View Full Version : Where to buy Japanese game guide books?
rbudrick
09-11-2003, 01:08 PM
Hi Folks,
Does anyone know anyplace that has a selection of these? Seems everyplace sells games, but I'm having a tough time trying to find a place that deals any good amount in these. Hope you can help. :-)
Oh, and sorry if this should actually go in the buy/sell forum....I wasn't really sure!
Yours,
Rob
Anonymous
09-11-2003, 03:03 PM
KinoKuniya, located in New York and Seattle, has an online bookstore:
East Coast:
http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/indexohb.cgi?AREA=03
West Coast:
http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/indexohb.cgi?AREA=02
The actual store has a great selection. Be forewarned the site is in Japanese, but they ship in the US.
rbudrick
09-11-2003, 03:47 PM
Thanks, anotherfluke.
However, My japanese blows, and Babelfish's is worse LOL LOL
Anybody know any English sites?
Thanks again!
Yours,
ROb
rbudrick
09-11-2003, 05:54 PM
Hi FOlks,
FYI: www.jamall.com turned out to be pretty useful. I used Anotherfluke's site to get ISBN number, then searched Jamall.com for that number....worked like a charm!
So, Jamall is cool, and it works, and it's in English!
-Rob
Anonymous
09-11-2003, 06:23 PM
Cool, I'm glad it helped out a bit. I don't know enough japanese for that site to be useful to me either, but then again I can just walk into the store and look at the pictures :)
slapdash
09-15-2003, 05:47 PM
If you're ever in my neck of the woods (Arlington Hts IL), there's a bookstore here too -- think it used to be a Kinokuniya, but maybe not anymore? Not sure. It's actually been a while since I've been in there, so I hope it's still there!
For those who have read a few, on an average how are japanese guides compared to the ones released over here (like the standard Prima and Brady guides)? More / less detailed or pretty much the same?
GaijinPunch
09-15-2003, 07:50 PM
www.amazon.co.jp also ships worldwide. They've got a "Display in English" button that I just used for the first time, and it apparantly doesn't fly on Japanese products.
If you've got hours - just surf around for the game you want. Copy the title, then use it in the search, and maybe you can find the guide book for it.
Then you've got the nightmare of checking out....
Be forewarned about Kinokuniya - they're kind of a book empire. They sell English books in their Japanese stores, and Japanese books in their US/UK stores, and jack up the price on both ends. Good business model, as I'm sure they buy in bulk on all ends. Logic tells me that Amazon (other than used in Japan) is the cheapest solution.