Ginza Official Recommended News

2017.10.18

Shintaro Yabe owns and operates seven popular bars and cafés in Japan, including Salon de Shintaro, a high-class, members-only bar in Ginza, and Gallery & Café Mikado in Kagurazaka. Yabe has traveled around Japan and other parts of the world in pursuit of true beauty, a...

2017.10.18

The elegant tea boxes of Japan–known as chabako–were born out of two distinct aspects of Japanese culture: ocha, a culture of making, drinking, and revering tea that has built up with it a variety of lifestyles; and mitate, a culture of artistic imitation brought about by Japan’s unique aest...

2017.10.12

Known as the "Queen of Gems", the most popular gemstone of all time, the top class Ruby. Among the corundum that comes in difference color, light, and shade, undeniable the rare "red" corundum is a special gemstone. Ruby is the gemstone that emits red fluorescence under the sun (under ultraviolet ...

2017.09.28

"Round Brilliant Cut" spent more than 50 years until it can be established in its current form. If only this cut don't produce the most brilliance form of diamond, the king of gemstone might be other gemstone. There are five stages of cut grading. Among them, the overlapping style on the cut...

2017.09.11

In the colorless and transparent mineral called "Corundum", the mix of "Iron (Fe)" and "Titanium (Ti)" produces the virtuous blue of Blue Sapphire Represented with the word "sincerity", it is a special gemstone that only priest was allowed to wear during medieval times. In recent years, it is als...