Entry No. 28 — the Anchorage file — filed under: witchy

Source Metaphysical Book Store

A long-running downtown esoteric bookshop (open since 2010) stocked with metaphysical, occult, and spiritual titles. The kind of quiet, curated occult shelf that is genuinely hard to find this far north.

The move: Browse the occult shelves together, each pick a divination or tarot title for the other to learn from, then read your first chapters over coffee at a downtown cafe nearby.

📍 Before you go It sits on the eastern edge of downtown where 5th Avenue runs one-way westbound as the Glenn Highway feed, so traffic hustles past out front — walk over from the 4th Avenue core a few blocks west or park on a side street. The shop has long offered computerized astrological charts alongside the shelves, and it bills itself as the largest metaphysical bookstore in the Northwest. Listings suggest a weekday rhythm with Sundays dark, so do not bank on a Sunday browse. Pair it with a wander through Anchorage Memorial Park cemetery, about four blocks south via Cordova Street.

• 📍 Downtown Anchorage
• 💸 $$
• ⚡ Up for anything
• 🌗 Indoors

Where: 329 E 5th Ave, Anchorage, AK 99501

Hours: Added 2026-06-09 — confirm current hours before you go.

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last checked: 2026-06-09