Record Store Day in Kagoshima, Japan
Two dates to know: Record Store Day Black Friday is Friday, November 29, 2026, and the next main Record Store Day is Saturday, April 17, 2027.
What is Record Store Day?
Record Store Day is an annual event built around independent record stores. The main event traditionally lands on the third Saturday of April each year; Record Store Day Black Friday is traditionally held the day after US Thanksgiving. Both days bring exclusive, limited-run vinyl and CD releases sold only at participating independent shops — not big-box retailers, and not mail order until the in-store exclusives sell through. Because pressings are limited, popular titles can sell out within the first hour, which is why a line-early culture has grown up around the day even at shops that are otherwise quiet on a weekday morning.
Tips for the day
- Arrive early. At busy shops, lines for popular titles can start well before opening.
- Bring cash. A cash line often moves faster than card on a shop's highest-volume day of the year.
- Check each shop's own site or Instagram in the week before the date — participating shops post their own opening time, line policy, and which exclusive titles they've ordered in.
- Release lists are first-come, first-served and vary store to store. A title in stock at one shop may not show up at another, even across town.
- Expect one-per-customer or per-household limits on the most in-demand titles.
- Not every independent record store participates every year, and allocations vary shop to shop — confirm directly with the shop rather than assuming based on a past year.
Shops to check in Kagoshima, Japan
Independent record shops open in Kagoshima, Japan right now. We don't yet track which specific shops participate in Record Store Day or what they've ordered in for a given year — check each shop's own site or Instagram close to the date for their exclusive-release list, opening time, and line policy.
- 7STAR Record (れこーど屋7STAR)
Used record shop in the Korimoto neighborhood specializing in DJ and hip-hop vinyl; buys and sells used records.
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- GADGET / Disque.JP
DJ- and subculture-curated used vinyl shop in Terukuni-cho, trading since 1997 (as Disque.JP since 2004) with roughly 20,000 records in stock spanning city pop, kayokyoku, rock, soul, jazz and soundtracks; closed Sundays.
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- Meramara Record (メラメラレコード)
Used vinyl shop in Taniyama run by Shinji Hashimoto, specializing in 1970s-90s soul, jazz and Japanese (wamono) records drawn from a personal collection of 7,000+ built over 30 years; closed Mondays.
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- Mockingbird (モッキンバード)
Used record and media shop in Tenmonkan, relocated to Higashisengoku-cho in September 2021, carrying vinyl LPs and singles across all genres plus CDs and audio gear; also does in-home collection buyback.
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- Record Shop Sunrise
Old-school used record shop near the Izuro-dori tram stop, with stock split roughly evenly between Japanese and imported used vinyl across all genres.
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- Tower Records Amu Plaza Kagoshima
Kagoshima branch of the Tower Records Japan chain, on the 7th floor of Amu Plaza Kagoshima's Premium-kan building next to Kagoshima-Chuo Station.
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See the full record store listing for Kagoshima, Japan.