Since the flush-with-cash postwar era, Ginza has been known as Tokyo’s heart of style, luxury, and high culture. Ginza Six—its biggest shopping mall—maintains the neighborhood’s reputation for loving the finer things in life. Designed by Yoshio Taniguchi (the architect behind New York’s redesigned Museum of Modern Art), the sparkling 13-floor retail hub takes up more than 148,000 square meters of prime real estate, and every inch of this glamorous department store-gallery hybrid does Ginza justice.

Across more than 240 shops, G6 (as the locals call it) strikes the right balance of contemporary cool and sophisticated old-world charm. Storefronts feature the latest from Dior and Céline, while local icons like kimono brand Okano (established in 1897) pay homage to the area’s roots. Window shoppers will have more than a field day here as they ride the escalators; the head-turning golden interiors frame rotating art installations in the main atrium. Be sure to peruse the shelves at sixth-floor Ginza Tsutaya Books for magazines and art tomes before heading upstairs for a breather in the rooftop garden. Traditional arts await at the Kanze Noh Theater in the basement, dedicated to a form of classical Japanese dance-drama born in the 14th century. —Lucy Dayman

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