Ginza

Ginza (Japanese: 銀座) is a fashionable district of Tōkyō. It is located in the district of Chūō

Origins

When the capital of Japan became Edo in 1602, Ginza which was a marshy area was cleansed and became a “pole” of attraction for the merchants and tradesmen. The district was built in 1612.

At present

In the years 1980 it was the most expensive zone of purchases in the world. One finds there along large avenues of many stores of mode of the whole world, but also of the showroom to the Japanese woman, i.e. buildings of exposure, cut out enough, where one can discover various products, for example cars in futuristic the showroom Nissan, of consumer electronics in the middle of the Sony building or in the Apple Store, or of the Haute couture in the store Prada. These buildings are rather ludic and interactive, they constitute an ideal place to be posed after a meeting of intensive shopping in this district stripped a little of interest. The district is also known for the abundance of its neon signs.

Important places

Gallery Center Building: This building shelters art galleries Japanese and Western.
Showroom Sony: Exposure of the last technological lucky finds.
Spring: The Parisian department store .
Takarazuka Theater : Exclusively female theater
Ginza Yon-is unemployed: Famous intersection, undoubtedly the most animated world.
Takima Bar: Celebrate bar where the young people of the district

find themselves

External bonds

Ginza on Japan-Guide.com
DaiSuki: French site with many photographs of Tokyo & Ginza

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