A shop for strawberry Japanese sweets on a back street off Nakamise-dori, near Senso-ji. Its signature is strawberry dango, white dumplings paired with strawberries, and it also makes strawberry dorayaki. I bought a skewer of white dango topped with strawberries and carried it into the grounds of Senso-ji.
1-36-4 Asakusa, Taito, Tokyo
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Blossom viewing in the old imperial capital
In Asakusa I stopped at Asakusa Soratsuki, a shop making Japanese sweets with strawberries. The menu showed strawberry dorayaki and strawberry dango, and I came away with a skewer of white dango topped with strawberries, wrapped in paper.
Dango in hand, I walked the grounds of Senso-ji. Around the vermilion halls, weeping cherries spread their branches wide.
Cherry blossom viewing in Tokyo, the imperial capital of the Meiji era. It must have been wonderfully romantic.
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