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Parade by Olympic, Paralympic athletes

Parade by Olympic, Paralympic athletes

Speed skater Miho Takagi (L) takes a selfie with Ayano Sato (C) and Momoka Horikawa during a parade in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on April 25, 2026, of Japanese athletes who competed in the Milan Cortina Olympics and Paralympics.

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Parade by Olympic, Paralympic athletes

Parade by Olympic, Paralympic athletes

Pairs figure skater Ryuichi Kihara lifts his partner Riku Miura (top) during a parade in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on April 25, 2026, of Japanese athletes who competed in the Milan Cortina Olympics and Paralympics.

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Parade by Olympic, Paralympic athletes

Parade by Olympic, Paralympic athletes

Figure skating women's Olympic silver medalist Kaori Sakamoto (C) takes a selfie during a parade in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on April 25, 2026, of Japanese athletes who competed in the Milan Cortina Olympics and Paralympics.

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Parade by Olympic, Paralympic athletes

Parade by Olympic, Paralympic athletes

Pairs figure skater Ryuichi Kihara lifts his partner Riku Miura during a parade in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on April 25, 2026, of Japanese athletes who competed in the Milan Cortina Olympics and Paralympics.

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Parade by Olympic, Paralympic athletes

Parade by Olympic, Paralympic athletes

Japanese athletes who competed in the Milan Cortina Olympics and Paralympics wave to spectators during a parade in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on April 25, 2026.

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Parade by Olympic, Paralympic athletes

Parade by Olympic, Paralympic athletes

Figure skating women's Olympic silver medalist Kaori Sakamoto poses during a parade in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on April 25, 2026, of Japanese athletes who competed in the Milan Cortina Olympics and Paralympics.

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Parade by Olympic, Paralympic athletes

Parade by Olympic, Paralympic athletes

Figure skating pairs Olympic gold medalists Riku Miura (L) and Ryuichi Kihara wave to spectators during a parade in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on April 25, 2026, of Japanese athletes who competed in the Milan Cortina Olympics and Paralympics.

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Parade by Olympic, Paralympic athletes

Parade by Olympic, Paralympic athletes

Figure skaters (from R) Kaori Sakamoto, Yuma Kagiyama and Ami Nakai pose for a photo during a parade in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on April 25, 2026, of Japanese athletes who competed in the Milan Cortina Olympics and Paralympics.

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Parade by Olympic, Paralympic athletes

Parade by Olympic, Paralympic athletes

Japanese athletes who competed in the Milan Cortina Olympics and Paralympics take part in a parade in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on April 25, 2026.

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Japan crown princess, daughter at embroidery exhibition

Japan crown princess, daughter at embroidery exhibition

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (2nd from L) and her daughter Princess Kako (L) visit an exhibition of Japanese embroidery at Takashimaya department store's Nihombashi outlet in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Japan crown princess, daughter at embroidery exhibition

Japan crown princess, daughter at embroidery exhibition

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (2nd from L) and her daughter Princess Kako (L) visit an exhibition of Japanese embroidery at Takashimaya department store's Nihombashi outlet in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Japan crown princess, daughter at embroidery exhibition

Japan crown princess, daughter at embroidery exhibition

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (2nd from L) and her daughter Princess Kako (L) visit an exhibition of Japanese embroidery at Takashimaya department store's Nihombashi outlet in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2024. (Pool photo)

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10 mil. yen gold bowl stolen from Tokyo department store

10 mil. yen gold bowl stolen from Tokyo department store

Photo taken on April 11, 2024, shows Takashimaya department store's Nihombashi outlet in Tokyo's Chuo Ward. A pure gold bowl priced at over 10 million yen ($65,000) was stolen from an exhibition held at the store the same day, with police seeking a man caught on camera taking the item.

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10 mil. yen gold bowl stolen from Tokyo department store

10 mil. yen gold bowl stolen from Tokyo department store

Photo taken on April 11, 2024, shows Takashimaya department store's Nihombashi outlet in Tokyo's Chuo Ward. A pure gold bowl priced at over 10 million yen ($65,000) was stolen from an exhibition held at the store the same day, with police seeking a man caught on camera taking the item.

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New Year's greeting cards

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 1 Kyodo - Communications minister Takeaki Matsumoto makes a speech at a ceremony being held ahead of the start of delivery of New Year's greeting cards at Tokyo's Nihombashi post office on Jan. 1, 2024. (Kyodo)

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New Year's greeting cards

New Year's greeting cards

Communications minister Takeaki Matsumoto makes a speech at a ceremony being held ahead of the start of delivery of New Year's greeting cards at Tokyo's Nihombashi post office on Jan. 1, 2024.

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New Year's greeting cards

New Year's greeting cards

Postal workers depart Tokyo's Nihombashi post office on Jan. 1, 2024, to deliver New Year's greeting cards following a ceremony attended by communications minister Takeaki Matsumoto.

