COSTCO has purchased a 74,000 sq. m plot of land about 4 km north of JR Orio station, 20 min from the Kurosaki interchange for the price of ¥2,450,000,000 according to the Nikkei Newspaper. COSTCO has not officially announced the opening so no other details are known. The COSTCO store in Hisayama, Fukuoka opened in April, 1999 and was the first COSTCO store in Japan. Source: http://www.nikkei.com/news/local/article/