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Tokyo's Asakusa district has long been a popular tourist spot, famed for the city's oldest temple and its retro atmosphere. Rickshaw tours through the neighborhood are emerging as popular ...

Carrying mikoshi out of Asakusa Shrine, an important phase of the festival, is performed three times with a different mikoshi each time. The mikoshi was carried through the shrine’s torii gate at ...

Senso-ji temple is an ancient Buddhist temple located in the Asakusa neighborhood of Tokyo. Photograph by David Guttenfelder, Nat Geo Image Collection ...

Senso-ji temple is an ancient Buddhist temple located in the Asakusa neighborhood of Tokyo.

As one of the largest cities in the world, at least by population, Tokyo’s seamless fusion of tradition and modernity couples ...

Asakusa is Best for a Culture & Traditional Tokyo For those who have heard about old Tokyo, Asakusa is the word you were looking for.

Tokyo officially took the title from Osaka for Japan’s longest shopping district, also known as shotengai, by connecting a few shopping streets together on November 20. The roughly 3-kilometer ...

Tokyo’s Asakusa neighborhood boasts one of the densest concentrations of traditional sightseeing spots in the city, starting with the famous Sensoji Temple. Of course, no matter how mentally and ...