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Yūrakuchō Store, in Tokyo. Bic Camera, Inc. (株式会社ビックカメラ, Kabushiki gaisha Bikku Kamera) is a consumer electronics retailer chain in Japan. Currently, it has 45 stores in 17 prefectures. Bic Camera has a 50% ownership of former rival store Kojima [2] with 143 stores [3] and full ownership of computer store chain Sofmap with ...
Yodobashi Camera was founded by Terukazu Fujisawa (藤沢 昭和, Fujisawa Terukazu) in 1960. The original product line up focused on cameras and photographic equipment. Fujisawa adopted a technique of opening up the entrances of his first stores in Shinjuku, Ueno and Yokohama to allow a large number of the available products to be seen at a glance, facilitating high volume sales at low pr
On March 1, 2012, the retail division was split and Sofmap Co., Ltd. was established, and the remaining store real estate management division was merged into Bic Camera. On June 5, 2017, Sofmap's main Akihabara branch was converted into a Bic Camera branch while the rest of the Akihabara branches were rebranded as Akiba BicMap ( AKIBAビック ...
The principal electronics retailer in Ikebukuro is Bic Camera. There is a small pleasure district located in Nishi-Ikebukuro, similar to Shinjuku's Kabukichō. The Tokyo Metropolitan Theater is also located near Ikebukuro Station. Opened in 1990, the theater hosts concert, dance, and theater performances. [2]
Tokyu intended the store to compete with Seibu Department Stores, which was making inroads into the Shibuya area. [ 1 ] The name of the building, 109 , is a form of word play ( goroawase , specifically numerical substitution ) and is taken from the Japanese characters tō (meaning 10) and kyū (9) as in Tōkyū .
There are a total of 142 unique stations (i.e., counting stations served by multiple lines only once) on the Tokyo Metro network, or 179 total stations if each station on each line counts as one station. [1] Tokyo Metro considers Kokkai-gijidō-mae and Tameike-Sannō as a single interchange station, despite the two stations having different ...
[5] [7] The second-tallest structure in Tokyo is the 333-metre-tall (1,092 feet) Tokyo Tower, a lattice tower completed in 1958. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The tallest building and third-tallest overall structure is the 325-metre-tall (1,068 feet) Azabudai Hills Mori JP Tower , completed in 2023 and being Tokyo's only supertall skyscraper .
Shiba Park (芝公園, Shiba kōen) is a public park in Minato, Tokyo, Japan built around the temple of Zōjō-ji. The park is located between the Minato municipal offices and Tokyo Tower. Many of the footpaths in the park offer excellent views of Tokyo Tower, so the park is a popular spot for dates and appears in many television and film ...