Card Shops in Alton, Illinois

Alton, Illinois has 2 card shops in our directory — 2 are filed under trading card games. Every listing has an address and a Google Maps link; 2 of 2 also have a phone number and 2 have posted hours.

Of those 2, 1 is an independent shop and 1 is a national chain location. Independents are listed first on this page and the chain entry sits in a collapsed block at the end. All 2 listings carry a Google rating. The highest-scoring independent once review volume is taken into account is Funky Planet Toys & Gifts, at 4.7 stars from 83 reviews. All 2 listings carry a website as well as an address, which is better field coverage than most cities this size. A page this short still earns a place in the index because the listing on it is an independent shop. Elsewhere in Illinois, 25 cities have nothing but chain locations, and those pages are marked to stay out of search results.

Looking at the 2 posted schedules here: 1 is open every day of the week and 1 closes on Mondays. For context, Illinois as a whole carries 147 independent shops in 102 cities alongside 74 chain locations. Within driving range are Wood River at roughly 6 miles with 1 shop, Edwardsville at roughly 13 miles with 2 shops, and Granite City at roughly 15 miles with 1 shop. The directory holds no inventory data for any of these shops, so what is in the case on a given afternoon is not something this page can answer. Our guide to finding a good card shop covers what to ask on the phone, and the starter guide covers the rest.