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title: Asakusa Soratsuki
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lang: en
journey: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/sakura/
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# Asakusa Soratsuki

Places we stopped along the way　/　Asakusa

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

## This moment in the journey: 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.

![The Asakusa Soratsuki banner and a menu of strawberry dango](https://karigurashijourney.com/img/sakura/s20-1200.jpg)
- Sources: https://rurubu.jp/andmore/article/10561
- Sources: https://kinarino.jp/cat8/44591

Read this scene in the full journey: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/sakura/