OIOI in Kyoto
In an earlier blog I wrote about Marui taking over the Hankyu department store in Kyoto, scheduled to close this month on 22 August. With the opening planned for spring 2011 and the department store in a prime location; located in Kyoto’s trendy Shijo Kawaramachi shopping area with several universities nearby and convenient transportation, Marui is poised to answer the strong demand of Kyoto’s youth demographic. Marui’s new store will occupy a total of seven floors from the first basement floor to the sixth floor, covering about 8,700 sqm of retail sale space.
This will be the third department store for Marui in western Japan including those in Osaka and Kobe, and it will not be the last as Marui plans to expand into mainly large cities throughout Japan.
