Matsuya Revises Business Hours Listings at 113 Stores Across Western Japan, Standardizing on 'Last Order 30 Minutes Before Closing'

It has been confirmed that, as of 10:28 PM on June 17, 2026, a batch revision of business hours listings was reflected across 113 Matsuya stores in western Japan on Matsuya’s official store list. The core of the change is a blanket standardization of the ‘Last Order 30 minutes before closing’ notation across all affected stores, with roughly 101 stores aligned either through a new addition or a switch from ‘Last Order 15 minutes before closing.’ At the same time, the temporary closure notice for Matsuya Kanayama (store #0210) covering July 1-9 — added just that evening at 5:28 PM — was withdrawn in the same update only about five hours later.

Overview of the Batch Revision

Item	Count
Stores with revised business hours listings	112 stores
Newly given “Last Order 30 minutes before closing”	approx. 85 stores
Switched from “Last Order 15 minutes before closing” to “30 minutes”	approx. 7 stores
Other temporary closure time slots (overnight cleaning, etc.) added or changed	approx. 20 stores
Kanayama store temporary closure notice retracted	1 store
Total	113 stores

Spanning 11 Prefectures in Western Japan, Centered on Kansai and Chubu

The affected stores break down by prefecture as follows: Osaka Prefecture (36 stores), Aichi Prefecture (27), Hyogo Prefecture (10), Toyama Prefecture (7), Gifu Prefecture (7), Wakayama Prefecture (6), Shiga Prefecture (5), Mie Prefecture (5), Ishikawa Prefecture (5), Fukui Prefecture (3), and Kyoto Prefecture (2) — 113 stores in total. The batch revision spans 11 prefectures across western Japan, centered on the Kansai and Chubu/Hokuriku regions. No comparable same-day batch revision has been reflected for the Kanto, Hokkaido, Tohoku, Chugoku, Shikoku, or Kyushu areas, suggesting that region-by-region operational guideline cleanup may have been rolled out first on the western Japan side.

The Core Change: Standardizing on ‘Last Order 30 Minutes Before Closing’

Of the 113 stores, roughly 101 saw their Last Order time notation changed, ultimately aligning on ‘Last Order 30 minutes before closing.’ This breaks down into approximately 85 stores newly given the notation (previously no Last Order listing at all) and approximately 7 stores switched over from ‘Last Order 15 minutes before closing.’ The Last Order notation, which had previously varied store by store between 15 minutes, 30 minutes, and no listing at all, has now been consolidated onto a 30-minutes-before-closing basis across the western Japan area.

Numerous Smaller Additions and Updates to Temporary Closure Time Slots

Alongside the business hours revisions, numerous additions and changes were also made to late-night temporary closure dates (such as overnight cleaning time slots). At Matsuya Gifu Akanabe (store #0267), the June closure dates (June 4, June 11, etc.) were replaced with June 16, 18, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, and 30. At Matsuya Kishiwada (store #0096), the June closure dates (June 3, June 5, etc.) were consolidated into a single slot running from 10:00 PM on June 29 to 8:00 AM the following day. This reads as the reflection of the latter half of June’s schedule.

Matsuya Kanayama: This Evening’s July 1 Temporary Closure Notice Retracted Within About Five Hours

One notable individual change: the temporary closure notice for Matsuya Kanayama (store #0210, Naka Ward, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture) — added just at 5:28 PM today, reading ‘Temporarily closed from 3:00 PM on July 1, reopening at 3:00 PM on July 9’ — was removed roughly five hours later in the same update at 10:28 PM. The scheduled closing and reopening date fields were cleared at the same time, and the store name listing reverted to its state before the notice was added. Whether this reflects a data entry correction, a postponement, or another reason cannot be determined from the store data alone, but among this evening’s three-hour run of consecutive notices (Tenjin, Kanayama, and Okayama Station West Exit stores), only the Kanayama store’s notice was retracted within the same day.

A Pattern Suggesting Region-Focused Operational Guideline Cleanup

This batch revision of a single field across 113 stores stands out in scale even compared to past series of changes (such as the four-store, including three in Chiba Prefecture, shift to 24-hour operation, the expanded rollout of 24-hour operation from May onward, and today’s changes at three stores in Kanagawa Prefecture). It reads as a region-level (western Japan side) operational guideline cleanup rolled out all at once in tonight’s late-night store list update.