TOKYO, Jan. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Isetan Mitsukoshi
Holdings Ltd. announced Jan. 29 its
special offers and hospitality services for foreigners shopping at
the Mitsukoshi Ginza Store during the Chinese New Year's spring festival period from
Feb. 19, featuring special limited
cosmetic sets, free gifts with purchases and a "jewelry
bazaar."
(Photo: http://prw.kyodonews.jp/opn/release/201501287231/)
Located in the center of Ginza, an area in Tokyo where many foreign visitors enjoy
shopping, the Ginza store has been expanding its merchandise and
services for foreigners visiting Japan.
Hospitality Services:
- Double the number of staff members for the well-used foreign
language attendant service during the festival period.
- Make floor maps written in Chinese (traditional and
simplified).
- Set up dialogue charts (understandable by just pointing at
them) on tablet computers on a trial basis on some floors that many
foreigners visit (about 10 units, Japanese and Chinese).
- Offer the Mitsukoshi Ginza Store's original handkerchiefs to
the first 10,000 customers who receive tax exemption refunds for
their purchases.
Special Offers:
- Cosmetics: "Welcome to Japan Campaign"
- A special limited cosmetic set from each brand and a free gift
with purchases.
- Jewelry: "Inbound Jewelry Bazaar"
- Akoya pearls of the highest quality, jade and coral, as well as
products for gifts at reasonable prices of around 100,000 to 200,000 yen.
- Children's Goods: "Made in Japan Project -- Japanese-made Wooden Toy
Fair"
- "Made in Japan" toys,
including traditional playthings and products aimed at intellectual
training.
- Men's Apparel: "TOKYO SHOP"
- The "TOKYO SHOP" event
gathering items featuring designs and skills that are
characteristically Japanese.
In addition, the Ginza Mitsukoshi Store will offer numerous
products that are very popular among foreign customers,
particularly visitors from China,
such as the Nambu Tekki ironware, kitchen knives and wooden mosaic
work on the household goods floor and health foods on the food
product floor.
Details of these special offers and hospitality services were
introduced to Japan-based
correspondents of foreign media organizations on Jan. 29 at the Mitsukoshi Ginza Store during a
briefing session of the Isetan Mitsukoshi group's inbound/outbound
strategy.
Representatives of more than 10 media organizations from places
including Europe, North America, China and other parts of Asia gathered for the briefing session.
Contact
Masaki Shimizu or Yukino Kawabe
Corporate Communications
Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd.
Phone: +81-3-6205-6003
Fax: +81-3-6205-6009
E-mail: info@imhds.co.jp
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