Yodobashi Camera
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Chain store
Chain stores are retail outlets that share a brand and central management, and usually have standardized business methods and practices. These characteristics also apply to chain restaurants and some service-oriented chain businesses. In retail, dining and many service categories, chain businesses...
mainly selling electronic products. Currently, there are 21 stores in Japan. It also maintains two online stores in China; one with a limited selection of products from its Japanese online store through SBI VeriTrans that supports payments by UnionPay, and another it operates itself that does not but has a selection more closely matching its Japanese store.
The store's theme song is a bouncy cover of The Battle Hymn of the Republic
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is a hymn by American writer Julia Ward Howe using the music from the song "John Brown's Body". Howe's more famous lyrics were written in November 1861 and first published in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1862. It became popular during the American Civil War...
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History
- 1960 - Started off as Fujisawa Shashin Shokai
- 1974 - Changed its name to Yodobashi Camera Co.,Ltd.
- 1975 - Shinjuku Nishiguchi Store opens (first store created)
- 1989 - Publishes Yodobashi Point Card
- 1998 - Internet shopping store opens
- 2005 - Akiba megastore location opens
Yodobashi happens to be the name of a former town and ward
Yodobashi ward
is one of the 35 former wards of Tokyo-Fu, Tokyo City. On October 1, 1932, the towns of Yodobashi, Okubo, Totsuka, and Ochiai town were merged into Yodobashi ward. In 1947, along with Yotsuya ward and another town, became part of present day Shinjuku ward...
making up present day Shinjuku ward, where the company was founded.
In the 70's Yodobashi camera store in Shinjuku sold 1/3 of all SLR cameras in Japan, making it by far the worlds most successful camera retailer, thanks to its strong purchasing power and low prices.
Stores
- ShinjukuShinjuku Stationis a train station located in Shinjuku and Shibuya wards in Tokyo, Japan.Serving as the main connecting hub for rail traffic between central Tokyo and its western suburbs on inter-city rail, commuter rail and metro lines, the station was used by an average of 3.64 million people per day in 2007,...
Nishiguchi Honten(Station West Entrance main store) - Multimedia Shinjuku Higashiguchi(Station East Entrance)
- Multimedia AkibaAkihabara, also known as , is an area of Tokyo, Japan. It is located less than five minutes by rail from Tokyo Station. Its name is frequently shortened to in Japan...
(Yodobashi Akiba) - Multimedia UenoUeno, Tokyois a district in Tokyo's Taitō Ward, best known as the home of Ueno Station and Ueno Park. Ueno is also home to some of Tokyo's finest cultural sites, including the Tokyo National Museum, the National Museum of Western Art, and the National Science Museum, as well as a major public concert hall...
- Multimedia KichijōjiKichijojiis a neighborhood in the city of Musashino in Tokyo, Japan. It is centered on the commercial area to the north of its train station and has a youthful, artistic, slightly countercultural reputation...
- HachiōjiHachioji, Tokyois a city located in Tokyo, Japan, about 40 kilometers west of the center of the special wards of Tokyo.As of January 1, 2010, the city has an estimated population of 551,901 and a population density of 2,962.27/km². The total area is 186.31 km². It is the eighth largest city in the...
- Multimedia MachidaMachida, Tokyois a city located in the western part of the greater metropolis of Tokyo, Japan. The city was founded on February 1, 1958.As of October 1, 2010, the city has an estimated population of 424,669 and a population density of 5,928.65 persons per km². The total area is 71.63 km²...
- Multimedia KinshichōKinshicho Stationis a railway station in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company and Tokyo Metro.-Lines:Kinshichō Station is served by the JR East Sōbu Line and Chūō-Sōbu Line, as well as the Tokyo Metro Hanzōmon Line ....
- Multimedia KawasakiKawasaki, Kanagawais a city located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, between Tokyo and Yokohama. It is the 9th most populated city in Japan and one of the main cities forming the Greater Tokyo Area and Keihin Industrial Area....
Le FRONT - Yodobashi Outlet Keikyū KawasakiKeikyu Kawasaki Stationis a junction railway station of the Keikyu Corporation located in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. The station is a terminus for the Keikyū Daishi Line and is located 11.8 kilometers from the terminus of the Keikyū Main Line at Shinagawa Station in Tokyo...
- Multimedia YokohamaYokohamais the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...
- Multimedia Keikyu Kami-ŌokaKami-Ooka Stationis an interchange station located in Kōnan-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. It is served by the Keihin Electric Express Railway ’s Keikyū Main Line and the Yokohama Municipal Subway’s Blue Line...
- ChibaChiba, Chibais the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is located approximately 40 km east of the center of Tokyo on Tokyo Bay. Chiba City became a government designated city in 1992. Its population as of 2008 is approximately 960,000....
- Multimedia UtsunomiyaUtsunomiya, Tochigiis the capital and most populous city of Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. In October 2010 the city had an estimated population of 510,416 and a population density of 1,224.49 people per square kilometer. The total area is 416.84 km². had a population of 888,005 in the 2000 Census...
- Multimedia Sapporo
- Multimedia Sendai
- KōriyamaKoriyama, Fukushimais a city in the center of the Nakadōri region of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. As of May 2011, the city had an estimated population of 336,328. The total area is 757 km²....
ekimae(Station-Front) - NiigataNiigata, Niigatais the capital and the most populous city of Niigata Prefecture, Japan. It lies on the northwest coast of Honshu, the largest island of Japan, and faces the Sea of Japan and Sado Island....
- Multimedia KyotoKyotois a city in the central part of the island of Honshū, Japan. It has a population close to 1.5 million. Formerly the imperial capital of Japan, it is now the capital of Kyoto Prefecture, as well as a major part of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area.-History:...
(Kyoto Yodobashi) - Multimedia UmedaUmedaUmeda is the main commercial and central business district in Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan, best known as the city's main northern railway terminus .Umeda is a large traffic hub, as well as the principal office and hotel district...
(Yodobashi Umeda) - Multimedia HakataHakata StationHakata Station , located in Hakata-ku, is the main railway terminal of the city of Fukuoka, Japan. It is the largest and busiest station on Kyūshū, and is a gateway to other cities in Kyūshū for travellers from Honshū. The Sanyō Shinkansen from Osaka ends at this station...
(Yodobashi Hakata)
The store in Akihabara (Akiba), immediately next to JR Akihabara station, is 8 stories tall (plus some basement levels) and sells a wide selection of toys, videos, computers, laptops, cameras and audio equipment, including high-end items. It also has a variety of restaurants on the 8th floor, and a shipping center and camera classrooms in the basement levels.
In Shinjuku near the west entrance to the JR station, Yodobashi has several tall stores close together, also providing a wide selection of electronics.
In Umeda, Osaka, the store is 12 stories (the top 4 being the parking lot). The 8th floor, like in Akihabara is also a restaurant floor. The building also includes Uniqlo
UNIQLO
is a Japanese casual wear designer, manufacturer and retailer.The company was originally a division of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.. On November 1, 2005, it was restructured as a separate wholly owned subsidiary called Uniqlo Co., Ltd. , which is listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock...
and Comme Ça
FIVE FOXes
FIVE FOXes Co.,Ltd. is a company known as the apparel maker for COMME ÇA DU MODE.It was famous for not having its own homepage, but it was created in August 2007 to accept new employees.-History:...
Store clothing stores.