Kinokuniya - Kavinmullai Naguchete

Kinokuniya, a renowned international bookshop chain from Japan, placed in Suria KLCC shopping mall (part of the Petronas Twin Towers Complex) at its top floor, Malaysia. It is Malaysia’s largest and well-known book store for its collection of Asian books and magazines plus DVDs and stationary.

Kinokuniya Bookstore was founded in January 1927 at the Shinjuku district of Tokyo by former president Moichi Tanabe. In February 1969, the first overseas store opened in San Francisco. The goal was to provide Japanese living in the U.S. with books and magazines from home and introduce Japanese culture to the local community. Kinokuniya ventured into the Asia-Pasific market when it opened its first store in Singapore and followed by Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia and Dubai. And now there are 27 overseas stores by now all over the world.

Kinokuniya Book Store, Suria KLCC

This two floors book store is definitely bigger than what you see from the outside, there’s even a big Japanese books and magazines section hidden in there. Apart from the café upstairs where you can chill and have some cakes and tea, there’s another section by the window where you can sit down and read some books. There you would overlook the view of the KLCC park.

The book selection here is tough to beat. There are over 300,000 titles in the store with different languages like Chinese, English, Japanese and Malay. If you are looking for an important title, this would be the place I would recommend starting your search. Besides that, they have a special section strictly cater to Japanese books, magazines and literatures which is excellent for those Japanese expatriates and people with strong interests in Japanese culture.