Japan Game Junk

This is the best retro gaming store in the world, period, combining selection, rarity, and price. Describing the Book Off in Ashikaga, Tochigi, as visited on May 13, 2024. Go there as soon as you can. And grab a pizza too.

Kind of a regular old Hard Off trip visit description this time, being the one in Sodegaura, Chiba, on May 12, 2024. Not the best place for rare retro games but a great place if you're looking to collect every computer Apple ever made.

The second store visited in Kisarazu, Chiba on May 12, 2024, this is a favors Hard Off store. Huge with lots of stock and a take off said to find, it has one of the most surprising deals I've seen although it's more useful these days as a toddler's nap area than a game accessory.

The first store visited in a drive through Kisarazu, Chiba, this is a Momotaro Kingdom store manager by the Surugaya chain. Some super cheap stuff and super expensive stuff, but in the end I was happy to take advantage of the store's wide array of 100 yen junk games, CDs, and Blu-ray/DVDs

Formerly a great store that feel on hard times but now is seeing a resurgence, I describe visiting a WonderGoo store in Mobara, Chiba on May 12, 2024. Also I share information on the best donuts in the world.

The final of the 3 Fuji Shoten stores visited on May 6, 2024 in Ibaraki prefecture, this one in Ishioka city. I finally fulfill a dream I've sought for years, I describe the most programmable pad ever, and do people still like those Funko Pop things?

The second Fuji Shoten store visited on May 6, 2024, this visit delivered on some manual-less eye-less animation gameness. Spawn is cheap, a creepy cell phone call, and Domino's Pizza.

On this May 6, 2024 visit to Fuji Shoten in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, I buy further access to the deepest dungeon and a Danganronpa bag. For only 1500 yen you can also apparently buy a free game on the PS5.

Currently an Enterking store yet on next remodeling to be a Surugaya, some information on a visit on May 5, 2024 to the branch in Nishi Arai, Adachi ward, Tokyo. The new in box Virtual Boy stock continues! Plus go upstairs for some SMAP and Tolstoy!

One of the best stores for game searchers in Japan, as visited on May 5, 2024, this is the very nice Surugaya branch in Omiya ward of Saitama city. My only reason not to recommend that you go there right now is that you might buy good stuff before I can the next time I go.

A wonderful store with amazing surprises... in store... Visiting the Surugaya branch in Utsunomiya, Tochigi on May 4th, 2024, I discount a cache of new in box historical artifacts that hopefully will help ruin the day of a few greedy online game sellers

Have a guru guru time as Guru Guru Daiteikoku in Yuki city of Ibaraki was visited on May 4, 2024. Be amazed at the high prices Neo Geo CD game! Be astonished at the risk of a Switch gamble! Be aware of your surroundings every time you cross a street!

The best podcast ever recorded under pain of bronchitis! This time, sharing the fun goodness of Otachu in Ryugasaki city, Ibaraki prefecture, visited on May 3, 2024. Thank you for listening and please invent a way to clear up bronchitis without swallowing 100 pills over the course of the week.

Just a couple of things that can be found at Geo, a media store and movie rental shop with branches throughout Japan. This one was in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, visited on April 29, 2024. Also, I'm dearly sick and choked up.

A not so wonderful Hard Off/Off House location in Misato, Saitama. Most of my visits result in no purchases and this visit on April 26, 2024 is no exception. However if you are desperate for a huge boxed light gun or an unopened sexy Saturn game, you are in luck! Also, eat pizza!

It's another Papi! This one, visited on April 22, 2024, had a Game Boy-less Tamagotchi box, cheap Amiibo, and a printer for your PlayStation 2! Also the old man was less old!

A visit on April 21, 2024 to the Guru Guru kanteidan-style store in Machida, Tokyo. It lost the machine I loved the first time I went, but you can still do Switch gambling and get Chesterfield.

On April 21, 2024, I visited the Surugaya store in Machida, Tokyo, and I do not work at the English school next to it so if you would please stop staring at me like you think I do

From an April 21, 2024 visit, in Sagamihara, Kanagawa, it's Zest! Or is it Surugaya? Anyway get cheap old Neo Geo cartridges or expensive new Neo Geo cartridges or aPC-FX fake I should have bought and now regret skipping!

If you are a foreigner visiting various used game stores in Japan, you probably have already visited Hard Off in the ECOTown center in Hachioji, Tokyo. On April 21, 2024, I braved the parking structure to share with you the hobby computers to be had and the white people you can see.

A fine Surugaya store in Kashiwa, Chiba has lots of pricey 3DO nudity. And at least on April 20, 2024, it had the oddest game soundtrack ever put on sale in the junk section.

A wonderful store in Matsudo, Chiba, this branch of Momotaro Okoku truly respects Xbox as well as the human excretion processes.

After visiting the Hard Off Ichikawa Ono branch in Chiba prefecture on April 20, 2024, I describe androgynous mermaids, regrettable old sales, and 3000 yen paper sleeves.

Yet another Hard Off in Koshigaya city of Saitama. This time it's the Koshigaya Minami branch visited on April 15, 2024. Not much rarity to share but I was kind enough to supply you with a 10 second long good bye.

A description of the fun to be had in a traditional Famicom store in Japan which is endangered. This one is Papi, in Soka city of Saitama, visited on April 15, 2024. It's an experience every game collector should experience at least once so please just go while you still can.