Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Visit to a LCS in Tokyo !!

Thanks to some good tips from Ryan and Zippy Zappy I was on a mission to visit at least one LCS in Tokyo during my visit last week. I found one on the web at only 10 minutes from my hotel in Shinjuku called Mint Shinjuku !

The shop had a wide variety of cards including a lot of soccer cards, NFL, local Japanese Baseball cards as well as MLB cards. With little expectation I started looking around for some new Glavine cards. Well, who would have thought I would actually find a low-numbered Glavine, a 2007 Finest card numbered to only 25 !! I also found a cool 2002 Fleer Showcase card !



Although they did not have that much for my collection I did find two more baseball cards. First up, a Greg Halman auto. As some of you might remember, Greg played for the Mariners until he was murdered during a trip to his family in the Netherlands, ending not only his MLB career but more importantly his life at a way too young age....

I also found myself a cool Rizzo card from this year's Topps TeK !


Besides some baseball cards they also had some lose packs of Star Wars for sale. Although I normally not collect any of these I though it would be fun to open some packs. Here's what I got !

First up, Han Solo !!! and Luke Skywalker !!!


More cool cars with Luke and his Father !!



Lastly, a silky Star Wars card !!



These Star Wars cards bring back memories so pretty cool to open a few packs of these. All in all a fun visit to one of Tokyo's many card shops !!

Thanks for visiting my blog today !

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8 comments:

  1. Zippy ZappyNovember 25, 2015 at 1:59 PM

    Mint Shinjuku, nice. Their singles selection is limited but once upon a time they had one of the biggest and best Sega Card Gen displays ever.

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    1. The Dutch Card GuyNovember 26, 2015 at 6:28 AM

      That was a bit disappointing, couldnt find any Sega cards :-((

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    2. Ryan GDecember 24, 2015 at 7:40 AM

      I'll be checking Nakano this weekend, but it seems that Sega has disappeared from everywhere at this point. I picked up some rares from 2010 in a 100-yen box a couple weeks ago. I couldn't pass that opportunity up!

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  2. Ryan GNovember 25, 2015 at 5:15 PM

    I don't really get to Mint Shinjuku but when I go I can usually find some good stuff, often at relatively decent prices. I'm glad you found some good stuff!

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  3. FujiNovember 25, 2015 at 7:55 PM

    Very cool. Visiting an LCS in Japan is definitely on my bucket list.

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  4. scooterboyNovember 26, 2015 at 4:48 AM

    Great you found some stuff. I've been tempted into buying Cheese Strings here in England because there are 2 Star Wars cards in each pack. They're for my daughter of course! ;-)

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  5. The Dutch Card GuyNovember 26, 2015 at 6:27 AM

    Of course :-))

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  6. The Dutch Card GuyDecember 24, 2015 at 7:51 AM

    cool, hope you find some more, a shame if that would have disappeared completely. happy shopping !!

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