Baseball star Ohtani statue on sale

Baseball star Ohtani statue on sale

Former Samurai Japan manager Hideki Kuriyama poses by a life-size gold-leaf statue of Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, displayed for sale at a gold fair held at a Yokohama Takashimaya department store in Yokohama near Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2025, carrying a price tag of 55 million yen ($371,872).

Baseball star Ohtani statue on sale

Baseball star Ohtani statue on sale

A life-size gold-leaf statue of Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani is displayed for sale at a gold fair held at a Yokohama Takashimaya department store in Yokohama near Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2025, carrying a price tag of 55 million yen ($371,872).

Exterior view of Tamagawa Takashimaya Department Store

Exterior view of Tamagawa Takashimaya Department Store

Exterior view of Tamagawa Takashimaya Department Store=September 10,2024,Tokyo,Japan

Japan crown princess, daughter at embroidery exhibition

Japan crown princess, daughter at embroidery exhibition

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (2nd from L) and her daughter Princess Kako (L) visit an exhibition of Japanese embroidery at Takashimaya department store's Nihombashi outlet in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2024. (Pool photo)

Japan crown princess, daughter at embroidery exhibition

Japan crown princess, daughter at embroidery exhibition

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (2nd from L) and her daughter Princess Kako (L) visit an exhibition of Japanese embroidery at Takashimaya department store's Nihombashi outlet in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2024. (Pool photo)

Japan crown princess, daughter at embroidery exhibition

Japan crown princess, daughter at embroidery exhibition

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (2nd from L) and her daughter Princess Kako (L) visit an exhibition of Japanese embroidery at Takashimaya department store's Nihombashi outlet in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2024. (Pool photo)

Exterior, logo and signage of Takashimaya Shinjuku Store

Exterior, logo and signage of Takashimaya Shinjuku Store

Exterior view, logo and signboard of Takashimaya Shinjuku Store. ＝May 17, 2024, Tokyo, Japan

Exterior view, logo and signboard of Takashimaya Shinjuku Store

Exterior view, logo and signboard of Takashimaya Shinjuku Store

Exterior view, logo and signboard of Takashimaya Shinjuku Store. ＝May 17, 2024, Tokyo, Japan

Exterior, logo, and signboard of Takashimaya Shinjuku Store

Exterior, logo, and signboard of Takashimaya Shinjuku Store

Exterior view, logo and signboard of Takashimaya Shinjuku Store. ＝May 17, 2024, Tokyo, Japan

Exterior, logo and signboard of Takashimaya Shinjuku Store

Exterior, logo and signboard of Takashimaya Shinjuku Store

Exterior view, logo and signboard of Takashimaya Shinjuku Store. ＝May 17, 2024, Tokyo, Japan

Exterior view, logo and signboard of Takashimaya Shinjuku Store

Exterior view, logo and signboard of Takashimaya Shinjuku Store

Exterior view, logo and signboard of Takashimaya Shinjuku Store. ＝May 17, 2024, Tokyo, Japan

Takashimaya Shinjuku Store exterior, logo and signboard

Takashimaya Shinjuku Store exterior, logo and signboard

Exterior view, logo and signboard of Takashimaya Shinjuku Store. ＝May 17, 2024, Tokyo, Japan

10 mil. yen gold bowl stolen from Tokyo department store

10 mil. yen gold bowl stolen from Tokyo department store

Photo taken on April 11, 2024, shows Takashimaya department store's Nihombashi outlet in Tokyo's Chuo Ward. A pure gold bowl priced at over 10 million yen ($65,000) was stolen from an exhibition held at the store the same day, with police seeking a man caught on camera taking the item.

10 mil. yen gold bowl stolen from Tokyo department store

10 mil. yen gold bowl stolen from Tokyo department store

Photo taken on April 11, 2024, shows Takashimaya department store's Nihombashi outlet in Tokyo's Chuo Ward. A pure gold bowl priced at over 10 million yen ($65,000) was stolen from an exhibition held at the store the same day, with police seeking a man caught on camera taking the item.

Valentine's Day campaign at department store in Japan

Valentine's Day campaign at department store in Japan

A special sales event is held at a Takashimaya department store in Nagoya, central Japan, on Jan. 17, 2024, a day ahead of the start of a Valentine's Day sales campaign for the general public.

Valentine's Day campaign at department store in Japan

Valentine's Day campaign at department store in Japan

A special sales event is held at a Takashimaya department store in Nagoya, central Japan, on Jan. 17, 2024, a day ahead of the start of a Valentine's Day sales campaign for the general public.

Valentine's Day campaign at department store in Japan

Valentine's Day campaign at department store in Japan

A special sales event is held at a Takashimaya department store in Nagoya, central Japan, on Jan. 17, 2024, a day ahead of the start of a Valentine's Day sales campaign for the general public.

New Year sale at Japanese department store

New Year sale at Japanese department store

People shop during a New Year sale at a Takashimaya department store in Tokyo on Jan. 2, 2024.

New Year sale at Japanese department store

New Year sale at Japanese department store

People form a line outside a Takashimaya department store in Tokyo to await its opening for a New Year sale on Jan. 2, 2024.

