The shocking news ran through Ginza in Shiwasu. 。 。 "Plantan Ginza closed at the end of 2016!"
Speaking of Plantan Ginza, it is the face of Ginza that rises along Nishi-Ginza Street, celebrating its 30th anniversary last year (2014). The history of Plantan Ginza began in 1984. As a starting point for the department store business, Daiei, a supermarket chain, invited Japan as a partner of a major French department store, Au Printemps. Starting with the Kobe Sannomiya Ekimae store in 1981, the company opened stores in Sapporo and Osaka at its peak. 
【Plantan Main Store (Source: wikipedia) in Osman Boulevard, Paris (64 boulevard Haussmann, 75009 Paris)】
Plantan, as its name (Le Printemps = Spring), is a department store that symbolizes the brightness of spring and the elegance of France, and the French home was founded in Paris in 1865 and this year marks the 150th anniversary of its founding. In the mid-1980s, just after the opening of Plantan Ginza, I was in the midst of youth, and ashamed, I was very helpful as one of the date courses, saying, "Let's go see a stylish France in Ginza!"
[Cafe Angelina on the 2nd floor of Plantan Ginza, which is crowded before Christmas]
In particular, on the second floor, there is the Ginza store of the long-established cafe "Salon de Thé Angelina" on the Rivoli street in Paris (226 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris), which is full of French scents such as Mont Blanc made with the same recipe as the Paris store. 
[Cafe Angelina Mont Blanc menu]
It is a bit disappointing that the fashionable "French culture" disappears from Ginza along with the French flag fluttering in the front is just a matter of closing a department store. 
However, the head family, which celebrated its 150th anniversary, has continued its department store as before, but has been managed by Gucci's parent company PPR (currently Kering) since the 1990s, and is now owned by an investment fund in Qatar in the Middle East. Similarly, Plantan Ginza is now owned by Yomiuri Shimbun / Mitsukoshi Isetan. In recent years, shrine office at Tepposhu Inari Shrine (/archive/2015/12/post-2910.html) in the blog post dated December 3, 2015/post-2910.html). In the future, some sales floors will be closed from October 2016, and the store will be closed at the end of 2016. It seems that all stores will be renovated from March 2017 and restarted with a new store name. The name of the new store is currently undecided, but it is said that it aims to be a casual store that is different from the conventional "France".
[Plantan Ginza]
Location 3-2-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, 104-0061, Japan
Business hours From 11:00 to 20:00 (Friday, Saturday from 21:00)
Phone: 03-3567-0077
