Many companies were born in Ginza. For example, Shiseido, Taisei Construction (at the time of its establishment; Okura Gumi Shokai), Yamato Transport Co., Ltd. (Yamato Transport), Dentsu (Nippon Advertising Co., Ltd.), Dai Nippon Printing (Heieisha), etc. Isn't it well known that Toshiba also? I guess.
Founder Hisashige Tanaka (1799-1881) set up a factory in Ginza 8-9-15 in July 1875 that combines stores and housing. This "Tanaka Seisakusho" is Japan's first telegraph plant and the origin of Toshiba. This location had the advantage of being close to Shimbashi Station, which was connected to Yokohama and the railway. Hisashige Tanaka issued a sign saying, "We did not respond to the request of all kinds of machines Koan," and here devised and produced domestic telegraphs, raw silk testers, etc.
His founder, Hisashige Tanaka, died in 1881 at the age of 82, but after that, his adopted child succeeded Kue, the second generation.
In 1882, railway carriages opened between Shimbashi and Nihonbashi. Under such circumstances, in November of the same year, Kue, the second generation, conducted an experimental publicity of arc lights and electric lights, and the electric power business rapidly developed.
In this year, Tanaka received an order from the Ministry of Navy, and the Ginza factory was in trouble, so he obtained 10,000 square meters of land in Shibaura and relocated the factory division. In Ginza, the main office work and sales were started, but they decided to relocate because they were burned down by the Great Kanto Earthquake.
In 1939, Shibaura Works (renamed Tanaka Works) and Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd. merged to form Tokyo Shibaura Electric Power Co., Ltd. Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd., its predecessor, Incandescent Light bulb Manufacturing Co., Ltd., was founded by establishing an office and factory at 4-4 Ginza today.
(The above is mainly based on Hiromu Harada's "The Days with Ginza Bricks and Water" published in Hakuba Publishing 1988.)
