Record stores in Fukuoka

Vinyl hunting in Fukuoka, Fukuoka? There are 8 record shops mapped here. That's 8 record shops mapped around Fukuoka. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. The new-arrivals bin is always the first stop — that's where the good stuff lands before anyone else sees it.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Fukuoka (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include ツタヤ上津店 and TSUTAYA, plus 河島楽器店. If a record shop's missing from Fukuoka's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Fukuoka record lineup

8 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Fukuoka

None of the 8 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Record shops keep fairly standard retail hours; daytime visits are a safe bet.

The one mapped record store sits on 5 — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

The Fukuoka record crawl

The efficient Fukuoka record crawl strings these together: ツタヤ上津店, TSUTAYA, 河島楽器店, HMV, MOVEment <ROCK>, TSUTAYA, INDO, and TSUTAYA兵庫町店 on 5 — 8 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for Fukuoka

How the regulars work Fukuoka's bins:

• Sleeves matter for value at ツタヤ上津店. Original inner sleeves, inserts, posters — completeness counts. A bare record in a generic sleeve is worth less.
• Genre-hop at TSUTAYA. The best finds are in the sections you don't know. Jazz collectors find gold in the classical bins and vice versa.
• Learn the grading. Mint, near mint, very good — and check whether the grade is visual or play-graded. A visual VG+ can play like an EX.
• Don't clean records with your shirt. A proper brush costs little and saves grooves. Shirt fibres and spit are how records get ruined.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Fukuoka — 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 record store in Fukuoka can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 8, or a record store we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 8 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.