Card Shops In Japan: Mint Hiroshima

Please check my "Card Shops in Japan" page before planning a trip to this store to verify that it's still where it was when I visited.

Mint Hiroshima is the latest addition to the Mint chain of trading card stores.  It opened in late March so it had been open for a little more than two months when I stopped by on June 1st.

The store is located on the fifth floor of the Don Quijote store on Chuo-dori about four blocks south of what I think is Aioi-dori - the main thoroughfare through Hiroshima.  It's also about four blocks south of the Hatchobori stop on the Hiroshima Electric Railway.

Like Mint Umeda, this store is another of Mint's "mall" stores.  There wasn't a lot here and most of it was recent singles, hits and unopened packs and boxes.  They did seem to have a lot of Carp singles which makes sense - I saw BBM Carp cards going back to about 2004.  I also saw some vintage Calbee and NST cards in a case on the wall.  I didn't think to look for team issued Carp cards - this would have been the obvious place to look for them.

 Also like Mint Umeda, the store sells a lot of gaming cards and has a number of tables set up for game play.  Here's a couple photos of the store:

I ended up only buying one card here - an Epoch One card featuring Xavier Batista of the Carp hitting the final home run of the Heisei Era.

Once again I didn't check for sure that they take credit cards but I'm pretty sure all the Mint stores do.

Here's a map showing the location of the Don Q store that the shop is in:

UDPATE - I had a quick re-visit here on my 2024 trip and the store seemed pretty much the same.  I looked a little harder for Carp team-issued cards but I didn't see any.  I considered picking up a couple of the Carp "mini-shikishi" cards but I wasn't sure I'd be able to keep them safe for the rest of the day I spent in Hiroshima.  Here's a couple new photos: