Not your average record store.

We also host Miyagi Education courses and various cultural + community events.

As a record store, we specialize obscure and classic - Soul, Funk, Jazz, Latin, Rock, Blues, World Music, New Wave / Industrial, Hip-Hop, Disco, House in LP, 12inch single, & 45rpm formats. For lovers of other formats and media, we also carry CDs, Cassettes, Vintage Books, Music Gear, + Magazines

The shop’s name says all about who we are. Our name is taken from the two kanji characters 宮 and 城 meaning, shrine and fortress. It’s about protecting something almost intangible and very precious. Influenced by the hyper-curated, hidden away vinyl shops of Tokyo, Japan, our goal is to become your 'secret spot.' The crane that you can see on our logo is a symbol for longevity and prosperity in Japanese culture. Miyagi Records embodies all these concepts.

We started Miyagi Records in late 2019 as a small side project between gigs—a way to move records, share what we were listening to, and stay close to the culture that raised us. When the pandemic shut down our work as musicians, Miyagi stopped being a backup plan and became the path forward, growing into a record shop and education space on the South Side.

We acknowledge that a vast majority of the music we love, teach, and sell comes from Black, Brown, and Indigenous creators and wider diasporic traditions—and we let that reality shape how we do business. As a BIPOC–owned shop on the South Side, we’re here to honor those lineages by keeping our shelves curated with care, our buying and selling practices honest, and our doors open to the full spectrum of the community. Through the Shop and our education programs, we aim to make Miyagi a place where South Side music history, everyday listeners, and the next generation of selectors all meet in the same room.

Being rooted on the Arts Block, on historic ground once home to Joe Louis’ Rhumboogie Café, we carry that legacy forward through records, education, and community programs that center diasporic sound, South Side histories, and everyday cultural practice. Miyagi’s work on the block is focused on building a sustainable, independent space for learning, gathering, and cultural exchange.