well past its prime. The Anegasaki-kai, based in the old downtown Asakusa district of the capital, survived primarily by scalping tickets for concerts and running stalls at summer festivals ...

Asakusa, an area of Tokyo with a long history, is still brimming with tradition. It's a popular tourist spot with Tokyo's oldest Buddhist temple, Sensoji, drawing over 30 million visitors a year.

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 most famous part of the dance features the legendary fishermen who caught the Buddhist image in the temple at Asakusa in their net.

Design studio AtMa has converted an old shoe store into a unique souvenir shop located in Asakusa, Japan. Formerly a shoe store, the historic two-storey building is located in a corner of Asakusa ...

The Senso-ji Temple is dedicated to Asakusa Kannon, the Buddhist god of mercy and happiness. According to legend, two fishermen struck gold and found a statue of the god while fishing on the ...

TOKYO: Female rickshaw pullers are drawing attention in Tokyo’s Asakusa area, a site to which tourists flock from all over the world. Because it requires so much physical power and endurance ...

Asakusa Grace is a 3yo b unknown from Japan trained by Hirofumi Toda, who is based at Japan. It is sired by the stallion Four Wheel Drive out of the dam Chinese Flair. Asakusa Grace is yet to break ...