Record stores in Pokhara

Record shops reward the patient digger. Pokhara, Gandaki Province has 7 mapped right now. That's 7 record shops mapped around Pokhara. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. Check the grading before you pay — a visual grade and a play grade are two different things.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Pokhara (within about 25 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Music Mantra and Pokhara Music House, plus Music Maniya. If a record shop's missing from Pokhara's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Pokhara record lineup

7 in Pokhara:

What the map tells us about record stores in Pokhara

None of the 7 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 Pokhara record crawl

The efficient Pokhara record crawl strings these together: Music Mantra on New Road, Pokhara Music House, Music Maniya on चिप्लेढुंगा, Jo Ji Ju Music Centre, New Sound & Vision, Resham Firiri, and Caravan Music Centre — 7 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for Pokhara

Digging in Pokhara? A few habits pay off:

• Genre-hop at Music Mantra. 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 at Pokhara Music House. Mint, near mint, very good — and check whether the grade is visual or play-graded. A visual VG+ can play like an EX.
• Learn to spot reissues. Reissues are cheaper and often sound great. Originals cost more for the history. Know which you're paying for.
• Bring a want-list. Write down what you're hunting. Digging is fun, but a list turns luck into strategy.

Good to know

We searched about 25 km around Pokhara — 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 Pokhara can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 7 that's closed, or a great record store we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

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 7 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.