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Ginza

The site of the shogun’s original silver mint, Ginza
has always been synonymous with commerce
and wealth. After a disastrous fire in 1872, the
government commissioned the Irish architect
Thomas Waters to rebuild the district in brick.
The new quarter established Ginza as a leader
in commerce, leisure, and fashion. It was the site
of Japan’s first gas lamps, trolley cars, and
Plate at the Western-style department stores. The epicenter of
Idemitsu Ginza is the 4-chome district, a crossing domi nated
Museum of Arts
by modern stores. Though a premier cosmopolitan
shopping and cultural experience, with its teahouses, incense
and calligraphy shops, high-end sushi restaurants, and the very
traditional Kabuki-za theater, it is also firmly Japanese.
GINZA
0 meters 400
U C H I B O R I - D O R I Hibiya-bori Hibiya H I B I YA - D O R I Yurakucho SOTOBRI-DORI YAESU 0 yards Takaracho 400
Kyobashi

Ginza-
H I B I YA - D O R I Ginza GINZA CHUO - H E I S E I - D O R I
Hibiya YURAKUCHO Yurakucho itchome
Park SOTO B O RI-DORI CHUO- DORI
CHIY OD A- YANAGI-DORI SHOWA-DORI
KU

MATS U YA - D O R I
S H O W A - D O R I
UCHISAIWAICHO HARUMI-DORI KU Shintomicho
CHUO - DO RI Ginza Tsukiji
S H I N - O H A S I - D O R I S H I N - O H A S I - D O R I
Uchisaiwaicho KOJUNSHA-DORI
GINZA
Shinbashi HANATSUBAKI- DORI Higashi- HARUMI- DORI
Shinbashi
MINAT O - TSUKIJI
KU Tsukijishijo
Shiodome
SHINBASHI Top 10 Sights
see pp81–3
D A I I CH I - K E I H I N E X P R E S S WAY N O . 1 Hama Rikyu Places to Eat
see p85
Specialist Stores
Garden
see p84

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