Tokyo Innovation Tour
Tuesday, 24 February 2026 | 9:45AM - 4:00PM
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.
This tour will be held in English.
Tour Agenda
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
- Fireside Chat with Habitto Co-Founder, Liam McCance
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
3:30 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
Elevandi Japan
Elevandi Japan, the Japanese subsidiary of the not-for-profit global FinTech ecosystem builder Elevandi, is playing a strategic role in developing and accelerating the Japanese and North East Asian FinTech ecosystem; promoting Japan's advancement in critical technologies, and connecting Japan with Elevandi's fast-developing global network of initiatives.
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