New Year sale at Japanese department store

New Year sale at Japanese department store

A Takashimaya department store section selling "fukubukuro" lucky bags is crowded with shoppers during a New Year sale in Tokyo on Jan. 2, 2024.

Takashimaya apologizes over Christmas cake chaos

Takashimaya apologizes over Christmas cake chaos

Kazuhisa Yokoyama, senior managing director of Japanese department store operator Takashimaya Co., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 27, 2023, over 1,200 complaints from customers that the cakes they bought online for Christmas arrived damaged.

Takashimaya apologizes over Christmas cake chaos

Takashimaya apologizes over Christmas cake chaos

Kazuhisa Yokoyama, senior managing director of Japanese department store operator Takashimaya Co., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 27, 2023, over 1,200 complaints from customers that the cakes they bought online for Christmas arrived damaged.

Takashimaya apologizes over Christmas cake chaos

Takashimaya apologizes over Christmas cake chaos

Kazuhisa Yokoyama, senior managing director of Japanese department store operator Takashimaya Co., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 27, 2023, over 1,200 complaints from customers that the cakes they bought online for Christmas arrived damaged.

Takashimaya apologizes over Christmas cake chaos

Takashimaya apologizes over Christmas cake chaos

Kazuhisa Yokoyama, senior managing director of Japanese department store operator Takashimaya Co., bows in apology at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 27, 2023, over 1,200 complaints from customers that the cakes they bought online for Christmas arrived damaged.

Photo exhibition held in Tokyo on iconic N. Korea abductee

Photo exhibition held in Tokyo on iconic N. Korea abductee

A photo exhibition on Megumi Yokota, who has become a symbol of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago, is held at the Nihombashi Takashimaya department store gallery in Tokyo on Aug. 2, 2023. Her mother Sakie (R) and Akihiro Arimoto, father of Keiko among the abductees, visit the exhibition. (Pool photo)

Photo exhibition held in Tokyo on iconic N. Korea abductee

Photo exhibition held in Tokyo on iconic N. Korea abductee

A photo exhibition on Megumi Yokota, who has become a symbol of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago, is held at the Nihombashi Takashimaya department store gallery in Tokyo on Aug. 2, 2023, with her mother Sakie (R) visiting. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno (C), who doubles as minister in charge of the abduction issue, also visits the exhibition. (Pool photo)

Photo exhibition held in Tokyo on iconic N. Korea abductee

Photo exhibition held in Tokyo on iconic N. Korea abductee

A photo exhibition on Megumi Yokota, who has become a symbol of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago, is held at the Nihombashi Takashimaya department store gallery in Tokyo on Aug. 2, 2023. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno (front), who doubles as minister in charge of the abduction issue, and Megumi's mother Sakie (2nd from L) visit the exhibition. (Pool photo)

Photo exhibition held in Tokyo on iconic N. Korea abductee

Photo exhibition held in Tokyo on iconic N. Korea abductee

A 13-day photo exhibition on Megumi Yokota, abducted by North Korea at age 13 in 1977, begins at the Nihombashi Takashimaya department store gallery in Tokyo on Aug. 2, 2023. Yokota, one of the 17 people officially listed by Japan as having been abducted by Pyongyang in the 1970s and 1980s, became a symbol of the still unresolved abduction issue as five of them returned home in 2002 and the other 12, including her, remain unaccounted for.

Iconic Tokyo store closes

Iconic Tokyo store closes

Photo taken on Jan. 31, 2023, shows Takashimaya Shopping Center in Tokyo's Tachikawa city. The Takashimaya department store section closed the same day and is to be replaced by specialty stores targeting younger shoppers. ==Kyodo

New year sale at Takashimaya department store

New year sale at Takashimaya department store

People shop at Takashimaya department store in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on Jan. 2, 2023, the first day of the New Year sale.

New year sale at Takashimaya department store

New year sale at Takashimaya department store

People line up at Takashimaya department store in Tokyo's Nihombashi area before its opening on Jan. 2, 2023, the first day of the New Year sale.

Osaka department store revives post-WWII ballroom for limited period

Osaka department store revives post-WWII ballroom for limited period

OSAKA, Aug. 3 Kyodo - Employees of Takashimaya Co.'s department store in Osaka, western Japan, perform a dance near the entrance to its first floor on July 29, 2015, to celebrate the limited revival of its ballroom operated from 1947 to 1950 to help enliven Japan in the immediate years after the end of World War II.

Gold banana for Takashimaya exhibition in Osaka

Gold banana for Takashimaya exhibition in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - A woman holds a banana-shaped object of pure gold during a press preview on Nov. 13, 2014, of an exhibition featuring gold products at a Takashimaya department store in Osaka ahead of the opening of the exhibition and sales.

Gold Osaka Castle model for Takashimaya exhibition

Gold Osaka Castle model for Takashimaya exhibition

OSAKA, Japan - A solid gold model of Osaka Castle is shown during a press preview on Nov. 13, 2014, of an exhibition featuring gold products at a Takashimaya department store in Osaka ahead of the opening of the exhibition and sales.

