top record shops in the world.

Thirteen cities. Thirteen rooms we'd send anyone to first. The Vinyl Atlas editorial guide to the best record stores on earth — picked by people who actually buy records.

• TOKYO · JAPAN

  Disk Union Shinjuku

  Tokyo doesn't have a record scene. Tokyo is the record scene.

• BERLIN · GERMANY

  Hard Wax

  If techno had a head office, it would be on the second floor in Kreuzberg.

• MELBOURNE · AUSTRALIA

  Plug Seven Records

  Fitzroy's Brunswick Street strip is one of the best blocks of vinyl in the southern hemisphere — and Plug Seven is the room you start in.

• NEW YORK · USA

  A1 Records

  A1 is the room every DJ in the city has bent over at 4pm on a Wednesday.

• LOS ANGELES · USA

  Mount Analog

  Highland Park is the closest thing LA has to a record-store neighbourhood.

• PORTLAND · USA

  Little Axe Records

  Per capita, Portland might be the best record store city in America.

• AUSTIN · USA

  Waterloo Records

  Waterloo has been Austin's musical living room since 1982.

• SÃO PAULO · BRAZIL

  Tracks Discos

  São Paulo is the deepest Brazilian-vinyl city on earth.

• PARIS · FRANCE

  Superfly Records

  Paris is quietly one of the world's great rare-groove cities.

• LISBON · PORTUGAL

  Carbono

  Lisbon is the entry point to the entire Lusophone catalogue.

• BARCELONA · SPAIN

  Discos Paradiso

  Barcelona's record map is small, walkable and stupidly good.

• MILAN · ITALY

  Serendeepity

  Milan is where Italian library, jazz and house meet on equal footing.

• LONDON · UK

  Phonica Records

  London is the deepest record-shop city on earth. Phonica is the door.