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<p>[QUOTE="The Eidolon, post: 6529436, member: 102103"]I think Japan has a strong domestic collector's market, but with real estate so expensive in major cities, it's probably not a great place for small coin shops. At least in the 1990s, I remember a lot of stores for used books, CDs, games and so on. There wasn't really a rental market comparable to the US, so buying and reselling those kinds of goods was common. I imagine if the market was strong enough to support used goods shops at prevailing rents, there were probably a few old coin shops hidden away somewhere. Finding the shops pre-internet would have been another matter. Most streets didn't even have names and tended to snake around unpredictably, so finding a shop in a neighborhood you don't know could be pretty challenging even if for locals. (I remember a taxi driver not being able to find the apartment I was renting from the street address and needing to ask passerby for directions!) Anyway, I'm sure it's much easier to find things now with cell phone maps, and I imagine most coin shops in Japan do business over the internet now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="The Eidolon, post: 6529436, member: 102103"]I think Japan has a strong domestic collector's market, but with real estate so expensive in major cities, it's probably not a great place for small coin shops. At least in the 1990s, I remember a lot of stores for used books, CDs, games and so on. There wasn't really a rental market comparable to the US, so buying and reselling those kinds of goods was common. I imagine if the market was strong enough to support used goods shops at prevailing rents, there were probably a few old coin shops hidden away somewhere. Finding the shops pre-internet would have been another matter. Most streets didn't even have names and tended to snake around unpredictably, so finding a shop in a neighborhood you don't know could be pretty challenging even if for locals. (I remember a taxi driver not being able to find the apartment I was renting from the street address and needing to ask passerby for directions!) Anyway, I'm sure it's much easier to find things now with cell phone maps, and I imagine most coin shops in Japan do business over the internet now.[/QUOTE]
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