Bookstores in Nara
Bookstores reward the browsers. Nara, Nara has 31 mapped right now. That's 31 bookshops mapped around Nara, each with its own shelves and specialties. The used sections are where the real bargains hide.
This guide covers every bookstore we could verify in and around Nara (within about 25 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include 蔦屋書店 and ブックオフ, plus 啓文堂書店. If a bookshop's missing from Nara's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Nara bookstore lineup
31 in Nara, plus 140 more around Nara below:
蔦屋書店
Bookstore0.3 km from Nara
蔦屋書店 — Bookstore.
ブックオフ
Bookstore0.3 km from Nara
ブックオフ is Bookstore on 226, 奈良市. 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.
226, 奈良市, 630-8001
Hours: 10:00-22:00
Phone: 0742-32-4188
啓文堂書店
Bookstore0.6 km from Nara
啓文堂書店 is Bookstore.
啓林堂書店
Bookstore2.1 km from Nara
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
たけだ書店
Bookstore2.1 km from Nara
たけだ書店 is Bookstore.
大学堂
Bookstore2.2 km from Nara
大学堂 is Bookstore.
豊住書店 (Toyosumi shoten)
Bookstore2.2 km from Nara
豊住書店 (Toyosumi shoten) is Bookstore.
BOOKS BENIYA
Bookstore2.2 km from Nara
BOOKS BENIYA — Bookstore.
十月書林
Bookstore2.3 km from Nara
十月書林 is Bookstore.
Naramachi Bookspace ふうせんかずら
Bookstore2.3 km from Nara
Naramachi Bookspace ふうせんかずら is Bookstore. Naramachi Bookspace ふうせんかずら also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 07:00-23:00.
Hours: Mo-Su 07:00-23:00
古本酒仙堂
Bookstore2.7 km from Nara
古本酒仙堂 — Bookstore.
Museum shop
Bookstore3.0 km from Nara
Museum shop — Bookstore.
九条堂
Bookstore3.6 km from Nara
九条堂 is Bookstore.
喜久屋書店
Bookstore3.8 km from Nara
喜久屋書店 — Bookstore.
宮脇書店
Bookstore4.0 km from Nara
宮脇書店 is Bookstore on 1, 木津川市. 宮脇書店 also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
1, 木津川市, 619-0216
Phone: 0774-75-1168
古漫画 漫族
Bookstore4.2 km from Nara
古漫画 漫族 — Bookstore.
庫書房
Bookstore4.3 km from Nara
庫書房 — Bookstore.
未来屋書店
Bookstore4.5 km from Nara
未来屋書店 is Bookstore.
ジャパンブックス
Bookstore4.6 km from Nara
ジャパンブックス — Bookstore.
啓林堂書店
Bookstore4.7 km from Nara
啓林堂書店 is Bookstore.
ブックオフ
Bookstore4.8 km from Nara
ブックオフ is Bookstore.
とほん
Bookstore4.9 km from Nara
とほん — Bookstore.
啓林堂書店
Bookstore5.2 km from Nara
啓林堂書店 is Bookstore. 啓林堂書店 also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as 10:00-20:00; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: 10:00-20:00
みつはし
Bookstore6.0 km from Nara
みつはし is Bookstore.
TSUTAYA
Bookstore6.2 km from Nara
TSUTAYA is Bookstore.
ブックオフ
Bookstore7.1 km from Nara
ブックオフ is Bookstore on 1, 大和郡山市. 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.
1, 大和郡山市, 639-1042
Hours: 10:00-21:00
Phone: +81743547739
ACADEMIA
Bookstore7.6 km from NaraRun by くまざわ書店
Run by くまざわ書店, ACADEMIA is Bookstore. Also worth knowing about ACADEMIA: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-21:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
精華町, 6190238
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-21:00
Phone: 0774-98-4053
コーナンBOOKS
Bookstore7.6 km from Nara
コーナンBOOKS — Bookstore.
ブックオフ
Bookstore9.7 km from Nara
ブックオフ is Bookstore on 11, 生駒市. 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.
11, 生駒市, 630-0225
Hours: 10:00-22:00
Phone: 0743-76-2910
中田書店
Bookstore9.9 km from Nara
中田書店 is Bookstore.
キトラ文庫
Bookstore9.9 km from Nara
キトラ文庫 is Bookstore.
What the map tells us about bookstores in Nara
7 of the 31 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.
6 have websites listed. Worth a look for events — readings and signings get announced there first.
There's a cluster: 2 of them sit on 1, so you can string those into one walk and drive between the rest.
The Nara bookstore crawl
Making a day of it in Nara? Work this order: 蔦屋書店, ブックオフ on 226, 啓文堂書店, 啓林堂書店, たけだ書店, 大学堂, 豊住書店 (Toyosumi shoten), and BOOKS BENIYA. That's the bookstore crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 23 more are listed below.
Bookstore tips for Nara
The regulars' playbook for Nara's bookshops:
- Come back seasonally at 蔦屋書店. Stock turns over with the publishing seasons. The shop you browsed in spring is a different shop by autumn.
- Poetry lives in bookshops at ブックオフ. Poetry barely exists online as a browsing experience. The poetry shelf in a real shop is a different world.
- Check the bargain carts outside. Sidewalk carts are the shop's clearance rack. A dollar a book, and the turnover is fast.
- Support the shop's own publishing. Some independents publish local authors or print their own anthologies. Buying them funds the ecosystem directly.
Good to know
We searched about 25 km around Nara — 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 Nara can take a while to appear. The 31 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 31 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.
Worth the trip: more bookstores around Nara
140 more within about 25 km of Nara — here are the 15 nearest:
おやさと書店 三島店
Bookstore10.0 km from Nara
おやさと書店 三島店 — Bookstore.
天理市
GEO斑鳩店
Bookstore12.0 km from Nara
GEO斑鳩店 — Bookstore on 龍田西５丁目２番１９号 国道25号 / 国道168号 (Route 25 & 168).
龍田西５丁目２番１９号 国道25号 / 国道168号 (Route 25 & 168), 6360154
キャップ書店
Bookstore13.4 km from Nara
キャップ書店 — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about キャップ書店: 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: +81 745 34 2346
宮脇書店田原本店
Bookstore14.2 km from Nara
宮脇書店田原本店 is Bookstore.
森井書店
Bookstore14.4 km from Nara
森井書店 — Bookstore.
大西書店
Bookstore15.2 km from Nara
大西書店 — Bookstore.
トレンド書店
Bookstore15.3 km from Nara
トレンド書店 is Bookstore.
山城書店
Bookstore15.4 km from Nara
山城書店 — Bookstore on 京田辺市河原御影30-22. Also worth knowing about 山城書店: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
京田辺市河原御影30-22, 610-0361
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-19:00
Phone: 0774-62-0827
もりねき書店
Bookstore15.6 km from Nara
もりねき書店 — Bookstore.
星田ネオ書房
Bookstore15.7 km from Nara
星田ネオ書房 is Bookstore.
野村呼文堂
Bookstore15.8 km from Nara
野村呼文堂 is Bookstore.
福助堂書店
Bookstore16.0 km from Nara
福助堂書店 — Bookstore.
ブックオフ
Bookstore16.4 km from Nara
ブックオフ is Bookstore.
岡沢商店
Bookstore16.5 km from Nara
岡沢商店 — Bookstore.
九龍堂
Bookstore16.7 km from Nara
九龍堂 is Bookstore. 九龍堂 also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Phone: +81 72 921 4035
Bookstore listings for Nara: 31 in Nara and 140 more nearby 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.