The oldest religious site in Tokyo is also its most visited. The Senso-ji Temple sees about 30 million annual visitors and its inception dates all the way back to year 628. Despite its claim to ...

NANTO, Toyama Prefecture--Artisans here have nearly completed a 660-kilogram wooden framed motto of Sensoji temple in Tokyo that resembles the one that was incinerated in the U.S. firebombing ...

At Tokyo’s spectacular Sensoji temple in Taito Ward, visitors were guided to the main hall straight from the Kaminarimon gate via the traditional Nakamise shopping street. Pedestrians were ...

It is also called Sanja Gongen (in honor of three men who founded the temple), and the Sanja Matsuri held in May is one of the Three Great Festivals of Edo (now Tokyo). The Asakusa Shrine is located ...