- The procession includes 120 mikoshi from a total of 44 parishioner associations affiliated with Asakusa Shrine, making it Tokyo’s most spectacular festival.
- In short, you can go all the way from the main gate to Asakusa Shrine to get your own unique omamori! # Tracking down our Omamori.
- One of the few buildings in Asakusa to survive wartime bombing, today this 17th-century shrine is the site of one of Tokyo’s most important festivals.
- History: Asakusa Shrine was originally founded in the 7th century and is dedicated to the bodhisattva Kannon, the goddess of mercy.
- Wikimapia The map created by people like you! Asakusa Shrine (Tokyo). ... Shinto shrine. a.k.a. Sanja-sama. www.asakusajinja.jp/english/.
- Asakusa Jinja (Shrine) is Shinto shrine located in Taito ward of Tokyo alongside Sensozi temple and relatively near to Tokyo Skytree.
- Home / asakusa shrine. Senso-ji Temple, Asakusa. ... Senso-ji (Sensō-ji), widely known as Asakusa Kannon Temple, is Tokyo’s oldest buddhist temple.
- Here remains the last of old-ways from this era in Japan. Some of the stores we visited in Asakusa have been open since the 1700s! Generational businesses here.