Getting Japanese stuff in UK

[akiiii-no.livejournal.com]

Hey I dunno if this is allowed, but if it isn't please delete ^^

Well basically I'm going to study in University of York in UK this coming October and would like to ask is there any where in UK where i can buy japanese stuff, like magazine, CD etc. cause i currently live in HK and there's japanese stuff like everywhere, so i would like to know if japanese stuff especially arashi CDs are accessible in UK. Thank you

and if anyone who is also living/going to live in UK i wouldn't mind making friends to fangirl/boy about arashi ><

Comments

[akiiii-no.livejournal.com]

ah thx ><

really?! all the way in london ;A; so farrrrrrrr~ and only Kpop stuff >< ~they should invest more on jpop xD

[blue-eyesgirl.livejournal.com]

Not a lot at all as far as I'm aware (I'm in Hull about an hour away from York).

Short of going to something like the MCM Expo in London or there's Japan Centre in London as well but outside of London it's really only anime/manga stuff. Goods for Arashi or pretty much any Japanese music artist is non-existent (of course I could be looking in the wrong places)

[akiiii-no.livejournal.com]

ah!!! i know hull xD yeah very close from york eheheh I went there once or twice when i took the ship from holland~

but yeah thx for the info~
i guess only london seem to have something... ==;; lol arashi should go to UK to promote themselves!!!

[blue-eyesgirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Japanese music just isn't that popular/not enough of a market for mainstream people to invest in over here. HMV has some stuff on their catalogue but most is out-of-print (because it's from back in the early 2000s |D) and they just haven't bothered to get more (even though there ARE bands on European labels and so there wouldn't be much import cost) AND we had Gackt do a date over here a couple of months back and sell out ridiculously quickly and still nothing

That would be awesome, so long as their tickets are cheaper |D

[akiiii-no.livejournal.com]

... yeah i guess Japanese music do lack advertisement outside their country~ which is why people don't know about it >< im sure it'll get popular if they just promote it xD but yeah i heard about Gackt's show ahahhaha at least... there's some progress... maybe.. xP

but seeing their popularity.. don't think it'll be cheap ><

[blue-eyesgirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah though the rest of Europe seems to be more up on JRock etc

*sigh* The UK is just too little XDDDD

No... But then again Gackt's tickets were cheaper than they are generally in Japan so... *fingers crossed?*

[ueda-love1.livejournal.com]

hello^^

Central london mainly. The Japan centre does do magazines. Theres another shop nect door to the japan centre called Mitsukoshi (i think) and its downstairs, they sell magazines, dvds, cds but really really expensive. =[

we have a comm johnnys_uk and have done about 2 fanmeets so far XD

[akiiii-no.livejournal.com]

ah thx~just joined the comm, hope that i'll be able to join some fanmeetings when i get to UK~
... expensive... its goin to be expensive getting to london too >< i guess i might just give up and.. find some other way to get arashi stuff...

[secretcodeblue.livejournal.com]

thank you so much for the info for everyone who replied here! i was wondering about that too actually. i'm going to study in the uk next year and i was wondering if i could buy any japanese stuff there. arigatou gozaimasu!:)

[lady--ishtar.livejournal.com]

I live in London right now, and as people have mentioned, the Japan Centre (and the book shop JP books - in the basement of Mitsukoshi, the little department store just next door to JapaCen) are the best bet for buying J-pop magazines and CDs. They're pretty expensive though. I buy magazines like Popolo, Myojo and Wink Up there for about £10/12. You can also get Duet, Potato as well as non-idol-related ones like AnAn, Vivi and Can Cam.

There's also DVDs, CDs and photobooks in JP Books but mostly just Arashi, and usually their newer stuff. I've not seen much News/Kanjani8/Kat-tun. But the staff are happy to order anything in for you if you ask. The stuff is really expensive though, because of shipping. The latest tour DVD's in there right now for about £60 I think.

