西武百货位于东京都涩谷区的西武涩谷店将于周三永久闭店，结束其引领青年文化长达58年的历史。
Sogo & Seibu’s Seibu department store in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward will close its doors for the last time Wednesday, bringing an end to its 58-year history of shaping youth culture.
西武涩谷店于1968年4月由已故的西武集团（现已解散）创始人堤清二开业。当时店内引进了爱马仕等在日本尚属罕见的奢侈品牌专柜，并设有屋顶游乐园，吸引了大量顾客。该店通过“胶囊”专区销售年轻设计师的作品，推动了前沿时尚潮流，并助推了20世纪80年代日本“DC品牌”（设计师品牌）热潮的兴起。然而，日本泡沫经济破裂后，该店业绩逐渐恶化。
The Seibu Shibuya store was opened in April 1968 by the late Seiji Tsutsumi, head of the now-defunct Saison Group. It attracted many customers with luxury-brand shops, such as Hermes, which were rare in Japan at the time, as well as a rooftop amusement park. The store helped promote cutting-edge fashion through its “capsule” sales area, which featured products by young designers, and helped spark Japan’s “DC brand” boom, a craze for designer labels, in the 1980s. However, the store’s earnings deteriorated following the collapse of Japan’s economic bubble.
西武百货于3月表示，因无法与店铺所在土地及建筑物的权利方续签租赁协议，涩谷店将闭店。
Sogo & Seibu said in March that the Shibuya store would close after it was unable to renew its lease agreements with the rights holders of the land and buildings housing the store.
主要经营食品、化妆品和女装的A馆，以及经营服装店铺的B馆将闭店。同时，LOFT馆和MOVIDA馆（后者设有无印良品家居用品店）将继续营业，但不再冠以“西武”名义。
The store’s A building, which mainly offers food, cosmetics and women’s clothing, and B building, which has clothing stores, will close. Meanwhile, the Loft building and the Movida building, the latter housing a Muji household goods shop, will remain in operation but not under the Seibu name.
自6月下旬闭店前100天起，西武涩谷店举办了各类活动，包括促销、摄影展和赠品派发。店面橱窗还设置了倒计时显示牌，显示距离闭店的天数。
Since late June, 100 days before its closure, the Seibu Shibuya store has held a variety of events, including sales, photo exhibitions and gift giveaways. A countdown showing the number of days until the closure has also been displayed in a storefront window.
许多顾客前来向店铺告别。一位从千叶县习志野市赶来参观摄影展的50多岁女性表示，这让她想起20多岁时与朋友逛设计师品牌店的情景。“光是在促销期间逛逛、想买什么，就觉得很开心，”她回忆道。
Many customers have visited to bid farewell to the store. One woman in her 50s who came from Narashino, Chiba Prefecture, for the photo exhibition said she was reminded of visiting designer-label shops with her friends when she was in her 20s. “It was fun just looking around during sales and thinking about what to buy,” she recalled.
东急百货店在塑造涩谷青年文化方面也发挥了关键作用，其在该区的旗舰店于2023年关闭，但仍在多个购物设施继续运营，包括直接连接东急涩谷站的Hikarie大楼。
Tokyu Department Store, which also played a key role in shaping youth culture in Shibuya, closed its flagship store in the district in 2023 but continues to operate at various shopping facilities, including the Hikarie building directly connected to Tokyu’s Shibuya Station.
由这两家百货连锁经营的店铺目前正张贴海报，表达对东急的支持和对西武的感谢。
Stores operated by the two department store chains are now displaying posters expressing support for Tokyu and gratitude to Seibu.