Bookstores in Yokohama
If you judge a town by its bookshops, Yokohama, Kanagawa gives you 859 to judge by. That's 859 bookshops mapped around Yokohama, 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 Yokohama (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include 文教堂 and ブックオフ, plus 新板橋書店. If a bookshop's missing from Yokohama's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Yokohama bookstore lineup
859 mapped within about 40 km — showing 60:
文教堂
Bookstore
文教堂 — Bookstore.
ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore.
新板橋書店
Bookstore
新板橋書店 — Bookstore.
有隣堂
Bookstore
有隣堂 is Bookstore.
住吉書房
Bookstore
住吉書房 is Bookstore.
有隣堂
BookstoreRun by 有隣堂
有隣堂 is Bookstore run by 有隣堂.
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.
ブックオフ
BookstoreRun by BOOK OFF
ブックオフ is Bookstore run by BOOK OFF on 8, 町田市. ブックオフ also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-21:30; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
8, 町田市, 194-0013
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-21:30
Phone: 042-739-4580
TSUTAYA
Bookstore
TSUTAYA is Bookstore.
古書エルダーズ
Bookstore
古書エルダーズ — Bookstore.
ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore.
リブロ
Bookstore
リブロ is Bookstore.
ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore.
明倫館書店
Bookstore
明倫館書店 — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about 明倫館書店: the map lists its hours as We,Su off.
Hours: We,Su off
丸善
Bookstore
丸善 is Bookstore.
虎ノ門書房
Bookstore
虎ノ門書房 is Bookstore. 虎ノ門書房 also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Phone: 03-3454-2571
Ayumi Books
Bookstore
Ayumi Books is Bookstore.
三祢井商店
Bookstore
三祢井商店 is Bookstore.
古本よみた屋
Bookstore
古本よみた屋 — Bookstore.
大盛堂書店
Bookstore
大盛堂書店 is Bookstore.
ブックスオオトリ
Bookstore
ブックスオオトリ is Bookstore.
ブックオフ
Used bookstore
ブックオフ is Used bookstore.
BOOKOFF 行徳駅前店
Bookstore
BOOKOFF 行徳駅前店 — Bookstore.
BOOKSルーエ
Bookstore
BOOKSルーエ is Bookstore. BOOKSルーエ also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
スミノ楽器店 (Sumino Gakki)
Bookstore
スミノ楽器店 (Sumino Gakki) — 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 10:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-19:00
Phone: +81 44 433 3600
三恒堂書店
Bookstore
三恒堂書店 is Bookstore.
神代書店
Bookstore
神代書店 — Bookstore.
竹中書店
Bookstore
竹中書店 — Bookstore.
オリオン書房
Bookstore
オリオン書房 — Bookstore.
信愛書店
Bookstore
信愛書店 is Bookstore.
芳林堂書店
Bookstore
芳林堂書店 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,PH 10:00-23:00.
Hours: Mo-Su,PH 10:00-23:00
BOOKS PISMO
Bookstore
BOOKS PISMO is Bookstore.
地球堂
Bookstore
地球堂 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. ブックオフ also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-24:00; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-24:00
ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore.
待農堂
Bookstore
待農堂 — Bookstore.
TSUTAYA
Bookstore
TSUTAYA is Bookstore.
うぶかた
Bookstore
うぶかた is Bookstore.
ドエル書房
Bookstore
ドエル書房 — 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 also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-22:00; it has a website with more detail.
171-0022
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-22:00
みわ書房
Bookstore
みわ書房 — Bookstore.
啓文堂書店
Bookstore
啓文堂書店 is Bookstore.
外口書店
Bookstore
外口書店 — Bookstore.
啓文堂書店
Bookstore
啓文堂書店 is Bookstore.
石堂書店
Bookstore
石堂書店 is Bookstore. 石堂書店 also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Phone: +81 45-401-9596
三省堂書店
Bookstore
三省堂書店 — Bookstore.
文教堂書店
Bookstore
文教堂書店 — Bookstore.
三省堂書店
BookstoreRun by 三省堂書店
Run by 三省堂書店, 三省堂書店 is Bookstore. Also worth knowing about 三省堂書店: it has a website with more detail.
155-0031
BOOKOFF相模大野店
BookstoreRun by ブックオフコーポレーション (BOOKOFF CORPORATION)
BOOKOFF相模大野店 is Bookstore run by ブックオフコーポレーション (BOOKOFF CORPORATION). BOOKOFF相模大野店 also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as 10:00-01:00.
Hours: 10:00-01:00
紀伊國屋書店
Bookstore
紀伊國屋書店 is Bookstore on 2. 紀伊國屋書店 also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 11:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
2, 151-0051
Hours: Mo-Su 11:00-19:00
Phone: +81 3-5361-3316
雄文堂
Bookstore
雄文堂 is Bookstore.
文教堂
BookstoreRun by 文教堂グループホールディングス
Run by 文教堂グループホールディングス, 文教堂 is Bookstore. Also worth knowing about 文教堂: the map lists its hours as 10:00-22:00.
Hours: 10:00-22:00
ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore.
太陽書店
Bookstore
太陽書店 — Bookstore.
古書 比良木
Bookstore
古書 比良木 is Bookstore.
ブックオフ
Bookstore
ブックオフ is Bookstore.
一心堂
Bookstore
一心堂 is Bookstore.
What the map tells us about bookstores in Yokohama
125 of the 859 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.
76 have websites listed. Worth a look for events — readings and signings get announced there first.
There's a cluster: 17 of them sit on 1, so you can string those into one walk and drive between the rest.
55 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 Yokohama bookstore crawl
The efficient Yokohama bookstore crawl strings these together: 文教堂, ブックオフ, 新板橋書店, 有隣堂, 住吉書房, 有隣堂, ブックオフ, and ブックオフ on 8 — 859 stops, one logical order. 851 more are listed below.
Bookstore tips for Yokohama
Browsing in Yokohama? A little strategy helps:
- Ask for the out-of-print hunters at 文教堂. Some used shops will hunt down out-of-print titles for you. It takes patience, but the find is worth it.
- Don't overlook the classics wall at ブックオフ. Every shop has one. Cheap editions of the books everyone claims to have read — your chance to actually read them.
- Magazines and journals matter. The little-magazine rack is where new writers appear first. Cheap, weird, and full of discoveries.
- Read the first page in the shop. The first-page test never lies. If it doesn't grab you standing there, it won't grab you at home.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Yokohama — 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 Yokohama can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 859 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 859 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 Yokohama: 859 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.