The tourists planning to visit Japan would certainly endeavor to visit various Department Stores located in different cities of Japan. There are many chains of department stores in Japan of which the biggest shopping precincts in Tokyo city are Shinjuku, Ginza and Shibuya where tourists can find the department stores adjacent to each other. Several stories of majority of such stores attribute women clothes while on the cellar area the stores widely flaunt food products and at least one or two stories are engaged by restaurants offering diverse cuisines including Japanese, Chinese and Western.

Mostly all Japanese department stores are famous across the world for their exceptional services. One would find attendants welcoming the customers almost at every spot in the store. The elevators are usually controlled by the female staff. All the stuff in the store is offered superbly and added concern is given to the most eye-catching packaging of produce purchased. Most of the stores remain open through weekends and other national holidays to facilitate their customers shop easily at their leisure.

Mitsukoshi, Takashimaya, Seibu, Daimaru, Matsuzakaya, Tobu, Odakyu and Tokyu are the popular department stores in Japan. Shinjuku is one of the 23 zones of Tokyo city which usually has merely the huge amusement; business and shopping near Shinjuku Station. Tokyo’s most known high-class shopping destination is known as The Ginza which also offers the dining and entertainment facilities besides quite a few department stores, boutiques, art galleries, restaurants, night clubs and cafeterias. The cost of one square meter of land in this area values over ten million yen which equals to more than 100,000 US Dollars ranking it the costliest real estate in entire Japan. In this place the cup of coffee can cost $10 to the tourist. Besides that almost all major forerunner brands in fashion and cosmetics are easily available there.

Ginza in local language means the ‘Mint’ accordingly this area sited the silver coin mint in the ancient times. Ginza is supposed to have developed as the expensive shopping zone following the 1923 Great Kanto tremor. The visit to The Ginza is really most amazing and enjoyable on the weekend afternoons when the central Chuo Dori closes to traffic and the entire area transforms into the large walker zone.

Shibuya is one the 23 Tokyo city zones, but is mostly termed as the eminent shopping and amusement spot near Shibuya Station. It is among the most vibrant and hectic zones besides the source to various style and leisure trends of Japan. Most of these trend stores and large department stores are owned by the couple of most contending corporations from either Tokyo or Seibu.