Savor Tokyo After 5: Hidden Gems & Delicious Bites With Guide

Department store offering designer apparel, housewares & cosmetics, plus a food hall & restaurants.

One of the city’s top shopping districts, Ginza is packed with upmarket boutiques and ritzy cocktail and sushi bars. Fine jewelry is sold in the 1930s Wako Honkan department store, while ultramodern Ginza Place specializes in high-tech electronics. On weekends, main drag Chuo Dori becomes a stylish pedestrian promenade. Traditional Japanese dance and drama is staged at the landmark Kabuki-za theater.

Foody street lined with outlets serving up battered, griddled monjayaki pancakes with toppings.

Yurakucho Yokocho is the favorite area for salarymen who flock to these small streets to eat and especially drink something after work. There are mostly yakitori, but also restaurants specializing in fish, izakaya with a bit of everything, with Chinese cuisine and Korean barbeque. They are not cheap places but you eat well and the atmosphere is goliaridca and really traditional. It’s ideal to stop just to take some pictures because it’s very picturesque.