Nihonbashi · Kanda · Jimbocho / LENS
Choose money, medicines or the bank building
Look at money, try medicine quizzes and puzzles, or follow a guide through the bank’s Main Building. Choose one free visit by its purpose, booking and language conditions.
Look at money, try medicine quizzes and puzzles, or follow a guide through the bank’s Main Building. Choose one free visit by its purpose, booking and language conditions. · Your subject and participation commitment
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 7 min on foot
Places in this lens
- Currency Museum — Entry cutoff and luggage · Nihonbashi
- Daiichi Sankyo Kusuri Museum — 90-minute booking and exhibit language · Nihonbashi
- Bank of Japan Head Office Tour — 60 minutes, language, age and ID · 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
Choose money, medicines or the bank building
Currency Museum
A free museum tracing exchange in Japan through the forms and uses of money.
Continue with this place ↗For questions about money
At Currency Museum, compare an oban gold coin with its weight activity or trace what old coins could buy. Entry is free, 9:30–16:30 with last admission 16:00; check the closure calendar. Bring a device and earphones for English audio. Around hotel arrival or departure, security and large-luggage restrictions make storage the first decision.
Try quizzes and puzzles at Kusuri Museum
Choose Kusuri Museum if operating exhibits and solving problems appeal to you: its activities include a medicine-form quiz and a molecular-design puzzle. Free entry still requires a 90-minute session reservation. English and Chinese support concerns the visitor-medal exhibit functions, so do not choose it on the assumption of a staff explanation in those languages. Pick it when the date is bookable and that form of interaction suits you.
Commit to a guided 1-hour Head Office tour
Reserve the Head Office tour if the vault and former banking floor interest you. The group moves together for about 60 minutes and cannot leave midway. The regular English session is on the third Wednesday monthly, 13:45–14:45, for ages 11 and above; ages 11–12 need an adult. Check the separate elementary-grade-5 minimum for Japanese sessions. Choose it when you can arrange name registration, original ID, security and luggage requirements. These are alternatives: pick one by your question and the conditions you can meet.
Sources · image info
- Currency Museum · operator visit factsNamed venue/operator
- Daiichi Sankyo くすりミュージアムDaiichiSankyoKusuriMuseum / 第一三共株式会社
- Daiichi Sankyo くすりミュージアムDaiichiSankyoKusuriMuseum / 第一三共株式会社
- Daiichi Sankyo くすりミュージアムDaiichi Sankyo Kusuri Museum operator
- 日本銀行本店見学日本銀行
- 日本銀行本店見学Bank of Japan
- QR-003-EXHIBITS · independently observed depth materialExact original operator / institution
- 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.
- Currency Museum — Syced · 2026-08-16 · CC0-1.0 · resized and cropped
- Daiichi Sankyo Kusuri Museum — Beryllium Transistor · 2022-07-30 · CC BY-SA-4.0 · resized and cropped
- Bank of Japan Head Office Tour — Syced · 2026-08-16 · CC0-1.0 · resized and cropped
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