Where to buy VNs in Japanese

[DeadEnd]

So I know there's a forum for buying VNs in English but I want to know where I can buy them in Japanese. There are a few Eroge/Galge I want to buy. I know of a few but they're mostly for otome games. I'll share the online stores that I know so please tell me what you know. Here are the stores that I use:

CDJapan (http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/game/index.html): Doesn't sell PC games. But is a very good store and what I really like about it is that it will convert the currency which was very helpful for me since I use Australian dollars. I've heard that it's customer support had decreased recently in terms of pre-orders. I've heard recently that they'll add prices on there at last minute and won't tell the customer.

HMV (http://www.hmv.co.jp/en/): I haven't been able to find any PC games on there either but they're more likely to sell PS2 games than CDJapan.

ComiComi Studio (http://www.comicomi-studio.com/home.html): Site is in Japanese but good if you know the language. Only sells Otome and BL/Yaoi.

That's all I know but I hope it helped somebody.

[Zakamutt]

If you're interested in Umineko, I think there was a news item sometime ago that MG now sells the japanese version through its site. Special case though~

[Famichip]

AmiAmi: http://slist.amiami.com/top/search/list?s_cate2=8553&pagemax=20
(I haven't tried buying eroge from them though, only figures and console games)

[REtransInternational]

There are many other sites in Japanese part of the Internet which sell VNs too. Probably not many people on English-only side will know about them.

[Pabloc]

Personally, I'm relying on Amazon.jp. They have a good choice of VNs, and the used ones are significantly cheaper than new stuff (while they are still in very good condition). Getchu should probably be a good choice too, I didn't use it myself though.

There's a tiny little problem though - eroge titles are officially "Japan Sales Only", so their shops won't ship them outside of Japan. That's... not that big of a deal though. You just have to use such shipping services as Goody-Japan, Yokatta or Tenso to name just a few (personally, I use the former, easy to use and very reliable). It's not too expansive (considering rather ridiculous price of VNs themselves and shipping costs), and makes shopping on Japanese sites much easier, since you don't have to deal with the language (you don't have to place your orders in Japanese etc.). Basically, you just send them the link to the item you want, they buy it themselves and ship it to you.

 

I assume that you are looking for physical copies, for digital downloads, you can just use DLSite (they even have an English version of the site, though with smaller offer).