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Japan imperial family at traditional crafts exhibition

Japan imperial family at traditional crafts exhibition

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (2nd from L) and Empress Masako and their only daughter, Princess Aiko, visit the Japan Kogei Association's traditional crafts exhibition at Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on Sept. 20, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Japan imperial family at traditional crafts exhibition

Japan imperial family at traditional crafts exhibition

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (2nd from L) and Empress Masako and their only daughter, Princess Aiko, visit the Japan Kogei Association's traditional crafts exhibition at Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on Sept. 20, 2023. Princess Kako, who serves as president of the association, is seen at the far right. (Pool photo)

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Japan imperial family at traditional crafts exhibition

Japan imperial family at traditional crafts exhibition

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (front, 4th from R) and Empress Masako and their only daughter, Princess Aiko, visit the Japan Kogei Association's traditional crafts exhibition at Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on Sept. 20, 2023. Princess Kako, who serves as president of the association, is seen at the far right. (Pool photo)

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Photo exhibition held in Tokyo on iconic N. Korea abductee

Photo exhibition held in Tokyo on iconic N. Korea abductee

A photo exhibition on Megumi Yokota, who has become a symbol of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago, is held at the Nihombashi Takashimaya department store gallery in Tokyo on Aug. 2, 2023. Her mother Sakie (R) and Akihiro Arimoto, father of Keiko among the abductees, visit the exhibition. (Pool photo)

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Photo exhibition held in Tokyo on iconic N. Korea abductee

Photo exhibition held in Tokyo on iconic N. Korea abductee

A photo exhibition on Megumi Yokota, who has become a symbol of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago, is held at the Nihombashi Takashimaya department store gallery in Tokyo on Aug. 2, 2023, with her mother Sakie (R) visiting. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno (C), who doubles as minister in charge of the abduction issue, also visits the exhibition. (Pool photo)

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Photo exhibition held in Tokyo on iconic N. Korea abductee

Photo exhibition held in Tokyo on iconic N. Korea abductee

A photo exhibition on Megumi Yokota, who has become a symbol of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago, is held at the Nihombashi Takashimaya department store gallery in Tokyo on Aug. 2, 2023. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno (front), who doubles as minister in charge of the abduction issue, and Megumi's mother Sakie (2nd from L) visit the exhibition. (Pool photo)

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Photo exhibition held in Tokyo on iconic N. Korea abductee

Photo exhibition held in Tokyo on iconic N. Korea abductee

A 13-day photo exhibition on Megumi Yokota, abducted by North Korea at age 13 in 1977, begins at the Nihombashi Takashimaya department store gallery in Tokyo on Aug. 2, 2023. Yokota, one of the 17 people officially listed by Japan as having been abducted by Pyongyang in the 1970s and 1980s, became a symbol of the still unresolved abduction issue as five of them returned home in 2002 and the other 12, including her, remain unaccounted for.

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New year sale at Takashimaya department store

New year sale at Takashimaya department store

People shop at Takashimaya department store in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on Jan. 2, 2023, the first day of the New Year sale.

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New year sale at Takashimaya department store

New year sale at Takashimaya department store

People line up at Takashimaya department store in Tokyo's Nihombashi area before its opening on Jan. 2, 2023, the first day of the New Year sale.

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New Year's greeting cards

New Year's greeting cards

A self-driving delivery robot departs Tokyo's Nihombashi post office on Jan. 1, 2023, to deliver New Year's greeting cards following a ceremony attended by communications minister Takeaki Matsumoto.

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New Year's greeting cards

New Year's greeting cards

Communications minister Takeaki Matsumoto makes a speech at a ceremony being held ahead of the start of delivery of New Year's greeting cards at Tokyo's Nihombashi post office on Jan. 1, 2023.

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New Year's greeting cards

New Year's greeting cards

Communications minister Takeaki Matsumoto makes a speech at a ceremony being held ahead of the start of delivery of New Year's greeting cards at Tokyo's Nihombashi post office on Jan. 1, 2023.

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New Year's greeting cards

New Year's greeting cards

Postal workers depart Tokyo's Nihombashi post office on Jan. 1, 2023, to deliver New Year's greeting cards following a ceremony attended by communications minister Takeaki Matsumoto.

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New Year's greeting cards

New Year's greeting cards

Postal workers depart Tokyo's Nihombashi post office on Jan. 1, 2023, to deliver New Year's greeting cards following a ceremony attended by communications minister Takeaki Matsumoto.

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Dept. stores begin 2012 business with 'lucky bags'

Dept. stores begin 2012 business with 'lucky bags'

TOKYO, Japan - Customers buy ''lucky bags'' at the flagship store of Mitsukoshi Ltd. in Tokyo's Nihombashi district on Jan. 2, 2012. Major department stores kicked off business for 2012 the same day as crowds of shoppers sought ''lucky bags'' filled with discount goods and other New Year bargains.

