[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":377},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-en-record-shops-kyoto":3,"blog-related-en-record-shops-kyoto":297},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"cover":240,"date":244,"description":245,"extension":246,"featured":247,"kicker":248,"meta":249,"minutes":250,"navigation":251,"path":252,"seo":253,"seoDescription":254,"shopNames":255,"shops":256,"sources":257,"stem":291,"tags":292,"updated":295,"__hash__":296},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Frecord-shops-kyoto.md","Record shops in Kyoto: Kawaramachi to Okazaki",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":230},"minimark",[9,13,18,41,45,51,56,62,66,72,76,82,86,90,94,100,104,110,113,117,120,123,161,165,199,202,206,213,216],[10,11,12],"p",{},"Kyoto doesn't have a Udagawacho or an Amerikamura. Its record shops are small, scattered over the upper floors of downtown buildings, and most of them have a clear specialty: jazz, noise and sound art, ambient and new age, 60s and 70s rock. The good news is that four of them are within about 400 metres of each other, going by their addresses, around Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae Station (Kyoto City Hall) and Kawaramachi-Sanjo. Two more are a short walk or ride north-east, near the Kamo River and Okazaki.",[14,15,17],"h2",{"id":16},"before-you-go","Before you go",[19,20,21,29,35],"ul",{},[22,23,24,28],"li",{},[25,26,27],"strong",{},"Most shops open at midday or later"," and close by 19:00 or 20:00. Kyoto is not a late-night digging city.",[22,30,31,34],{},[25,32,33],{},"Closing days differ:"," Workshop Records closes on Thursdays, Parallax on Mondays and Tuesdays, Meditations on Tuesdays, Hard Bop on Tuesdays, Sixth Garden on Wednesdays and on the 2nd and 4th Sunday. On a Friday or Saturday, all of them are open.",[22,36,37,40],{},[25,38,39],{},"The nearest station for the downtown four"," is Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae on the Tozai subway line; Keihan Sanjo and Hankyu Kawaramachi are ten minutes' walk.",[14,42,44],{"id":43},"downtown-kyoto-shiyakusho-mae-and-kawaramachi-sanjo","Downtown: Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae and Kawaramachi-Sanjo",[10,46,47,50],{},[25,48,49],{},"JET SET Kyoto"," is where JET SET started, in 1998, before its online shop and its Shimokitazawa store in Tokyo. It's on the fourth floor of the Unity Kawaramachi Building, on the west side of Kawaramachi north of Sanjo. Deep Kyoto describes it as stocking new vinyl across jazz, soul, rock, hip hop, house, techno, reggae, indie and pop, with direct imports and Japanese indie releases. We couldn't confirm current hours from the shop itself, so check its website before going.",[52,53],"blog-shop",{"slug":54,"area":55,"name":49},"jet-set-kyoto","Kyoto · Kawaramachi-Sanjo",[10,57,58,61],{},[25,59,60],{},"Workshop Records"," opened in 1999 and is on the third floor of the Morris Building, about three minutes from Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae. Its stock is used and imported records and CDs: 60s to 2000s rock, UK folk, prog and psych, jazz, soul and funk, Latin and Brazilian, French, reggae and dub, film music, Japanese rock and kayōkyoku, and singles in every genre. Deep Kyoto singles out its jazz and soul. Open 12:00–19:00, closed Thursdays.",[52,63],{"slug":64,"area":65,"name":60},"workshop-records","Kyoto · Teramachi-Oike",[10,67,68,71],{},[25,69,70],{},"Hard Bop",", next to Kyoto City Hall by exit 11 of Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae, sells only jazz, from early jazz to modern and free: used and new LPs and CDs, including original pressings bought abroad. The shop says it holds about 50,000 items, around 15,000 of them in the shop. Its site gives 12:30–18:00, closed Tuesdays, but other listings give a later closing time, so allow for either.",[52,73],{"slug":74,"area":75,"name":70},"hard-bop-kyoto","Kyoto · Shiyakusho-mae",[10,77,78,81],{},[25,79,80],{},"Parallax Records"," is on the second floor of a building in the Sanjo-Shinkyogoku shopping streets, five minutes from Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae. It's the