Kabuki-za is a kabuki theater in the Ginza district of Tokyo. The journalist Fukuchi Gen'ichirō opened it on November 21, 1889, as a wooden building, and Shochiku has run it since 1914. An electrical fire destroyed it on October 30, 1921. Reconstruction began in 1922, the Great Kantō earthquake burned it in 1923, and it was completed in 1924.
The 1924 design was a baroque Japanese revivalist style meant to evoke Japanese castles and pre-Edo temples, and it was kept in 1950 and 2013. The infobox credits Isoya Yoshida for the 1950 rebuild and Kengo Kuma for the 2013 one, though the article text names no architects.
The theater was demolished in spring 2010, and the new complex opened on March 28, 2013, with a capacity of 1,964. Performances run nearly daily, and tickets are sold for individual acts or whole plays.
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