Today I'm going to talk about one of my favorite stores located in Osaka where you can find thousands of used and new items from anime, tokusatsu, mecha, doramas, toys, and American products for a low price. The famous Admski!
After many disappointments in Akihabara in greater Tokyo and Nipponbashi in greater Osaka, I completely gave up on looking for anime products, as their prices were absurd and not advantageous at all.
When I was visiting a friend in Osaka, he took me to one of the best collectibles stores I found in Japan. The store is not only focused on anime products, but there you can find things you can't even imagine.
The store ADMSKI is located in Namba, Osaka, specifically in Namba City on 南館B1F (South Building). It is open from 10:00 to 21:00 and has a huge collection of used collectible products and some rare and old items still sealed in the box.
There are anime products that convey nostalgia, toys, antiques and many others that form a mountain of merchandise inside and outside the store. In my opinion, it was the biggest store of its kind I found in Japan.
In this store you can find everything, even old records and magazines, bicycles, full-size figurines, old game cartridges, lamps, cassette tapes and a multitude of unimaginable products.
CHOOSING PACKAGES for a low price
In this store you can literally find a package of products that are practically free. They often take used products that aren't selling and bundle up several products and put them up for sale for as low as 300 yen.
I couldn't believe it when I got 300 yen in a bag with more than 30 buttons, keychains and assorted characters from Psycho Pass, Yowamushi Pedal and other anime. A single such keyring can cost more than 300 yen individually.
I also bought Action Figures for just 100 and 200 yen, and the medium size of Suzumiya Haruhi for just 500 yen. Things that in regular stores could cost around 1000 to 3000 yen.
The ADMSKI store has many products at normal prices, but if you look closely, you'll find many things on sale or practically for free. Especially if you're looking for vintage items, Marvel, DC, mecha, cars, or tokusatsu.
If you are looking for used mangas, games, and other electronic products at a low price, I also recommend the stores BookOff and HardOff scattered throughout Japan. Just search on Google Maps and find one of these stores.
If you are in the Namba district, visiting the ADMSKI store is a must. You will get lost and spend hours scouring and looking for interesting things to buy.
To finish, I will leave a video below showing a bit of the store's products. Notice that the video is focused on ametoi [アメトイ] American toys like superheroes and others. Only a few excerpts are from the ADMSKI store.