Radar Telegram alerts Open Radar

Would you go to such a bookstore? In Ginza, a district of Tokyo where a square meter costs as much as an apartment in another city, there is a bookstore called Morioka Shoten, which sells only one book. It was invented by Yoshiyuki Morioka, a man who used to own regular bookstores for many years and observed how customers behaved for years. What happens is this: a person walks in, walks along the shelves, takes one book, returns it, takes a picture of another, takes a picture of the cover to "look at it later", and leaves empty handed. Not because he has nothing to read. Because a teacher is a job for a guy, but he comes to relax! * In May 2015 Morioka opened a special hall dedicated to one story only. Every week a new book is chosen here, and around it the whole space is rebuilt: the interior, artworks, meetings with the author. For a week the store lives in one story, then it ends and another begins. The store has been operating for more than ten years and attracts people from all over the world. What book would you put on the table in a store like this for a week? Write in the comments.

תרגם לעברית

Новый Век · · Source

🇯🇵 Japan · טוקיו · Map

Would you go to such a bookstore? In Ginza, a district of Tokyo where a square meter costs as much as an apartment in another city, there is a bookstore called Morioka Shoten, which sells only one book. It was invented by Yoshiyuki Morioka, a man who used to own regular bookstores for many years and observed how customers behaved for years. What happens is this: a person walks in, walks along the shelves, takes one book, returns it, takes a picture of another, takes a picture of the cover to "look at it later", and leaves empty handed. Not because he has nothing to read. Because a teacher is a job for a guy, but he comes to relax! * In May 2015 Morioka opened a special hall dedicated to one story only. Every week a new book is chosen here, and around it the whole space is rebuilt: the interior, artworks, meetings with the author. For a week the store lives in one story, then it ends and another begins. The store has been operating for more than ten years and attracts people from all over the world. What book would you put on the table in a store like this for a week? Write in the comments.

Would you go to such a bookstore? In Ginza, a district of Tokyo where a square meter costs as much as an apartment in another city, there is a bookstore called Morioka Shoten, which sells only one book. It was invented by Yoshiyuki Morioka, a man who used to own regular bookstores for many years and observed how customers behaved for years. What happens is this: a person walks in, walks along the shelves, takes one book, returns it, takes a picture of another, takes a picture of the cover to "look at it later", and leaves empty handed. Not because he has nothing to read. Because a teacher is a job for a guy, but he comes to relax! * In May 2015 Morioka opened a special hall dedicated to one story only. Every week a new book is chosen here, and around it the whole space is rebuilt: the interior, artworks, meetings with the author. For a week the store lives in one story, then it ends and another begins. The store has been operating for more than ten years and attracts people from all over the world. What book would you put on the table in a store like this for a week? Write in the comments.

More on Radar

Want to see every report in real time?

Hundreds of sources worldwide, translated into your language, with alerts for what matters to you.

Sign up free
Share on WhatsApp Get alerts on Telegram