Card Labo Osaka Nipponbashi

Singles hunters

Card Labo's Osaka Nipponbashi shop, on the fifth floor of the Ikeda Building No. 2 — the one west of the tracks, away from Otaroad. Singles, sealed product and a buying counter, like the rest of the chain; what makes this one worth the lift is that it is out of the way, so the shelves it shares with three other Card Labo doors within walking distance are picked over later here.

To know · Fifth floor, 11:00 to 20:00 on weekdays and 10:00 to 20:00 at weekends and on public holidays. The buying counter closes an hour before the shop, every day.

Trap · There are four Card Labo shops within about a kilometre and they are not branches with one stock: the Otaroad main store, this one, the Namba shop and a sales-and-buyback centre. Read the address before you walk, not the name.