Mitsui Fudosan and Fukuoka Jisho will rebuild Fukuoka's shuttered Marinoa City as a 220-store outlet mall

Mitsui Fudosan and Fukuoka Jisho said October 29 they will open Mitsui Outlet Park Fukuoka Marinoa in April 2027, a roughly 220-store outlet mall rising on the waterfront site of the shuttered Marinoa City Fukuoka in Nishi-ku, Fukuoka City. The developers named 41 of the planned tenants in the announcement, including 13 making their first appearance at a commercial facility in Japan and 17 opening in Kyushu for the first time, alongside nine stores in new formats.

The companies call it Kyushu's largest outlet centre by store count. It is built around two connected structures: an open-air, two-storey outlet building of about 44,600 square metres, and an indoor, four-storey "harbor building" of about 24,700 square metres converted from Marinoa City's old commercial building. A parking tower adds roughly 3,300 spaces, and the full site covers about 85,200 square metres. Construction began in November 2025 and is due to finish in March 2027, a month before opening.

Among the anchors, supermarket chain Lopia will open what the companies describe as its largest Kyushu store on the harbor building's second floor, including new "meat" and "fish" sections the chain is calling NIKU and SAKANA. Outside, the harbour-front plaza will host two life-size statues from Capcom's Monster Hunter game franchise, Rathalos and Lagiacrus, marking the characters' first Kyushu appearance, with added lighting, sound and mist effects.

The project gives the developers a shot at reviving a retail site that has sat dormant since Marinoa City Fukuoka's closure, on a stretch of coast the release places about 25 minutes by subway from Fukuoka Airport station to Meinohama, plus roughly 10 minutes by local bus -- and it puts the new mall in direct competition with Mitsubishi Estate-Simon's established Tosu Premium Outlets, also in Kyushu. Whether 220 stores is enough to pull shoppers past that rival, and how many of the roughly 180 tenants still to be named end up overlapping with it, will shape how much of Kyushu's outlet spending the new mall can claim.