Three Tokyo locations

[Agulliver]

Film photography seems to be alive and well in both Kyoto and Tokyo. I recently visited both and saw lots of people with film cameras out and about in the regular streets, shrines, temples and parks. I was definitely not alone in shooting film, though my std 8mm cine camera did gain lots of attention. Not least from monks at Kiyomizu-dera Temple, one of whom asked me if it was video tape...when I said "film" he remarked "very old. Very cool". I also got interest from the young people out at night drinking in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

Anyway, I visited three shops where I found film for sale.

Firstly Bic Camera right by one of the exits of Shinjuku station has a small but decent selection

Secondly. Yodobashi Akiba, Chiyoda City Tokyo - great selection of films and formats. Good selection of film cameras. Film section as big as some supermarkets and way more popular than the digital cameras.

Finally Kitamura Camera, Shinjuku - I didn't go in but they had a huge display of film visible from the window. And were doing good business.

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[dscottjorgenson]

Cool! So maybe this explains the paucity of Fujifilm reversal films elsewhere, particularly here in America: with their production limited by raw material supply-chain difficulties, Fujifilm are prioritizing their home market - where, by the way, it seems their films retail for around twice as much as they do here in America (where they are almost-perpetually out-of-stock). Presumably Fujifilm is seeing a comparable cut of that domestic price action? That would explain a lot.