I wanted to do a quick post to pass along some news I had learned from Ryan of "This Card Is Cool" - Mint Kanda will be closing after August 23rd.
Mint Kanda is one of three card shops conveniently close together in Jinbocho (the other two being Biblio and Wrappers). According to their blog they've been at that location for 20 years. I've been to the store twice (first in 2013 and again in 2019) and liked it quite a bit although I felt like I had already done my big set building purchases elsewhere so I didn't really take advantage of what they had for sale as much as I could have.
The store is moving to Nihonbashi Bakurocho which I think is about a mile and half east of its present location. Its new name will be Mint Lab Tokyo and it will specialize in boxes and cartons. It will have tables to do box breaks at. They will no longer carry packs and single cards - they direct you to go to Mints Ikebukuro and Urawa for those (they don't mention Wrappers which is much closer than either of those other stores since it's not run by Mint). The new store will open on September 10th.
I wish the owner luck in his new endeavor but I'll miss the old store. And the new one doesn't sound like one that I'll be all that interested in visiting.