“Our store will be closed on January 11, 2021.” A tweet like this came around on Twitter. The account owner is Oaks Book Center Tokyo Dome City. It is a famous bookstore that has been devoted to specific genres such as giants, professional wrestling, and horse racing. Before I became a giant, I stopped by at the first practice interview at Tokyo Dome last November. The atmosphere was different from a normal bookstore. The core baseball books and professional wrestling books, such as magazines that summarize the records of high school baseball decades ago, have been pushed to the front, and I remember feeling that it was a great store.

Such a specialty store closes. Due to the influence of Corona, the event was not held, sales were halved, and management could not be established. Yoshishi Tagami, a 42-year-old store manager, muttered, “I can’t meet this kind of store again. It was a completely different store than usual. For Mr. Taue, who moved two and a half years ago, this period was the most exciting time in his 15-year bookstore clerk life. In general stores, the basic routine work is to receive and sell products such as monthly magazines and weekly magazines at a fixed time. However, this store changes products every time according to an event such as baseball, professional wrestling, and idol concerts such as Arashi held at Tokyo Dome. It was a dizzying day like a festival.

Continued to meet the expectations of the fans. As the knee of Tokyo Dome, he said, “I always had the pride that I shouldn’t run out of books related to giants.” In fact, photo books and yearbooks sold like crazy. Fan Appreciation Day was the best time of the year to write in yearbooks and commemorative goods. The “always” way from JR Suidobashi Station to Tokyo Dome across the pedestrian bridge. The “sacred place of liberal arts baseball” that was commonplace ends the 56-year history that has continued since the predecessor of Yamashita Bookstore.