Gallery
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Mitsukoshi department store at Ginza.
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Kabuki-za theater
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Sony Building and intersection at dusk
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Yūrakuchō Center Building (Yūrakuchō Mullion) at the Sukiyabashi intersection
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Abercrombie & Fitch flagship store in Ginza
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Sukiyabashi Crossing at night
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Ginza in the early 1900s, photographed by William H. Rau
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Hokōsha Tengoku (歩行者天国), or Hokoten for short, means "pedestrian paradise". The term is used to refer to streets that are closed off to vehicle traffic. Each Saturday and Sunday, from 12:00 noon until 5:00pm, various streets in Ginza are closed off - allowing people to walk along the streets.
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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)