Tokyo Innovation Tour

​Language: English

​Synopsis

​This curated Tokyo Innovation Tour offers a structured, end-to-end view of Japan’s financial and digital commerce ecosystem — from policy foundations to real-world deployment. The programme begins with regulatory and international financial centre insights at FinCity.Tokyo, providing context on Japan’s positioning as a global financial hub and its evolving fintech landscape.

​Participants will then experience digital commerce in action through a guided immersion in Asakusa, observing SME digitisation and cross-border QR payment adoption, before concluding at the Bank of Japan Currency Museum — reflecting on the evolution of money, monetary stability, and the future of currency in a digital era.

​Schedule

• ​9:45 am @Belle Salle Nihonbashi: Assembly & Briefing 

  • ​Shuttle transfer provided.

  • ​Onboard introduction to Japan’s financial and digital commerce landscape.

• ​10:30 am @FinCity Tokyo: FinCity.Tokyo Showcase (Policy & Regulatory Innovation)

  • ​Japan as an International Financial Center 

  • ​Regulatory innovation & fintech ecosystem 

  • ​Cross-border collaboration opportunities 

• ​12:00 pm @FinCity Tokyo: Networking Lunch

• ​1:00 pm @Asakusa District: Digital Commerce Immersion Tour (FinTech Deployment at Scale)

  • ​Guided Experience in Asakusa: 

    • ​SME digitization in heritage retail 

    • ​Cross-border QR payments in action 

    • ​Tourism-driven mobile commerce ecosystem 

    • ​Department store & voucher integration  

• ​3:00 pm @Bank of Japan Currency Museum: Money Museum Tour - Monetary Evolution & the Future of Currency

  • ​The evolution of Japanese currency from feudal-era coinage to modern banknotes 

  • ​The institutional foundations of monetary stability 

  • ​Crisis management and financial system resilience 

  • ​The role of central banks in shaping economic modernization

• ​4:00 pm: End of Programme