And so continuing with Saturday's adventures in trip preparation, today it was off to the Ginza. I really shouldn't, it is nowadays (even more than before) a tourist shopping mecca (with prices to match) but it does also have my favourite music store and stationery shop (multi-floors thereof) so if I failed at my main mission, at least I would have a fallback browsing position...
Which was just as well, as it turned out. I didn't find *exactly* what I was looking for so I browsed around here and there.
On the way back to the train, I happened across the marker for the origins of the Ginza and stopped to read it and take a few pics of people walking past this piece of history...I was the only one, it seemed, who paused to look at it.
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| Marking history |
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| Strollers |
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| Passing |
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| Purple |
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| Bike |
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| Passerby |
With origins back in the early 1600s, the street gained its present status in 1870, so says the explanation, dated 1955...
So not a complete failure. There was a little bit of history along the way too.
[Camera : Lumix TZ-85, 5.30pm-5.35pm; 13 August 2017]
