"the best used English book store in Japan" - Donald Richie
"an oasis for foreign bookworms" - Mainichi Daily News October 7, 1995
"the jewel in the crown of Tokyo's secondhand book world" - John Paul Catton, Metropolis

Good Day Books is the largest used English bookshop in Japan, with more than 40,000 different new, used, hard-
to-find,  and rare English titles in stock. Our bookshop sells, trades, and buys used English-language books, and also sells new English-language books. Good Day Books is conveniently located "inside the Yamanote Line," a few minutes' walk from Ebisu Station on either the Tokyo Metro Hibiya subway line or the JR Yamanote, Saikyo, and Shonan Shinjuku lines. For detailed walking directions to Good Day Books from Ebisu Station, left-click on the "Directions" link in the upper left-hand corner of this page, just below our contact information.

Good Day Books also hosts:
BookNotes, a series of talks by the authors of books about Japan, present or past, and Japanese, famous or obscure.  19 September BookNotes presentation: Prof. Takeo Iguchi will reprise his book Demystifying Pearl Harbor: A New Perspective from Japan (I-House Press, 2010). You must buy a copy of this book from Good Day Books to attend Prof. Iguchi's BookNotes presentation.
BookClub, a monthly geopolitics reading and discussion series. 26 September BookClub discussion: Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals by Dominic Lieven;
Non-Native Speakers' BookClub. 12 September Non-Native Speakers' BookClub discussion: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

BookNotes Speaker Series	BookClub Discussion Series	Non-Native Speakers' BookClub
Takeo Iguchi, author of  Demystifying Pearl Harbor 19 September	Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals by Dominic Lieven 26 September	The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 12 September

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