diff --git a/src/zarr/api/asynchronous.py b/src/zarr/api/asynchronous.py
index 37a5b76bba..8eba4fc152 100644
--- a/src/zarr/api/asynchronous.py
+++ b/src/zarr/api/asynchronous.py
@@ -27,16 +27,14 @@
 from zarr.core.metadata import ArrayMetadataDict, ArrayV2Metadata, ArrayV3Metadata
 from zarr.core.metadata.v2 import _default_compressor, _default_filters
 from zarr.errors import NodeTypeValidationError
-from zarr.storage import (
-    StoreLike,
-    make_store_path,
-)
+from zarr.storage._common import make_store_path
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from collections.abc import Iterable
 
     from zarr.abc.codec import Codec
     from zarr.core.chunk_key_encodings import ChunkKeyEncoding
+    from zarr.storage import StoreLike
 
     # TODO: this type could use some more thought
     ArrayLike = AsyncArray[ArrayV2Metadata] | AsyncArray[ArrayV3Metadata] | Array | npt.NDArray[Any]
diff --git a/src/zarr/core/array.py b/src/zarr/core/array.py
index e0aad8b6ad..ea29a6fc48 100644
--- a/src/zarr/core/array.py
+++ b/src/zarr/core/array.py
@@ -112,8 +112,8 @@
     _parse_bytes_bytes_codec,
     get_pipeline_class,
 )
-from zarr.storage import StoreLike, make_store_path
-from zarr.storage._common import StorePath, ensure_no_existing_node
+from zarr.storage import StoreLike
+from zarr.storage._common import StorePath, ensure_no_existing_node, make_store_path
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from collections.abc import Iterator, Sequence
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@
     from zarr.abc.codec import CodecPipeline
     from zarr.codecs.sharding import ShardingCodecIndexLocation
     from zarr.core.group import AsyncGroup
+    from zarr.storage import StoreLike
 
 
 # Array and AsyncArray are defined in the base ``zarr`` namespace
diff --git a/src/zarr/core/group.py b/src/zarr/core/group.py
index 79ab31112a..57d9c5cd8d 100644
--- a/src/zarr/core/group.py
+++ b/src/zarr/core/group.py
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@
 from zarr.core.metadata.v3 import V3JsonEncoder
 from zarr.core.sync import SyncMixin, sync
 from zarr.errors import MetadataValidationError
-from zarr.storage import StoreLike, StorePath, make_store_path
-from zarr.storage._common import ensure_no_existing_node
+from zarr.storage import StoreLike, StorePath
+from zarr.storage._common import ensure_no_existing_node, make_store_path
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from collections.abc import AsyncGenerator, Generator, Iterable, Iterator
diff --git a/src/zarr/storage/__init__.py b/src/zarr/storage/__init__.py
index c092ade03e..649857f773 100644
--- a/src/zarr/storage/__init__.py
+++ b/src/zarr/storage/__init__.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 from types import ModuleType
 from typing import Any
 
-from zarr.storage._common import StoreLike, StorePath, make_store_path
+from zarr.storage._common import StoreLike, StorePath
 from zarr.storage._fsspec import FsspecStore
 from zarr.storage._local import LocalStore
 from zarr.storage._logging import LoggingStore
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
     "StorePath",
     "WrapperStore",
     "ZipStore",
-    "make_store_path",
 ]
 
 
diff --git a/tests/test_group.py b/tests/test_group.py
index 1d3563fe68..788e81e603 100644
--- a/tests/test_group.py
+++ b/tests/test_group.py
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@
 from zarr.core.group import ConsolidatedMetadata, GroupMetadata
 from zarr.core.sync import sync
 from zarr.errors import ContainsArrayError, ContainsGroupError
-from zarr.storage import LocalStore, MemoryStore, StorePath, ZipStore, make_store_path
+from zarr.storage import LocalStore, MemoryStore, StorePath, ZipStore
+from zarr.storage._common import make_store_path
 from zarr.testing.store import LatencyStore
 
 from .conftest import parse_store
diff --git a/tests/test_store/test_core.py b/tests/test_store/test_core.py
index 5ab299442d..7806f3ecef 100644
--- a/tests/test_store/test_core.py
+++ b/tests/test_store/test_core.py
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
 from _pytest.compat import LEGACY_PATH
 
 from zarr.core.common import AccessModeLiteral
-from zarr.storage import FsspecStore, LocalStore, MemoryStore, StoreLike, StorePath, make_store_path
+from zarr.storage import FsspecStore, LocalStore, MemoryStore, StoreLike, StorePath
+from zarr.storage._common import make_store_path
 from zarr.storage._utils import normalize_path