Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Little Tokyo Shops Spotlight 3: Kinokuniya Bookstore

If you have the need to get your hands on some Japanese magazines, then this is the place for you. I spend a lot of time and money in this place, mostly for fashion magazines like Street Jack, Warp, Cool Trans, Smart, and Samurai. They have every single type of print media in here, like manga, art books, stationary, language learning texts, Japanese versions of magazines like TIME, Newsweek, Rolling Stone and they have toys, CDs and DVDs.

The store front on the second floor of Weller Court. That rack-on-wheels always has bargain books on there.

4 magazines = $47. But it's all worth it, because these magazines always have awesome freebies for your spent money. The magazines are really just a visual book for me to look at the pictures, because I can only read like the headlines and stuff, enough to get the gist of it. But what else is there to read about, they are fashion magazines lol.

Like I said before, Japanese mags are all about the freebies. This is the free swag from the Brutus CASA magazine. What is it? It's a plate from world-renown artist Takashi Murakami. Who wouldn't want a free thing from Murakami, his works are hella expensive.

Every month, I swear I see Pharell on at least one of the covers of the Men's Fashion magazines that I buy. Then again he is pretty much involved in brands like BAPE, so his presence is normal.

Back to the freebies, this is from COOL Trans. It's a fucking Neighborhood messenger bag. Again, Neighborhood items are very expensive, so free is the best way to go.

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