Everything you need to know about visiting Sensoji Temple and Kaminarimon Gate (2-3-1 Asakusa, Taito, Tokyo). Kaminarimon Gate, the colossal vermillion entrance to Sensoji Temple, metropolitan Tokyo’s ...

A special scaled down “mikoshi” portable shrine for children featured for the first time in the 700-year history of the bustling Sanja Matsuri festival in Tokyo’s downtown Asakusa district. The ...

Getting there: Asakusa train station is one of the seemingly limitless number of major train stations servicing the people of Tokyo, so easily reached from either airport. The hotel is little more ...

The once-scruffy downtown district of Asakusa seems to be going upmarket these days – no more so than with the opening of this plush, Shigeru Uchida-designed hotel, just across the road from the ...

Located in front of the Kamiari-mon gate in Asakusa, Kengo Kuma’s Culture Tourist Information Center serves as a beacon to the local area as well as housing programs to serve both tourists and the ...