The ultimate Muji experience – across seven floors

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For almost 20 years, Muji’s flagship store in Tokyo’s Ginza district served as the perfect symbol of the world’s most successful value-focused, no-brand mega-brand. It was headquartered in a temporary-looking metallic wedge topped with a red tin roof. A simple and eminently functional building. 

Ginza itself, under ever heavier visitation from big-spending…