Bookstores in Nagoya
Nagoya, Aichi has 200 bookstores on the map. That's 200 bookshops mapped around Nagoya, 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 Nagoya (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include 三洋堂 and 大和書房, plus ブックオフ小牧中央店. If a bookshop's missing from Nagoya's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Nagoya bookstore lineup
200 mapped within about 40 km — showing 60:
三洋堂
Bookstore
三洋堂 — Bookstore.
瀬戸市
大和書房
Bookstore
大和書房 is Bookstore.
ブックオフ小牧中央店
Bookstore
ブックオフ小牧中央店 is Bookstore.
カルコス
Bookstore
カルコス — Bookstore.

GEOゲームセンター
Bookstore
GEOゲームセンター is Bookstore. GEOゲームセンター also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as 24/7.
Hours: 24/7
ジュンク堂
Bookstore
ジュンク堂 — Bookstore.
夢屋書店
Bookstore
夢屋書店 — Bookstore.
本の王国高蔵寺店
Bookstore
本の王国高蔵寺店 is Bookstore. 本の王国高蔵寺店 also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as 09:30-21:00.
Hours: 09:30-21:00

ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore.
ゲオ
Bookstore
ゲオ is Bookstore.
大竹書店
Bookstore
大竹書店 — Bookstore.
くまざわ書店
Bookstore
くまざわ書店 — Bookstore.

宮脇書店
Bookstore
宮脇書店 is Bookstore.
ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore on 202, 名古屋市. ブックオフ also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as 10:00-21:00; it has a website with more detail.
202, 名古屋市, 454-0932
Hours: 10:00-21:00
紀伊國屋書店
Bookstore
紀伊國屋書店 is Bookstore.
泰文堂
Bookstore
泰文堂 is Bookstore.
ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore.
武豊書房
Bookstore
武豊書房 — Bookstore.
平松書店
Bookstore
平松書店 — Bookstore.
海星堂書店
Bookstore
海星堂書店 — Bookstore.
三松堂
Bookstore
三松堂 is Bookstore. 三松堂 also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Phone: +81 523211261
あじさい堂書店
Bookstore
あじさい堂書店 is Bookstore.
ブックセンター名豊
Bookstore
ブックセンター名豊 — Bookstore.
ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore.
BOOK OFF
Bookstore
BOOK OFF is Bookstore.
三省堂書店
Bookstore
三省堂書店 — Bookstore.
海星堂書店
Bookstore
海星堂書店 — Bookstore.
零式
Bookstore
零式 is Bookstore.
蛍光堂
Bookstore
蛍光堂 is Bookstore.
螢光堂
Bookstore
螢光堂 — Bookstore.
白楊日永店
Bookstore
白楊日永店 is Bookstore.
桃太郎書店
Bookstore
桃太郎書店 — Bookstore.
三洋堂書店
Bookstore
三洋堂書店 is Bookstore.
TSUTAYA
Bookstore
TSUTAYA is Bookstore.
TSUTAYA
Bookstore
TSUTAYA is Bookstore.
TSUTAYA
Bookstore
TSUTAYA is Bookstore.
大阪屋書店
Bookstore
大阪屋書店 — Bookstore.
松島書店
Bookstore
松島書店 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 10:00-20:00.
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-20:00
BOOK OFF
Bookstore
BOOK OFF is Bookstore.
精文館書店 新津島店
Bookstore
精文館書店 新津島店 is Bookstore.
泰文堂
Bookstore
泰文堂 is Bookstore.
精文館
Bookstore
精文館 — Bookstore.
精文館書店
Bookstore
精文館書店 is Bookstore.
白沢書店
Bookstore
白沢書店 is Bookstore.
広目堂書店
Bookstore
広目堂書店 — Bookstore.
宮脇書店
Bookstore
宮脇書店 is Bookstore.
ブックマート
Bookstore
ブックマート is Bookstore.
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.
桑名市, 511-0863
Kato Books
Bookstore
Kato Books is Bookstore.
BOOK-OFF
Bookstore
BOOK-OFF — Bookstore.
やまねこ亭
Bookstore
やまねこ亭 — Bookstore.
三國書店
Bookstore
三國書店 is Bookstore.
三洋堂書店
Bookstore
三洋堂書店 is Bookstore.
ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore.
大村書店
Bookstore
大村書店 is Bookstore.
ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore on 5, 古屋市. ブックオフ also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-21:00.
5, 古屋市, 460-0008
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-21:00
ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore.
三洋堂
Bookstore
三洋堂 — Bookstore.
What the map tells us about bookstores in Nagoya
19 of the 200 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.
8 have websites listed. Worth a look for events — readings and signings get announced there first.
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 Nagoya bookstore crawl
The efficient Nagoya bookstore crawl strings these together: 三洋堂, 大和書房, ブックオフ小牧中央店, カルコス, GEOゲームセンター, ジュンク堂, 夢屋書店, and 本の王国高蔵寺店 — 200 stops, one logical order. 192 more are listed below.
Bookstore tips for Nagoya
Browsing in Nagoya? A little strategy helps:
- Ask about ordering at 三洋堂. Independent shops will order anything in print, often in a day or two. No need to default to the big online retailer.
- Don't judge by the window display at 大和書房. The front table is marketing. The back shelves are the shop's real taste. Walk the whole floor.
- Buy the signed copy. Signed stock costs the same as unsigned and only goes up in charm. Ask at the till; shops often have signed copies behind the counter.
- Check condition before you pay. Used books: check for missing pages, water damage, and cracked spines. A quick flip-through takes ten seconds.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Nagoya — 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 Nagoya can take a while to appear. The 200 above are only as current as the community map. A bookstore that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.
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 200 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 Nagoya: 200 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.