Kinokuniya has never attained mass popularity, but in its position as a long-term foreign business it not only blazed the trail for foreign bookstores but also stood witness to the development of Taiwan's bookstore industry.
一路走來，紀伊國屋雖未曾大紅大紫，但以外來經營者之姿進駐多年，不僅是外國書店入駐本土的開山祖師，也始終見證著台灣書店發展的風貌轉變。