There has been more bookshops in internet. But it feels better to buy books after looking at them in hand.
I will guide you around booksellers in Kitamoto City, Saitama Prefecture, in the prefecture and in Tokyo Metropolitan area.
If you take JR trains, they are the Takasaki line, the Saikyo line, the Keihin-Tohoku line, the Yamanote line, the Chuo line and the Sobu line. By road, go along Route 17, whose traditional name is the Nakasendo Road, to Tokyo. Let's go around book towns in Tokyo.
Bookshops around Kitamoto City and Kounosu City, which are geographical center of Saitama Prefecture. (Update: 2003.11.16)
Bookshops in Okegawa and Ageo, on the south of Kitamoto. (Update: 2003.11.16)
Bookshops ( and libraries ) in Saitama City which was Oomiya City, Yono City and Urawa City. They are leading in Saitama Prefecture. (Update: 2003.11.16)
The other bookshops which are in Saitama Prefecture and which are staying in my memory.
You can get exact information about booksellers and libraries in Tokyo if you read "TOKYO BOOK MAP". I recommend bookshops subjectively.
Large bookshops such as Junkudo are in line at right angles to railroads.
Main store of Kinokuniya etc.
Bookfirst get into Shibuya. There are some large bookshops.
Kanda Jimbocho is famaous as the book-town. Sanseido or Shosen selling new books, and many secondhand bookstores.
Yaesu Book Center and Maruzen.
Computer and electronics bookshops. (Update: 2003.11.16)
There may be book-town in Taipei.
They want to be listed. (New: 2003.11.16)
Other web site, and links related to books or magazines.
Bookshops and related links (Update: 2003.11.16)