Where to buy X Japan stuff?

It's very difficult to find shops where you can buy X Japans cds, especially in other countries than Japan. I want to collect addresses of online-stores and of real stores from around the world to help everyone. So if you know an address that is missing here, please tell me!

I don't know these shops and I don't know if they are good or if there are ploblems with them. I just collected the addresses and it's your own risk when you order there...

Most onlinestores ship everywhere around the world but most times it's cheaper if it's from your own country or coninent, that's why I listed the onlinestores under the countries too...

Thanks to Hella for the German and French addresses!

Japan

USA

Germany

Canada

France

UK

Hongkong

Australia

Thailand

Switzerland

 

 

 

 

Japan

Mundo/Media Wars

They have a good selection. Chris uses them a lot.

Towerrecords

YesAsia

 

HMV

 

CDJapan

 

USA

Wizzywig

They have cool hide merchandise, even UFO dolls

Animenation

 

Lost Wonders

 

The Place

They have a nice selection.

Kinokuniya Bookstore

10 West 49th Street
(Rockefeller Plaza)
New York, NY 10020

Like its twin franchise at Yaohan Plaza, this store has an excellent selection of manga and anime/manga art books, as well as Japanese-language books of all kinds. It has also a lot of music cds from Japanese artists.

Phone: 212-765-7766
Fax: 212-541-9335

J-xyz.com

They have a lot of rare merchandise, but are rather expensive.

Necromance

7220 Melrose Avenue
Hollywood, CA 90046

hide used to shop there and they have some jewelery that he designed...

D & V Import

210 Canal Street
New York, NY 10013

Smack dab in the heart of Chinatown, this shop has the best collection of Asian music in the city. Of interest for its many music CDs and Chinese-translated anime video CDs (many of which can be viewed on a computer with a CD-Rom drive and MPEG-2 or better compliance). Some good wall scrolls, too.

Phone: 212-227-2212 Fax: 212-227-2214

Happiness Audio & Video

2 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY 10013

Excellent selection of Asian music, although it comes in second to D&V Import. The owner, Charlie Wong, is Chinatown's foremost Chinese-language disc jockey and he keeps a good stock of Asian music including anime soundtracks.

Phone: 212-732-3828
Fax: 212-732-3588

Hyper Hobby / Image Anime Co.

103 West 30th Street
New York, NY 10001

A very cool midtown anime outlet, especially noteworthy for its merchandise/memorabilia. Nice anime toys, models, and posters and wall hangings and some cd's.

Phone: 212-631-0966
Fax: 212-631-0955

Asahiya Bookstore

52 Vanderbilt Avenue
New York, NY 10017

An upscale NYC Japanese bookstore, located within two blocks of Grand Central Station. Large selection of manga and art books, even a few licensed anime videotapes. It has also a lot of music cds from Japanese artists.

Phone: 212-883-0011
Fax: 212-883-1011

Octopus Kingdom

150 Lafayette Street, Suite 28
New York, NY 10013

Good and cheap all-around anime videotape and CD outlet in Chinatown. Some merchandise, but mostly the draw is the tapes and CDs themselves.

Phone: 212-941-8380

Peguin Village Elizabeth Center

Basement Level
13-17 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY 10013

This indoor mini-mall includes a little of everything, including a whole-in-the-wall shop with a great selection of just about everything anime related...

Phone: 212-219-3768

JBC Books Shop 33

725 River Road
NY

Next to the shopping center to the north of Yaohan Plaza, very walkable. A wonderful and cheap source for manga, laserdiscs, and CDs.

Phone: ( 201) 941-7622

Book-off

Next to Public Libary between 5th and Madison (it's around 42nd St.)
NY

Its comes from a japanese franchise that mostly collects used manga and resells them they have an entire section of $1 books and most others are $3, speacial movie turned manga or larger books run to about $5, they alsoo do the same for cds.

thanks to Josh for this one.

Amazon.com

Nearly unbelievable, but you can order X Japan cds at Amazon.... but expensive.

Germany

NeoTokyo

Marktstraße 8
80802 München
Germany

Anime and Manga Store, they sometimes have Visual Kei Cds and they can order them. They also ship items.

Phone: 089/346986
Fax:  089/38889064

WOM - World of music

There are WOM stores in the larger cities in Germany (e.g. Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart). You can get the addresses of their shops on their website. They can order cds in Japan and have even some X Japan cds in the online-catalogue. Not cheap.

