Locations
In Kantō, Mandarake operates six locations: four stores located in Tokyo, one store located in Utsunomiya, and a warehouse fulfillment center located in Chiba. In Tokyo, Mandarake's first store in Nakano has operated continuously out of the Nakano Broadway shopping complex since 1980, which also houses the company's corporate offices. Nakano Broadway houses twenty-seven individual shops (also known as annexes or kan) operating under the Mandarake brand.[4] Each shop is focused on a single category of item, such as cosplay costumes or doujinshi. Several Mandarake annexes in Nakano Broadway were once independent stores that were acquired by the company. Additional stores in Tokyo include Mandarake Complex, an eight-story store in Akihabara opened in April 2008; Mandarake Shibuya, which features a karaoke stage;[5] and Mandarake Ikebukuro, a store located near Otome Road that specializes in boys' love and shōjo manga.[6] Outside of Tokyo, Mandarake Utsunomiya is located in Mageshichō, Utsunomiya,[7] while in rural Katori, Chiba, the company operates Mandarake Sahra, a storage and fulfillment center. Mandarake Sahra is open to the public for buyback only, and not sales.[8]
In Hokkaido, Mandarake Sapporo moved to its current location at Norbesa from its former space at Sapporo Nanairo on March 17, 2012, tripling the size of the store.[9] In Tōkai, Mandarake Nagoya moved to its current location in Naka-ku in 2007 due to insufficient floor space at its previous location; the move saw Mandarake Nagoya expand the size of the store from 266 square meters to 578 square meters.[10]
In Kansai, Mandarake operates two locations located in Osaka. Mandarake's first store in Osaka, Mandarake Umeda, is located in Doyama.[11] Its second location in Osaka, Mandarake Grandchaos, is located in Amerikamura.[12] Two shop locations operate in Kyushu: Mandarake Fukuoka is located in Tenjin,[13] and Mandarake Kokura is located in Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyūshū.[14] Mandarake also operates an online storefront in both Japanese and English. The store ships items both domestically within Japan, and internationally to 83 countries.
Internationally, Mandarake operated a store in California from 1999 to 2003; initially located in Torrance, the store later relocated to Santa Monica before ultimately closing. The company also formerly operated a store in Bologna in 2001,[15][16] and a store in Beijing.
