Ginza Chuo

, Chuo-Ku Chuo , Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Kanto, Japan
  • Traveler Rating 4.00
    233 reviews 553 travel blogs 652 photos

    Attraction Type:

    Neighborhood, Street

    Popularity

    1of 11 attractions in Chuo

TravelPod Member ReviewsGinza Chuo

  • Expensive and Exciting shopping

    5

    jostockton 1 contribution Japan Feb 29, 2012

    I loved the Ginza and all the sites as all were rushing around buying holiday gifts. Tom and I had ourselves made up as a Geisha and a Samurai thanks to a wonderful Japanese friend, Tiffany. We had pictures made as a souvenir and then we went for coffee and dinner at a Chinese Restaurant and from the windows watched bullet trains come and go from the nearby train station.

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Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Visited this Attraction Ginza Chuo

  • 1

    The Imperial Palace & Ginza

    16 photos

    The Imperial Palace sits high on the hill surrounded by blocks on beautiful gardens and parks and cut off from the city by a moat. The palace is not open to the public most of the time, but the gardens often are.

    We were unlucky to go on a day when they must have been having a function (we saw nice looking cars going in and out of the …

  • 2

    Day 6 - April 11th

    14 photos

    After quite a hectic day and a bit too much sake the day before we ended up having a bit of a lie in today. After finally surfacing and tucking into ramen for 'breakfast' we decided to take a walk around Ginza, the upmarket shopping area of Tokyo. Not much to report here as the shops and experience felt very western and the shops were generally too …

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    ... place down to the end, this was where Sony, Nissan, Toyota, Fujitsu, and many of the largest companies in Japan have their world headquarders. At the end of Ginza St. we turned toward the water and toward the fish market, the odor told us that we were ...

  • 2

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  • 3

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  • 4

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  • 6

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  • 7

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  • 10

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