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In article <3127ED57.2F7@villagegames.compulink.co.uk>, Ray Bathke <bathke@villagegames.compulink.co.uk> writes:
>I'd be grateful if someone from Japan could either mail me , or post here, 
>the names and addresses of Puzzle Shops in Tokyo. I am particularly 
>interested in the correct mailing address for Hirano's Shop (or stall?) at 
>Akihabara Station.

Unfortunately the amount of puzzles available in Japanese stores has
declined by about 50% in recent years.  Futhermore, as was announced in
the only other article to be crossposted to rec.puzzles,fj.life.in-japan
in the history of Usenet, the store "Playthings" closed in December 1994.

Akihabara Department Store has several tables in front of the store
which are occupied by various transient sellers, and as you have observed,
Hirano-san is a frequent occupant of one of them.  Unfortunately my
English-language telephone directory is packed at the moment in
preparation for another move, and I can't find Akihabara Dept. Store
in the Akihabara pages of a map (they probably forgot to pay the map
publisher for a designation).  The following is probably close enough:
  Mr. Hirano
  "Cosmo"
  c/o Akihabara Department Store
  Soto Kanda 1-chome
  Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.

Other stores with puzzle sections:
  Halulu, 3-12-4-201, Miyazaka, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 156.
  Moebius, 3-8-13, Kudan Minami, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102.
  Okuno (not far from Moebius but I don't know the address, sorry).
  Hakuhinkan, 8-8-11, Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo.
  "Loft", Seibu Dept. Stores in Shibuya, Ikebukuro, and elsewhere.
  Tokyu Hands, also in Shibuya, Ikebukuro, and elsewhere.

Also if you don't mind going outside of Tokyo:
  Maruyama Bussan Honten, Sekisho-dori, Hakone-machi, Kanagawa.

Incidentally, Hirano-san might go to the International Puzzle Party
which will be in Luxembourg this year, August 17-18.  It is too late
for you to register for the puzzle swap but you can probably go on
August 18 to buy if you like.
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