There's a neighborhood in Tokyo called Jinbōchō, which built an entire town out of different specialist second-hand book shops.
If you ever need a specific book on a specific thing, you bet you can find it there.
It's pretty sweet.
And to ride on Jimbocho/international reference, they have the same in Manila, Philippines in Recto, which is a university area, tons of english university text books, around 100-200 pesos, "international editions."
Jimbocho has limited English text.
Now Hong Kong, Quarry Bay Street has a few but they're all on south island I see and accessible via the metro.
I'm fortunate enough to have that experience. I also thought there were many specialized districts. The few towns I visited all had a very sophisticated electronics district that included ancient machines, simple home A/V switching boxes and cutting edge parts.
'Cutscene'y type talks like Tom Nook or Isabelle introducing are in kanji but irc pretty much everything else like items and villager chat is hiragana.
Hi, do you have an email or something I could contact to discuss your living situation and the process undertook a little better?
I would like to do something similar but would like some more information on it.
