Perhaps, at some point in the distant past, this was the way local upmarket operations got to ...
Stones, plants, bamboo latticework and a white noren (shop curtain) mark the entrance to this ...
This retro-fitted hangout is a welcome attempt to inject a little Harajuku-style cool into ...
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 ...
Otafuku has been serving oden since the Meiji era, in an old-school setting complete with paper ...
You dine here much as you would have done a century ago – sitting on thin cushions at low ...
With a clay drum from Mexico, an udekki from Sri Lanka and hundreds of other drums from around ...
With its uniformed staff and marble lobby somewhat incongruent with this downtown, ...
Barely 30 seconds from Asakusa’s market and temple complex, yet surprisingly peaceful, the ...
One of the many faded relics that crowd around Asakusa’s famous Sensoji, this bathhouse offers ...
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 ...
Ten minutes’ walk north from Asakusa’s temple complex, in the traditional downtown area of ...
This smart, modern ryokan is wonderfully situated five minutes’ walk from Asakusa’s temple. ...
Following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, some 40,000 people who had fled their homes ...
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