My Ginza Street Experience in Tokyo "An American in Japan"

Photos and video shot on location by VideoLounger Productions in Tokyo Japan. Ginza Street is an upscale shopping district with high priced real estate and $10 cups of coffee.

According to Wikipedia, Ginza is a district of Chūō, Tokyo, located south of Yaesu and Kyōbashi, west of Tsukiji, east of Yūrakuchō and Uchisaiwaicho, and north of Shinbashi. It is known as an upmarket area of Tokyo with many department stores, boutiques, restaurants and coffeehouses.

History: Ginza is named after the silver-coin mint established there in 1612 during the Edo period.

Modern Ginza began in 1872 when, after a devastating fire, the district was rebuilt with two- and three-story Georgian brick buildings designed by the Irish-born architect Thomas Waters, along with a shopping promenade on the street from the Shinbashi bridge to the Kyōbashi bridge in the southwestern part of Chūō. Most of these European-style buildings are gone, but some older buildings are still there, most famously the Wakō building with its clock tower.

Ginza is a popular destination on weekends, when the main north-south artery is closed to traffic. This policy began in the 1960s under Governor Ryokichi Minobe.

Companies based in Ginza are; Matsuya, Oji Paper, Recruit, Ricoh, Shiseido, Wako, Nissan Motors & Infiniti.

Enjoy this drive and walk thru of an amazing street in the upmarket district of Tokyo, Japan.