In recent years, we have seen the Cupertino-based company dedicating its resources to renovate some of the oldest Apple Stores around the world. However, not all of them are suffering the same fate and some of them have begun to close their doors.
The only reason for Apple to be able to close the doors of some of its Apple Stores It is because they cannot keep up with the demand and number of current visits, in most cases, and in its place opens a new, larger Apple Store with greater capacity. The next Apple Store to close will be Sendai Ichibncho in Japan.
The city of Sendai welcomed the Apple Store on December 10, 2005, in the Ichibancho shopping center, in an area very similar to the Fremont Street pedestrian zone located in Las Vegas, thus becoming the sixth Apple Store in the country.
Like many of the Apple Stores available today around the world, Sendai's store has kept the same design since it opened 13 years ago, but instead of receiving a facelift, Apple has decided to close its doors on January 25.
Earlier last year, Apple's vice president of retail Angela Ahrendts announced a significant reinvestment in Japan with the opening of new stores in Shinjuku and Kyoto along with the modernization of the store located in Shibuya.
Currently, Apple operates with 9 stores in Japan, a number that will be reduced to 8 with the closure on January 25 of the Apple Store located in Senday, although throughout this year, it will open a new Apple Store to replace it last. It is not the first time that Apple has closed an Apple Store in the country. In 2016 closed shop located in Sapporo, a store that today is occupied by the Japanese giant Sony.