Ever since I first saw this place back last year in September (click here to see the shot). I've been wanting to visit it. Actually I was planning to go there with the Walkers when they came but I missed out due to us getting lost in our visit to Osaka and running out of time to go there. Since it is cheeper and quicker, and Kyoto is a somewhat more pleasant place, my normal place to go if I need anything that the Nagaokakyo camera stores don't stock is BIC Camera in Kyoto. However, I've heard that Yodobashi is even bigger than the Shinsaibashi (Osaka) BIC Camera, so I have been meaning to check it out.
Well, after our usual monthly Saturday English classes to Employees of a company in Sone (which is on the other side of Osaka than Nagaokakyo), we decided to stop in at Osaka on the way home. Yep the building is huge, but it's mostly full of clothing shops and restaurants! The camera section is probably double the size as the camera section in the Shinsaibashi BIC Camera, and four times bigger than in the Kyoto BIC camera. The best surprise was the amount of new medium format gear they had, actually if I had put together all of the medium format gear I have seen in shops in the rest of my life, it would only amount to about half of what they had in Yodobashi! They even had new RB67s with any accessory I could imagine. If you're looking for Mamiya or Pentax medium format gear Yodobashi Camera is the place to find it, and they had plenty of stock of other brands too! Plus all the 35mm Film and Digital SLRs currently on the market (some stock of discontinued lines too!), and every Point and Shot digital camera too.