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Tokyo vinyl and audio suggestions

After 5 months living in the mainland China hi-fi desert, I'm headed to Tokyo next month and will be in Japan for about 2 weeks before heading home and firing up the system at last. Who's got advice on where to do some record (LP vinyl only) shopping while I'm there? Interested in jazz recordings, mainly. High quality and reasonable pricing preferred. And what other audiophile destinations should be on my Japan agenda?

Also will be visiting Kyoto and surrounding area of Southern China for several days, so give me your suggestions as well for LP records and audio shops in that part of Japan.

Thanks for any suggestions along these lines.
goheelz

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springnr
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I spend some time in Japan and have found google to be helpful. Maybe look for an audiophile club?
Use your Google Foo

To get you started:
http://www.twee.net/countries/japan_shops.html
http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2010/10/10/on-the-record-japans-last-vinyl-factory-administers-proficiency-exam/

For Jetset click on type of music, then at the top of page click on LP
http://www.jetsetrecords.net/

Also you can usehttp://www. google translate to help, just enter url
http://www.jetsetrecords.net/products/rock_pops_60s_90s/rock_60s_oldies/format/lp/condition/new/sort/-recommend
and... google maps, enter Jetset to see their location.
https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=Kyoto,+Japan&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x6001a8d6cd3cc3f1:0xc0961d366bbb1d3d,Kyoto,+Kyoto+Prefecture,+Japan&gl=us&ei=0H7FT6rsF-qa2gWU9uTwAQ&oi=local_group&ved=0CL4BELYD
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