Yodobashi Camera

Yodobashi Camera Co.,Ltd.

Type	Kabushiki kaisha
Founded	April, 1960
Headquarters	Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Area served	Japan
Products	Electronic products
Employees	4,800 (2010)
Website	Official site

Shinjuku Nishiguchi Store, in Tokyo

Yodobashi Akiba at night, in Tokyo

Yodobashi Umeda, in Osaka

Yodobashi Hakata, in Fukuoka

Yodobashi Camera Co.,Ltd. (ヨドバシカメラ) is a chain store mainly selling electronic products. Currently, there are 21 stores in Japan. It also maintains two online stores in China; one with a limited selection of products from its Japanese online store through SBI VeriTrans that supports payments by UnionPay, and another it operates itself that does not but has a selection more closely matching its Japanese store.

The store's theme song is a bouncy cover of The Battle Hymn of the Republic.^{[citation needed]}

History

• 1960 - Started off as Fujisawa Shashin Shokai
• 1974 - Changed its name to Yodobashi Camera Co.,Ltd.
• 1975 - Shinjuku Nishiguchi Store opens (first store created)
• 1989 - Publishes Yodobashi Point Card
• 1998 - Internet shopping store opens
• 2005 - Akiba megastore location opens

Yodobashi happens to be the name of a former town and ward making up present day Shinjuku ward, where the company was founded.

In the 1970's Yodobashi camera store in Shinjuku sold 1/3 of all SLR cameras in Japan.

Stores

• Shinjuku Nishiguchi Honten(Station West Entrance main store)
• Multimedia Shinjuku Higashiguchi(Station East Entrance)
• Multimedia Akiba (Yodobashi Akiba)
• Multimedia Ueno
• Multimedia Kichijōji
• Hachiōji
• Multimedia Machida
• Multimedia Kinshichō
• Multimedia Kawasaki Le FRONT
• Yodobashi Outlet Keikyū Kawasaki
• Multimedia Yokohama
• Multimedia Keikyu Kami-Ōoka
• Chiba
• Multimedia Utsunomiya
• Multimedia Sapporo
• Multimedia Sendai
• Kōriyama ekimae(Station-Front)
• Niigata
• Multimedia Kyoto (Kyoto Yodobashi)
• Multimedia Umeda (Yodobashi Umeda)
• Multimedia Hakata (Yodobashi Hakata)

The store in Akihabara, immediately next to JR Akihabara station, is eight stories tall (plus some basement levels). It has restaurants on the 8th floor, and a shipping center and camera classrooms in the basement levels.

In Shinjuku near the west entrance to the JR station, Yodobashi has several tall stores close together.

In Umeda, Osaka, the store is 12 stories, though the top four are a parking garage. The 8th floor, like in Akihabara, is also a restaurant floor. The building also includes Uniqlo and Comme Ça Store clothing stores.

External links

• Official Site (Japanese)
• Yodobashi Camera China online shop by SBI VeriTrans (Chinese)
• Official China online shop (Chinese)
• Camera Ya: The biggest camera stores in the world, Flickr photo set (English)