Card Shops In Japan: Mint Shinjuku (UPDATED)

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.

The first card shop I went to on my trip was Mint Shinjuku, which was somewhat appropriate since it had been the first one I had gone to on my previous trip in 2019.  It had moved at some point in the five years between my visits to the seventh floor of the Shinjuku Marui Annex shopping mall - look for the building with the "Wald 9 Cinema" sign on it.

Here's some photos of the shop itself:

When I went there in 2019 I felt like the store fell into the general category of "Mall Shop" - a store that's likely to have singles from recent sets as well as hits and unopened packs and boxes.  I had picked up a couple Epoch One cards and a card I was missing from the 2018 Epoch NPB set there.  The new location appears to really have divested from having recent singles (although they had Dream Order ones - not sure if those were rare parallels or not).  I'd throw this shop in my new category of "Mall Shops with only hits" which, depending on what you're looking for, could be fine.  The shop is just a few blocks east of Shinjuku station so it's a convenient place to go if you want to grab some of the latest cards.  It really had nothing that I was particularly looking for though and I'm somewhat surprised that, according to the time tags on my photos, I spent ten minutes in the shop.  I have no idea what I did during that ten minutes as I didn't buy anything.  

This was literally the first place in Japan I went to after checking into my hotel, about 3 1/2 hours after my plane landed.  I was tired and a little jet lagged so my evaluation of the store may be colored by that.

Here's a map of the shop's location: