Ginza’s Events

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...

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 have visitors to enjoy a day of summer fun in Ginza, the Yukata de Gin-bura ("Gin-bura" means strolling through Ginza) Festival began 9 years ago as p...

The Ginza Willow Festival has been held on May 5th (Children’s Day) every year since 2006 to commemorate the planting of an orderly display of willow trees on Nishi Ginza-dori when it was designated as a symbolic road of Tokyo. We are holding the 10th Ginza Willow Festival this year as well, t...

From this spring, in addition to G Free, we can also offer you G Free Lite. You can now access our free Wi-Fi service in Ginza’s main streets and public spaces such as Ginza-dori, Harumi-dori and Nishi Namiki-dori, and also inside Ginza’s stores! Use G Free Lite to upload and share pictures ...

Ginza Street Association, Ginza International Luxury Committee (GILC) and Ginza Association will be holding Ginza’s full-scale illumination that has become a very popular year-end and new-year tradition since its start in 2011, titled Ginza Illumination, for a period of 44 days from Sunday, Novemb...