Kinokuniya's new bookstore in Katy, Tex., is open for business, Community Impact reported. The 4,000-square-foot store held its soft opening on October 14 and sells books, magazines and Japanese stationery, as well as manga, graphic novels and anime. It is the first Kinokuniya location in the Houston area and the fourth in Texas overall.
The store is located in the Katy Grand development, a new outdoor mall that includes a 46-acre campus of the University of Houston. When the company announced its opening plans back in June, Kinokuniya's Shigekazu Watanabe said the new store would have a ratio of English-language to Japanese-language titles of about two to one, and the inventory would have a particular focus on "literature, children's books and manga."