KINOKUNIYA BOOKSTORE

This is a colorful window display at KINOKUNIYA BOOKSTORE, New York City's largest Japanese bookstore, located at Rockefeller Center, 10 West 49th Street between Rockefeller Plaza and Fifth Avenue (Ph: 212-765-7766). In addition to the shop's main items, such as Japanese books, magazines, comics, music and English books on Japanese literature and culture, there is also a magnificent selection of imported pens and mechanical pencils, origami paper, stationery sets and coil-bound notebooks. Kinokuniya is geared toward Japanese residents and tourists, but they do cater to non-Japanese shoppers as well.