Sensoji temple in Tokyo’s Asakusa district is one of the top tourist sites in the country, drawing thousands of tourists to the area every year. If you’ve ever visited Sensoji, chances are you’ve ...

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Asakusa's Sensoji Temple is packed with well-wishers on any day, but more so for hatsumode on New Year's Day. Hatsumode is the act of visiting a shrine or temple during the first days of the new year ...

Editor’s note: The theme of Inclusive Tokyo is to explore the metropolis from the viewpoint of wheelchair users and people with disabilities. Tourism officials, with their sights set on the 2020 ...

One of the most popular destinations in Tokyo, Asakusa is home to some of the city's biggest attractions including Tokyo Skytree and Kappabashi kitchen town. More importantly, people come here for the ...

People are seen on Nakamise shopping street, which has been decorated for the New Year, in Tokyo's Taito Ward, on Dec. 30, 2016. (Mainichi) Sensoji Temple, one of Tokyo's most iconic tourist ...

One of Japan's oldest and most visited shopping streets in the heart of Tokyo's touristy Asakusa district is bracing for a massive rent hike. The 89 stores lining the narrow 250-meter-long Nakamise ...

Asakusa is a busy but attractive area of Tokyo that still retains much of its historical charm. Legend has it that, in the year 628, two fishermen found a statue of the bodhisattva Kannon mysteriously ...