Low-effort secondhand clothing FC store, Chubu/Hokuriku region

What is for sale

This is a franchise store selling secondhand clothing, operating a roughly 165 square metre warehouse-style shop with both in-person retail and online sales directed from Instagram to a STORES e-commerce page. The business is run day to day by two staff and sources stock weekly from the franchise head office on a consignment basis, allowing unsold items to be returned. The owner states the reason for sale is to focus attention on another business.

Because this is an asset transfer, the buyer purchases the store's business assets and contracts individually rather than acquiring a company, so items like the franchise rights, leases, and accounts need to be formally re-assigned or re-applied for in the buyer's name.

What is included

• Store operating rights as a franchise member
• Instagram account
• TikTok account
• STORES online sales and payment setup
• Smaregi and other operating accounts
• Approximately 4,000 items of in-store stock, shop fittings, lease and parking contracts, air-conditioner lease, and two staff

Strengths (as the seller states them)

• Consignment-style stock supply from the franchise head office means unsold items can be returned, reducing inventory risk
• About 12,000 Instagram followers supporting a multi-channel customer base
• Staff-led operation means the store can run with limited owner involvement
• Repeat customers are drawn in partly by loyalty to the staff

Wrinkles a careful buyer would ask about

• Buyer will need to confirm transfer terms for the franchise operating rights and consignment purchasing conditions with the franchise head office
• Lease, parking, and air-conditioner lease contracts need to be checked and reassigned
• Terms for transferring Instagram, TikTok, STORES, and Smaregi accounts need confirming, as some platforms restrict account transfers
• Continuation terms for the two existing staff need to be negotiated
• A secondhand goods dealer licence (古物商許可) is required of the buyer
• Total value of assets being transferred is not disclosed publicly and requires membership login to view

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.

What this listing says. The listing states there is no fee charged to the buyer by the intermediary (代理掲載, 買い手からいただく手数料 なし), but it says nothing about existing debts, loans, or personal guarantees; it does note that lease, parking, and air-conditioner lease contracts are included and would need to be reassigned to the buyer.

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