Record stores in Suva

Record shops reward the patient digger. Suva, Central Division has 2 mapped right now. That's 2 record shops mapped around Suva. 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 Suva (within about 30 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Procera (1st floor) and Dragon Music. If a record shop's missing from Suva's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Suva record lineup

2 mapped within about 30 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Suva

None of the 2 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 Suva record crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Procera (1st floor) and Dragon Music. That's 2 stops on the Suva record crawl.

Record digging tips for Suva

How the regulars work Suva's bins:

• Visit on restock days at Procera (1st floor). Shops process collections on rhythms. Ask when new used stock hits the floor and time your visits.
• Check the bargain wall rhythm at Dragon Music. Shops restock the cheap sections on cycles. Ask when — that's when the fresh bargains land.
• Check the dead wax. The runout groove holds matrix numbers that identify pressings. Collectors live by these; a quick phone search settles it.
• Check for box sets. Box sets get broken up or sold whole; either way the per-record price is often excellent.

Good to know

We searched about 30 km around Suva — 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 Suva can take a while to appear. The 2 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 2 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.