Ranked shortlist · 10 of 109 book, music and video shops
Best book, music and video shops in Kyoto
The 10 most notable book, music and video shops in Kyoto, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
ゲオ向日店
向日町北山61
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.143, percentile 100 of 109
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2
丸善京都本店
中京区河原町通三条下る山崎町251
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.142, percentile 99.07 of 109
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3
ゲオ 伏見新堀川店
伏見区中島北ノ口町11
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.139, percentile 98.15 of 109
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4
Animate Kyoto
新京極蛸薬師下ルHigashigawacho, 525-1 パッサージオ（吉本ビル 2F
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.137, percentile 97.22 of 109
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5
森田ピアノ工房
山科区西野山射庭ノ上町216
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.133, percentile 96.3 of 109
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6
ゲオ桂店
下津林南大般若町90-1
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.132, percentile 95.37 of 109
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7
Mebae
5-5 Murasakino Shimomonzencho
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.132, percentile 94.44 of 109
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8
きんだあらんど
左京区新間之町通二条下る頭町351
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.131, percentile 93.52 of 109
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9
大垣書店烏丸三条店
中京区御倉町85-1
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.128, percentile 92.59 of 109
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10
其中堂
中京区寺町通三条上る天性寺前町539
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.127, percentile 91.67 of 109
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).