The main store of "Sanseido Bookstore", which has been popular as a landmark of Tokyo Kanda, the city of books, will be rebuilt due to the deterioration of the facility, and the last business day of the current building will be farewell on the 8th. It was crowded with people who missed.
"Sanseido Bookstore" is a long-established bookstore in Kanda, Tokyo, which has a history of 141 years. The current Jimbocho Main Store Building, which was completed in 1981, has a sales floor area of about 1000 tsubo and handles 1.4 million books. It has been popular as a landmark of Tokyo, but due to the deterioration of the facility, it was decided to rebuild it, and the store will be temporarily closed.
On the 8th, the last business day of the current store, customers visited the store one after another and took pictures with the building in the background.
A man in his 40s in Saitama Prefecture said, "I've been using it since I was a student, and even after I became a member of society, I used to stop by when I came near, and I liked the atmosphere of the Showa era, which is typical of the city of books." I was there.
A woman who visited with her son in fifth grade said, "I always come to this store to buy children's books, so I feel lonely that the space I'm used to is gone. I can come with my children on the last day. I'm glad I was able to do it. "
The Jimbocho main store of Sanseido will move to a temporary store from the 1st of next month, and the new store is scheduled to resume operations in 2025 after the building is rebuilt.