I lived in Leeds (right by York) before moving to London, and never found anywhere to get magazines or CDs.... The only thing you could do from up North is order online from JapaCen or JP Books, I guess. They do magazine subscriptions and deliveries, so you could check that out here: http://www.japancentre.com/ and here: http://www.jpbooks.co.uk/

Good luck moving to England! I hope you enjoy it here~

[akiiii-no.livejournal.com]

ah thank you so much for the detailed answer >< lol i guess the only solution is to either go to london.. if im desperate of arashi CD/DVD (if they have new release after dear snow) or.. order online or.. find some other solution

but wow £10/12 for those magazines >< it sells like £5/6 in HK ;A; i guess i'll have to...save up if i really really want to buy~

and yeh i hope i'll like England too ><

[secretcodeblue.livejournal.com]

thank you so much for the details!:D

[tatalina.livejournal.com]

I was reading through and was all ZOMG ANOTHER LONDON FAN......

...and then I realised it was you. She who is living in the same house :p

[myka551.livejournal.com]

Sorry I couldn't help but notice XD

Last time when I went to Japan Centre there didn't seem to be any DVDs or CDs on sale at all -->> in fact all I could buy was just the magazines[my friends fun of me in front of like this group of Japanese guys who just laughed at me =.= and my friends were all like 'you like ARASHI! ARASHI!']

I'm currently studying in an all-girls boarding school up in surrey and since I'm in like 6th form I can go to London and stuff on the weekends[YES!!!XD] so I was also wondering for like any like suggestions for good places to get JE stuff XD

[pegsball.livejournal.com]

I live nearer to London and even here I would still need to go to Japan Centre to buy mags etc.. I have a Japanese store near me but it is literally just good for buying food! Japan Centre do deliver from their website, so that might be worth looking at. But as for CDs etc.. I find it much better to just ship from CD Japan etc... or rely on the kindness of people uploading scans!
Hope you enjoy the UK - will be a bit chilly in York come the winter! But that's part of the experience of living in the UK!!

[nash-y-wash-y.livejournal.com]

hello! i don't live in london or anything like that... but since i saw your entry, i thought i'd help out - from one arashi fan to another :)

i wanted to find a good starting point for you and what better way than to find a japanese community within york or, better still, within the university. so i did some googling for you and i found out that the university of york has a japanese society club... i think this might be a good starting point for you if you have any enquiries about anything japanese. i guess the people within the club would have the information that you need, so they are definitely the right people to go to :)

i know it's not much... but hope that helps! :) good luck and all the best! :)

[nash-y-wash-y.livejournal.com]

i forgot to provide you with the link to the university of york japanese society's facebook group! here you go! :)

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2208566339#!/group.php?gid=2208566339&v=info

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[ashes-to-rain.livejournal.com]

Can't help you with anything, but, whe-hey :D, another UK fan! I'm in Newcastle at the moment so not far from York. Hope you like the place :).

[missmomoko.livejournal.com]

Hey ya, London is probably gonna be your best bet! As others have said Japan Center is good for magazines (they've got a separate smaller shop in Picadilly).

For cds and dvds, there's Mitsukoshi! You have to go downstairs to see it. However it is really expensive. It's ridiculous! It's far cheaper to order from online, if you order from Yesasia then you don't get customs taxed and it will save you a lot of money.

[zuluxd.livejournal.com]

Heya XD another Uk fan hereXD
I'm moving down to Plymouth soon (So the opposite end basically) and Iwas wondering that too... I'm gonna have to check out all those links, (thanks guys XD)
I wonder if Plymouth has a Japanese society...XD

[astrangerenters.livejournal.com]

I can't help with the question, but I did study abroad at the Uni of York a few years ago :) :)

Be sure to walk on the city walls. It's really fun and you can see lots of the city. It's really easy to get anywhere from York on the train too. Good luck there, I enjoyed studying at the uni.

[cassiie03.livejournal.com]

as far as I am aware it's in central london~
There's a place called Mitsukushi (i think? Im not sure) where they sell japanese magazines~ Im not sure about jpop cds "/
I've never tried looking when I visit london coz it's always for a few days :)
I'm not in england u see~ :P