ASAKUSA: A new type of urban design ... and like architect Kengo Kuma she seems to sense that Tokyo has reached a point of middle age from where it might begin a second act. The city is ...

During the difficult times of the COVID-19 pandemic, a trio of singing and dancing rickshaw pullers in Tokyo’s Asakusa district proved they were not just pretty faces. The Tokyo Rickshaw group ...

The oldest religious site in Tokyo is also its most visited ... The Senso-ji Temple is dedicated to Asakusa Kannon, the Buddhist god of mercy and happiness. According to legend, two fishermen ...