Aoyama import furniture shop, cheap lease, business transfer

What is for sale

This is a ground-floor, glass-fronted interior goods shop of about 30 tsubo (roughly 100 square metres) in the Aoyama/Omotesando area of Tokyo, selling European imported furniture and interior goods through both in-store and online sales. It has operated in the area for many years, combining in-person consultative selling with an e-commerce channel. The owner is selling due to lack of a successor and wants a quick sale.

This is an asset (business) transfer, so the buyer acquires the lease rights, fixtures and stock but must set up their own company, re-sign the lease with landlord approval, and re-apply for any accounts or registrations in their own name.

What is included

• Lease rights to the storefront
• Relationships with suppliers
• Store fixtures and fittings
• Furniture and goods inventory
• Sales know-how and business goodwill
• Equipment

Strengths (as the seller states them)

• Rare ground-floor street-facing location in a prime Tokyo commercial area
• Lease terms said to be more favourable than the surrounding market rate
• Established European furniture import supply routes
• Long operating history in the area with past department store event sales experience

Wrinkles a careful buyer would ask about

• Changing the tenant requires landlord consent, and rent, deposit and restoration terms may be renegotiated at that point
• The shop name and logo are not included, so the buyer must rebrand
• No employees are transferred, so the buyer must arrange their own staff for sales, inventory and e-commerce operations
• Net assets are not disclosed publicly and financial details need confirmation via accounts before purchase
• Buyer should confirm supplier relationships and continuity of terms as these are not guaranteed

Paying for it

If you stay overseas. No Japanese bank will lend to a new company whose director lives abroad. The realistic stack is your own cash plus asking the owner to take part of the price over 2 to 3 years. That one question is in every Deal Pack.

If you move to Japan. On a visa that lets you run a business, Japan Finance Corporation lends up to ¥72M at about 1 to 2 percent for exactly this. Once you have a Japanese company, the government pays two-thirds of due diligence and registered-broker costs, up to about ¥8M (round 16 closes 6 Nov 2026). You start a bank relationship from zero.

Full rundown, with the catches: japandealflow.com/money