Toranoana Ikebukuro Store B

What it is

Toranoana (コミックとらのあな) is one of Japan's largest doujinshi and commercial-manga retailers by sales volume, but its physical-store footprint has shrunk sharply in recent years. After closing five other flagship stores — Akihabara, Shinjuku, Chiba, Namba, and Umeda — at the end of August 2022, the chain now runs only two full stores worldwide: this Ikebukuro shop and one overseas branch in Taipei. Most of its retail presence today is mail-order plus small in-store concession corners inside other bookshops and specialty stores around Japan.

Ikebukuro itself used to have two separate Toranoana storefronts — a male-oriented "Store A" and this female-oriented "Store B," on the 7th floor of the Seiko Sunshine Building XI. Store A's male-oriented stock was discontinued in February 2021 (its 6th-floor operation ended on February 11, 2021), leaving Store B — the shop covered here — as Ikebukuro's, and now the whole chain's, sole storefront in Japan. It has run since then as a large women-only comprehensive floor, and it's one of the shops that defines Otome Road, Ikebukuro's female-fan (fujoshi) district.

The single 7th-floor sales floor stocks women-oriented doujinshi, commercial BL (Boys' Love) manga and light novels, CDs/Blu-ray/DVDs, and toys and character merchandise — a dense, browsable stock of BL and otome-fandom goods a short walk from the Otome Road core, alongside neighbors like K-BOOKS Otome-kan and animate Ikebukuro.

Good to know

• Hours: weekdays 12:00–21:00, weekends/holidays 11:00–20:00, no regular closing day (per the official shop page — some third-party map listings show different, older hours, so trust the official page if in doubt).
• Access: about a 1-minute walk from Ikebukuro Station's Exit 32; the shop is on the 7th floor of the building with a Right-On clothing store at street level.
• No direct store phone line — the official site routes inquiries through its FAQ/contact form rather than a phone number.
• Tax-free and English-language support are not confirmed for this specific branch; the chain has general tax-free and interpreter-service info pages (the interpreter page dates to 2014 and lists several branches that have since closed), but neither could be confirmed as currently applying here, so confirm at the register if it matters for your visit.
• Pair it with a walk down the rest of Otome Road — K-BOOKS' otome/BL branches and animate's flagship are both within a few minutes on foot.