Awa Gin Plaza, Art museum and commercial building in Higashi-Shinmachi, Japan.
Awa Gin Plaza is a building that combines art exhibition spaces with shopping areas across multiple floors, featuring contemporary architectural design and generous windows throughout. The layout merges cultural and commercial functions in a single structure.
The Awa Bank Shinmachi Building opened in 1997, and the Awa Gin Plaza gallery was set up on its second floor as a free exhibition space. In December 2019 the bank's head office sales department moved into a newly built structure on the same site, and the gallery relocated to the public spaces on the second and third floors.
The gallery is run by Awa Bank and named after it: "Awa Gin" shortens the bank's Japanese name. It occupies public space on the second and third floors of the bank's new head-office building, which opened in 1997 and received the relocated head office in December 2019.
The gallery occupies the public spaces on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the Awa Bank Shinmachi Building. It is open from 9:00 to 17:00 and closed from 29 December to 3 January. From JR Tokushima Station it is about a 10-minute walk.
Awa Gin Plaza is a free gallery, not a museum with fixed exhibits. It opened on the second floor of the Awa Gin Shinmachi Building in 1997, and in December 2019 it moved to the second and third floors when the bank's head office branch was rebuilt on the site.
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