Later this year, Books Kinokuniya's elegant main store in Singapore will move to new space one floor higher, on the fourth level of the Ngee Ann City Shopping Mall, because of a reconfiguration by the landlord. The move is expected to be completed by October. The new space will be 20% smaller than the store's current 43,000 square feet, but Kenny Chan, Singapore store director and director, merchandising division, said that "the range will be retained (and expanded in some areas), and the configuration, albeit with some change, will feel familiar to our beloved regulars and counterintuitive and natural to the new visitors/converts.... All the hallmarks that make this Grande Dame iconic and loved will be retained and enhanced "
On Orchard Road, the Ngee Ann City Shopping Mall is a high-end mall that features a Takashimaya department store. The Books Kinokuniya store, which opened in 1999, is the company's flagship Singapore store and has been a template for many of the Kinokuniya stores outside Japan and North America. Most its 500,000 titles are in English; it also has smaller selections in Japanese, Chinese, French and German, an array of sidelines, a stationery shop and a café.