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 ...

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 ...

Asakusa has been a popular spot to visit since the Edo period (1603–1868). In modern times, it sees more than 30 million visitors a year from all over Japan and the world, and before the COVID-19 ...

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 ...

This visitor centre in Tokyo by Japanese architects Kengo Kuma and Associates looks like a stack of smaller buildings with sloping roofs. Named the Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center, the ...

Asakusa is famous for it's Sensojii Temple as well as being one of the most traditional districts in Tokyo. Kinamarimon Gate is the entrance to Sensojii Temple and Nakamise-dori the street that leads ...

Asakusa is a classic Tokyo tourist spot, known for the temple of Sensōji with its Kaminarimon, or “thunder gate.” A short distance to the west of the temple, the compact amusement park Asakusa ...

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 ...