Mitsukoshi

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Utagawa Hiroshige designed an Script error: No such module "lang". print with Mount Fuji and Echigoya as landmarks. Echigoya is the former name of Mitsukoshi named after the former province of Echigo. The Mitsukoshi headquarters are located on the left side of the street.

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History

It was founded in 1673 with the Script error: No such module "lang". (shop name) Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., selling kimono. Ten years later in 1683, Echigoya took a new approach to marketing. Instead of selling by going door-to-door, they set up a store where buyers could purchase goods on the spot with cash. Mitsukoshimae Station on the Tokyo Metro is named after the adjacent Mitsukoshi department store.

Mitsukoshi is the root of Mitsui group. In the 1970s, Mitsukoshi bought the Oriental Nakamura department store in Nagoya and re-branded them as Script error: No such module "lang"..

Genichiro Inokuma designed the wrapping paper in white and red.[1]

In August 2007, it was announced that Mitsukoshi would merge into Isetan, a major department store in Japan.[2] Mitsukoshi Template:Tyo was unlisted on March 26, 2008, and on April 1, it merged with Isetan under a joint holding company called Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd. (Template:Tyo).

On April 5, 2019, Mitsukoshi announced that it would further expand its Asian presence by having a Filipino branch established by 2021 at Bonifacio Global City, in Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines.[3] The store opened on November 18, 2022.[4]

Stores

Japan

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Courtesy bus for customers of Mitsukoshi's main store going to Tokyo station in 1932. Mitsukoshi was the first company to offer such a service in Japan.

Stores managed by Isetan Mitsukoshi Ltd.

Stores managed by other companies

  • Sapporo Store (Chūō-ku, Sapporo) Script error: No such module "Lang". - Sapporo Mitsukoshi Ltd.
  • Sendai Store (Aoba-ku, Sendai) Script error: No such module "Lang". - Sendai Mitsukoshi Ltd.
  • Nagoya Sakae Main Branch (Naka-ku, Nagoya) Script error: No such module "Lang". - Nagoya Mitsukoshi Ltd.
  • Hoshigaoka Mitsukoshi (Chikusa-ku, Nagoya) Script error: No such module "Lang". - Nagoya Mitsukoshi Ltd.
  • Hiroshima Mitsukoshi (Naka-ku, Hiroshima) Script error: No such module "Lang". - Hiroshima Mitsukoshi Ltd.
  • Takamatsu Mitsukoshi Script error: No such module "Lang". - Takamatsu Mitsukoshi Ltd.
  • Matsuyama Mitsukoshi Script error: No such module "Lang". - Matsuyama Mitsukoshi Ltd.
  • Fukuoka Mitsukoshi (Chūō-ku, Fukuoka) Script error: No such module "Lang". - Iwataya Mitsukoshi Ltd.

Closed

  • Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Alcott (Shinjuku, Tokyo) Script error: No such module "Lang".
  • Ikebukuro Mitsukoshi (Toshima, Tokyo) Script error: No such module "Lang". - closed May 2009 [5]
  • Musashimurayama Mitsukoshi (Musashimurayama, Tokyo) Script error: No such module "Lang".
  • Kagoshima Mitsukoshi Script error: No such module "Lang".
  • Tama Center Mitsukoshi (Tama, Tokyo) Script error: No such module "Lang".
  • Chiba Mitsukoshi (Chūō-ku, Chiba) Script error: No such module "Lang".
  • Niigata Mitsukoshi (Nishibori-dōri) Script error: No such module "Lang". - Niigata Isetan Mitsukoshi Ltd.
  • JR Osaka Isetan Mitsukoshi (Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka) Script error: No such module "Lang".
  • Ebisu Mitsukoshi (Shibuya, Tokyo) Script error: No such module "Lang". - closed February 2021[6]

China

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Shin Kong Place in Suzhou, Jiangsu

Philippines

Taiwan

Script error: No such module "labelled list hatnote". The stores in Taiwan are named Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Department Store, a collaboration between the Shin Kong Group and Mitsukoshi. The first Shin Kong Mitsukoshi store opened at Nanjing Road in Taipei in 1991.

The following branches are open as of 2022:[9]

  • Taipei:
    • Nanjing Road Store, with three buildings (Script error: No such module "Lang"., and Script error: No such module "Lang".)
    • Xinyi New Life Square (Script error: No such module "Lang".): 4 buildings (A4, A8, A9, and A11Script error: No such module "Lang".)
    • Taipei Main Station Store (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
    • Tianmu Store
  • Taoyuan:
    • Dayou Road Store (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
    • Taoyuan Station Store (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
  • Taichung:
    • Zhonggan Road Store (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
  • Chiayi:
    • Chuiyang Road Store (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
  • Tainan:
    • Zhongshan Road Store (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
    • Ximen Road Store (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
  • Kaohsiung:
    • Sanduo Shopping District Store (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
    • Zuoying District Store (Script error: No such module "Lang".)

Thailand

  • Bangkok: Mitsukoshi Depachika, One Bangkok, a supermarket and food hall that is hosted and operated by a joint venture company One Bangkok Mitsukoshi Ltd.

United States

Former stores

Asia

  • China: The Dalian store closed at the end of the Second World War.[11]
    • Hong Kong: The first Mitsukoshi in Hong Kong, covering 12000 sq meters on 4 levels, opened at 500 Hennessy Road, Causeway Bay on 26 August 1981. A second store opened in 1988 in the Sun Arcade in Tsim Sha Tsui, but it closed in 1995. Mitsukoshi closed its original Causeway Bay store on 17 September 2006, due to the redevelopment of Hennessy Centre.[12]
  • South Korea: In 1930, Mitsukoshi opened a department store (Script error: No such module "Lang".) in downtown Keijō (today Seoul).[13] After the liberation of Korea and the defeat of Japan in 1945, Samsung took over this store and renamed it Shinsegae (Script error: No such module "Lang".; lit. "New World").[14]

Europe

  • London (Piccadilly) - The London store opened in 1979[15] and closed in 2013.
  • Paris - Opened in 1971[15] and closed in 2010.[16]
  • Rome - Opened in 1975[15] and closed in 2021.[17]
  • Milan
  • Düsseldorf
  • Frankfurt
  • Munich

North America

  • New York City - Mitsukoshi opened a 10,000 sq ft boutique and restaurant in rented space in the Ritz Tower apartment building at 57th Street and Park Avenue on March 16, 1979.[18] In 1991, Mitsukoshi bought that space, as well as 30,000 sq ft of additional adjoining space, and opened a much larger outlet, which subsequently closed.[19] Mitsukoshi opened a small popup store for one week only in SoHo during New York Fashion Week in February 2014.[20]

References

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  1. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  2. ↑ http://www.mitsukoshi.co.jp/pc/corp/pdf/0070823.pdf 株式会社伊勢丹と株式会社三越との共同持株会社設立による 経営統合に関するお知らせ August 23, 2007 (in Japanese)
  3. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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  5. ↑ http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/h.php?news=mitsukoshi-to-close-six-stores-2008-09-26 Mitsukoshi to close six stores
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  10. ↑ Mitsukoshi Cultural Representative Program Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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  15. ↑ a b c The Department Store in Early 20th Century Japan: Luxury, Aestheticization and Modern Life gold.ac.uk
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  17. ↑ Japan News Template:Webarchive
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