Ginza Station
Ginza Station (銀座駅, Ginza-eki) is a subway station in Chūō, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the Tokyo subway operator Tokyo Metro. It serves the Ginza commercial district, and is the fourth-busiest Tokyo Metro station after Ikebukuro, Kita-senju, and Ōtemachi.
Lines
Ginza Station is served by the following three Tokyo Metro lines.
Station layout
Each line has an island platform serving two tracks. The Ginza and Marunouchi Line platforms are located separately on the 2nd basement (B2F) level, while the Hibiya Line platforms are located on the 3rd basement (B3F) level.
Platforms
The song "The Love Story of Ginza" (銀座の恋の物語, Ginza no Koi no Monogatari) by Yujiro Ishihara and Junko Makimura is to be used as the departure melody on the Hibiya Line platforms from spring 2016.
Adjacent stations
History
Ginza Station opened on the Ginza Line on 3 March 1934. The Marunouchi Line began service to Ginza on 15 December 1957, and the Hibiya Line platforms opened on 29 August 1964.
Ginza
Ginza (銀座) is a district of Chūō, Tokyo, located south of Yaesu and Kyōbashi, west of Tsukiji, east of Yūrakuchō and Uchisaiwaichō, and north of Shinbashi.
It is a popular upscale shopping area of Tokyo, with numerous internationally renowned department stores, boutiques, restaurants and coffeehouses located in its vicinity. Ginza is recognized by many as one of the most luxurious shopping districts in the world, attracting visitors and regulars alike from across the globe.
History
Ginza was built upon a former swamp that was filled in during the 16th century. The name Ginza comes after the establishment of a silver-coin mint established there in 1612, during the Edo period.
After a devastating fire in 1872 burnt down most of the area, the Meiji government designated the Ginza area as a "model of modernization." The government planned the construction of fireproof brick buildings and larger, better streets connecting Shimbashi Station all the way to the foreign concession in Tsukiji.
Ginza (agency)
Ginza (Ginza) is a designation given to the place that played a buying and selling of casting and silver bullion coin in the middle early modern period of Japan's regime.
Overview
Ginza begin that Toyotomi Hideyoshi Sakai towards the unification of silver coins, is provided with the normal Shi seat (Joze locus) in Osaka attracted Kyoto silver Fukiya 20 people .Others, Kane-ya is moneychangers and silversmith who appeared from the Warring States period (Kaneya) is casting a hallmark silver in various places, Ginza was established from these skilled in the art.For example, was casting the hallmark silver is and early Ryogoku monetary There Edo era Ginza Kanazawa is a silversmith population in Kaga clan.Azuchimomoyama than around age, cupellation silver that is produced in the silver mine of around is now distributed as weighing money, that got to do a hallmark stamped as a guarantee of quality is the beginning of Ginza, as this in many places Ryogoku money has been manufacturing such.Ginza by the Edo Shogunate had the aim to achieve a smooth unified trading variations of such silver grade constant quality.On the other hand reason that around Ginza lasted until the early Edo period, the Keicho silver is due to the fact that did not spread sufficiently to local by such as silver overseas outflow.
Ginza (disambiguation)
Ginza may refer to:
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