{"id":2034,"date":"2025-08-31T03:42:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanbrochure.com\/tokyo\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2025-08-31T03:42:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:42:19","slug":"ikea-to-close-its-harajuku-and-shinjuku-city-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanbrochure.com\/tokyo\/ikea-to-close-its-harajuku-and-shinjuku-city-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"IKEA to Close Its Harajuku and Shinjuku City Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>IKEA Japan announced on August 29 that it will close the Harajuku and Shinjuku city stores in early 2026. The company says this is part of a \u201cbusiness optimisation\u201d for the greater Tokyo area, with IKEA Shibuya designated as the core downtown hub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Harajuku and Shinjuku locations opened between 2020\u20132021 as compact, city-centre formats aimed at serving urban shoppers. IKEA describes the three downtown stores as experiments that helped them refine city-store ideas \u2014 lessons that fed into the 2024 renewal of the Shibuya site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you use these stores now, expect changes over the next months: closure timing is slated for early 2026, and the company\u2019s newsroom advises customers to check store pages for details on final opening hours, services, and any transfer or returns policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local reaction mixes practicality and nostalgia. City stores became popular not just for shopping but also as air-conditioned refuges and casual meeting spots \u2014 a small part of Tokyo life that some visitors and residents will miss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IKEA Japan announced on August 29 that it will close the Harajuku and Shinjuku city stores in early 2026. The company says this is part of a \u201cbusiness optimisation\u201d for the greater Tokyo area, with IKEA Shibuya designated as the core downtown hub. The Harajuku and Shinjuku locations opened between 2020\u20132021 as compact, city-centre formats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-ikea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanbrochure.com\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanbrochure.com\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanbrochure.com\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbrochure.com\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbrochure.com\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbrochure.com\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2036,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbrochure.com\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions\/2036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbrochure.com\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanbrochure.com\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbrochure.com\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbrochure.com\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}