Please check my "Card Shops in Japan" page before planning a trip to this store to verify that it's still where it was when I visited.
Mint Fukuoka is yet another example of one of the Mint chain's "mall" stores. It's located on the sixth floor of the Tenjin Vivre shopping mall smack in the middle of what I believe is downtown Fukuoka. It's similar in many respects to the Mint stores I previously visited in Shinjuku, Sendai, Umeda and Hiroshima - most of what they had was recent products from BBM, Calbee and Epoch. They had boxes and packs for sale and some singles but only from the last few years. They appeared to be more focused on "hits" as well as gaming cards (there are tables here for customers to use for gameplay). I did see some complete teams sets for sale as well as a case containing rookie cards going back to the mid-1990's. There were a lot of Hawks and former Hawks represented in those rookie cards - I remember seeing the BBM rookie cards for Kenji Johjima (1995), Tadahito Iguchi (1997) and Munenori Kawasaki (2000) in the case. I considered buying the 2011 Calbee Tetsuto Yamada that was in the case but I ultimately decided against it. The store also appeared to carry a lot of Idol cards although not as many as Mint Ponyland.
Here's a couple photos of the store - for some reason I didn't get a shot of the outside of the mall.
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The store was featured in Sports Card Magazine #110.
My feeling towards this store was basically "meh". It struck me as kind of a generic Mint mall store with nothing really to distinguish it other than a bit of a specialization on the Hawks. I've wondered since I was there if I had looked harder if I would have found some Hawks team issued sets but I really didn't see anything there I hadn't seen at other stores. This was the first store I visited on my trip that I didn't buy anything at.
Here's a map showing the shop's location:
Mint Fukuoka is yet another example of one of the Mint chain's "mall" stores. It's located on the sixth floor of the Tenjin Vivre shopping mall smack in the middle of what I believe is downtown Fukuoka. It's similar in many respects to the Mint stores I previously visited in Shinjuku, Sendai, Umeda and Hiroshima - most of what they had was recent products from BBM, Calbee and Epoch. They had boxes and packs for sale and some singles but only from the last few years. They appeared to be more focused on "hits" as well as gaming cards (there are tables here for customers to use for gameplay). I did see some complete teams sets for sale as well as a case containing rookie cards going back to the mid-1990's. There were a lot of Hawks and former Hawks represented in those rookie cards - I remember seeing the BBM rookie cards for Kenji Johjima (1995), Tadahito Iguchi (1997) and Munenori Kawasaki (2000) in the case. I considered buying the 2011 Calbee Tetsuto Yamada that was in the case but I ultimately decided against it. The store also appeared to carry a lot of Idol cards although not as many as Mint Ponyland.
Here's a couple photos of the store - for some reason I didn't get a shot of the outside of the mall.
The store was featured in Sports Card Magazine #110.
My feeling towards this store was basically "meh". It struck me as kind of a generic Mint mall store with nothing really to distinguish it other than a bit of a specialization on the Hawks. I've wondered since I was there if I had looked harder if I would have found some Hawks team issued sets but I really didn't see anything there I hadn't seen at other stores. This was the first store I visited on my trip that I didn't buy anything at.
Here's a map showing the shop's location: