No matter what the explanation it s clear physical music is still a huge part of japanese culture.
Tower records shibuya vinyl.
Tower records was given an extensive overhaul in late 2012 that actually increased its whopping 5 000 square metres of floor space.
The space once reserved for pop up events now houses 70 000 records according to the company with more.
The bankruptcy of tower records in the u s.
Exploring the tower records in shibuya was such a strange but fascinating adventure.
Tower records home page.
Colored vinyl sort featured best selling alphabetically a z alphabetically z a price low to high price high to low date old to new date new to old.
In 2006 did not affect tower records japan as it had been completely independent.
Tower records japan maintains 85 directly operated store locations throughout japan including the shibuya store in tokyo which is said to be one of the biggest music retail outlets in the world occupying selling space of 5 000 m 9 floors.
Tower records opened tower vinyl on the 10th floor of its shinjuku store on march 21.
On the first floor dubbed the party floor different songs blasted out from each new release display.