Kintetsu Department Store

History

• January, 1920: Kyoto Bussankan was opened in front of Kyoto Station.
• February, 1920: Kyoto Bussankan General Partnership was founded.
• 1926: Osaka Electric Railway Co., Ltd. opened its own restaurant at Daiki Building in Uehommachi, Osaka.
• 1930: Kyoto Bussankan General Partnership opened branch store in Yanagase, Gifu.
• September, 1931: Kyoto Bussankan General Partnership was renamed Marubutsu General Partnership.
• September 29, 1934: Marubutsu General Partnership was reorganised as Marubutsu Company.
• 1934: Osaka Railway Co., Ltd. founded Daitetsu Department Store Company.
• September, 1936: Daiki Department Store was opened in Uehommachi, Osaka.
• November, 1937: Daitetsu Department Store was opened in Abeno, Osaka.
• March, 1941: Daiki consolidated Sangu Kyuko Railway Company and was renamed Kansai Kyuko Electric Railway Co., Ltd., thus, Daiki Department Store was renamed Kankyu Department Store.
• April 1, 1944: Kankyu consolidated Daitetsu Department Store Company, thus, Kankyu Department Store was reestablished as Kankyu Department Store Uehommachi and Daitetsu Department Store as Kankyu Department Store Abeno.
• June 1, 1944: Kankyu and Nankai Railway were consolidated to form Kinki Nippon Railway Co., Ltd.. Kankyu Department Stores were renamed Kinki Nippon Railway Uehommachi Department Store and Kinki Nippon Railway Abeno Department Store.
• 1948: Kinki Nippon Railway Department Stores were renamed Kintetsu Department Store Uehommachi and Kintetsu Department Store Abeno.
• September, 1960: Beppu Kintetsu Kaikan Compcny was opened in front of Beppu Station.
• July 1, 1961: Beppu Kintetsu Kaikan was renamed Beppu Kintetsu Department Store.
• March 14, 1972: Kintetsu Department Store Nara was opened near Yamato-Saidaiji Station.
• April, 1972: Kintetsu Department Store Co., Ltd. was founded.
• June 1, 1972: The department store business in Osaka and Nara was transferred to Kintetsu Department Store from Kintetsu.
• May 11, 1974: Tokyo Kintetsu Department Store was opened in front of Kichijoji Station in Musashino, Tokyo.
• May, 1977: Marubutsu Company was renamed Kyoto Kintetsu Department Store Co., Ltd..
• October 5, 1978: Kintetsu Department Store Higashiosaka was opened in the same location as Fuse Station.
• November 15, 1982: Kintetsu Department Store Nishi-Kyoto was opened in Kyoto Family, Ukyo-ku, Kyoto.
• April 25, 1987: Kintetsu Department Store Kashihara was opened near Yamato-Yagi Station.
• March 1, 1991: Kintetsu Department Store Co., Ltd. consolidated Beppu Kintetsu Department Store Co., Ltd.
• April 12, 1991: Kintetsu Department Store Sakurai was opened.
• March 31, 1994: Kintetsu Department Store Sakurai was closed.
• August 31, 1994: Kintetsu Department Store Beppu was closed.
• February 28, 1995: Kintetsu Department Store Nishi-Kyoto was closed.
• November 26, 1996: Kintetsu Department Store Momoyama was opened near Rokujizo Station.
• March 19, 1997: Kintetsu Department Store Ikoma was opened.
• September 1, 1998: Kintetsu Department Store Co., Ltd. consolidated Hirakata Kintetsu Department Store Co., Ltd.
• September 28, 1998: Kintetsu Department Store Kikyogaoka was opened.
• September 30, 1999: Kyoto Kintetsu Department Store Gifu was closed.
• March 25, 2000: Kyoto Kintetsu Department Store Kyoto was renewed and opened as "Platz Kintetsu".
• September 1, 2000: "Hoop" was opened in the south of the department store in Abeno, Osaka.
• February 20, 2001: Kintetsu Department Store Tokyo was closed.
• February 28, 2001: Kyoto Kintetsu Department Store Co., Ltd. consolidated former Kintetsu Department Store Co., Ltd. Kyoto Kintetsu was renamed Kintetsu Department Store Co., Ltd., and relocated its head office at Osaka Abenobashi Station in Abeno-ku, Osaka.
• February 28, 2007: Kintetsu Department Store Kyoto was closed.
• March, 2008: The destruction of Kintetsu Department Store Kyoto was finished.
• September 9, 2008: "Abeno Natural Days " was opened in the south of Hoop in Abeno-ku, Osaka.
• March 1, 2009: Kintetsu Department Store Co., Ltd. consolidated Chubu Kintetsu Department Store Co. and Wakayama Kintetsu Department Store Co..
• February 29, 2012: Kintetsu Department Store Hirakata was closed.
• June 13, 2013: Kintetsu Department Store Abeno was reopened and renamed "Kintetsu Department Store Main Store Abeno Harukas".
• February 22, 2014: The renovation was finished at the Main Store Abeno Harukas Wing Building, preparing for the opening of Abeno Harukas on March 7.

