Mitsukoshi, Ltd. (??????, Kabushiki-gaisha Mitsukoshi) is an international department store chain with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. It is a subsidiary of Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings, which also owns the Isetan department store chain.
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History
It was founded in 1673 with the yag? (shop name) Echigoya (???), selling kimonos. 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 Mitsukoshi Nagoya.
Genichiro Inokuma designed the wrapping paper in white and red.
In August 2007, it was announced that Mitsukoshi would merge into Isetan, a major department store in Japan. Mitsukoshi TYO: 2779 was unlisted on March 26, 2008, and on April 1, it merged with Isetan under a joint holding company called Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd. (TYO: 3099).
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Stores
Japan
Stores managed by Isetan Mitsukoshi Ltd.
- Nihonbashi Main Branch (Ch??, Tokyo) ?????
- Ginza Mitsukoshi (Ch??, Tokyo) ????
- Ebisu Mitsukoshi (Shibuya, Tokyo) ?????
- Chiba Mitsukoshi (Ch??-ku, Chiba) ????
Stores managed by other companies
- Sapporo Store (Ch??-ku, Sapporo) ??? - Sapporo Mitsukoshi Ltd.
- Sendai Store (Aoba-ku, Sendai) ??? - Sendai Mitsukoshi Ltd.
- Nagoya Sakae Main Branch (Naka-ku, Nagoya) ?????? - Nagoya Mitsukoshi Ltd.
- Hoshigaoka Mitsukoshi (Chikusa-ku, Nagoya) ????? - Nagoya Mitsukoshi Ltd.
- Niigata Mitsukoshi (Nishibori-d?ri) ???? - Niigata Isetan Mitsukoshi Ltd.
- JR Osaka Isetan Mitsukoshi (Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka) JR???????
- Hiroshima Mitsukoshi (Naka-ku, Hiroshima) ???? - Hiroshima Mitsukoshi Ltd.
- Takamatsu Mitsukoshi ???? - Takamatsu Mitsukoshi Ltd.
- Matsuyama Mitsukoshi ???? - Matsuyama Mitsukoshi Ltd.
- Fukuoka Mitsukoshi (Ch??-ku, Fukuoka) ???? - Iwataya Mitsukoshi Ltd.
Closed stores
- Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Alcott (Shinjuku, Tokyo) ?????????
- Ikebukuro Mitsukoshi (Toshima, Tokyo) ???? - closed May 2009
- Musashimurayama Mitsukoshi (Musashimurayama, Tokyo) ??????
- Kagoshima Mitsukoshi ?????
- [Tama Center Mitsukoshi (Tama, Tokyo) ????????
Taiwan
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.
- Taipei:
- Nanjing Road Store, with three buildings (1?, 2?, and 3?)
- Xinyi New Life Square (?????): 4 buildings (A4, A8, A9, and A11?)
- Taipei Main Station Store (?????)
- Tianmu Store
- Taoyuan:
- Dayou Road Store (???)
- Taoyuan Station Store (???)
- Hsinchu:
- Chunghwa Road Store (???)
- Taichung:
- Zhonggang Road Store (???)
- Chiayi:
- Chuiyang Road Store (???)
- Tainan:
- Zhongshan Road Store (???)
- Ximen Road Store (???)
- Kaohsiung:
- Sanduo Shopping District Store (???)
- Zuoying District Store (???)
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.
China (mainland)
- Dalian closed at the end of the Second World War
- Shanghai (Okura Garden Hotel)
Korea
In 1930, Mitsukoshi opened their department store (????) in downtown Seoul. After the liberation of Korea and the defeat of Japan in 1945, Samsung took over this store and renamed it Shinsegae (???; Shinsegae; lit. New World).
Europe
Italy
- Rome (Via Nazionale)
Former stores in Europe
- London (Piccadily) - The London store opened in 1979 and closed in 2013. It was a popular shopping destination for Japanese visitors, and also incorporated a restaurant. It was located on Lower Regent Street, alongside the Japan Centre (which has now relocated) and a small cluster of Japanese restaurants. At the end of June 2013 a large red poster was displayed in the window of Mitsukoshi London department store which read '34???????????? Closing Down Sale' which means 'Thank you for 34 Years'.
- The three German stores of Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Munich as well as the Milan shop closed in 2008 and 2009, the Paris shop closed in 2010 (and the Paris cultural center in 2011).
North America
- Orlando, Florida, United States - at the Japan Pavilion, which Mitsukoshi hosts and operates, at the Epcot World Showcase at Walt Disney World, Lake Buena Vista
- New York City - Mitsukoshi opened a 10,000 sq ft boutique and restaurant in rented space in the famous Ritz Tower apartment building at 57th Street and Park Avenue on March 16, 1979. 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. Mitsukoshi opened a small popup store for one week only in SoHo during New York Fashion Week in February 2014.
References
External links
- Mitsukoshi (in Japanese)
- Mitsukoshi Foreign Customer Service (in English)(in Chinese)(in Korean)
- Mitsukoshi, Ltd. Annual Report (in English)
- Mitsukoshi London (in English)
- Mitsukoshi Roma (in Italian)
- Shin Kong Mitsukoshi (in Chinese)
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