THE MAP
Every vinyl destination inside the greater Fukuoka footprint. Zoom in to see individual venues.
Fukuoka is the south's serious digging city.
Fukuoka is the gateway to Kyushu and the record capital of southern Japan. The dig clusters around Tenjin and Daimyo — a compact, walkable core with Ticro Market, Borderline Records, Junky Spot and Grimoire covering jazz, soul, city-pop, hip-hop and left-field electronic.
The city sits closer to Seoul and Shanghai than to Tokyo, and the crates reflect that Asian-Pacific pipeline — Japanese pressings alongside a healthy trickle of Korean and regional imports. Prices are the friendliest of Japan's four major digging cities.
THE FIVE ROOMS
Fukuoka's flagship second-hand shop — jazz, soul, funk, city-pop. Priced honestly, graded properly.
Dance, house, techno, disco — the resident-DJ counter. Sharp curation for a small footprint.
Punk, garage, hardcore and left-field rock — the shop that keeps the city's underground alive.
Ambient, experimental, minimal — the curator's room that punches above the city's size.
Sister spirit to Tokyo's Ella — Japanese jazz, folk and audiophile pressings priced for actual collectors.