Record stores in Kyoto

Vinyl hunting in Kyoto, Kyoto? There are 16 record shops mapped here. That's 16 record shops mapped around Kyoto. 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 Kyoto (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include 2nd street and TSUTAYA, plus 名曲堂つだ. If a record shop's missing from Kyoto's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Kyoto record lineup

16 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Kyoto

5 of the 16 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

5 have websites listed. Worth a look for new-arrival posts and want-list services.

The Kyoto record crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: 2nd street, TSUTAYA, 名曲堂つだ, TSUTAYA, GEO, スーパーミルク（ＳＵＰＥＲ・ＭＩＬＫ）, 井村レコード, and 新星堂. That's 16 stops on the Kyoto record crawl. 8 more are listed below.

Record digging tips for Kyoto

How the regulars work Kyoto's bins:

• Ask the staff what's new at 2nd street. Shop staff know what's just come in and what's about to. One question can save an hour of digging.
• Go often, dig briefly at TSUTAYA. Short frequent visits beat rare expeditions. Fifteen minutes twice a week outperforms a monthly dig.
• Check the bargain wall rhythm. Shops restock the cheap sections on cycles. Ask when — that's when the fresh bargains land.
• 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.

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 record store in Kyoto can take a while to appear. The 16 above are only as current as the community map. A record store that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

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 16 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.