# Maido Fine Stationery & Gifts, San Francisco CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/maido-fine-stationery-and-gifts-san-francisco-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-14.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/maido-fine-stationery-and-gifts-san-francisco-ca

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## In short

Maido Fine Stationery & Gifts is a stationery store in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 67 of 100, which is good.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Stationery store |
| Address | 1581 Webster St ste 218, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 11 AM to 7 PM |
| Phone | (415) 567-8901 |
| Rating | 4.4 across 245 reviews on Google |
| Updated | September 14, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 1581 Webster St ste 218, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Store stocking writing supplies from basic notebooks to high-end Japanese pens & journals. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Maido Fine Stationery & Gifts - San Francisco | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (415) 567-8901 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Alien stage official artbook | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Blog nav | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Book sales | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Featured books posts | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Journal sales | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Kaori fujino | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Kino azur collab | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Mangaplaza | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Miyanishi tatsuya | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Monthly staff pick april 2025 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Monthly staff pick april 2026 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Monthly staff pick august 2025 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Monthly staff pick august 2026 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Monthly staff pick december 2025 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Monthly staff pick february 2026 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Monthly staff pick january 2026 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Monthly staff pick july 2025 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Monthly staff pick july 2026 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Monthly staff pick june 2025 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Monthly staff pick june 2026 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Monthly staff pick march 2025 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Monthly staff pick march 2026 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Monthly staff pick may 2025 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Monthly staff pick november 2025 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Monthly staff pick october 2025 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Monthly staff pick september 2025 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Monthly staff pick september 2026 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | New releases | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Notebook sales | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Pages fixed | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Patricia chadwick | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Pen sales | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Storelocations maido | From their website | Business website |
| Links | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/kinokuniyausa | AI guess | Business website |
| Links | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/kinokuniyausa | AI guess | Business website |
| Links | TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@kinokuniyausa | AI guess | Business website |
| Links | Website | https://usa.kinokuniya.com/stores-maido-san-francisco | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 29 services Maido Fine Stationery & Gifts offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kaori fujino |  |  |  | From their website |
| Kino azur collab |  |  |  | From their website |
| Monthly staff pick january 2026 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Monthly staff pick february 2026 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Monthly staff pick june 2026 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Monthly staff pick september 2025 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Monthly staff pick june 2025 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Monthly staff pick july 2026 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Monthly staff pick july 2025 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Monthly staff pick march 2025 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Storelocations maido |  |  |  | From their website |
| Mangaplaza |  |  |  | From their website |
| Miyanishi tatsuya |  |  |  | From their website |
| Monthly staff pick may 2025 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Monthly staff pick november 2025 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Monthly staff pick october 2025 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Monthly staff pick september 2026 |  |  |  | From their website |
| New releases |  |  |  | From their website |
| Pages fixed |  |  |  | From their website |
| Alien stage official artbook |  |  |  | From their website |
| Monthly staff pick december 2025 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Monthly staff pick august 2026 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Monthly staff pick august 2025 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Monthly staff pick april 2026 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Monthly staff pick april 2025 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Featured books posts |  |  |  | From their website |
| Monthly staff pick march 2026 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Patricia chadwick |  |  |  | From their website |
| Blog nav |  |  |  | From their website |


### Known for

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## The team

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## Visiting Maido Fine Stationery & Gifts

Address: 1581 Webster St ste 218, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA. Phone: (415) 567-8901. Hours: Mon to Sun 11 AM to 7 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Store stocking writing supplies from basic notebooks to high-end Japanese pens & journals."


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Yakitori Edomasa | Yakitori restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Beque BBQ Grill | Korean barbecue restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Udon Mugizo - SF | Japanese restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Marufuku Ramen | Ramen restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Suzu | Japanese restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Ichiju | Japanese restaurant | 1 min walk |


## Reputation

4.4 average across 245 reviews: Google 245. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.)

Maido stands out for its extensive selection of unique stationery and gifts, but customer service issues detract from the overall experience. (AI guess, from 245 reviews.)


### What people like

- Wide variety of stationery goods
- Unique gifts from smaller artists
- Great selection of fountain pens


### What people do not like

- Rude and unhelpful staff
- Overpriced items
- Long waits at the register due to manual pricing


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

Listed on 2 of the 12 directories we checked.

| Directory | Listed |
| --- | --- |
| Apple Maps | Not listed |
| BBB | Not listed |
| Birdeye | Not listed |
| Chamber of Commerce | Not listed |
| Facebook | Listed |
| Hotfrog | Not listed |
| Manta | Not listed |
| Trustpilot | Not listed |
| Tupalo | Not listed |
| Yellowbook | Not listed |
| Yellow Pages | Not listed |
| Yelp | Listed |


## Questions people ask


### What do shoppers most often mention buying at the shop?


### how much is a first visit around here


### membership, worth it or not


### best stationery store in San Francisco


### the good stuff about Maido Fine Stationery & Gifts, what is it?


### does the shop ever have cancellations


### Whereabouts is the shop?


### Are the hours on Google right for Maido Fine Stationery & Gifts in San Francisco?


### do I need to fill anything in beforehand


### bad experiences at Maido Fine Stationery & Gifts, anyone?


### where does the shop post updates


### is Paper Source any better


### what else is on Webster around Maido Fine Stationery & Gifts?


### budget options in San Francisco, what is decent


## The AI Score: 67 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Stationery stores on the registry run 26 to 68. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Maido Fine Stationery & Gifts scores 67. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Maido Fine Stationery & Gifts |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 100 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Good |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 42 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 50 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Fair |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 79 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 64 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 54 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 77 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a stationery store: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Maido Fine Stationery & Gifts |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Maido Fine Stationery & Gifts | LocalBusiness | #business | https://usa.kinokuniya.com/stores-maido-san-francisco | Subject of this page |
| San Francisco, California | City | #city |  | City Maido Fine Stationery & Gifts is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the stationery stores in San Francisco, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best stationery stores in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco/stationery-store
- Best businesses in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco


### Nearby

- /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose
- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view
- /santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


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