A new bookstore is opening in Osaka today (May 11 2006).  It is a branch
of the Tokyo Random Walk chain which has stores in Tokyo Roppongi, Tokyo
Akasaka and Kobe.

Random Walk Osaka
1-5-17 Nishi-Shinsaibashi, Chuo-ku, Osaka 542-0086;
http://www.bookshop.or.jp/osaka/ (contact numbers and map)
http://www.bookshop.co.jp/osaka/report/ (book photos)
Both pages Japanese text.

The City of Osaka provides a vicinity map:
http://www.tourism.city.osaka.jp/en/area_osaka/minami/attraction/amemura/index.html

Tokyo Random Walk will drop "Tokyo" from the store name with the opening
of the Osaka store.

Their web-page claims the new store is going to have the largest
collection of imported magazines (950 titles) and paperbacks (5,500
titles) in west Japan, as well as a large number of books for children
(2000 titles).

The chain started in Tokyo Jimbocho by the name of Charles E. Tuttle
Booksellers.  A few years ago they changed name to Tokyo Random Walk and 
shifted the focus from academic books to art and design volumes (which 
they call "visual books").  The Kanda store closed recently, on February 28.