Nakano Broadway: What Is on Each Floor, and When the Shops Are Actually Open
Nakano Broadway is a shopping complex five minutes north of Nakano Station. It opened in 1966, and its own history page dates its name as a subculture destination to the years after the asset bubble collapsed in 1991. It is four floors above ground plus a basement, and its opening hours and closing days are set shop by shop.
GO TOKYO puts a caveat directly under the hours it publishes. It gives 10:00–20:00 for the building and, in the same box, says that this varies by floor, store and facility. This guide covers what is on each floor, how the hours actually work, and the one building-wide closing day that Tokyo’s official tourism site lists.
Quick Facts
- Location: 5-52-15 Nakano, Nakano City, Tokyo
- Nearest station: Nakano Station — five minutes on foot from the north exit, on JR lines and the Tokyo Metro Tozai Line
- Opening hours: 10:00–20:00, varying by floor, store and facility
- Closing days: set by each shop. GO TOKYO lists one building-wide closing day: the third Wednesday in February
- Parking: none. The building’s access page asks visitors to come by public transport
Sources: Nakano Broadway official site (Japanese only) and GO TOKYO (English), the Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau’s official guide. Checked 21 September 2026.
What Is on Each Floor of Nakano Broadway
GO TOKYO sets out the layout in one line: most of the hobbyist shops are on floors two through four, general shopping is on the first floor, and a supermarket is in the basement. It also notes a number of shops selling luxury watches.
For a manga or anime reader, that puts the trip on the upper floors. The same page says what those shops carry: plastic figurine collectibles and trinkets, manga series, and out-of-print books. It names two of them — Mandarake, for manga and hobbyist collectibles including cosplay outfits, and Taco Che, for out-of-print works, self-published books and niche collectibles.
Mandarake is the shop the others gathered around. The complex’s own history page says the shop began trading here in 1980 in a space of two tsubo — about 6.6 square metres — and that owners who were serious collectors in a range of genres gathered around it. We are not going to say how many Mandarake shopfronts are in the building now. The official site does not publish that number and we have not counted it.
The shop list is a directory, not a count of open shops. The official site’s floor listing is headed 206 entries. Five of its sections are floors, and they account for 192 of them: 27 in the basement, 40 on the first floor, 59 on the second, 38 on the third and 28 on the fourth. Its category listing is also headed 206, but the six categories under it add up to 242, because one shop can appear in more than one category. Either way, these are entries in a published directory. They are not a count of shops that will have their shutters up on the day you arrive.
Nakano Broadway Opening Hours Are Not One Number
10:00–20:00 is the figure GO TOKYO publishes. The line directly beneath it says it varies by floor, store and facility. Closing days are given the same way: they vary by store.
Here is what that looks like in practice. The official site’s floor listing goes through to a page for each shop, in Japanese. We opened seven of them: two carried opening hours and closing days and five did not, and the Mandarake shop pages were among the five. Mandarake’s own site does carry them. Its Nakano store page gives 12:00–20:00 — so the building can be open for two hours before that shop is. That same page says 年中無休, which translates as “no days off all year.” GO TOKYO lists the third Wednesday in February as a building-wide closing day. The two sources disagree, and we have not established which one applies. Both are quoted as they read on 21 September 2026, and the Mandarake page is in Japanese only. We have not checked whether every shop in the building keeps those hours.
GO TOKYO lists one building-wide closing day, and it belongs in a calendar. It states that the building is closed on the third Wednesday in February. On that date GO TOKYO’s listing says the building is closed. Whether Mandarake’s year-round wording holds that day, we do not know. Whether any other date closes the whole building, we could not establish: we found no dated calendar of building closures on the official site — searching it for the Japanese words for “closed” and “year-end and New Year” returned individual shop entries only — and GO TOKYO lists this one date and no other. The official site does have a news section; when we looked on 21 September 2026 it held two entries — a drawing competition and a new shop — and no closure notice.
On a day the building is open, the practical consequence is this. A shop you are travelling for can still be shut, and neither site publishes a shop-by-shop schedule in English. If one particular shop is the reason you are going, check that shop’s own page before you fix the date — not the building’s.
Getting There
The official access page gives one route: Nakano Station, north exit, five minutes on foot, on JR lines and the Tokyo Metro Tozai Line. GO TOKYO lists the JR Chuo Line only.
There is no parking. The access page says so and asks visitors to use public transport instead.
Before You Go
Three things here can change: the opening hours, the closing days and the shop directory. The figures here were checked on 21 September 2026 (2026-09-21) against the Nakano Broadway official site and GO TOKYO, which was last updated on 25 December 2025. The more specific your target shop, the more you will need that shop’s own page.
Sources: Nakano Broadway official site (Japanese only), Nakano Broadway history page (Japanese only), Mandarake Nakano store page (Japanese only), GO TOKYO (English). Checked 21 September 2026.
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