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 under one roof, each area ("department") specializing in a product category. In modern major cities, the department store mad ...

chain with headquarters in

Tokyo Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan, capital and List of cities in Japan, most populous city in Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is List of largest cities, one of the most ...

, Japan. Its holding company,

Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings () is a holding company with the Mitsukoshi and Isetan department stores as its wholly owned subsidiaries. Operations In August 2007, Isetan Co. Ltd. and Mitsukoshi Ltd. announced that the two companies "have agreed to merge and form a new ho ...

, is a member of the Mitsui Group.

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 Taguig,

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. The store opened on November 18, 2022.

Stores

Japan

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Stores managed by Isetan Mitsukoshi Ltd.

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

Stores managed by other companies

Sapporo is a Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, designated city in Hokkaido, Japan. Located in the southwest of Hokkaido, it lies within the alluvial fan of the Toyohira River, a tributary of the Ishikari River. Sapporo is the capital ...

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

Sendai is the capital Cities of Japan, city of Miyagi Prefecture and the largest city in the Tōhoku region. , the city had a population of 1,098,335 in 539,698 households, making it the List of cities in Japan, twelfth most populated city in Japan. ...

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

Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is the list of cities in Japan, fourth-most populous city in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020, and the principal city of the Chūkyō metropolitan area, which is the List of ...

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

Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has b ...

Mitsukoshi (Naka-ku, Hiroshima) - Hiroshima Mitsukoshi Ltd. *

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Mitsukoshi - Takamatsu Mitsukoshi Ltd. *

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Mitsukoshi - Matsuyama Mitsukoshi Ltd. *

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

Closed

* Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Alcott (Shinjuku, Tokyo) *

Ikebukuro is a commercial and entertainment district in Toshima, Tokyo, Japan. Toshima ward offices, Ikebukuro Station, and several shops, restaurants, and department stores are located within city limits. Transportation At the center of Ikebukuro is ...

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) *

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Mitsukoshi * Tama Center Mitsukoshi ( Tama, Tokyo) * Chiba Mitsukoshi (Chūō-ku, Chiba) * Niigata Mitsukoshi (Nishibori-dōri) - Niigata Isetan Mitsukoshi Ltd. * JR

Osaka is a Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the List of cities in Japan, third-most populous city in J ...

Isetan Mitsukoshi (Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka) * Ebisu Mitsukoshi ( Shibuya, Tokyo) - closed February 2021

China

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(Okura Garden Hotel) * Shin Kong Mitsukosh, Suzhou ( Shin Kong Place, Suzhou) * Shin Kong Place (Chongqing) * Shin Kong Place (Chengdu)

Philippines

* Taguig: Mitsukoshi BGC, a shopping mall at the Bonifacio Global City (November 18, 2022)

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. The following branches are open as of 2022: *

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: ** Nanjing Road Store, with three buildings (, and ) ** Xinyi New Life Square (): 4 buildings (A4, A8, A9, and A11) **

Taipei Main Station Taipei Main Station () is a major metro and railway station in the capital Taipei, Taiwan. It is served by Taipei Metro, the Taiwan High Speed Rail, and Taiwan Railway. It is also connected through underground passageways to Taipei main stati ...

Store () ** Tianmu Store * Taoyuan: ** Dayou Road Store () ** Taoyuan Station Store () * Taichung: ** Zhonggan Road Store () * Chiayi: ** Chuiyang Road Store () *

Tainan Tainan (), officially Tainan City, is a Special municipality (Taiwan), special municipality in southern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast. Tainan is the oldest city on the island and commonly called the "Taiwan Prefecture, ...

: ** Zhongshan Road Store () ** Ximen Road Store () *

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: ** Sanduo Shopping District Store () ** Zuoying District Store ()

Thailand

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: 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

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( Orlando,

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) – hosted and operated by Mitsukoshi in the Japan Pavilion at Epcot's World Showcase.Mitsukoshi Cultural Representative Program

Former stores

Asia

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: The

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store closed at the end of the Second World War. **

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

: The first Mitsukoshi in Hong Kong, covering 12000 sq meters on 4 levels, opened at 500

Hennessy Road Hennessy Road () is a thoroughfare on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. It connects Yee Wo Street on the east in Causeway Bay, at the junction with East Point Road, Jardine's Bazaar and Great George Street, Hong Kong, Great George Street in East ...

, 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. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...

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

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). After the liberation of

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and the defeat of Japan in 1945,

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took over this store and renamed it

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(; lit. "New World").

Europe

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(Piccadilly) - The London store opened in 1979The Department Store in Early 20th Century Japan: Luxury, Aestheticization and Modern Life
gold.ac.uk and closed in 2013. *

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- Opened in 1971 and closed in 2010. *

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

North America

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- Mitsukoshi opened a 10,000 sq ft boutique and restaurant in rented space in the

Ritz Tower The Ritz Tower is a luxury residential building at 465 Park Avenue on the corner of 57th Street (Manhattan), East 57th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It was built from 1925 to 1926 as an apartment hotel and was ...

apartment building at 57th Street and

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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
{{Authority control Department stores of Japan Department stores of Hong Kong Department stores of China Department stores of Taiwan Department stores of the Philippines Japanese Imperial Warrant holders Retail companies established in 1673 Retail companies based in Tokyo Shopping in Taipei Japanese brands Mitsui 1673 establishments in Japan 2003 mergers and acquisitions 2008 mergers and acquisitions