joaco

Any good japanese bookstores near Long Beach area? Looking for car magazines, etc..

rominl

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mitsuwa, so i guess costa mesa is closest?

Sash1mi

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There's Mitsuwa in Torrance and Costa Mesa. I have yet to check out the one in Costa Mesa.

joaco

Thanks for the info, will check them.

rominl

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the one in costa mesa is ok. but if you go to costa mesa, NE corner of baker and harbor, there is another big japanese bookstore which i think has even more books and magazines

RA40

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The Mituswa Torrance is pretty good. You can special order at any of these so if you don't want the drive, just ask them and they can probably get it. They've ordered some of the special publications like the LF-A, LS43/60 releases for me. Often the store copies have been looked through and thumb creased which so I want a fresh copy. Some I've paid for special shipping to store but usually, not.

Kinokuniya Book Store
3030 Harbor Blvd
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
(714) 662-2319

Is also

ArodDaLob

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book-off? Everything they sell are used, so they're decently cheap but their selection of car mags is okay-at-best though. I usually go to kinokuniya (in little tokyo since I work across the street), stand in front of the bookshelf for about an hour reading through the mags, then leave lol.

Noz

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^^^ I'm pretty sure he's talking about Kinokuniya. It's across the street from Book-Off.

ArodDaLob

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ohh yeah, completely forgot there was one there

CrazySC300

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Mitsuwa bookstores are great...I bought a copy of "Resident Evil 2:Original Soundtrack" from there a long time ago.

rominl

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i forgot the name but it's not used books, all new stuff and yup, i could stand there all day reading

Noz

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Book-Off is great too though. I've bought lots of great used Japanese CDs there.