specialist for the other end of the spectrum: noise, industrial, drone and dark ambient, ambient, sound art, free improvisation and free jazz, contemporary music, field recordings and Japanese traditional music, on record, CD and tape, plus used items. It also holds exhibitions and events. From 11 November 2026 it opens 13:00–19:00 on every open day, closed Mondays and Tuesdays (open on public holidays).",[52,83],{"slug":84,"area":85,"name":80},"parallax-records","Kyoto · Shinkyogoku",[87,88],"blog-line-cta",{"eyebrow":89},"Heading to Kyoto?",[14,91,93],{"id":92},"north-kawaramachi-marutamachi-and-okazaki","North: Kawaramachi-Marutamachi and Okazaki",[10,95,96,99],{},[25,97,98],{},"Meditations"," is on the third floor of the Kasuga Building, just north of the Kawaramachi-Marutamachi crossing. It centres on ambient, new age and drone, on vinyl, CD and cassette, and also sells books, films, incense and audio equipment. From Keihan Jingu-Marutamachi Station, exit 2, walk west to the crossing and three minutes north. Open 11:30–19:00 (Sundays and holidays until 18:00), closed Tuesdays.",[52,101],{"slug":102,"area":103,"name":98},"meditations","Kyoto · Kawaramachi-Marutamachi",[10,105,106,109],{},[25,107,108],{},"Sixth Garden Records"," (六番庭レコード) is east of the river in Okazaki, about nine minutes from exit 4 of Jingu-Marutamachi Station. It sells new bass, reggae and dub, experimental, techno and house records, with a used section. Hours are 11:00–19:00, Sundays 14:00–18:00, closed Wednesdays and the 2nd and 4th Sunday. Sixth Garden is one of the shops Hori watches for your wantlist. Going by their addresses, Meditations and Sixth Garden are under a kilometre apart, both reached from Jingu-Marutamachi.",[52,111],{"slug":112},"sixth-garden-records",[14,114,116],{"id":115},"if-you-cant-make-it-to-kyoto","If you can't make it to Kyoto",[10,118,119],{},"Several of these shops sell online as well. Meditations runs an online shop with new arrivals and pre-orders, Parallax Records has its own web store, and Workshop Records buys records in the shop, by post and, within Kansai, through home visits. Sixth Garden Records is one of the shops Hori checks every day: if a record on your Discogs wantlist shows up there, you get a LINE message with the price and a link.",[10,121,122],{},"What each shop is for, in one line:",[19,124,125,131,137,143,149,155],{},[22,126,127,130],{},[25,128,129],{},"New vinyl, most genres:"," JET SET Kyoto.",[22,132,133,136],{},[25,134,135],{},"Used rock, jazz, soul, Japanese rock and kayōkyoku:"," Workshop Records.",[22,138,139,142],{},[25,140,141],{},"Jazz only:"," Hard Bop.",[22,144,145,148],{},[25,146,147],{},"Noise, drone, improvisation, sound art:"," Parallax Records.",[22,150,151,154],{},[25,152,153],{},"Ambient and new age:"," Meditations.",[22,156,157,160],{},[25,158,159],{},"Bass, dub, techno and house:"," Sixth Garden Records.",[14,162,164],{"id":163},"a-day-in-kyoto","A day in Kyoto",[166,167,168,177,183,189],"ol",{},[22,169,170,173,174,176],{},[25,171,172],{},"12:00 Workshop Records",", then ",[25,175,70],{}," (12:30) next to City Hall.",[22,178,179,182],{},[25,180,181],{},"JET SET",", a few minutes south-east on Kawaramachi.",[22,184,185,188],{},[25,186,187],{},"Parallax"," from 13:00, in the Shinkyogoku arcades.",[22,190,191,192,194,195,198],{},"Walk or take the Keihan line north to ",[25,193,98],{},", then cross the river to ",[25,196,197],{},"Sixth Garden"," before 19:00.",[200,201],"blog-shop-map",{},[14,203,205],{"id":204},"further-afield-nara","Further afield: Nara",[10,207,208,209,212],{},"If you have another half day, ",[25,210,211],{},"Mole Music"," in Nara sells new and used house and techno, especially Chicago and Detroit, plus soul, jazz and Japanese music. It's about ten minutes on foot from Kintetsu Shin-Omiya Station and opens 14:00–20:00, closed Tuesdays (the shop sets the exact days on its calendar). Hori watches Mole Music too.",[52,214],{"slug":215},"mole-music",[10,217,218,219,224,225,229],{},"Osaka's cluster is a short train ride away: see ",[220,221,223],"a",{"href":222},"\u002Fblog\u002Frecord-shops-osaka","record shops in Osaka",". 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