Marunouchi
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Marunouchi is a district in Tokyo, Japan, renowned as the country's primary financial and business hub. It is home to major Japanese corporations and financial institutions, including the Bank of Japan and the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The district's strategic location near government offices facilitates close relationships between business leaders and bureaucrats. Marunouchi is also a significant transportation center, with Tokyo Station serving as a major terminal for national rail travel, including the Shinkansen bullet trains.123
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Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan AreaCentre and satellitesMarunouchi, inside the outer castle moat (now filled in), is the entrepreneurial hub of the city and of Japan; it is where the prefectural offices were until 1991. Farther east, immediately beyond the avenue built on the filled-in moat, there has been a shift. Nihonbashi,…
Read MoreMarunouchi, inside the outer castle moat (now filled in), is the entrepreneurial hub of the city and of Japan; it is where the prefectural offices were until 1991. Farther east, immediately beyond the avenue built on the filled-in moat, there has been a shift. Nihonbashi,…
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This became the Marunouchi district, also largely built of brick. Only fragments of the Ginza “bricktown” and of what came to be called the Mitsubishi “Londontown” survive. Monumental architecture in those years tended toward decorated European styles, though sometimes, as in the Bank of Japan building, Grecian austerity…
Read MoreThis became the Marunouchi district, also largely built of brick. Only fragments of the Ginza “bricktown” and of what came to be called the Mitsubishi “Londontown” survive. Monumental architecture in those years tended toward decorated European styles, though sometimes, as in the Bank of Japan building, Grecian austerity…
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