  Stores

• Main Store Abeno Harukas - Abenobashi Terminal Building, Abenosuji Itchome, Abeno-ku, Osaka
• Uehommachi - Uehommachi Rokuchome, Tennoji-ku, Osaka
• Higashiosaka - Ajiro, Higashiosaka, the first floor of Fuse Station on the Osaka Line and the Nara Line
• Nara - NaRa Family, Saidaiji-higashimachi, Nara, close to Yamato-Saidaiji Station on the Nara Line, the Kyoto Line and the Kashihara Line
• Kashihara - Kita-Yagicho, Kashihara, close to Yamato-Yagi Station on the Osaka Line and the Kashihara Line
• Ikoma - Tanidacho, Ikoma, close to Ikoma Station on the Nara Line, the Ikoma Line and the Keihanna Line
• Momoyama - Momoyamacho Yamanoshita, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, close to Rokujizo Station on the West Japan Railway Company Nara Line, the Keihan Railway Uji Line, and the Kyoto Municipal Subway Tōzai Line
• Kusatsu - Shibukawa, Kusatsu, close to Kusatsu Station operated by West Japan Railway Company
• Wakayama - Tomodacho, Wakayama, close to Wakayama Station operated by West Japan Railway Company
• Yokkaichi - Suwa-Sakaemachi, Yokkaichi, the same location as Kintetsu Yokkaichi Station on the Nagoya Line
• Shop Kikyogaoka - Kintetsu Plaza Kikyogaoka, Kikyogaoka Ichibancho, Nabari, close to Kikyogaoka Station on the Kintetsu Osaka Line
• Nagoya - Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, the same location as Kintetsu Nagoya Station on the Kintetsu Nagoya Line

  Related stores

• Hoop - Abenosuji, Abeno-ku, Osaka, the south of Ōsaka Abenobashi Station
• and - Abenosuji, Abeno-ku, Osaka, the south of "Hoop"
• Star Island - Suwa-Sakaemachi, Yokkaichi, close to Kintetsu Yokkaichi Station
• Uehommachi Yufura - Uehommachi Rokuchome, Tennoji-ku, Osaka, the south of Kintetsu Department Store Uehommachi and Osaka Uehommachi Station.

  Former stores

• Tokyo - Kichijoji-honcho, Musashino, at the present Yodobashi Kichijoji. close to Kichijoji Station on the East Japan Railway Company Chuo Line, the Keio Corporation Inokashira Line
• Nishi-Kyoto - Ukyo-ku, Kyoto, inside Kyoto Family
• Sakurai
• Beppu - close to Beppu Station on the Kyushu Railway Company Nippo Main Line

  Former Marubutsu

• Kyoto - Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto, at the present Kyoto Yodobashi
• Kyoto Kintetsu Department Store Gifu - Yanagase, Gifu, at the present Gifu Chunichi Building
• Hirakata - Oka-higashicho, Hirakata, close to Hirakatashi Station on the Keihan Electric Railway Keihan Main Line, at the present Hirakata T-SITE
• Tokyo Marubutsu stores
• *Ikebukuro - close to Ikebukuro Station, at the present PARCO Ikebukuro
• *Shinjuku - along Yasukuni-dori, at the present Isetan Shinjuku Men's Building
• *Shibuya - Udagawasho, Shibuya, at the present Shibuya PARCO
• Toyohashi Marubutsu - close to Toyohashi Station on Central Japan Railway Company
• Yahata Marubutsu - Yahatahigashi-ku, Kitakyushu