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Ameya-Yokochō (アメヤ横丁, "Ameya alley"), often shortened to Ameyoko (アメ横), [1] is an open-air market in the Taito Ward of Tokyo, Japan, located next to Ueno Station. [ 2 ] The market is approximately 164,227 square feet (15,257 m 2 ) in area, starting just behind the Yodobashi Camera building and following the Yamanote Line south ...
Former Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara repeatedly called for moving the market to Toyosu, Koto. [4] The new Toyosu Market cost $5 billion to build. [1] The long-anticipated move to the new market was scheduled to take place in November 2016, in preparation for the 2020 Summer Olympics, [5] but on August 31, 2016, the move was postponed. [6]
The new Asian specialty store will occupy about 20, 700 square feet of space currently occupied by Times Supermarket along Kailua Road, according to a leasing brochure by property owner Alexander ...
The former gas plant site was chosen in 2001 by former Governor of Tokyo Shintarō Ishihara for relocating Tsukiji fish market, [9] but there was a longstanding controversy over this plan due to the toxic contamination of the chosen relocation area. [10] The move to Toyosu Market was planned to have taken place in November 2016, in preparation ...
For now, the area that used to be the sprawling main fish market is just a vacant 190,000 square-meter (47-acre) area of cement about the size of 35 football fields, with a few construction ...
Azabu-Juban is a residential area in central Tokyo with a mixture of Japanese shops, restaurants and bars. The convenience of several supermarkets in a central location and the proximity of Hiroo and Roppongi make it one of the most trendy and sought after residential areas of Tokyo. The main street, a block away from a busy road junction, has ...
Although Tokyo's status as a leading global financial hub has diminished with the Lost Decades since the 1990s—when the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) was the world's largest, with a market capitalization about 1.5 times that of the NYSE [17] —the city is still a large financial hub, and the TSE remains among the world's top five major stock ...
Its population was 8,949,447 as of October 1, 2010, [6] about two-thirds of the population of Tokyo and a quarter of the population of the Greater Tokyo Area. As of December 2012, the population passed 9 million; the 23 wards have a population density of 14,485 people/km 2 (37,520 people/sq mi).