Nihonbashi · Kanda · Jimbocho / LENS
Money, tea utensils or an atrium
Choose a free museum, an exhibition or a short architecture stop by your present interest and time.
Choose a free museum, an exhibition or a short architecture stop by your present interest and time. · Choose by purpose and visit conditions
LENS · Where the lens sits
Where are this lens’s places, and can one walk tie them together?
Close together · one quarter (Nihonbashi) · the farthest two about 230 m apart in a straight line
Places in this lens
- Currency Museum — Free entry, early cutoff · Nihonbashi
- Mitsui Memorial Museum — Check theme and admission · Nihonbashi
- Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower — A brief ground-floor visit · Nihonbashi
Walking times are estimates from OpenStreetMap’s surface street network at 80 m/min. They exclude underpasses, decks, station concourses, signal waits, slopes and movement inside buildings. Straight-line links are not walking routes; follow on-site signs even where a time is shown. Shaded quarters show the approximate areas around FOW’s selected places.
Map data: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Quarter names and character: FOW · Town names: each place’s official address · Walking: computed by FOW
Money, tea utensils or an atrium
Currency Museum
A free museum tracing exchange in Japan through the forms and uses of money.
Continue with this place ↗Money as weight and use
At Currency Museum, compare an oban gold coin with the weight activity and investigate what old coins could buy. Free entry and English audio support suit a collection visit, subject to security and large-luggage restrictions. This is not a tour inside the Bank’s Head Office.
An exhibition for looking at bowls
Mitsui Memorial Museum’s 12 September–23 November 2026 tea-bowl show offers a concrete comparison of black Raku, red Raku and Shino bowls. Check the next exhibition and admission after that period. The 7F galleries in Mitsui Main Building are entered through the neighbouring tower atrium, with different conditions from the free Currency Museum.
You need not add an exhibition
You can finish after the tower’s 1F Haru sculpture, restored stained glass and Historical Wall. Main-entrance hours are not hours for every restaurant or upper floor. If a seat is the priority, choose a cafe separately. Use the comparison to choose a visit, without needing to cover all three.
Sources · image info
- Currency Museum · operator visit factsNamed venue/operator
- QR-002-2026-SHOW · independently observed depth materialMitsui Memorial Museum
- Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower · operator visit factsNamed venue/operator
- QR-003-EXHIBITS · independently observed depth materialExact original operator / institution
- QR-002-2026-OBJECTS · independently observed depth materialMitsui Memorial Museum exhibit-list PDF
- とある学芸員 · とある学芸員 / note2026-09-13
The account とある学芸員 describes visiting a tea-bowl exhibition at Mitsui Memorial Museum in 2026. Its curatorial background is self-described; the exhibition and photo rules were specific to that visit. Payment and hosting have not been separately established.
- くろめ · くろめ / note2026-06-13
Finance-education writer くろめ describes visiting the Currency Museum in 2026. The financial-planning credential is self-described and has not been independently checked. Activities in that account may differ today. Payment and hosting have not been separately established.
- Yuko｜日々のこと · Yuko｜日々のこと / note2026-01-10
Writer Yuko describes visiting Mitsui Memorial Museum alone in 2026. The exhibition belongs to that visit and is not a permanent programme. Payment and hosting have not been separately established.
- 美術手帖編集部 · 美術手帖2024-04-18
Bijutsutecho introduces Mitsui Memorial Museum’s 2024 tea-utensil exhibition in an opening report, with text and photographs credited to 安原真広. That exhibition and its admission prices are historical. Payment and hosting have not been separately established.
