{"id":7464,"date":"2025-09-07T06:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/7464\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T06:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:23:09","slug":"osakas-street-of-old-books-brings-in-both-local-and-global-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/7464\/","title":{"rendered":"Osaka&#8217;s &#8216;street of old books&#8217; brings in both local and global visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/life-arts\/life\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Life<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Ukiyo-e prints and other unique offerings help keep brick-and-mortar shops going<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"Osaka Book Top 2025-08\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Japanese art works sold at the\u00a0bookshops are popular with foreign visitors. (Photos by Yuto Yamane)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>YUTO YAMANE<\/p>\n<p>September 7, 2025 09:05 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">OSAKA &#8212; In a part of shopping street in central Osaka is a collection of used bookstores, all featuring stylish wood-grain exteriors and glass showcases. Located under elevated railway tracks, these stores are not\u00a0just a magnet for\u00a0Japanese book lovers but also foreign tourists, with\u00a0unique selections ranging\u00a0from ukiyo-e\u00a0prints\u00a0to science and mathematics treatises, depending on the preferences of each shop owner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Life Ukiyo-e prints and other unique offerings help keep brick-and-mortar shops going Japanese art works sold at the\u00a0bookshops&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[489,3246,1038,156,1437,440,111,139,69,9716,9715,5424,9717],"class_list":{"0":"post-7464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-both","10":"tag-brings","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-global","13":"tag-local","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-old","18":"tag-osakas","19":"tag-street","20":"tag-visitors"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}