N3 人物 ~2 min · 936 chars

一日中本を読める町の古本屋

The Secondhand Bookstore Where Customers Can Read All Day (JLPT N3)

In a narrow Yanaka alley, Yuko Morikawa runs Kamihikoki Shoten, a tiny secondhand bookstore where customers are welcome to read all day without buying a thing. This JLPT N3 reading profile follows the forty-two-year-old former publishing editor who left a major Tokyo house five years ago to reopen her late grandmother's house as a shop. Paperbacks cost one hundred yen, a weekend cafe upstairs keeps the lights on, and when a winter storm cracked the roof last year, her regulars quietly raised the repair money themselves. A quiet Japanese profile and an intermediate Japanese essay about community, slow commerce, and the smell of old paper. Written for the Tadorimichi reading room by the Tadorimichi editorial desk.

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The Secondhand Bookstore Where Customers Can Read All Day (JLPT N3)

In a narrow Yanaka alley, Yuko Morikawa runs Kamihikoki Shoten, a tiny secondhand bookstore where customers are welcome to read all day without buying a thing. This JLPT N3 reading profile follows the forty-two-year-old former publishing editor who left a major Tokyo house five years ago to reopen her late grandmother's house as a shop. Paperbacks cost one hundred yen, a weekend cafe upstairs keeps the lights on, and when a winter storm cracked the roof last year, her regulars quietly raised the repair money themselves. A quiet Japanese profile and an intermediate Japanese essay about community, slow commerce, and the smell of old paper. Written for the Tadorimichi reading room by the Tadorimichi editorial desk.