Tower Records Tokyo Vinyl

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Tower records tokyo vinyl.

Jet set records shimokitazawa tokyo i turned up in the lovely neighborhood of shimokitazawa way too early quickly learning that record stores in japan don t open until about 1 2pm. In 2006 did not affect tower records japan as it had been completely independent. Another great tower records in tokyo is in shinjuku 5 floors or so next to shinjuku station. The shinjuku one has a very nice contemporary experimental section with music by the likes of eno laraaji etc.

But if it wasn t for trying to find jet set that early i walked past it twice i wouldn t have spent all morning exploring and walking around the lovely. Colored vinyl sort featured best selling alphabetically a z alphabetically z a price low to high price high to low date old to new date new to old. Tower records tokyo now has a vinyl only shop luno a vinyl only shop is opening today on the 10 th floor of the tower records flagship store in tokyo. Tower records will join hmv in the japanese capital as mainstream outlets boasting impressive selections of vinyl alongside the city s multitude of specialist independent record retailers.

Tower records japan maintains 85 directly operated store locations throughout japan including the shibuya store in tokyo which is said to be one of the biggest music retail outlets in the world occupying selling space of 5 000 m 9 floors. Even tho all usa branches have closed tower records is alive and thriving in japan with nearly 80 stores nationwide. Smaller than shibuya but still huge acoording to all standards. Tower records is back and online.

The bankruptcy of tower records in the u s. Tower records shibuya shopping music and entertainment shibuya tower records was given an extensive overhaul in late 2012 that increased its whopping 5 000 square metres of floor space. The vinyl factory newsletter. Already japan s largest record store tower records was given an extensive overhaul in late 2012 that actually increased its whopping 5 000 square metres of floor space.

And not just a handful of records but 70 000 records of both japanese and western artists.