Building sights in Tokyo
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Tokyo Stock Exchange
The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) has been operating since 1878, and today it is the world’s second-largest capital market after the New York Stock Exchange. The two main indices of the TSE are the benchmark Nikkei (an index of 225 companies selected by the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan’s leading economic daily) and the broader TOPIX index, which covers all 1600 companies on the TSE’s prestigious 1st Section. Though the Tokyo Stock Exchange no longer echoes with the flurry of unbridled activity (the trading floor closed in 1999, and now all trading is by computer), a visit is a good introduction to the world of capitalism. You can walk through the visitors galleries on your …
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Meguro Wedding Hall (Meguro Gajoen)
One look at the ads on virtually any subway car will tell you that wedding halls are big business in Tokyo. For better or for worse, Gajoen is one of the biggest, and as a study in anthropology you can hardly beat it. ‘Wedding hall’ doesn’t do justice to its many storeys of chapels, banquet halls, expensive restaurants and hotel rooms. The impossibly long corridor connecting them is lined with friezes of geisha and samurai, and often festooned with flowers, while floor-to-ceiling windows look out on a drop-dead gorgeous hillside garden. Even if there aren’t wedding bells in your future, it’s definitely worth stopping by for a look.
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