bunkitsu 文喫

A mecca for book lovers. You can spend all day there, and since there are so many book-loving customers, everyone is quiet, even if they are coming with friends. However, be careful if the back room upstairs is rented out. People who use the space out for meetings are not interested in enjoying books, so they talk loudly and are very noisy. In such cases, I recommend that you take shelter a little further away. Overall, the fee is cheap, the book selection is good, and to put it mildly, it is the best.

This the best place for bookworm !📚 It’s a new kind of concept bookstore, study space with co-working facilities, cafe. 9am-11pm. Wifi, Admission fee is ¥1,500(Included free tea, coffees) I felt it’s like a gallery more than bookstore...! This store has about 30,000books and magazines, each book and magazine is the only copy in the store since it’s the bookstore for “Meeting Books ”. They create “the encounter with an unprecedented book.”

This place was amazing. Will definitely come when I need to relax and read. I came again, still amazing. I'm hiding from Tokyo and reading quietly.

Well curated and homely. Amazing for focus and slow down time.

Its a bit far from a normal bookstore. You need to pay entrance fee 1500yen to come inner side of the place and have seat with free coffee and green tea.

This is a book lover paradise! You need to pay an entrance fee of 1500 yen to go in, where you can enjoy reading new books at a very spacious reading lounge. There are wifi, power, free coffee included in the entrance fee. You can also order food, drinks for extra. Apart from the reading lounge, there is a work bench divided into individual workstations. There is also a "study" which has 6 tables offering 12 seats in a separate room where you can have discussion. 95 percent of the 30,000 titles are in Japanese. A lot of art, architecture, design books here.

Bunkitsu.💕📚 This is a rather unique bookstore with an entrance fee if you want to frequent the shop past the public magazine racks. The fees supports the cafe (where you can drink as much coffee and tea as you want) while searching through the lovely curated stacks of books. There are some great snacks and dishes in the cafe too. 🍜🍛 What’s most interesting about the store is that (besides the mags) each book is unique, no other copies are in the store. If you like it well enough, you should buy it. 😁 Which I did! A great book on pixel art called “ピクセル百景 現代ピクセルアートの世界 - Pixel vistas. 👾👾👾 I love supporting concept stores like this!

You've probably already heard the concept of the place if you've come here -- it's a bookstore that costs about 15 bucks to enter. But in practice, it's more like a comfy private library (everyone is mostly silent) that will sell you the books at MSRP if you want them, with a cozy cafe attached. How much you enjoy it will depend a lot on whether the selection of books is up your alley -- there's a lot of design, art, architecture, photography, urbanism, etc -- and whether you speak Japanese or not will radically change your offerings (though there's plenty in English within the aforementioned categories if you don't). In my research field, I found a few really cool books I'd never even heard of before, so the trip was totally worth it to me. YMMV, not something you absolutely need to experience but it sold me on the value of it, even though I went in skeptical.