Building Across the street from the Wako building lies the interesting cylindrical San-ai building. Designed by Hayashi Shoji, it is filled with trendy boutiques and shops and succeeds in maximizing advertising space on its small surface. Just a block away we find the Kabukiza with its facade lit up. We had seen this on our first trip in the daytime. Kabuki plays were first performed here in 1889, but the present building dates from 1951.
Some people come to see only one act of a play.
Headphones with English narration are available for a small fee. In our five journeys we have completed our goal of visiting every prefecture. Although this marks the end of the current documentary, it is not the end of my Japan journeys. I continued to visit Japan in the following years, revisiting familiar places and discovering intriguing new ones. Together we have visited the entire country through these web pages, and I hope that you have come to appreciate this great country called Japan.