Bookstores in Kobe
Kobe, Kansai has 477 bookstores on the map. That's 477 bookshops mapped around Kobe, each with its own shelves and specialties. The used sections are where the real bargains hide. Give yourself an hour minimum — bookshops are the one errand that always takes longer than planned.
This guide covers every bookstore we could verify in and around Kobe (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include 蝸牛 and メトロ書店, plus BOOKS LIBRO. If a bookshop's missing from Kobe's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Kobe bookstore lineup
477 mapped within about 40 km — showing 60:
蝸牛
Bookstore
蝸牛 is Bookstore.
メトロ書店
Bookstore
メトロ書店 — Bookstore.
BOOKS LIBRO
Bookstore
BOOKS LIBRO is Bookstore.
古本市場山下店
Bookstore
古本市場山下店 — Bookstore.
三峰堂
Bookstore
三峰堂 is Bookstore.
まなびの友社
Bookstore
まなびの友社 — Bookstore.
古本市場
Bookstore
古本市場 is Bookstore.
昭和書籍
Bookstore
昭和書籍 is Bookstore.
TSUTAYA
Bookstore
TSUTAYA is Bookstore.
ゴトウ
Bookstore
ゴトウ — Bookstore.
メトロ書店
Bookstore
メトロ書店 — Bookstore.
MARUZEN&ジュンク堂書店
Bookstore
MARUZEN&ジュンク堂書店 — Bookstore on 20. Also worth knowing about MARUZEN&ジュンク堂書店: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-22:00; it has a website with more detail.
20
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-22:00
木下ブックセンター
Bookstore
木下ブックセンター is Bookstore.
TSUTAYA新三田店
Bookstore
TSUTAYA新三田店 — Bookstore on 大原213-1 国道176号線. Also worth knowing about TSUTAYA新三田店: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-00:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
大原213-1 国道176号線, 669-1515
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-00:00
Phone: 079-556-2906
デューク書店
Bookstore
デューク書店 — Bookstore.
青空書房
Bookstore
青空書房 is Bookstore.
駄楽屋書店
Bookstore
駄楽屋書店 is Bookstore.
西日本書店
Bookstore
西日本書店 is Bookstore. 西日本書店 also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
喜久屋書店
Bookstore
喜久屋書店 — Bookstore.
田村書店
Bookstore
田村書店 — Bookstore.
古本市場
Bookstore
古本市場 is Bookstore.
TSUTAYA
Bookstore
TSUTAYA is Bookstore on 1, 堺市.
1, 堺市, 590-0985
高山文庫
Used bookstore
高山文庫 is Used bookstore. 高山文庫 also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as 11:00-21:00.
Hours: 11:00-21:00
宮本書店
Used bookstore
宮本書店 — Used bookstore.
メロンブックス
Bookstore
メロンブックス — Bookstore, found on 3 in 大阪市. 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.
3, 大阪市, 556-0004
Hours: 10:00-20:00
Phone: +81 48 640 2133
ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore on 15, 大阪市. ブックオフ also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su,PH 10:00-22:30; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
15, 大阪市, 556-0011
Hours: Mo-Su,PH 10:00-22:30
Phone: 06-6634-5422
日本橋ブックセンター
Bookstore
日本橋ブックセンター is Bookstore.
ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore on 16, 大阪市. ブックオフ also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-23:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
16, 大阪市
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-23:00
Phone: 06-6214-2080
八州堂書店
Bookstore
八州堂書店 — Bookstore.
紀伊國屋書店
Bookstore
紀伊國屋書店 is Bookstore. 紀伊國屋書店 also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-21:00; Sa 10:00-19:00; PH,Su 11:00-18:00.
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-21:00; Sa 10:00-19:00; PH,Su 11:00-18:00
毛利書店
Bookstore
毛利書店 — Bookstore.
