Mandarake Honten (Nakano Broadway)

Demanding collectors

The deepest second-hand manga stock on this map: out-of-print volumes, complete runs and first editions, shelved in Japanese by author. This is the floor people travel to Nakano for rather than the one they find by accident.

To know · Opens at midday with the rest of the building, and the Special shops on the other floors take the rarities and the signed copies.

Trap · Everything is shelved by author in Japanese. Knowing the author's name in kanji turns an hour of walking into five minutes.