Humanoid robot of master 'rakugo' storyteller on show

Humanoid robot of master 'rakugo' storyteller on show

OSAKA, Japan - An android made to look like Katsura Beicho, a legendary Japanese "rakugo" comic storyteller, is on display at the Takashimaya department store in Osaka, western Japan, on Nov. 5, 2014.

Android of master comic storyteller 'talks' to shoppers

Android of master comic storyteller 'talks' to shoppers

OSAKA, Japan - An android made to look like Katsura Beicho, a legendary Japanese "rakugo" comic storyteller, "talks" to customers at the Takashimaya department store in Osaka, western Japan, on Nov. 5, 2014.

Scientist explains android of master comic storyteller

Scientist explains android of master comic storyteller

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka University professor Hiroshi Ishiguro (R), the developer of an android that looks like legendary Japanese "rakugo" comic storyteller Katsura Beicho, speaks about the robot at the Takashimaya department store in Osaka, western Japan, on Nov. 5, 2014.

Women taste sweets at department store in Osaka

Women taste sweets at department store in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Female shoppers taste samples of sweets offered by a sales clerk at Takashimaya Department Store in Osaka, western Japan, on Oct. 15, 2015. The store provides an extensive lineup of sweets for the year-end shopping season, expecting greater demand from female consumers at women-only parties.

Dept. store boosts lineup of sweets for year-end shopping season

Dept. store boosts lineup of sweets for year-end shopping season

OSAKA, Japan - Takashimaya Department Store in Osaka, western Japan, displays an extensive lineup of sweets for the year-end shopping season on Oct. 15, 2014, expecting greater demand from female consumers at women-only parties.

Dept. store workers raise morale for year-end shopping season

Dept. store workers raise morale for year-end shopping season

OSAKA, Japan - Workers at Takashimaya Department Store in Osaka, western Japan, hold a morale-boosting rally on Oct. 15, 2014, at the start of a year-end "shopping war."

Shinkansen exhibition to commemorate 50th anniversary

Shinkansen exhibition to commemorate 50th anniversary

NAGOYA, Japan - A girl looks at a miniature Shinkansen bullet train at an exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train line at JR Nagoya Takashimaya department store in Nagoya, central Japan, on Aug. 6, 2014. The exhibition will run till Aug. 17.

Figure skater Asada cuts ribbon for her photo exhibition

Figure skater Asada cuts ribbon for her photo exhibition

KYOTO, Japan - Japanese figure skater Mao Asada cuts the ribbon to open an exhibition of her photos and other items at Takashimaya Department Store in Kyoto, western Japan, on Aug. 5, 2014.

Gold soccer ball

Gold soccer ball

TOKYO, Japan - A soccer ball made of gold is displayed at the Takashimaya department store chain's Nihombashi branch in Tokyo on June 12, 2014. Takashimaya Co. put it on sale for about 42.88 million yen (about $420,000) the same day, hoping to attract more customers as the World Cup kicks off later in the day in Brazil.

Gold soccer ball

Gold soccer ball

TOKYO, Japan - A soccer ball made of gold is displayed at the Takashimaya department store chain's Nihombashi branch in Tokyo on June 12, 2014. Takashimaya Co. put it on sale for about 42.88 million yen (about $420,000) the same day, hoping to attract more customers as the World Cup kicks off later in the day in Brazil.

Department store staffers model summer attire

Department store staffers model summer attire

NAGOYA, Japan - Staffers of Takashimaya Co. pose in "Super Cool Biz" clothing, a style even lighter than the "Cool Biz" casual business attire designed to beat the summer heat, in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on June 4, 2014.

'Cool Biz' campaign at Osaka department store

'Cool Biz' campaign at Osaka department store

OSAKA, Japan - An array of "Cool Biz" light clothes are seen on sale in a men's clothes section of Takashimaya department store in Osaka's Namba district, western Japan, on June 2, 2014.

Talking robot sells "yukata" in Osaka dept store

Talking robot sells "yukata" in Osaka dept store

OSAKA, Japan - Female talking robot Minami sells "yukata," a traditional Japanese garment, as a store clerk at the Takashimaya Osaka department store in Osaka on May 7, 2014.

Photo exhibit on figure skater Asada in Nagoya begins

Photo exhibit on figure skater Asada in Nagoya begins

NAGOYA, Japan - Japanese figure skater Mao Asada cuts the ribbon as a photo exhibition on her entitled "Mao Asada's 23-year trajectory" opens on April 23, 2014, at the JR Nagoya Takashimaya department store in Nagoya. Asada says she still is "50-50" about retirement.

Asada's photo exhibition

Asada's photo exhibition

NAGOYA, Japan - Figure skater Mao Asada visits the venue for an exhibition of photos of herself at JR Nagoya Takashimaya department store in Nagoya on April 23, 2014, the opening day of the exhibition. (Pool photo)

Hello Kitty shop

Hello Kitty shop

OSAKA, Japan - A shop selling around 500 items associated with the popular character Hello Kitty opens at a Takashimaya Co. department store in Osaka, western Japan, on April 10, 2014.