ブックオフ
Used bookstore
ブックオフ is Used bookstore on 21, 大阪市. ブックオフ also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as 10:00-22:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
21, 大阪市, 542-0081
Hours: 10:00-22:00
Phone: 06-4704-3530
古本市場
Bookstore
古本市場 is Bookstore.
Book Market
Bookstore
Book Market — Bookstore.
Book mart
Bookstore
Book mart — Bookstore, found on 6 in 大阪市.
6, 大阪市, 535-0013
千賀書房
Bookstore
千賀書房 is Bookstore on 14, 大阪市.
14, 大阪市, 535-0002
尚文堂書店
Bookstore
尚文堂書店 — Bookstore.
立志堂書店
Bookstore
立志堂書店 is Bookstore.
ジュンク堂書店
Bookstore
ジュンク堂書店 is Bookstore.
ジュンク堂書店
BookstoreRun by ジュンク堂書店
ジュンク堂書店 is Bookstore run by ジュンク堂書店. ジュンク堂書店 also notes on the map: 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 78 392 1001
中尾書店
Bookstore
中尾書店 is Bookstore. 中尾書店 also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Phone: 06-6271-0843
ナベル書店
Bookstore
ナベル書店 is Bookstore. ナベル書店 also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Phone: +81-6-6461-2801
ブックファースト
Bookstore
ブックファースト is Bookstore. ブックファースト also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-22:00; Sa-Su 10:00-21:00.
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-22:00; Sa-Su 10:00-21:00
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.
西宮市
Phone: +81-798-68-6300
西坂書店
Bookstore
西坂書店 is Bookstore.
森川書店
Bookstore
森川書店 is Bookstore.
なかむら興文堂
Bookstore
なかむら興文堂 is Bookstore.
仲田書店
Bookstore
仲田書店 — Bookstore.
わんだーらんど
Bookstore
わんだーらんど — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about わんだーらんど: the map lists its hours as 11:00-20:30; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Hours: 11:00-20:30
Phone: +81-6-6636-3313
ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore.
ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore. ブックオフ also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-21:40.
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-21:40
オクダ薬局
Bookstore
オクダ薬局 is Bookstore.
川島書房
Bookstore
川島書房 — Bookstore.
ダイハン書房
Bookstore
ダイハン書房 is Bookstore. ダイハン書房 also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
宝書店
Bookstore
宝書店 — Bookstore.
知恵蔵書店
Bookstore
知恵蔵書店 is Bookstore.
日之出書房
Bookstore
日之出書房 — Bookstore.
ももたろ書房
Bookstore
ももたろ書房 is Bookstore.
天牛書店
Bookstore
天牛書店 is Bookstore. 天牛書店 also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
栞書店
Bookstore
栞書店 is Bookstore. 栞書店 also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Phone: +81 6 6882 5220
What the map tells us about bookstores in Kobe
68 of the 477 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.
36 have websites listed. Worth a look for events — readings and signings get announced there first.
There's a cluster: 7 of them sit on 1, so you can string those into one walk and drive between the rest.
27 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 Kobe bookstore crawl
The efficient Kobe bookstore crawl strings these together: 蝸牛, メトロ書店, BOOKS LIBRO, 古本市場山下店, 三峰堂, まなびの友社, 古本市場, and 昭和書籍 — 477 stops, one logical order. 469 more are listed below.
Bookstore tips for Kobe
A few things worth knowing before you work through Kobe's bookstores:
- Ask about the book club discount at 蝸牛. Many shops discount book-club orders. If your club buys local, everyone wins.
- Ask for the out-of-print hunters at メトロ書店. Some used shops will hunt down out-of-print titles for you. It takes patience, but the find is worth it.
- Gift buying? Ask for wrapping. Many independents wrap beautifully and free. It beats a gift bag every time.
- Learn the remainders table. Publisher overstocks sold cheap. Great for gift buying — new books at used prices.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Kobe — 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 Kobe can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 477, or a bookstore we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.
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 477 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 Kobe: 477 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.