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Book House Cafe

A 1F picture-book shop with separate café and evening-bar hours.

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Compare baby books, interactive picture books and a subject such as science, vehicles or dinosaurs. Decide whether you want a story to read through, pictures to point out together or a moving paper mechanism. That gives choosing one book with a child a direction. The foreign-picture-book category does not guarantee your preferred language. This 1F shop is separate from Kitazawa’s foreign antiquarian bookstore upstairs.

WHERE · On foot from here

Which side of the station, and how far

South-west of Jimbocho Station, about 60 m in a straight line from the station point. The position is the official address point and may differ from the entrance. The shaded areas are about 5 and 10 minutes on foot from here.

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This place · official address point (≈45 m)About 5 · 10 min on foot from here (computed, approximate)Read together

Walking bands are computed by FOW on the OpenStreetMap surface street network at 80 m/min and drawn as a smoothed approximate area around the streets reached. They ignore exit positions, station interiors, underground passages, signals, slopes and routes inside buildings — not directions; follow on-site signs.

Map data: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Walking bands: computed by FOW · Station and gate notes: official guidance

Books and seats keep different hours

The bookstore lists 11:00–18:00. The cafe closes 17:30 on weekdays with last order 17:00, and 18:00 on weekends/holidays with last order 17:30. Lilliput’s weekday 20:00–23:00 bar is a separate evening service. Open bookshop hours do not imply continued cafe or bar seating.

Plan the practical pause too

The operator lists a 1F diaper-changing table and a lift between 1F and 2F. Those facilities do not guarantee the whole station approach or a cafe table. A2 is the operator’s suggested station exit with a lift. Confirm the access and seating you need. If the cafe does not work, choosing one book can be the whole visit.

Read it with

Ozu Washi lettering and red entrance curtain beside a washi workshop window
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Before you go

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Sources · image info
  1. Book House Cafe · operator visit factsNamed venue/operator
  2. GSI address reference: 東京都千代田区神田神保町二丁目５番国土地理院
  3. 偕成社 Kaiseiweb · Kaiseiweb editorial team偕成社 Kaiseiweb
  4. Jimbocho Machinaka Art2026: specific seasonal programme context神保町まちなかアート実行委員会
  5. QR-014-GENRES · independently observed depth materialExact original operator / institution
  6. QR-014-FACILITIES · independently observed depth materialExact original operator / institution
  • Kaiseiweb editorial team · 偕成社 Kaiseiweb2024-12-10

    Kaiseiweb interviews Book House Cafe’s 茅野由紀 and introduces the shop. This is a book publisher’s feature about a book retailer, with that commercial relationship retained. Payment and hosting have not been separately established.