Amazon.de

Nearly unbelievable, but you can order X Japan cds at Amazon.... but expensive.

Pin-Up

Ritterstraße 16
Köln

If you know the name of the cd they can order nearly everything.

Tel. 0221/136803

BOOKstore Nippon
Japanische Buchhandlung

Immermannstraße 45
40210 Düsseldorf
Germany

Japanese Bookstore, they can order cds but only when you know the number of the cd.

Phone: 0211/365617
email: book@duess.jis.de

Japanische Buchhandlung

OCS GmbH
Große Gallusstr. 1-7
60211 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

Japanese Bookstore, they can order cds but only when you know the number of the cd.

Phone: 069/294047 or 069/294048
Fax: 069/281198

Japanische Buchhandlung
OCS GmbH

Stadthausbrücke 7
20355 Hamburg
Germany

Japanese Bookstore, they can order cds but only when you know the number of the cd.

Phone: 040/369702-0
Fax: 040/369702-50

Japanische Buchhandlung
Yamashina

Pestalozzistraße 67
10627 Berlin
Germany

Japanese Bookstore, they can order cds but only when you know the number of the cd.

Phone + Fax: 030/3237882

http://www.mangax.de/

They can order cds, but they need the names and numbers

Grober Unfug

Zossener Strasse 33
10961 Berlin - Kreuzberg

"They exclusively have original CDs so they're not cheap but they try to order everything if you can tell name, number or title of a song, ... --> I only made good experiences with them"
Feanrana

scroll down and klick on the link: J-Pop-Neuheiten to get a a wide range of J-POP and J-Rock albums and infos about their release dates

info@groberunfug.de
Tel.: +49 (0) 30 - 6940 1490

Canada

JPopHelp

They have a lof of cds and also magazines

UK

Japancentre.com

Picadilly Circus, London

Japan imports so they are expensive

www.101cd.com

A UK based webpage. Prices are about £25, delivery takes about two-five weeks...
thanks to Hugh Mann

Thailand

Maeng Pong Record
Tower Record
MBK centre
SIAM sentre

Bangkok

Those are chains and there are several shops all over the town.

France

Junkudo

Librairie Junku
18, rue des Pyramides
75001 Paris
France

Japanese Bookstore, original Japanese cds

Mo-Sa: 10:00am-7:00pm

Konci

123, Boudouir Voltaire
75011 Paris
France

Anime-Manga-Store which also sells Visual stuff, mostly Hongkong import cds.

Mo-Fr: 10:30am-7:30pm; Sa: 10:00am-7:30pm

Stargame

Stargame at Metz
near ile de solcy

They sell the oversea versions of CDs

Tonkam

29, rue keller
Paris

near the Bastille

they sell japanese

Mangarake

11, rue Keller
75011 Paris
France

Anime-Manga-Store which also sells Visual stuff, mostly cds.

Mo-Fr: 10:00am-7:30
email: managarake@hotmail.com

Atomic Club

17, rue Trousseau
75011 Paris
France

original Japanese Cds, also used cds

Mo-Fr: 10:30am-12:00am + 1:00pm-7:00am; Sa: 10:00am-7:00pm; So: 2:00pm-6:00pm

New City Game

11, rue Confort
69002 Lyon
France

Hongkong Imports of japanese cds

Virgin

There are several from those stores over France, they can import cds from Japan

Hongkong

Sino Plaza

It is the best place to find X-Japan videos and music. Some are authentic, some fake.
Mong Kok

Ladies Street Market on Mong Kok

X Japan t-shirts and other stuff

Australia thx to Danny

Shinseido

Westfield shopping centre
Chatswood
SYDNEY
NSW

They sell some X japan music cds and VCDs. Usually you need to order them as they don't keep lots of stock~

Kinokuniya

Sydney

They stock X japan band score books and they can order other X japan related books (probably also cds, at least Kinokunya in USA can do this). Its quite expensive.

Utopia

George St (below the hoyts cinema complex)
SYDNEY 2000
NSW
AUSTRALIA

They sell original japanese cd version of DAHLIA and Art of Life albums and they can order cds too. They aren't cheap, but if you consider the exchange rate, the original cost of the japanese album and add in the postage its not so bad.
P.s. this shop has heaps and heaps of alternative and rock style cds and fan gear. So they might have contacts where they could get x japan fan gear such as shirts.

Switzerland

tuttocomics

www.tuttocomics.ch
thanks to Feanrana