Seibu Fukui (だるまや) 西武福井店
Founded in 1928 by a man who, his fellow townspeople said, looked like a daruma.
Founded on 6 July 1928 by Tsubokawa Shin'ichi (1887–1962), an educator worried about the city's decline after the prefectural seat was moved. The original building was destroyed in the Fukui air raid of July 1945, and its rebuilt successor by the Fukui earthquake of June 1948; a new three-storey reinforced-concrete building with a lift was completed in 1953. In 1980 the name changed to ‘Darumaya Seibu’ after a capital agreement with the Seibu group, and in 2009 to the current ‘Seibu Fukui’.
Fukui
Fukui