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October 2026
Ace pilots a harness-fitting service for a made-in-Japan backpack at Takashimaya Shinjuku
Ace, the Tokyo bag maker, is piloting a measured harness-fitting service for a ¥62,700 made-in-Japan backpack at Takashimaya Shinjuku, with other department stores to follow — a Japanese manufacturer testing a service-led pitch before rolling it out further.
Nagoya Takashimaya runs a Snoopy festival with a build-your-own keychain bar
JR Nagoya Takashimaya's 10th-floor Snoopy festival runs October 7-19 with Nagoya-exclusive merchandise and a ¥3,960 keychain-customisation bar — the kind of dated, ticketed draw a department store uses to pull shoppers past the escalators.
Takashimaya turns 3,200kg of dormant suits into its first recycled-fabric casual wear
Eight casual-wear items made with recycled suit fibre go on sale at six Takashimaya stores from October 7 — a department-store sustainability project with a real volume behind it, not just a collection bin.
Dior opens a dedicated fragrance store at Takashimaya Nihombashi, with Japan's first bottle-engraving service
Parfums Christian Dior Japan has opened a new Haute Parfumerie store on Takashimaya Nihombashi's first-floor beauty hall, built around its 22-scent La Collection Privée and backed by Japan's first bottle-engraving service for the line — a personalisation bet on one of Tokyo's most closely watched department-store beauty floors.
Takashimaya Yokohama runs its 67th Grand Hokkaido Fair, about 100 vendors across two weeks
Takashimaya's Yokohama store runs the 67th edition of its Grand Hokkaido Fair over two one-week stretches in October, with about 100 vendors and a fifth of them new to the store — a reminder of how much a department store's event floor still leans on a decades-old regional food fair to pull footfall through a quiet autumn stretch.
Takashimaya's September same-store sales rise 4.1% as duty-free spending accelerates to 12.8%
Takashimaya's own October 1 sales flash puts September same-store sales up 4.1% year on year, but strip out the duty-free counter and domestic growth slows to 3.0% — the latest sign that Japan's department-store recovery this autumn still leans heavily on inbound spending and a cold snap that pulled shoppers into coats and scarves.
Autry opens its first Japan flagship, run directly on Osaka Takashimaya's lifestyle floor
The Italian sneaker-and-lifestyle label's first flagship store in Japan has opened on Osaka Takashimaya's third-floor Style & Edit section, run directly by its Japan subsidiary, which was founded in July 2025.
Ron Herman returns after five years with a new flagship in Takashimaya's Nagoya mall
Ron Herman's Japan operator, Little League, is opening its first new store in five years inside Takashimaya Gate Tower Mall at Nagoya Station on November 13 — a concrete bet on where the California lifestyle brand, and Takashimaya's mall arm, see their next growth floor.
September 2026
Patissier eS Koyama keeps its new chestnut baumkuchen inside a single Takashimaya Nagoya counter
Patissier eS Koyama's newest chestnut baumkuchen is on sale only at one Takashimaya Nagoya satellite counter, the second instalment of a satellite-shop-exclusive gift series that keeps the chestnut-season pull entirely inside a single department store.
Takashimaya Shinjuku turns its 2nd floor into an after-dark wind-down shop through September 30
Takashimaya's Shinjuku flagship has turned an eight-day pop-up into a test of whether Tokyo shoppers will come back after dark for a store built around the hours before bed rather than the ones before work — the kind of evening-economy format other department stores will watch to see if it earns a repeat slot.
LALIQUE opens a new boutique on the fifth floor of Tamagawa Takashimaya
LALIQUE has opened a new crystal and lifestyle boutique on the fifth floor of Tamagawa Takashimaya, adding a department-store presence in one of Tokyo's most affluent suburban shopping districts.
