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 closed its Rakusai store in western Kyoto on Aug. 3, ending the full-line department store it had operated on the site since 1982 — 44 years — the company said in an announcement posted on its site.