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Nihonbashi

Nihonbashi is a business district in Chūō, Tokyo, centred on the bridge of the same name that crosses the Nihonbashi River. The current bridge, of stone on a steel structure and designed by Tsumaki Yorinaka, dates from 1911 and replaced the first wooden bridge completed in 1603. It still bears marks from a 1945 incendiary bombing raid, one of the few remaining traces of the fire that swept through much of Tokyo. The district is home to the head office of the Bank of Japan (1896), the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the first Mitsukoshi store (1873), and is Japan's zero-kilometre point, marked by a bronze milestone from which the country's road and rail distances are measured. During the Edo period it was the largest commercial centre and the starting point of the five main highways, and today it remains the leading financial district of Tokyo and Japan. An elevated expressway built ahead of the 1964 Olympic Games partly covers the bridge, and there are plans underway to bury it underground.

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