The Big Apple of Asia, that is the most appropriate nickname for this place, starting from hotels, department stores, restaurants, comic-book stores, pachinko, underground-station, kabuki theater, naked theater, house of naked women, internet-cafe, toy-stores, and many things are all in this place.
Modern Ginza began in 1872 when, after a devastating fire, the district was rebuilt with two- and three-story Georgian brick buildings designed by the Irish born architect Thomas Waters along with a shopping promenade on the street from the Shinbashi bridge to the Kyōbashi bridge in the southwestern part of Chūō Ward. Most of these European-style buildings are gone, but some older buildings are still there, most famously the Wako building with its clock tower.
