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Discover the best top things to do in Asakusa, Japan including NinjaBar Asakusa, Senso-ji Temple, Asakusa, Asakusa Shrine, Hozomon, Sanja Matsuri, Nakamise Shopping Street (Kaminarimon), Asakusa Demboin-dori, Shin Nakamise Shopping Street, Honryuin Matsuchiyama Shoden.
Restaurants in Asakusa
1. NinjaBar Asakusa
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 22 reviews
We have more then 300 sake You cant't find any stores like this. Welcome to NinjaBar! Free entrance, No charge, Free wifi is available. How about a talking with Ninja and locals? We have a large selection of more than 200 kinds of the cup of Sake from all over Japan. The design of the cup of sake is so Japanese taste like Kawaii, You can take it out after you drink. You can also try Cosplay of Samurai or DragonBall or Sailor moon or more and it’s free. We hope you’re gonna have a real good time in Japan. Wrap our smile and love around the world together hoping the world will be as one. We all know love spreads.
2. Senso-ji Temple
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4.5 based on 9,321 reviews
According to legend, two brothers kept trying to return a statue of Kannon, the goddess of mercy, to the Sumida River only to have it returned to them the next day. This temple located in Tokyo's Asakusa district was built to honor her.
Reviewed By SandyS1593
There's so much going on at the Senso-ji Temple. There's the Asakusa Shrine, a five-story pagoda, beautiful gardens with a statue of Buddha and a street of over 200 shops that sell traditional Japanese items and souvenirs. If you only have time for one temple stop, I highly recommend Senso-ji.
3. Asakusa
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4.5 based on 6,105 reviews
This popular Tokyo neighborhood is home to many shops and restaurants as well as the famed Senso-ji Temple.
Reviewed By 228irenak
Great area- both the vast temple and shrine complex and the surrounding area, with super cute traditional streets. Nice place to hang out and walk around the little shops.
4. Asakusa Shrine
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4.5 based on 1,341 reviews
Reviewed By Jajourney06 - Singapore, null
Not sure how true if you happened in Tokyo , do give a visit to this gate. our local friend said over pass this gate will give good luck :)
5. Hozomon
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4.5 based on 313 reviews
Reviewed By SteveS1970 - Coventry, United Kingdom
This is a fantastic looking gate on the way up to the Senso-ji temple. Huge lanterns adorn it and it is worth spending time looking at thethe guards which stand on either side protecting the temple.
6. Sanja Matsuri
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4.5 based on 71 reviews
Sanja Matsuri is one of Tokyo's three great summer festivals. It takes place late in May and celebrates the founding of Sensoji Temple in Asakusa. The festival has been running for over 700 years and today draws about two million visitors to the neighbourhood over the course of three days of processions and dances leading up to a parade of three enormous Mikoshi (portable shrines) carried precariously on the shoulders of locals. The shrines are ornate with black lacquer and gold leaf and elaborate purple and vermilion ropes, and weigh about 1 ton each. There's an incredibly charged atmosphere as the people carrying them shout in rhythm and bounce and jostle the shrines to wake up the spirits inside and encourage them to spread luck and prosperity throughout the surrounding neighbourhoods. The mood of celebration and street party atmosphere is packed with the sights and sounds of formal processions with ancient costumes and traditional music, geisha and taiko performances, yakuza gangsters showing off their tattoos, all mixed with the aroma of hundreds of impromptu food stands in the streets.
7. Nakamise Shopping Street (Kaminarimon)
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4.0 based on 1,985 reviews
Reviewed By 629yeetingc - Singapore, Singapore
every time I visit to Tokyo, I would like to visit Asakusa- Kaminarimon and Nakamise Shopping Street, it gives the feelings and ambience of being in Japan, with the tourist crowds, the shops selling various local snacks and a lot of restaurants around for you try something locals. a lot of local souvenirs can also buy there - do spend some time to explore
8. Asakusa Demboin-dori
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4.0 based on 162 reviews
Reviewed By DellaG_12 - Coquitlam, Canada
This is an amazing shopping street with the shops and signage designed like a street scene from the old old Edo. I love the Japanese man size characters that are scattered on the roof tops of the stores. It is not far from the Asakusa temple compound. These shops sell traditional Japanese crafts and souvenirs. It also has a lot of snack shops and eateries. Very touristy but enjoyable area to re-hydrate oneself and people watch.
9. Shin Nakamise Shopping Street
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4.0 based on 112 reviews
This covered shopping street is located near one of Tokyo's most important Buddhist temples, Sensoji. Serious souvenir shoppers will find a broad selection of items at competitive prices here.
10. Honryuin Matsuchiyama Shoden
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4.0 based on 75 reviews
Reviewed By ViolenceToad - Singapore, null
Kangiten, otherwise called Ganabachi / Ganapa-tei / Ganwha / Binayaka-ten / Sho-ten (and the clue is in these names!) is the elephant headed deity (Deva or "Ten") of bliss, joy, material prosperity and success. Often depicted as hugging Kannon, the goddess of compassion, also shown as an elephantine figure, as dual figures and used in tantric forms of Shingon Buddhist worship - hence, kept away in a box and not often displayed. Due to overseeing tantric energy and material success, Kangiten is reputedly a favourite with traders, actors, gamblers and geishas. The hill on which Honryuin stands is called Matsuchiyama and in Japanese lore, is supposed to be a self manifested "swayambu" sacred hill which magically grew from the ground in 595 A.D. As there is often an excess of his supposed favourite offering, the radish / Daikon, you can get free samples if you arrive early in the day. In addition to the deity being different from other Buddhist and Shinto shrines, there is also a very quirky and photo worthy mini-cable car that rises the few metres to the top. Over and across the bridge over the Sumida river are another 3 significant temples, starting with the Mimeguri Jinja, the temple of the Mitsui family, which houses a Mitsukoshi lion statue (modelled on the Trafalgar Square lions) and has an unusual 3 pillared Tori / welcome arch. Super area to walk around and discover Japanese culture.
