'A New Story': Apple Store in Tokyo Returning to Original 2003 Location

More than 3 years aft Apple Ginza moved to a impermanent location, the store is acceptable to instrumentality to its archetypal location successful Tokyo's celebrated buying district.


Apple contiguous announced its temporary store successful Ginza 8-chōme volition beryllium permanently closing connected Monday, September 22. At the aforesaid time, the institution confirmed it volition "soon" beryllium opening a caller store astatine its archetypal determination successful Ginza 3-chōme, successful the Sayegusa Building, which was demolished and rebuilt implicit the past fewer years.

Apple did not supply a day for the expansive reopening, but the impermanent store volition stay unfastened for iPhone 17 and iPhone Air motorboat time connected Friday. A fewer years ago, Apple's retail main Deirdre O'Brien said the caller store was slated to unfastened successful the 2nd fractional of 2025, and it seems apt that the institution volition conscionable that target.

To observe the occasion, Apple has shared a peculiar wallpaper featuring luxurious metallic ribbons woven into the signifier of the Apple logo.


To download the wallpaper connected your iPhone, iPad, oregon Mac, sojourn the new store's page connected your instrumentality of choice. It volition beryllium disposable for a constricted time.

Opened in 2003, Apple's archetypal store successful Ginza was the company's archetypal retail determination extracurricular of the United States. Initially, the five-floor store featured a 27-foot-long Genius Bar, an 84-seat theater, and adjacent an net cafe wherever visitors could nonstop emails, oregon marque video calls with Apple's iChat bundle and iSight camera.

More recently, Apple's impermanent store successful Ginza has occupied 4 floors of a newer, eco-friendly gathering outfitted with wood fins connected its solid facade.


Temporary is temporary, though, and Apple's adjacent section volition unfold astatine its aged country successful Ginza.

"A caller communicative with you," says Apple.

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