The first street to the west off Ginza-dori from Ginza 8-Chome is called Komparu-dori. In the Edo period, this street was home to the estate of the Komparu school of Noh theater. The name was retained after the Meiji period in the Komparu Festival and the Komparu geisha, and exists today in the n...

Yukata de Gin-bura Festival 2015 is a project that turns Ginza-dori from 1-Chome to 8-Chome into a vehicle-free promenade on Sunday, August 2. In August 1970, Ginza-dori was the first street in Japan to be turned into a vehicle-free promenade. To commemorate that vehicle-free promenade and let vis...

Ginza Galleries will hold GARONOYAKAI 2015 on Friday, May 22. Ginza Galleries’ GARONOYAKAI event that began in 2004 is an annual event held in galleries from 4-Chome to 8-Chome in Ginza. Participating galleries will be open on this day until 9:00 p.m. and will offer refreshments and other services t...

The Ginza Willow Festival has been held on May 5th (Children’s Day) every year since 2006 to commemorate the completion of Nishi-Ginza Dori, planted with an orderly display of willow trees when it was designated as a symbolic road of Tokyo. This year, we are putting on a parade and various events b...