Narita International Airport will open its new retail facilities, comprising 26 shops as well as food and beverage outlets, based on three basic concepts, ‘Casual, Function and Exciting’, in Terminal 3 on 8 April next year.

 

As has already been reported, FaSoLa Shops has been appointed to run the T3 duty free shops. The company is Narita Airport’s largest duty free retailer and part of NAA Retailing Corporation under Narita International Airport Corporation (NAA), which owns and operates the airport.

 

“NAA has asked us to operate the T3 duty free shops to increase their non-aeronautical business,” said Takumi Shimizu, Director of Product Division II in NAA Retailing Corporation’s FaSoLa Shops Merchandising Department, talking exclusively to TRBusiness in October. “We have a plan to create a sophisticated retail environment.”

 

The airport operator says that the three concepts; Casual, Function and Exciting, influenced the layout of the terminal’s retail facilities with all shops complementing customers’ flow lines so that shopping is ‘easy, smooth and enjoyable’.

 

 

Narita Airport claims the food court ‘is the largest at any airport in Japan’ with a seating capacity of more than 400. The court features seven units serving noodles and sushi at restaurants such as Miyatake Sanuki Udon and Ringer Hut.

 

The F&B portfolio will also include Tatsu Sushi, which is a standing sushi bar, the 24-hour convenience store, Lawson, and the FaSoLa Duty Free store, ‘the largest general duty-free shop at Narita Airport’.

 

 

“The glittering interior creates an extraordinary atmosphere with a wide selection of cosmetics, perfume, liquor, tobacco and other duty-free goods,” says Narita Airport.

 

The FaSoLa Souvenir Akihabara shop completes the retail portfolio, with a wide selection of recommended gifts from food items to electrical appliances.

 

“Departing passengers will pass the perfume and cosmetics area first, then the liquor and tobacco area; opposite them will be the Fashion Select shop and watches boutique, followed by our Akihabara souvenir store,” adds Shimizu.

 

Below: The proposed T3 food court, which claims to be the largest in Japan.