Record Store Day in Matsuyama, 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 Matsuyama, Japan
Independent record shops open in Matsuyama, 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.
- marui records
All-genre CD/record specialty shop about 7 minutes from Matsuyama City Station, carrying roughly 10,000 CDs and 3,000 new and used vinyl records across classical, pop, soul, jazz, rock and enka; open daily, no closed days.
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- MORE MUSIC
Long-running Otemachi record shop open since 1983, a 2-minute walk from Iyo Railway Otemachi Station, stocking roughly 30,000 new and used vinyl LPs across jazz, rock, pop, soul, city pop and classical.
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- SAADIA Records & Books
Central Matsuyama shop opened May 2013 by Shigeru Ohashi and Haruhiko Ono, specializing in used soul, funk, jazz, reggae, rock and hip-hop vinyl imports; posts frequent new-stock updates online.
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- Tomato Shobo
Used bookstore in Misakecho with a genre-organized, browsable vinyl section (Japanese/Western records plus dedicated jazz categories, including artists like Miles Davis and Charlie Parker) alongside its book stock; closed Tuesdays.
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- YESTERDAYS NEW RECORDS
Jazz-centered vintage vinyl shop in Takusen-cho, opened September 2021, stocking around 3,000 mostly-used records spanning jazz, soul, oldies and J-pop alongside imported vintage clothing; buys used jazz LPs at high prices.
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See the full record store listing for Matsuyama, Japan.