CHIBA, Japan — Liquor shops specializing in premier beverages, including wine priced at nearly 10 million yen ($64,040), are slowly increasing in the Tokyo Metropolitan area amid booming tourism in Japan. Offering a wide variety of brands, the shops aim to attract not only wealthy drinkers but also gift givers and vintage collectors at airports and tourist destinations.
The Liquor Narita Airport opened last November in a section beyond the security checkpoint for international flights in Terminal 1 at Narita Airport in Chiba prefecture east of Tokyo. It displays some 360 domestic and international branded alcoholic beverages on a floor space of around 400 square meters.
