Enjoy a Sophisticated, Grown-Up Neighborhood! Ginza Shopping Guide

From Tokyo Station to Ginza Station, it’s just 2 minutes on the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line.
From Tokyo Station’s Yaesu South Exit, Ginza’s main street, Ginza-dori, is Approx. a 15-minute walk, so if you have time, try heading there while strolling around the Tokyo Station area.

A long-established department store founded in 1869, with its main store on Ginza’s main street in Tokyo. It’s directly connected to Exit A12 of Tokyo Metro Ginza Station, making it easy to access.
Inside the B2F to 8F building, you’ll find everything from fashion maisons from around the world and Japanese brands to Japanese tableware like lacquerware and ceramics, plus household goods across many genres—perfect for a fun shopping time.

Ginza is renowned as a luxury shopping district.
Located at its center, Ginza Mitsukoshi is one of Japan’s leading long-established department stores and one of Ginza’s signature department stores.
Mitsukoshi originally began as a kimono shop called “Echigoya,” dating back to 1673. The Ginza store opened in 1930. Since then, it has been the face of Ginza for nearly 90 years.

The commercial complex GINZA SIX is in Ginza 6-chome, on Chuo-dori, a symbol of Ginza.
As the largest building in the Ginza area, it brings together over 240 shops across a wide range of categories, including fashion, lifestyle, and food.

A commercial facility in Hibiya, known as a hub of arts and culture with many theaters and movie theaters. It’s directly connected to Hibiya Station at B2F, making it easy to access.

Hibiya is a grown-up neighborhood that led Japan’s modernization as a center of international business and arts and culture.
Tokyo Midtown Hibiya is the landmark mixed-use building of Hibiya.
This high-rise has 4 basement floors and 35 floors above ground. The upper floors are offices, while B1F to 7F are retail floors with around 60 distinctive shops.

A global flagship store on Namiki-dori in Ginza, Tokyo’s luxury shopping district. Here, you can experience MUJI’s concept of “a pleasant life” from many different angles across clothing, food, and daily living.
This multi-faceted facility offers seasonal ingredients, a bakery, drinks, and a restaurant where you can enjoy simple, honest flavors. For clothing, it features ReMUJI and MUJI Labo, and for living, it includes household goods and MUJI HOTEL—packed with ideas to enrich everyday life.

Ginza Itoya Main Store is a long-established stationery shop founded in 1904.
With a rich selection you’d expect from a specialty store, including directly imported items sourced in Europe and the U.S. and original stationery.
It’s also fun to look for stationery that fits your taste, or souvenirs for someone special.

Yurakucho Marui is in a prime location right in front of the ticket gates of JR Yurakucho Station, at the entrance to Ginza, one of Tokyo’s leading luxury commercial areas.
Along with a collection of unique brands, various events are held at its event space and art museum.
Another highlight is its well-equipped public spaces, including relaxing rest areas that use water and plants.

LUMINE Yurakucho is located in front of JR Yurakucho Station.
Centered around a fashion floor packed with distinctive, trend-conscious select shops, it offers 120 stores including cosmetics and general goods.

Known as a Ginza landmark, the Wako Ginza Main Building stands out with its iconic clock tower.
This historic commercial facility offers a lineup of high-quality items, including watches, jewelry, men’s and women’s goods, and interior decor items.

Hankyu MEN’S TOKYO is a 1-minute walk from JR Yurakucho Station’s Ginza Exit.
Every shop on every floor, from 1F to 8F, is for men.
With the theme “For men whose stage is the world,” it offers a wide range of styles, from luxury to authentic to vintage.

In 1874, they developed “sakadane anpan,” made by using bread dough fermented with sake yeast and filling it with sweetened red bean paste. They have continued to make it with the same method ever since.
They use carefully selected azuki beans from Hokkaido. The top of the anpan is finished with salted, pickled cherry blossoms, which adds a nice accent.

With locations across Japan, Umenohana is a creative kaiseki restaurant that combines traditional ingredients—yuba and tofu—with seasonal ingredients.
Inside, you’ll find a distinctly Japanese atmosphere that feels like a ryokan, another highlight that lets you relax while enjoying a break from the everyday. In addition to standard kaiseki courses featuring their popular signature dishes, they also offer limited-time seasonal kaiseki courses.

A fully reservation-only restaurant limited to 8 guests per day, set within a section of Sagaya Ginza, which serves dishes made with branded wagyu beef, Saga beef, and seasonal ingredients.
In collaboration with the art collective teamLab, it creates a dining space where food and art merge. teamLab’s works, depicting the beauty of Japan’s four seasons, are drawn across the walls and tables inside.

Kabuki, a traditional Japanese performing art, is staged at theaters across Japan, but the most glamorous stage is said to be the dedicated kabuki theater, Kabuki-za Theatre.
Kabuki-za is a large, four-story theater with 1,964 seats, and its program changes monthly.
Though Kabuki-za may feel intimidating, there are reasonably priced seats and same-day tickets that let you watch just one act, so even kabuki first-timers can enjoy it casually.

Hamarikyu Gardens was called “Hama Goten” in the Edo period and was a villa of the Tokugawa shogun family, later becoming an imperial villa.
Then, from 1945, it became property of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and was opened to the public.

Kachidoki Bridge is a bridge Approx. 246 m long connecting Tsukiji and Tsukishima.
Completed in 1940, it once opened as a bascule bridge five times a day to let large ships pass, but today it is used without opening.
It’s lit up from sunset to 10 pm, creating a fantastic atmosphere.