This large museum’s outlandish architectural style may not appeal to everyone, but the building ...
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As soon as the clock rings at midnight and the new year begins, Asakusa's Sensoji Temple opens ...
Asakusa's charmingly decrepit Hanayashiki amusement park celebrates the new year with this ...
Commemorating half a century since the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the associated start of bullet ...
Asakusa Hanayashiki's yearly spring beer garden is opening just in time to enjoy the sakura. ...
Tourist information centres aren't really known as happening hot spots, but Asakusa's version ...
Hosting the three kami Susano-o, Amenohohi, and Sadatoki-shinno, this Mukojima shrine also ...
Said to be the first shrine to celebrate the Tori no Ichi festival, the all-day spectacle that ...
Setsubune, or the 'bean-throwing festival' is a ritual to cleanse away evil from the previous ...
Mukojima Hyakkaen, the only surviving Edo-era flower garden in Tokyo, boasts an impressive ...
As soon as the clock rings at midnight and the new year begins, Asakusa's Sensoji Temple opens ...
Built in 1630 in the early years of the Edo period, this shrine moved to its present location ...
Flanking both sides of the Sumida River, this park offers a welcoming retreat after you've worn ...
The early arrival of this year's cherry blossom means that Hanayashiki's beer garden is ...
The maneki-neko, that distinctive 'beckoning cat' figurine beloved of Japanese shops and ...
Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu commissioned this famous Asakusa shrine in 1647, enshrining the three ...
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