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people who is living/visiting in Japan might see this building in major cities all over Japan. The building with a huge sign of Japanese character “ji” on the top is the trademark of “Hisaya Daikoku-do”, a Japanese traditional pharmaceutical company specialty in hemorrhoid treatment. Amazingly the history of this company goes for around 400 years. The arcanum discovered by the founder has been handed down over centuries. my Japanese friend told me that their medicine is mighty expensive but it works!! humm…. I wonder if hemorrhoid is popular disease for Japanese…

There is also an admission free police museum on Chuo-dori towards Kyobashi station in Ginza. The mouse like statue on the left is their image character “piipo-kun”. When we went into check out what was there, the place was crowded with little kids who waits to wear police uniform to take pictures. They were pretending to be police officers riding on the white police motorbike. a lot of vehicles such as bikes and helicoptor actually used before were displayed.

They open 10:00 to 18:00, closed on Mondays.

Hi. Ginza is very famous for upper class market in Tokyo. you see a lot of department stores, fine dining, cafe, boutiques, art galleries and so on. prices are higher than the other areas in Tokyo, for example the price of a cup of coffee is usually more than 1,000 yen.

The street of this picture is called “Chuo dori” is the most famous street where you see those fine stores and buildings. if you keep going this street toward JR station, you see department stores such as “Mitsukoshi”, “Matsuya” and “Matsuzakaya”. The clock tower of the WAKO building across from Mitsukoshi department store is famous as a meeting place.

Apparently this street is is free of vehicle during weekends in summer time what called ‘Hokosha tengoku(pedestrians’ paradise)’ in Japanese. its nice to go sometimes to browsing those fancy stuff!