Daimaru Umeda adds five new sweets brands as it renews its basement food floor for December
Daimaru Umeda will open five new confectionery brands — two of them nationwide debuts — on its basement food floor on December 1, the latest phase of a renewal J. Front Retailing's Daimaru Matsuzakaya has been running in stages since spring, betting fresh souvenir-oriented sweets can keep pulling shoppers through one of Kansai's busiest depachika.
Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores said Daimaru Umeda will open five new sweets brands — plus reopen three existing ones with renovated shops — on the basement food floor's Japanese and Western confectionery section on December 1, according to a release dated September 29. The opening is one stage of a renewal of the floor the company said it has been carrying out gradually since spring 2026.