Takashimaya Yokohama's gold fair centres on a ¥1.54m pure-gold Pokémon figure
Takashimaya's autumn gold fair at its Yokohama store puts a 24-karat, ¥1,540,000 Pokémon Surfgo figure marking the franchise's 30th anniversary alongside an on-site gold buyback counter, pairing licensed-character collecting with a bullion rally floortok has already traced to price, not new buyers.
Takashimaya's New Year osechi pre-orders run 1.4x ahead of last year as it consolidates its range online
Takashimaya says reservations for its New Year osechi gift boxes are running about 1.4 times ahead of last year, and it has just gathered nearly its entire in-store and mail-order range — some 1,150 items — onto its online store for the first time, a bet that a rare nine-day year-end holiday will keep pulling gift-food spending forward.
Takashimaya uses AI to patch a shortage of kimono pattern designers
Two new Edo Komon patterns going on sale next month are less a heritage-craft marketing story than a live test of whether AI can keep a department store's kimono supply chain staffed.
A 76-year-old Kyoto dye workshop turns temple-banner technique into everyday goods for a department-store stage
kiten.kyoto, a 76-year-old Kyoto workshop known for hand-dyeing shop curtains and temple banners, takes an event stage at Takashimaya Kyoto for a week, selling everyday goods made with the same technique it usually reserves for shopfronts and shrines.
JR Nagoya Takashimaya's food-hall rebuild reaches its fourth phase, with Kamakura Beniya's first Tokai store
JR Tokai Takashimaya will reopen two basement food sections on 21 and 30 October in the fourth phase of an ongoing renovation, bringing Kamakura's Kurumicco maker and Nasu's Butter no Itoko into the Tokai region for the first time — the latest stage in a department store re-tenanting its highest-earning floor against fresh competition from Nagoya's station buildings and malls.
Spanish kids' label BOBO CHOSES opens a pop-up at Tamagawa Takashimaya
BOBO CHOSES' Japan distributor, F.O. International, is opening a pop-up on Tamagawa Takashimaya's fifth floor from 16 September, carrying the Spanish kids' and lifestyle label's baby and kids ranges alongside a newly expanded adult collection.
Dior opens a new Nihonbashi Takashimaya boutique built to echo its Paris flagship
Dior has opened a new boutique on Nihonbashi Takashimaya's first floor, carrying Jonathan Anderson's first fall/winter collection since unifying the maison's design direction — the latest sign that Tokyo's biggest department stores, not standalone flagships, are where Paris houses are putting their newest looks first.
Takashimaya Osaka turns its rooftop into a pop-up pickleball, mölkky and teqball court
Takashimaya Osaka is turning its 8th-floor rooftop into a five-day pop-up court for pickleball, mölkky and teqball over the autumn holiday, with a Gamma paddle shop running alongside it.
Takashimaya brings a Kyoto weaving house's Milan furniture debut home to three flagship stores
CASA TATSUMURA, a furniture and textile line built around Kyoto brocade house Tatsumura Art Textile's near-century-old ties to Takashimaya, moves from Milan Design Week's showroom floor to Osaka, Shinjuku and Nihombashi Takashimaya this autumn.
Shinjuku Takashimaya marks 30 years with an expanded gourmet festival
Ahead of its October 4 anniversary, Shinjuku Takashimaya runs a two-week gourmet festival through September 23 pairing an Amazon cacao specialty week with capped-quantity collaborations from three food-focused social media personalities.
Repetto's Japan operator brings bespoke, France-made shoemaking to Kyoto Takashimaya
LOOK Holdings is running Repetto's made-to-order atelier at Kyoto Takashimaya through September 23 — a three-and-a-half month wait and an ¥85,800 floor price, in exchange for a pair built to order in France.
Takashimaya's first house-brand frozen meals bet on weekday dinners, not gift boxes
Takashimaya has launched 百味彩菜 (Hyakumi Saisai), its first proprietary frozen prepared-food brand, across ten stores nationwide — a bet on the everyday weeknight dinner that its food halls have historically built around gift-giving instead.
