Asakusa Area (City of Taito/near from Ueno)


The closest station
Tokyo subway Asakusa line and
Tobu Railway Asakusa Line
Tsukuba Express Line
Asakusa Sta.

Links for english informations
Asakusa sightseeing map
Asakusa Umai-mono Kai
(Delicious in Asakusa)

Senso-ji Temple
(photo : Kaneyoshi Urabe)
Asakusa has two faces: one is religious, another is entertaining. Many souvenir shops or traditional arts invite us to here.
Senso-ji Temple
The roots of Asakusa is Senso-ji temple that was established in 628. Senso is the another pronounciation of Asakusa. Because many rulers loves here, especially since Edo period (1603 - 1867), Asakusa had been the center of entertainment in Tokyo. 10 March in 1945, american bombers wiped out eastern area of Tokyo, in that night Senso-ji was burnt too.
Even today a lot of people visit here , but many of historical buildings they see were rebuilt after war.

Kaminari-Mon @(Mon means Gate.)
(Photo:Kaneyoshi Urabe)
Nakamise Shopping street
(Photo:Kaneyoshi Urabe)

Hozo-Mon
(Photo:Kaneyoshi Urabe)
Hondo (Main Building of Senso-ji Temple/built in 1958)
(Photo:Kaneyoshi Urabe)

Niten mon (built in 1618)
Japanese government counts this as one of national important cultural asset.
(Photo:Kaneyoshi Urabe)
Rokkaku-do (the Hexagon)
This was built in XIV century.
(Photo:Kaneyoshi Urabe)

Asakusa -Jinjya *"Jinjya" means Shito shrine.
Walking in the eastern part of Senso-ji temple, you find Asakusa shrine that had been since about nine centuries ago.

(Photo:Kaneyoshi Urabe)
Asakusa Jinjya (built in 1649)
Japanese government counts this as one of national important cultural asset.
(Photo:Kaneyoshi Urabe)