Matsunoya Kuki Shobu, Kuki's Second Store, Opens Today at 10:00 as Announced

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The note reading “*Opening October 27 at 10:00,” which marked the scheduled opening, has dropped from the listing for Matsunoya Kuki Shobu (co-located with Matsuya). The listed scheduled opening (October 27 at 10:00) disappeared at the same time, making this an opening exactly as announced. The location is 4011 Shobu, Shobu-machi, Kuki, Saitama, and the business hours are listed as “open 24 hours.”

Changes to the Listing

Field Before After
Listed store name Matsunoya Kuki Shobu (co-located with Matsuya) *Opening October 27 at 10:00 Matsunoya Kuki Shobu (co-located with Matsuya)
Scheduled Opening October 27, 2026, 10:00 (Not listed)

Both Stores in Kuki Are Co-located with Matsuya

Including Kuki Shobu, two Matsunoya locations are listed in Kuki, Saitama. The store listed earlier, Matsunoya Kuki Honcho (co-located with Matsuya), sits about 5 km away in a straight line. Both are co-located with Matsuya, and both list their hours as “open 24 hours.”

Store (as listed) Location Co-location
Matsunoya Kuki Shobu (co-located with Matsuya) 4011 Shobu, Shobu-machi, Kuki, Saitama Matsuya
Matsunoya Kuki Honcho (co-located with Matsuya) 8-5-55 Honcho, Kuki-shi, Saitama Matsuya

Saitama has 57 listings in total, third nationwide behind Tokyo with 106 and Osaka with 72. By co-location type, Saitama has a lower share of standalone stores than the national figure.

Co-location type Saitama Nationwide
Co-located with Matsuya 45 stores 493 stores
Co-located with Mycurry Shokudo 7 stores 76 stores
No co-location (standalone store) 5 stores 123 stores
Total 57 stores 692 stores

The “open 24 hours” listing appears at 44 stores in Saitama, a higher share than nationwide (502 of 692 stores).

Nine Stores Still Awaiting Opening

With Kuki Shobu open, one store has dropped off the schedule, leaving nine Matsunoya locations carrying a scheduled-opening note.

Scheduled Opening Store (as listed) Prefecture
October 28, 10:00 Matsunoya Shin-Tsunashima Kanagawa
October 28, 10:00 Matsunoya Maebashi Akagi Mall (co-located with Matsuya) Gunma
October 30, 10:00 Matsunoya Kani (co-located with Matsuya) Gifu
November 1, 10:00 Matsunoya Asahikawa Nagayama (co-located with Matsuya) Hokkaido
November 5, 10:00 Matsunoya Okawa (co-located with Matsuya) Fukuoka
November 12, 10:00 Matsunoya Yamagata Mamigasaki (co-located with Matsuya) Yamagata
November 20, 10:00 Matsunoya Kurashiki Oshima (co-located with Matsuya) Okayama
November 20, 10:00 Matsunoya Yasu (co-located with Matsuya) Shiga
November 21, 10:00 Matsunoya Suminoe Shinkitajima (co-located with Matsuya) Osaka

Only one of the nine, Shin-Tsunashima, is a standalone store; the other eight are all co-located with Matsuya. Three more follow within October, and six in November.

A word from our Matsunoya novice

4011 Shobu, Shobu-machi. The town is already called Shobu, and then it comes around again.