Hankyu Men’s – New Ginza Store
Japan is the home of the giant department stores, and one of them is the Hankyu chain of department stores. Of all the major chains Hankyu is the one with the strongest presence in Western Japan, and the main store is in Osaka’s famous Umeda district. The new store in Ginza, just next to Yurakucho is called “Hankyu Men’s Tokyo” with a slogan that translates to something like “For the men on the world’s stage”. I haven’t been inside yet but someday maybe. Most major department stores have dedicated buildings to the men’s collections, the Isetan Men’s in Shinjuku being quite famous. In mixed stores the men’s floors are usually near the top. From the bottom, the layout is mostly: food basement, ground floor (make up or fashion, small items etc.), a few floor of ladies fashion, men’s floors, restaurants and cafes. Most Japanese women are quite particular as to their favorite department store chains!
Personally I am not sure if our cities (and this holds true whether you’re in NY, Leeds, Tokyo or Moscow) actually need more space dedicated to consumerism. It seems to me, that globally, the consumer culture that shaped and gave meaning to our city centers is changing. Book stores were the first to disappear, and I wonder just how sustainably, both economically and culturally this consumer culture really is? Perhaps this old department store building could have been better used as a space for makers, artists, students and families?
Ebizo is just perfect for advertising this cool looking store.
Yes! His face was what stopped me in my tracks and made me bring up the camera! (^-^)
I prefer Kamenashi Kazuya!
…when I went In Tokyo this september I saw Big bilding..big store…CLOSED! I was very sad because I could answer to my questions: Is it for the global crisisr and/ the crisis derived from the earthquake? surely both. 
thank you always for yor posts!
cri
Wow, yes, he is very cute. (^-^;) Don’t worry, the building was closed for renovation, hopefully their business will be good! Thank you for your kind comments!
Oh! My beloved Ebizooooooooooooooooooooooooo X’D Their advertising scheme succeeded on me. I’d go into this store no matter what it is.
Let’s go together next time you come over! We’ll turn your husband into a proper Ebizo look-alike! (^-^)
I’ve got to agree: if Ebizo’s in/on it, I’m there too.
Haha… I didn’t know he had such a following outside of Japan. Someone should tell him…!
OMG, it’s Musashi, I wondered what had happened to him. I concur with everyone, he’s really attractive, that arresting sort of beauty that stops you in your tracks.
Yes indeed! I wish more Asian men had the courage to just be Asian. There’s an untapped potentiality in the oriental man that hopefully will be given more room in this century and the next. It’s time to balance it out. You know the concept of the “invisible asian man”? That has to change.
I would have loved to see the real Musashi! That fight with the oar must have been one of the most interesting fights ever recorded in history!
You are absolutely right, it makes me sad that so many Asians are desperately altering themselves to try and not look Asian. There is a beauty and an art to looking like you, finding who you are as a person and presenting yourself (in dress and manner) as you really are. We each can do that, without cutting and altering our body. I can’t believe that people break their jaws and cut into their eyelids when they are perfectly healthy. It just sounds terrible to me.
I would have loved to see the real Musashi too. You know I incorporated the Book of Five Rings into my Master Project for Software Engineering. Maybe I should have called it “Eliciting Requirements the Musashi Way”, oh that would have been a really good title.
I have no idea how you would incorporate the Book of Five Rings into a Master Project for Software Engineering, but it sounds fantastic! Your teacher must have been surprised when he/she checked out the list of sources!
Well I was trying to tie in logical principles with the software process, it actually worked really well. It took a bit of imagination at first, but that’s true with a lot of things.