ASAKUSA Underground > To Sell Gold near Asakusa
While the oil price hits the record height, the other precious metals are getting more and more expensive as well (in 2008). Now selling your necklaces or bracelets is a serious thing to consider when you are in need of money in Tokyo.
Although we read about novelists and poets bumping into each other at a pawnbroker’s and politely exchanging greetings like Dazai and Ibuse in the old days, it is considered a little shameful to go there and get money. Therefore, the Japanese tend to avoid being seen by others at a pawnshop, and sell their gold and diamonds without going there. You make an appointment by Internet or phone, and they come to your place and evaluate your goods. If you are happy about the estimation, you let them know, and the money will be deposited in your bank account.
The system doesn’t help tourists in need at all.
You can go to a conventional pawnshop and they do not refuse to buy your gold if it is real, but, since they are not precious metal brokers, they do not give you a good price.
Here is the name of a broker’s shop where they buy gold and other precious metals for, supposedly, the best prices in Tokyo.
In principle, they don’t buy your goods on the first meeting. First, you have to make an appointment with their specialist to evaluate them. If you are a good speaker of Japanese or have found someone to help you with the language, you don’t have to go there and you can do it by phone. Then, you bring them in, and, if you are lucky, you receive your money. Probably, you have to go there again to receive the money. Of course, you need to show your ID for crime prevention.
-Best Price ベストプライス
Zip, 110-0005, Mitsu Building 3F, 6-3-2 Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo
Tel. 03-6411-0711
Business hours 10:30 to 19:00 (weekdays) 11:00 to 18:00 (Saturdays)
Holidays Sundays, public holidays, and some Saturdays
Next to JR Okachimachi station
To find out the exact location, use diddlefinger.
The site is your best guide when you work in Tokyo or travel in Japan.
[Related articles]
・Pawnbrokers
If you don't have any precious metals to sell, read the article carefully and find out surprising objects you can sell.
・Live like Kafu
Although two literary giants Dazai and Ibuse needed to go to pawnbrokers, Kafu, another tycoon of Japanese literature, seems never to have been there. The author of "The Scarlet gang of Asakusa", Yasunari Kawabata was already a successful novelist by the time of writing the work. Nevertheless, he was often harassed by his landlord and sometimes needed to thin the ink to economise. It is the way most of Bunshi writers lived. (a bunshi: a samurai who took the pen by abandoning the sword) Kawabata also visited a pawnshop evidently. He was an orphan, not a spoiled rich kid like Kafu.
To Sell Gold near Asakusa
While the oil price hits the record height, the other precious metals are getting more and more expensive as well (in 2008). Now selling your necklaces or bracelets is a serious thing to consider when you are in need of money in Tokyo.
Although we read about novelists and poets bumping into each other at a pawnbroker’s and politely exchanging greetings like Dazai and Ibuse in the old days, it is considered a little shameful to go there and get money. Therefore, the Japanese tend to avoid being seen by others at a pawnshop, and sell their gold and diamonds without going there. You make an appointment by Internet or phone, and they come to your place and evaluate your goods. If you are happy about the estimation, you let them know, and the money will be deposited in your bank account.
The system doesn’t help tourists in need at all.
You can go to a conventional pawnshop and they do not refuse to buy your gold if it is real, but, since they are not precious metal brokers, they do not give you a good price.
Here is the name of a broker’s shop where they buy gold and other precious metals for, supposedly, the best prices in Tokyo.
In principle, they don’t buy your goods on the first meeting. First, you have to make an appointment with their specialist to evaluate them. If you are a good speaker of Japanese or have found someone to help you with the language, you don’t have to go there and you can do it by phone. Then, you bring them in, and, if you are lucky, you receive your money. Probably, you have to go there again to receive the money. Of course, you need to show your ID for crime prevention.
-Best Price ベストプライス
Zip, 110-0005, Mitsu Building 3F, 6-3-2 Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo
Tel. 03-6411-0711
Business hours 10:30 to 19:00 (weekdays) 11:00 to 18:00 (Saturdays)
Holidays Sundays, public holidays, and some Saturdays
Next to JR Okachimachi station
To find out the exact location, use diddlefinger.
The site is your best guide when you work in Tokyo or travel in Japan.
[Related articles]
・Pawnbrokers
If you don't have any precious metals to sell, read the article carefully and find out surprising objects you can sell.
・Live like Kafu
Although two literary giants Dazai and Ibuse needed to go to pawnbrokers, Kafu, another tycoon of Japanese literature, seems never to have been there. The author of "The Scarlet gang of Asakusa", Yasunari Kawabata was already a successful novelist by the time of writing the work. Nevertheless, he was often harassed by his landlord and sometimes needed to thin the ink to economise. It is the way most of Bunshi writers lived. (a bunshi: a samurai who took the pen by abandoning the sword) Kawabata also visited a pawnshop evidently. He was an orphan, not a spoiled rich kid like Kafu.