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Dept. stores begin 2012 business with 'lucky bags'

Dept. stores begin 2012 business with 'lucky bags'

TOKYO, Japan - Customers buy ''lucky bags'' at the flagship store of Mitsukoshi Ltd. in Tokyo's Nihombashi district on Jan. 2, 2012. Major department stores kicked off business for 2012 the same day as crowds of shoppers sought ''lucky bags'' filled with discount goods and other New Year bargains.

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Last trading day of 2014

Last trading day of 2014

TOKYO, Japan - American actress Charlotte Kate Fox, heroine of a Japanese television drama series, rings the closing bell during a ceremony at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on Dec. 30, 2014, the last trading day of the year.

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Last trading day of 2014

Last trading day of 2014

TOKYO, Japan - American actress Charlotte Kate Fox, heroine of a Japanese television drama series, rings the closing bell during a ceremony at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on Dec. 30, 2014, the last trading day of the year.

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Last trading day of 2014

Last trading day of 2014

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Stock Exchange personnel clap during a ceremony in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on Dec. 30, 2014, marking the last trading day of the year.

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Storyteller tells ghost tale aboard ship on river

Storyteller tells ghost tale aboard ship on river

TOKYO, Japan - Storyteller Shunyo Kanda tells a ghost tale aboard a ship on the Nihombashi River in Tokyo on July 18, 2014, as part of a tour arranged by Hato Bus Co.

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Tour participants listen to ghost story aboard ship

Tour participants listen to ghost story aboard ship

TOKYO, Japan - Participants in a tour arranged by Hato Bus Co. listen to a ghost tale by storyteller Shunyo Kanda aboard a ship on the Nihombashi River in Tokyo on July 18, 2014.

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Gold soccer ball

Gold soccer ball

TOKYO, Japan - A soccer ball made of gold is displayed at the Takashimaya department store chain's Nihombashi branch in Tokyo on June 12, 2014. Takashimaya Co. put it on sale for about 42.88 million yen (about $420,000) the same day, hoping to attract more customers as the World Cup kicks off later in the day in Brazil.

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Gold soccer ball

Gold soccer ball

TOKYO, Japan - A soccer ball made of gold is displayed at the Takashimaya department store chain's Nihombashi branch in Tokyo on June 12, 2014. Takashimaya Co. put it on sale for about 42.88 million yen (about $420,000) the same day, hoping to attract more customers as the World Cup kicks off later in the day in Brazil.

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Movements under way to restore lost scenery around Nihombashi bridge

Movements under way to restore lost scenery around Nihombashi bridge

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in December 2011 shows an elevated part of the Metropolitan Expressway running over the Nihombashi bridge in Tokyo's Chuo Ward.

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Movements under way to restore lost scenery around Nihombashi bridge

Movements under way to restore lost scenery around Nihombashi bridge

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken April 24, 1963, shows the Metropolitan Expressway under construction over the Nihombashi bridge in Tokyo's Chuo Ward.

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Movements under way to restore lost scenery around Nihombashi bridge

Movements under way to restore lost scenery around Nihombashi bridge

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 24, 2014, shows Nobuo Yoshida (far L), president of Ibasen Co., and Kei Hashimoto (C), owner of Japanese restaurant Nihombashi Toyoda, standing with the Nihombashi bridge in the background in Tokyo's Chuo Ward.

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Lion statue at Mitsukoshi dept. store turns 100

Lion statue at Mitsukoshi dept. store turns 100

TOKYO, Japan - A lion statue at Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo's Nihombashi district is decorated with flowers on April 1, 2014, as it turns 100 years old.

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Ribbon-cutting ceremony for 100 yr old lion statues

Ribbon-cutting ceremony for 100 yr old lion statues

TOKYO, Japan - A ribbon-cutting ceremony is held at Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo's Nihombashi district on April 1, 2014, as the lion statues on either side of its entrance turn 100 years old.

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Concert with tsunami piano held in Tokyo

Concert with tsunami piano held in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A concert using a piano that survived the 2011 earthquake and tsunami at a junior high school in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is held at the Takashimaya department store chain's Nihombashi branch in Tokyo on March 5, 2014.

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Last trading day of 2013

Last trading day of 2013

TOKYO, Japan - Mami Sato (L), a Paralympian who contributed to Tokyo's successful bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, rings the closing bell by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a ceremony at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on Dec. 30, 2013, the last trading day of the year.

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Last trading day of 2013

Last trading day of 2013

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a ceremony at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on Dec. 30, 2013, marking the last trading day of the year.

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Last trading day of 2013

Last trading day of 2013

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (far R) speaks during a ceremony at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on Dec. 30, 2013, marking the last trading day of the year.

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Last trading day of 2013

Last trading day of 2013

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pictured after ringing the closing bell during a ceremony at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on Dec. 30, 2013, the last trading day of the year. Mami Sato, a Paralympian who contributed to Tokyo's successful bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, is to the right.

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