Ginza’s positioning as cultural and commercial center was established 400 years back when then national leader shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu’s government located banking facilities in the area. Surviving the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake and the Second World War followed by the US occupation era, Ginza has been the open studio for many architects from all over the world, thanks to the clean zoning development with straight grid-like streets, which gives plain free space for their new architectural inspiration.
For this reason, in Ginza there are some of the most interesting modern and contemporary architecture buildings in the city, among which it is possible to include: