Japan: vacancy rate of stores in shopping districts by prefecture

According to a survey, Kagawa was the Japanese prefecture with the highest vacancy rate of stores in shopping districts in fiscal year 2018, with empty stores accounting for 37.3 percent of the total number of stores. Tokyo Prefecture recorded a vacancy rate of 7.9 percent, below the national average in Japan.

Vacancy rate of stores in shopping districts in Japan in fiscal year 2018, by prefecture

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Release date

December 2020

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Region

Japan

Survey time period

October 1, 2018

Special properties

postal and online survey; among shopping districts*

Supplementary notes

*Shopping districts are defined as 1) districts formed by the shops of proprietors engaged in retail and service businesses, 2) that form some kind of organization (a shopping street promotion association, a store association, etc., regardless of whether it has legal status or not, and regardless of the type of organization).

Vacancy rate= total number of vacant stores in all shopping districts / total number of stores in all shopping districts.
Vacant stores are defined as former stores that are now vacant (vacant land, vacant buildings, vacant warehouses, etc.).

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