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The speciality at this Japanese restaurant is rice cooked with barley and served with a bowl of ...

Comfort food in a funky wooden shack, within easy walking distance of Asakusa’s tourist sights. ...

Chanko-nabe is the legendary food of sumo wrestlers, said to help them put on those extra ...

Stones, plants, bamboo latticework and a white noren (shop curtain) mark the entrance to this ...

Barely 30 seconds from Asakusa’s market and temple complex, yet surprisingly peaceful, the ...

This smart, modern ryokan is wonderfully situated five minutes’ walk from Asakusa’s temple. ...

Hanayashiki has been in business since 1883 and still draws crowds. There are around 20 rides, ...

Exhibits range from flints and a tablet from Mesopotamia through Egyptian papyrus to abacuses ...

Small rooms and lack of facilities notwithstanding, this business hotel offers reasonable value ...

With a clay drum from Mexico, an udekki from Sri Lanka and hundreds of other drums from around ...

Following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, some 40,000 people who had fled their homes ...

One of the many faded relics that crowd around Asakusa’s famous Sensoji, this bathhouse offers ...

This large museum’s outlandish architectural style may not appeal to everyone, but the building ...

Ten minutes’ walk north from Asakusa’s temple complex, in the traditional downtown area of ...

With its uniformed staff and marble lobby somewhat incongruent with this downtown, ...