The Seibu Department Stores, Ltd. is a Japanese department store. The first store to trade under the name opened its doors in 1949. Seibu is typical of Japanese department stores with a wide variety of stores doing business on several floors. The company is now a subsidiary of Sogo & Seibu Co., Ltd., owned by the U.S. investment fund Fortress Investment Group.
Flagship store in Ikebukuro, Tokyo
Seibu Department store Building in Grand Indonesia, Central Jakarta, Indonesia
Department stores in Japan
Department stores in Japan are referred to as hyakkaten or depāto (デパート), an alteration of the English term.
Mitsukoshi in Nihonbashi, Tokyo
An 1856 ukiyo-e depicting Echigoya, the current Mitsukoshi.