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Nijiya Market (ニジヤマーケット Nijiya Māketto) is an American chain of Japanese supermarket headquartered in Torrance, California, [2] with store locations in California and Hawaii. The store's rainbow logo is intended to represent a bridge between Japan and the United States.
Former Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara repeatedly called for moving the market to Toyosu, Koto. [4] The new Toyosu Market cost $5 billion to build. [ 1 ] The long-anticipated move to the new market was scheduled to take place in November 2016, in preparation for the 2020 Summer Olympics , [ 5 ] but on August 31, 2016, the move was postponed. [ 6 ]
The Chicago area store is at 100 E. Algonquin Road in Arlington Heights, Illinois—one of a number of Japanese businesses in Arlington Heights—and opened in 1991. The store is open 365 days a year [9] from 9 am to 8 pm. Mitsuwa is the largest [10] Japanese marketplace in the Midwestern US. The Chicago store is one of three that are east of ...
AirTrain is a fully automated people mover at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) that opened on February 24, 2003. It operates 24 hours a day on two separate lines, covering a total of three miles (4.8 km). The service charges no fares; it is funded by a fee charged to rental car customers. [2]
The Shops at Tanforan is a regional shopping mall in San Bruno, California, United States. It is located on the San Francisco Peninsula , 10 miles (16 km) south of San Francisco city limits. The site was originally used as a horse racing track from 1899 until 1964, when the grandstand was destroyed by fire.
The San Francisco Peace Pagoda is a five-tiered concrete stupa between Post and Geary Streets at Buchanan in San Francisco's Nihonmachi ().The Pagoda, located in the southwestern corner of Peace Plaza between the Japan Center Mall and Nihonmachi Mall, was constructed in the 1960s and presented to San Francisco by its sister city Osaka, Japan on March 28, 1968. [1]
The kimono store changed to a department store in 1910. In 1924, the Matsuzakaya store in Ginza allowed street shoes to be worn indoors, something innovative at the time. [ 1 ] These former kimono-shop-turned-department-stores dominated the market in its early department store history.
SS City of Tokio (sometimes spelled City of Tokyo) was an iron steamship built in 1874 by Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. City of Tokio and her sister ship City of Peking were at the time of construction the largest vessels ever built in the United States , and the second largest in the ...