The Meijiya Building stands on a corner of Sakaisuji Hommachi, where a highway runs and many high-rise buildings stand. It was completed in 1924. It is a Neo-Renaissance style building designed by Sone-Chujo Architects, with attention to detail. At the time, the first floor housed Meijiya Store, Japan's first specialty store for imported foods and Western alcoholic beverages, which was founded in Yokohama in 1885, while the fourth and fifth floors were used as rental offices, and the sixth and seventh floors also housed Chuotei, a fashionable Western restaurant, and the building was bustling with people looking to buy Western foods. Unusually for a building of that time, the building was designed with consideration given to lighting, ventilation, and disaster prevention, and was well-known for its ease of use. Another story is that about one month after construction began, the Great Kanto Earthquake occurred, so the people involved quickly changed the steel materials to those made by Bethlehem Steel, an American company with higher strength. In 2006, Lawson opened on the first floor, replacing Meijiya.