Where to eat > Ginza

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  Depachika Ginza Mitsukoshi Food Garden銀座三越 ギンザフードガーデン

  Three basement floors of food off the crossing — main building B2 and B3 plus the annex — holding a wagashi counter, a cellar of wine, shochu, sake and beer, a tea counter, a fresh-produce market, the Käfer delicatessen and the Johan bakery. B2 and B3 both have eat-in tables, which is the part most department stores do not offer.

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  Fresh-food basement Matsuya Ginza Food Stage松屋銀座 GINZAフードステージ

  The B2 floor is a working market rather than a hall of gift boxes: two fishmongers, a tofu maker, a greengrocer, a rice dealer, a miso shop and a pickle counter, all of it three minutes from the 4-chome crossing.

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  Since 1869 Kimuraya Sohonten Ginza木村屋總本店 銀座本店

  Anpan was devised here. The house's own record has Kimura Yasubei selling the sake-yeast version from the Ginza 4-chome shop completed in 1874, and a chamberlain presenting it to Emperor Meiji the year after — after which the bakery joined the imperial household's suppliers.

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  Since 1934 Beer Hall Lion Ginza 7-chomeビヤホールライオン 銀座七丁目店

  The company calls this the oldest beer hall still standing in Japan: built in 1934, with a glass mosaic of 250 colours filling the end wall and grape motifs — for abundance — worked into the chandeliers. Three chome south of the crossing.

Restaurants close and move. Nothing here carries hours or prices — check before you set off.

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