Ginza

• Japanese: 銀座 (ginza)

Ginza is a neighborhood in Tokyo known for its expensive high fashion brands and often compared to New York's Fifth Avenue. Ginza is also home to the Kabuki-za, the chief kabuki theater in the world.

The neighborhood takes its name from the silver mint (ginza) established there in 1612, being moved from Fushimi, where it was previously established in 1598.

References

• Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press (1979), 297n248.