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109 (department store)
is a department store in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. The store is operated by Tokyu Malls Development (TMD), a subsidiary of the Tokyu Group.
==History and description==
The building, located just across the street from Shibuya Station, opened in April 1979. The architect was Minoru Takeyama. Tokyu, the building's operator, designed the building as a "Fashion Community" containing small retail stores targeting the early-30s female consumer. Tokyu intended the store to compete with Seibu Department Stores, which was making inroads into the Shibuya area.〔Bull, Brett, "Decades as Tokyo's tower of girl power", ''Japan Times'', January 22, 2009, p. 17.〕
The name of the building, ''109'', is a form of word play (goroawase, specifically numerical substitution) and is taken from the Japanese characters ''tō'' (meaning 10) and ''kyū'' (9) as in ''Tōkyū''. The interior of the building is designed to move shoppers in a loop on each floor from the elevators past various shops. A movie theater was originally planned for the top floor, but the fire department would not grant approval due to emergency-evacuation routes not meeting appropriate standards. Although originally targeted at women in their 30s, the building later became more known as a sanctuary for young women from the ''gyaru'' subculture.〔〔Nagata, Kazuaki, "(Shibuya 109 eyes rebound: Fashion landmark wants to make last year's sales drop a mere blip )", ''Japan Times'', May 14, 2010, p. 7.〕
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