.
Booksあんとく
Bookstore
Booksあんとく — Bookstore.
ブックオフトリアス久山店
Bookstore
ブックオフトリアス久山店 is Bookstore. ブックオフトリアス久山店 also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su,PH 10:00-20:00.
Hours: Mo-Su,PH 10:00-20:00
紀伊國屋書店
Bookstore
紀伊國屋書店 is Bookstore.
ヴィレッジヴァンガード
Bookstore
ヴィレッジヴァンガード — Bookstore.
金文堂福大店
Bookstore
金文堂福大店 is Bookstore.
メロンブックス
Bookstore
メロンブックス — Bookstore, found on 1 in 福岡市. Also worth knowing about メロンブックス: the map lists its hours as 10:00-20:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
1, 福岡市, 810-0001
Hours: 10:00-20:00
Phone: 092-739-5505
紀伊國屋書店
Bookstore
紀伊國屋書店 is Bookstore.
丸善
Bookstore
丸善 is Bookstore. 丸善 also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-20:00.
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-20:00
宮脇書店
Bookstore
宮脇書店 is Bookstore. 宮脇書店 also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
グリーンウッド
Bookstore
グリーンウッド is Bookstore.
黒木書店
Bookstore
黒木書店 — Bookstore.
積文館
Bookstore
積文館 is Bookstore.
明林堂書店
Bookstore
明林堂書店 is Bookstore.
ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore on 11, 福岡市. ブックオフ also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as 11:00-20:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
11, 福岡市, 810-0044
Hours: 11:00-20:00
Phone: +81927175200
TSUTAYA福岡志免店
Bookstore
TSUTAYA福岡志免店 — Bookstore.
TSUTAYA
Bookstore
TSUTAYA is Bookstore. TSUTAYA also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 09:00-22:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Hours: Mo-Su 09:00-22:00
Phone: +81-92-731-7760
ジュンク堂書店
Bookstore
ジュンク堂書店 is Bookstore. ジュンク堂書店 also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Phone: +81 92 738 3322
井原書店
Bookstore
井原書店 is Bookstore.
福家書店 だびんち★きっず
Bookstore
福家書店 だびんち★きっず is Bookstore.
TSUTAYA
Bookstore
TSUTAYA is Bookstore.
未来屋書店
Bookstore
未来屋書店 is Bookstore.
積文館書店
Bookstore
積文館書店 is Bookstore.
本と羊
Bookstore
本と羊 — Bookstore.
ツタヤ
Bookstore
ツタヤ is Bookstore.
蔦屋書店
Bookstore
蔦屋書店 — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about 蔦屋書店: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-21:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-21:00
Phone: +81-92-836-6164
文喫
Bookstore
文喫 — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about 文喫: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su,PH 10:00-20:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Mo-Su,PH 10:00-20:00
Phone: +81-92-717-5180
天狼院書店
Bookstore
天狼院書店 — Bookstore.
くまざわ書店
Bookstore
くまざわ書店 — Bookstore.
黒木書店
Bookstore
黒木書店 — Bookstore.
積文館書店
Bookstore
積文館書店 is Bookstore.
金文堂書店
Bookstore
金文堂書店 is Bookstore.
縁側文庫
Bookstore
縁側文庫 is Bookstore. 縁側文庫 also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Tu,Sa,Su 13:00-18:00, Fr 13:00-17:00.
Hours: Tu,Sa,Su 13:00-18:00, Fr 13:00-17:00
TSUTAYA
Bookstore
TSUTAYA is Bookstore. TSUTAYA also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-21:00.
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-21:00
黒木書店
Bookstore
黒木書店 — Bookstore.
未来屋書店
Bookstore
未来屋書店 is Bookstore.
サンパウロ福岡センター
Bookstore
サンパウロ福岡センター is Bookstore.
大名町書店「ぶどうの樹」
Bookstore
大名町書店「ぶどうの樹」 — Bookstore.
キリスト教書店 新生館
Bookstore
キリスト教書店 新生館 is Bookstore. キリスト教書店 新生館 also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Phone: +81 92-7126-123
ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore.
金進堂長者原店
Bookstore
金進堂長者原店 — Bookstore.
ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore on 1, 福岡市. ブックオフ also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as 10:00-21:30; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
1, 福岡市, 815-0033
Hours: 10:00-21:30
Phone: +81925528500
ブックオフ
Used bookstore
ブックオフ is Used bookstore on 10, 福岡市. ブックオフ also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as 10:00-20:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
10, 福岡市, 813-0001
Hours: 10:00-20:00
Phone: +81926730035
BOOK OFF
Bookstore
BOOK OFF is Bookstore.
書店
Bookstore
書店 — Bookstore.
グリーンウッド
Bookstore
グリーンウッド is Bookstore.
What the map tells us about bookstores in Fukuoka
19 of the 84 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.
12 have websites listed. Worth a look for events — readings and signings get announced there first.
There's a cluster: 4 of them sit on 1, so you can string those into one walk and drive between the rest.
3 of the shops are tagged as selling used books — the second-hand shelves are where out-of-print gems and first editions turn up for pocket change.
The Fukuoka bookstore crawl
The efficient Fukuoka bookstore crawl strings these together: 明林堂書店, フタバ図書, TSUTAYA, ブックオフ, 古書 入江書店, 福岡金文堂, とらのあな on 22, and Books Kubrick — 84 stops, one logical order. 76 more are listed below.
Bookstore tips for Fukuoka
Browsing in Fukuoka? A little strategy helps:
- Learn your editions at 明林堂書店. A first edition, first printing is the collectible one. Booksellers will show you how to check the copyright page.
- Poetry lives in bookshops at フタバ図書. Poetry barely exists online as a browsing experience. The poetry shelf in a real shop is a different world.
- Look for local history. The local-interest shelf tells you what a town thinks of itself. Great for visitors, better for new residents.
- Note the shop's specialties. Sci-fi, travel, art books, philosophy — every good shop leans somewhere. Find the lean that matches yours.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Fukuoka — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new bookstore in Fukuoka can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 84 that's closed, or a great bookstore we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.
We don't list prices — they change constantly and vary by edition. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers, in alphabetical order with no favourites.
If you run one of the 84 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.
Bookstore listings for Fukuoka: 84 mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.