A trip to Fujiya Camera's junk store

Posted on May 20, 2009

Fujiya Camera sits tucked away behind Nakano station in a nest of pachinko parlors. Across the street from the main store--which has a good selection of Konica/Ricoh/Contax point and shoots upstairs--lies the junk store. Here's a look inside.



Update: link to a map of Fujiya Camera






There are always two or three bins full of (mostly working) point and shoot cameras on the floor. The cameras sell for either 105 or 315 yen. That means $1-3.








P+S PORN









I rescued this little guy for 105yen







On the wall there are old SLRs, lenses and sometimes the odd Kyocera Samurai. Underneath is random medium format stuff








Mamiya C330 for about $75, there was a 105mm lens next to it for about $40







Lots of flashes. I bought two battery powered numbers for 315yen each








A pretty good selection of photo magazines




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Comments

Flanegan:

another killer post…

on May 20, 08:45 PM · #



Dan:

thanks, i want to show more of the photo life here. the selection of these places is really impressive. fujiya is one of my favorites because you can get stuff for so cheap.

on May 21, 01:30 AM · #



jono:

hehehe…junk boxes are nice.
did you end up finding camera box in shinjuku?

Also there is a 2nd hand camera fair in shibuya tokyu department store next week. Might be an interesting browse.

http://www.tokyu-dept.co.jp/corporate/press/09_05/07.pdf

on May 23, 01:05 AM · #



Dan:

ah, you know it slipped my mind last weekend, but i think i remember where it would be – from yodobashi, walk towards tocho, then it’s at the corner on the right side, b1f with a sign outside. i’ll try to remember next time.

thanks for the tip about the tokyu fair! i will definitely stop by.

on May 23, 11:01 AM · #



Nicole:

hahah i feel like that shot of you holding that little cannon auto-focus is like finding the most adorable stray kitten at the SPCA – “I MUST SAVE IT!”

on Jun 2, 08:03 AM · #



Dan:

there were so many other orphaned Canon AFs, crying out to be taken home :(

good people of tokyo, for 100yen only you can give another Canon AF a new life!

on Jun 2, 11:25 AM · #



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steadyslash:

hello guy

my name is slash
im a HK ppl

as i hav a tokyo trip on Nov.
so research the camera shop of tokyo
n i visit ur blog
thats great post
im lovin it

would u mind to tell me where is it (the shop)
i really want go there and buy some old camera

Thank you very much

:-)

on Oct 4, 05:31 PM · #



Dan:

hey steadyslash, here is a link to a google map with a bunch of information about photo stuff in tokyo:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=113283132130154111383.00046b856eca0aa4ead5b&ll=35.693692,139.70026&spn=0.063155,0.110378&z=13

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