is an international

department store A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store, each area ("department") specializing in a product category. In modern major cities, the department store made a dramatic app ...

chain with headquarters in

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...

, Japan. It is a subsidiary of Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings, which also owns the Isetan department store chain.

History

It was founded in 1673 with the (shop name) , 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 . 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 was unlisted on March 26, 2008, and on April 1, it merged with Isetan under a joint holding company called Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd. (). 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

Manila Manila ( , ; fil, Maynila, ), officially the City of Manila ( fil, Lungsod ng Maynila, ), is the capital city, capital of the Philippines, and its second-most populous city. It is Cities of the Philippines#Independent cities, highly urbanize ...

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

. On February 28, 2022, it's reported that the branch can open by the fourth quarter of 2022, according to Federal Land president and chief operating officer Tom Mirasol when he spoke in a virtual press conference. The store opened on November 18, 2022.

Stores

Japan

MitsukoshiDepato CourtesyBus-toTokyoStation 1932

Stores managed by Isetan Mitsukoshi Ltd.

Nihonbashi is a business district of Chūō, Tokyo, Japan which grew up around the bridge of the same name which has linked two sides of the Nihonbashi River at this site since the 17th century. The first wooden bridge was completed in 1603. The curre ...

Main Branch ( Chūō, Tokyo) * Ginza Mitsukoshi ( Chūō, Tokyo)

Stores managed by other companies

Sapporo ( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous ci ...

Store (Chūō-ku, Sapporo) - Sapporo Mitsukoshi Ltd. *

Sendai is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture, the largest city in the Tōhoku region. , the city had a population of 1,091,407 in 525,828 households, and is one of Japan's 20 designated cities. The city was founded in 1600 by the ''daimyō'' Date M ...

Store (Aoba-ku, Sendai) - Sendai Mitsukoshi Ltd. *

Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most p ...

Sakae Main Branch (Naka-ku, Nagoya) - Nagoya Mitsukoshi Ltd. * Hoshigaoka Mitsukoshi (Chikusa-ku, Nagoya) - Nagoya Mitsukoshi Ltd. * Hiroshima Mitsukoshi (Naka-ku, Hiroshima) - Hiroshima Mitsukoshi Ltd. * Takamatsu Mitsukoshi - Takamatsu Mitsukoshi Ltd. * Matsuyama Mitsukoshi - Matsuyama Mitsukoshi Ltd. *

Fukuoka is the List of Japanese cities by population, sixth-largest city in Japan, the second-largest port city after Yokohama, and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center ...

Mitsukoshi (Chūō-ku, Fukuoka) - Iwataya Mitsukoshi Ltd.

Closed

* Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Alcott (Shinjuku, Tokyo) * Ikebukuro Mitsukoshi ( Toshima, Tokyo) - closed May 2009 http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/h.php?news=mitsukoshi-to-close-six-stores-2008-09-26 Mitsukoshi to close six stores * Musashimurayama Mitsukoshi ( Musashimurayama, Tokyo) * Kagoshima Mitsukoshi * Tama Center Mitsukoshi ( Tama, Tokyo) * Chiba Mitsukoshi (Chūō-ku, Chiba) * Niigata Mitsukoshi (Nishibori-dōri) - Niigata Isetan Mitsukoshi Ltd. * JR

Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of ...

Isetan Mitsukoshi (Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka) * Ebisu Mitsukoshi (

Shibuya, Tokyo Shibuya ( 渋谷区 ''Shibuya-ku'') is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. As a major commercial and finance center, it houses two of the busiest railway stations in the world, Shinjuku Station (southern half) and Shibuya Station. As of April ...

) - closed February 2021

China

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(Okura Garden Hotel) * Shin Kong Place (Suzhou) * Shin Kong Place (Chongqing) *

Shin Kong Place (Chengdu) Shin may refer to: Biology * The front part of the human leg below the knee * Shinbone, the tibia, the larger of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates Names * Shin (given name) (Katakana: シン, Hiragana: しん), a Japanese g ...

Taiwan

The stores in Taiwan are named , a collaboration between the

Shin Kong Group The Shin Kong Group () is a large enterprise group in Taiwan, the group traces its origin back to the establishment of the Shin Kong Store in 1945 by group founder . The Shin Kong Store was engaged in the trading of fabrics and the import and ...

and Mitsukoshi. The first Shin Kong Mitsukoshi store opened at Nanjing Road in Taipei in 1991. The following branches are open as of 2022: *

Taipei Taipei (), officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about southwest of the ...

: ** Nanjing Road Store, with three buildings (, and ) ** Xinyi New Life Square (): 4 buildings (A4, A8, A9, and A11) ** Taipei Main Station Store () ** Tianmu Store * Taoyuan: ** Dayou Road Store () ** Taoyuan Station Store () *

Taichung Taichung (, Wade–Giles: ''Tʻai²-chung¹'', pinyin: ''Táizhōng''), officially Taichung City, is a special municipality located in central Taiwan. Taichung has approximately 2.8 million residents and is the second most populous city of Ta ...

: ** Zhonggang Road Store () * Chiayi: ** Chuiyang Road Store () *

Tainan Tainan (), officially Tainan City, is a special municipality in southern Taiwan facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast. Tainan is the oldest city on the island and also commonly known as the "Capital City" for its over 200 years of hi ...

: ** Zhongshan Road Store () ** Ximen Road Store () * Kaohsiung: ** Sanduo Shopping District Store () ** Zuoying District Store ()

Philippines

* Taguig City: Bonifacio Global City The Seasons (November 18, 2022)

Former stores

* China: The Dalian store closed at the end of the Second World War. **

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

: 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. *

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

: In 1930, Mitsukoshi opened a department store () in downtown Keijō (today

Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the Capital city, capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the North Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea ...

). After the liberation of

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and the defeat of Japan in 1945,

Samsung The Samsung Group (or simply Samsung) ( ko, 삼성 ) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea. It comprises numerous affiliated businesses, most of them united under the ...

took over this store and renamed it Shinsegae (; lit. "New World").

Europe

Former stores

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

(Piccadilly) - The London store opened in 1979https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/19549/3/Mitsukoshi%20Lux%20Aesthetics-%5BFINAL%5DGRO%5D.pdf and closed in 2013. *

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...

- Opened in 1971 and closed in 2010. *

Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus ( legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...

- Opened in 1975 and closed in 2021. * Milan * Düsseldorf * Frankfurt * Munich

North America

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( Orlando,

Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, a ...

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., federal district, five ma ...

) – in the Japan Pavilion, which Mitsukoshi hosts and operates, at the Epcot World Showcase.Mitsukoshi Cultural Representative Program

Former Stores

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the U ...

- 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. 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

Official website

Mitsukoshi London

Mitsukoshi Roma

Shin Kong Mitsukoshi
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