The meteorological bookstore "Tsumura Bookstore", which has been in business for 65 years in a corner of the Japan Meteorological Agency, closed its history on the 28th.
At the bookstore, also known as the "Sacred Place for Weather Forecasters," the owner's man said, "I want to say" thank you "to everyone who took care of me."
"Tsumura Bookstore" is a meteorological bookstore that has been in business for 65 years with two generations of parents and children in a corner of the former government building of the Japan Meteorological Agency in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. It was also known as the "holy land."
However, the management has been difficult for the past 10 years, and we have decided to close the store due to the relocation of the Japan Meteorological Agency to Minato Ward in November.
The store has been open since November, when it was originally scheduled to close, in response to user requests, but the sign will be removed on the 28th.
The door with the sign was decorated with weather charts, weather calendars, photos of many weather forecasters who visited the store, and the owner Yukio and his wife Kyoko removed them one by one. ..
And finally, the two of us regretfully removed the handmade sign that says "Tsumura Bookstore".
Yukio, the owner of the shop, said, "Since I was little, many people have used it for a long time. I'm lonely, but I want to say" Thank you "to everyone who took care of me."
Kyoko said, "The business at this place will be closed, but I hope that one day we will open the store with this sign."
The store will continue to sell by mail order in the future.
Weather forecasters who are reluctant to close the store one after another
Even on the 28th, when the store closed, weather forecasters who were reluctant to close the store visited one after another and enjoyed the last exchange at the bookstore.
Regular customers Toshio Nakajima and Ryosuke Masuda visited the store together, took a picture of the signboard in front of the store, and talked with Kyoko about their memories at the store.
Mr. Nakajima said, "This place was not just a bookstore for weather people. It was a special place where you could actually pick up a weather book and meet a book you didn't know or a weather person. It's a shame that I'm really lonely to run out of space. "
Mr. Masuda said, "It was a place where well-known forecasters and the Japan Meteorological Agency came and went, and it was also a place for exchanges between people involved in the weather. This place will disappear, but in another place, such exchanges I hope the place will be revived. "
A university student who took a new path after meeting at a bookstore also visited the store.
Mr. Shuto Aizawa, a third-year university student majoring in space engineering, passed the weather forecaster in October, and the opportunity to interact with the people he met when he visited the store triggered a space venture company from next year. It means that I was supposed to do an internship at.
Mr. Aizawa said, "It was a place I would definitely come to when I became a weather forecaster. I myself met at a bookstore and decided to take a new path. It has a long history of 65 years. I am honored to be touched by a part of the charm of the bookstore at the very end. "