Takashimaya's August sales rise 3.2% as fewer, bigger-spending tourists reshape duty-free
Takashimaya's total sales rose 3.2% in August, but the real story sits inside the duty-free line: tax-free transaction count fell 6.8% even as average spend per visitor jumped 14.4%.
Takashimaya's Kashiwa store marks 30 years of its craft-vendor exhibition
Takashimaya's Kashiwa branch runs its Japan traditional-crafts fair for a 30th year, a Chiba department store's bet that curated culture, not price, is what keeps a regional customer coming back.
August 2026
Sustainable footwear brand Öffen opens its first Nagoya store on Takashimaya's shoe floor
Öffen, the sustainable footwear label run by Kobe's Norms Corporation, opens its first directly run Nagoya store on JR Nagoya Takashimaya's fourth floor next week, backed by a limited lace collaboration built around onigiri and tamago kake gohan.
Takashimaya wins a 12-day head start on PAUL & JOE BEAUTE's new face powder
Albion's PAUL & JOE BEAUTE is putting its newest face powder on Takashimaya's counters a full 12 days before the national launch, wrapped in a store-only gift set — a clean, small example of a department store trading floor space for a beauty brand's first flush of demand.
Bulgari brings a month-long Eternal Icons showcase to Takashimaya Kyoto
Bulgari has taken over a floor of Takashimaya Kyoto for a month-long showcase of its core icon lines, the latest sign that Kyoto's department stores are becoming a maison destination in their own right rather than an Osaka or Tokyo afterthought.
MoMA Design Store's Kyoto shop moves inside Takashimaya, with a craft collaboration to match
Loft's MoMA Design Store Kyoto reopens September 4 inside Kyoto Takashimaya S.C., trading a standalone lease for a department-store anchor and a bespoke Kyoto-craft interior.
PARCELLE layers a week of pop-ups onto its Matsuyama jewellery counter
A gemstone marché, a pop-up shop and a trunk show run back to back at Iyotetsu Takashimaya — three ways to keep one small counter feeling new.
Takashimaya closes its 44-year-old Rakusai store in Kyoto, reopening a much smaller food-and-gift shop in September
Takashimaya closed its 44-year-old Rakusai store in Kyoto on Aug. 3 and will reopen a much smaller food-and-gift satellite shop on the same site in September — a concrete instance of the format Japan's suburban department stores are increasingly shrinking into.
Takashimaya's July sales rise 8.3%, as tax-free spending stays elevated for a fourth month
Takashimaya's July store sales rose 8.3% year on year — the first of Japan's major department-store operators to report the month — with tax-free spending still running far ahead of the rest of the store, even as it eased back from June's peak.
Takashimaya turns its store-design expertise into a stand-alone Vietnam interiors business
Takashimaya's interior-design subsidiary has opened a wholly owned Vietnam company selling luxury home-interior work directly to Ho Chi Minh City's wealthy homebuyers, packaging fit-out know-how built inside its own stores into a service business abroad.
July 2026
Nankai Railway turns the old Takashimaya Sakai site into an 87,000 sqm "direct SC"
Nankai Corporation is rebuilding its Sakai-Higashi station building, formerly home to Takashimaya's Sakai store, into an 87,048-square-metre commercial complex called HiViE Sakai-Higashi, with a Life supermarket opening in early December ahead of a full opening in spring 2027.
Mikimoto moves to Takashimaya Nihombashi's 2nd floor, reopening August 28
Mikimoto's boutique inside Takashimaya's Nihombashi flagship is relocating from the sixth floor to the second, the department store said, reopening 28 August after a two-day closure — a modest floor-plan move with no stated reason.
JR Nagoya Takashimaya rebuilds its basement food hall around Fauchon, Peck and Dallmayr
JR Nagoya Takashimaya is rebuilding its basement Gourmet Street food hall around four European delicatessen and tea houses, the third phase of a floor-by-floor overhaul at its Nagoya Station flagship.