Bookstores in Kyoto
Kyoto, Kyoto has 309 bookstores on the map. That's 309 bookshops mapped around Kyoto, 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 Kyoto (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include BOOKS ハセガワ and TSUTAYA, plus ブックス京都. If a bookshop's missing from Kyoto's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Kyoto bookstore lineup
309 mapped within about 40 km — showing 60:
BOOKS ハセガワ
Bookstore
BOOKS ハセガワ is Bookstore.
TSUTAYA
Bookstore
TSUTAYA is Bookstore.
ブックス京都
Bookstore
ブックス京都 is Bookstore.
アミーゴ書店
Bookstore
アミーゴ書店 — Bookstore.
たけだ書店
Bookstore
たけだ書店 is Bookstore.
豊住書店 (Toyosumi shoten)
Bookstore
豊住書店 (Toyosumi shoten) is Bookstore.
啓林堂書店
Bookstore
啓林堂書店 is Bookstore. 啓林堂書店 also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as 09:00-21:00.
Hours: 09:00-21:00
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.
TSUTAYA
Bookstore
TSUTAYA is Bookstore.
古本市場高野店
Bookstore
古本市場高野店 is Bookstore.
九条堂
Bookstore
九条堂 is Bookstore.
木下ブックセンター
Bookstore
木下ブックセンター is Bookstore.
デューク書店
Bookstore
デューク書店 — Bookstore.
野村呼文堂
Bookstore
野村呼文堂 is Bookstore.
大垣書店
Bookstore
大垣書店 — Bookstore.
啓文堂書店
Bookstore
啓文堂書店 is Bookstore.
古本市場
Bookstore
古本市場 is Bookstore.
毛利書店
Bookstore
毛利書店 — Bookstore.
平安堂書店
Bookstore
平安堂書店 — Bookstore.
100000t アローントコ
Bookstore
100000t アローントコ — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about 100000t アローントコ: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 12:00-19:00; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Mo-Su 12:00-19:00
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 10:00-22:00.
Hours: 10:00-22:00
TSUTAYA
Bookstore
TSUTAYA is Bookstore. TSUTAYA also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Sa-Su 10:00-02:00.
Hours: Sa-Su 10:00-02:00
古本市場
Bookstore
古本市場 is Bookstore.
丸善
Bookstore
丸善 is Bookstore on yes.
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リンクショップ
Bookstore
リンクショップ — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about リンクショップ: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:15-18:30.
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:15-18:30
信長書店
Bookstore
信長書店 — Bookstore.
宮脇書店
Bookstore
宮脇書店 is Bookstore.
ブックオフ
BookstoreRun by ブックオフコーポレーション
ブックオフ is Bookstore run by ブックオフコーポレーション.
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.
VILLAGE/VANGUARD
Bookstore
VILLAGE/VANGUARD is Bookstore.
あおい書店
Bookstore
あおい書店 is Bookstore.
町の本屋さん アポロン書房
Bookstore
町の本屋さん アポロン書房 — Bookstore.
ブックオフ
BookstoreRun by ブックオフコーポレーション
ブックオフ is Bookstore run by ブックオフコーポレーション.
富士書房
Bookstore
富士書房 — Bookstore.
ブックオフ
BookstoreRun by ブックオフコーポレーション
ブックオフ is Bookstore run by ブックオフコーポレーション.
ふたば書房
Bookstore
ふたば書房 is Bookstore.
BOOKOFF 大久保店
BookstoreRun by ブックオフコーポレーション
Run by ブックオフコーポレーション, BOOKOFF 大久保店 is Bookstore. Also worth knowing about BOOKOFF 大久保店: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-22:00.
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-22:00
キトラ文庫
Bookstore
キトラ文庫 is Bookstore.
大垣書店
Bookstore
大垣書店 — Bookstore.
山崎書店
Bookstore
山崎書店 — 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.
大垣書店
Bookstore
大垣書店 — Bookstore.
ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore.
三洋堂書店
Bookstore
三洋堂書店 is Bookstore. 三洋堂書店 also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as 09:00-24:00.
Hours: 09:00-24:00
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,PH 10:00-23:00.
Hours: Mo-Su,PH 10:00-23:00
BOOKS BENIYA
Bookstore
BOOKS BENIYA — Bookstore.
大学堂
Bookstore
大学堂 is Bookstore.
古本市場
Bookstore
古本市場 is Bookstore.
水嶋書房
Bookstore
水嶋書房 — Bookstore.
十月書林
Bookstore
十月書林 is Bookstore.
大垣書店（四条烏丸支店）
Bookstore
大垣書店（四条烏丸支店） — Bookstore.
宝書店
Bookstore
宝書店 — Bookstore.
本願寺 ブックセンター
Bookstore
本願寺 ブックセンター — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about 本願寺 ブックセンター: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 09:00-16:00.
Hours: Mo-Su 09:00-16:00
ホホホ座
BookstoreRun by ホホホ座
Run by ホホホ座, ホホホ座 is Bookstore.
What the map tells us about bookstores in Kyoto
45 of the 309 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.
19 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.
14 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 Kyoto bookstore crawl
The efficient Kyoto bookstore crawl strings these together: BOOKS ハセガワ, TSUTAYA, ブックス京都, アミーゴ書店, たけだ書店, 豊住書店 (Toyosumi shoten), 啓林堂書店, and 古本市場山下店 — 309 stops, one logical order. 301 more are listed below.
Bookstore tips for Kyoto
Browsing in Kyoto? A little strategy helps:
- Support the shop's own publishing at BOOKS ハセガワ. Some independents publish local authors or print their own anthologies. Buying them funds the ecosystem directly.
- Browse by serendipity, buy by list at TSUTAYA. Keep a want-list on your phone for the hunt, but let the shelves surprise you too. The best finds are never the planned ones.
- Check the cookbook section. Cookbooks are the most browsed and least bought section, which means the used shelf is full of barely-touched gems.
- Magazines and journals matter. The little-magazine rack is where new writers appear first. Cheap, weird, and full of discoveries.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Kyoto — 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 Kyoto can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 309 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 309 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 Kyoto: 309 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.