Main Building of the Bank of Japan (Kinza Ruins)

At present, the place where the Bank of Japan was "Kinza", a gold coin foundry in the Edo period. In 1595 (1595), Ieyasu Tokugawa invited Mitsuji Goto (kinko) to Edo to start small casting. Throughout the Edo period, Kinza was under the control of the account magistrate, and was casting, appraising, acquiring and inspecting gold coins (koban and ichibukin), and was located in Edo, Suruga, Sado, Kyoto. It was located in four places. Suruga was abolished during the Keicho era, Sado was abolished during the Kyoho era, and Kyoto Kinza was also smaller, and casting was almost done in Edo Kinza, but was abolished in 1869. The Bank of Japan was built on this site in 1896. The main building of the Bank of Japan is a Neo-Baroque stone structure, which is said to have been designed by architect Kingo Tatsuno as a model of the National Bank of Belgium.