On Saturday, the official One Piece website announced that a new Mugiwara Store would be opening in China. Based in Shanghai, this location will be the third store to open outside of Japan. The official Mugiwara Store chains are now in Shibuya (Tokyo), Taipei, Osaka, Nagoya, and Fukuoka.

The first foreign Mugiwara Store made its way to Taipei, Taiwan on March 29, 2014. Sasaki Hisashi, former editor-in-chief of Weekly Shonen Jump and current Vice President for Global Shonen Jump at VIZ Media, also attended the successful grand opening of the Taiwan Mugiwara Store. In addition, to celebrate the opening, there was apparently a small ceremony with a guest appearance by Kuja Pirate Empress Boa Hancock and a video message from Mayumi Tanaka, Monkey D. Luffy’s voice actress. A second Mugiwara store opened in Bangkok, Thailand.

The Mugiwara Store celebrated its fourth anniversary this past September.

These Mugiwara (“Straw Hat”) stores carry items sold in Japan as well as country specific products that can only be purchased at that store. We had the opportunity to visit the original Shibuya store as part of our documentary “The One Piece Podcast Goes to Japan.”

The Shanghai store will be located two metro stops from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport and is expected to open in the summer of 2017.

ONE PIECE Mugiwara Store – Shanghai

Address: Shanghai Municipal City Minhang District 6868 No. Rainbow Bridge HUB

As for a Mugiwara Store in the United States, a trademark for Mugiwara Store Hawaii was filed on Aug. 19, 2013. However, no news of it actually opening in Hawaii has been made as of yet. The trademark design features a One Piece Mugiwara Store style logo in English with palm trees in the back and was originally filed by U.S. attorney David Ehrlich for owner “Kabushiki Kaisha Shueisha” (the full Japanese name of Shueisha transcribed in English). A number of other trademarks including “One Piece” itself are also owned by the same entity , which suggests that it was filed by the Japanese company Shueisha itself.

Source: one-piece.com