Mitsukoshi

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.
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, Metro Manila, Philippines. The store opened on November 18, 2022.
Stores
Japan
Stores managed by Isetan Mitsukoshi Ltd.
Nihonbashi Main Branch (Chūō, Tokyo)
Ginza Mitsukoshi (Chūō, Tokyo)
Stores managed by other companies
Sapporo Store (Chūō-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.
Hiroshima Mitsukoshi (Naka-ku, Hiroshima) - Hiroshima Mitsukoshi Ltd.
Takamatsu Mitsukoshi - Takamatsu Mitsukoshi Ltd.
Matsuyama Mitsukoshi - Matsuyama Mitsukoshi Ltd.
Fukuoka Mitsukoshi (Chūō-ku, Fukuoka) - Iwataya Mitsukoshi Ltd.
Closed
Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Alcott (Shinjuku, Tokyo)
Ikebukuro Mitsukoshi (Toshima, Tokyo) - closed May 2009
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 Isetan Mitsukoshi (Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka)
Ebisu Mitsukoshi (Shibuya, Tokyo) - closed February 2021
China
Shanghai (Okura Garden Hotel)
Shin Kong Place (Suzhou)
Shin Kong Place (Chongqing)
Shin Kong Place (Chengdu)
Taiwan
The stores in Taiwan are named , 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:
Taipei:
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:
Zhonggang Road Store
Chiayi:
Chuiyang Road Store
Tainan:
Zhongshan Road Store
Ximen Road Store
Kaohsiung:
Sanduo Shopping District Store
Zuoying District Store
Philippines
Taguig: Mitsukoshi BGC, a shopping mall at the Bonifacio Global City (November 18, 2022)
Former stores
China: The Dalian store closed at the end of the Second World War.
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.
South Korea: In 1930, Mitsukoshi opened a department store in downtown Keijō (today Seoul). After the liberation of Korea and the defeat of Japan in 1945, Samsung took over this store and renamed it Shinsegae (lit. "New World").
Europe
Former stores
London (Piccadilly) - The London store opened in 1979 and closed in 2013.
Paris - Opened in 1971 and closed in 2010.
Rome - Opened in 1975 and closed in 2021.
Milan
Düsseldorf
Frankfurt
Munich
North America
Walt Disney World (Orlando, Florida, United States) – hosted and operated by Mitsukoshi in the Japan Pavilion at Epcot's World Showcase.
Former Stores
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. 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, Ltd. Annual Report
Mitsukoshi London
Mitsukoshi Roma
Shin Kong Mitsukoshi
Department stores of Japan
Department stores of Hong Kong
Department stores of China
Department stores of Taiwan
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