AMA BOOKS Opens Inside an Asakura Furniture Showroom
Asakura Note will open AMA BOOKS in Asakura, Fukuoka Prefecture, on December 4 in the shop of furniture maker Nagano Interior Asakura Sohonten. The regional publishing company is raising 1 million yen on READYFOR for book purchasing.
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Why it matters
A regional magazine publisher is testing whether a curated shop inside a furniture showroom can sustain bookstore economics in a city of about 47,000 people.
Books Cube Ricks owner Minoru Oi supervises the selection, covering art, architecture, interior, design, literature, daily life, local culture, and children's books.
Asakura Note began as a regional information magazine in 2022. The bookstore grew out of FUK BOOK, a 2025 book event held at the same Nagano Interior venue, where ten bookstores and publishers from Fukuoka took part. Talks with the furniture maker followed, and the plan for a permanent shop inside the showroom took shape.
The venue will not stock everything a large store carries. Asakura Note says the aim is a shelf where visitors find a title they would not meet elsewhere. Corporate sponsorships are also on offer at 100,000, 150,000, and 200,000 yen. A pre-opening event on December 3 includes a talk by Minoru Oi.
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