Japanese Department Store Roofs

Rather chaotic at the weekend but fun to experience.

Japanese department store roofs. A beautiful japanese mall. Marui is a major department store chain with stores in tokyo and other large japanese cities. The moment the second hand of the clock hits the opening time. Japanese department stores are unique in terms of the wide variety of merchandise they carry such as ladies wear men s wear fashion items cosmetics jewelry watches kimonos children s goods toys stationery foodstuffs etc enabling one stop shopping under one large roof in an easy to understand and comprehensive layout.

Having four stores in japan hankyu department store in ginza is the only place that offers luxury as well as street fashion for men. Their iconic logo looks like 0101 and is read marui in japanese. If you visit a big department store just before it opens you would usually see its employees lined up neatly waiting to welcome customers. Other retail outlets around japan followed suit and the shopping areas grew to.

The white building of art and commerce one of the finest corner sites near the world famous nihonbashi with a frontage of 120 feet and a depth of 180 feet on surugacho five floors of merchandise a most spacious basement and a very interesting roof garden. These gardens and terraces are the ideal places to taste and feast on your food shopping from the depachika basement floor food halls. Marui targets a young stylish audience between the ages of 20 35. Beautifully laid out with an amazing selection of everything.

In a select number of japan s major department stores you may find rooftop gardens where you can dine on picnic tables take a rest of benches and walk through perfectly manicured gardens. Due to their roots many japanese department stores have sections devoted to kimono and traditional japanese crafts including pottery and lacquerware. Department stores in japan have a lot to offer from brand name to local products all under one roof. The 0 resembles the japanese symbol pronounced maru meaning zero or circle.

We have been to the taichung and taipei locations in taiwan. If you want to visit a high end japanese department store then this is a great choice. The department store chain matsuzakaya opened the first basement market in 1936 at its flagship store in nagoya. The constant greeting by the staff is a distinguishable feature.

The store features both local designers and those from abroad too. The basement level usually has a grocery and food court and on the roof may be garden and aquatic supplies pets and a children s play area. Mitsukoshi department store roof garden and inari shrine c.