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title: Asakusa
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# Asakusa

Travel journal from Asakusa, with 25 notes on the places I ate, the dishes I cooked and the sights: Tsukiji Outer Market, Sumida River Line water bus, Kachidoki Bridge, Asakusa Station, Tokyo Metro Ginza Line.

## Journeys

- [Loach hot pot and Tokyo ramen: more of Asakusa](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/asakusa-2/index.md): Asakusa Food Diary, Part 2（2024-03-31）
- [An Asakusa food diary that begins at an old coffee house](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/asakusa-1/index.md): Asakusa Food Diary, Part 1（2024-03-03）

## A little of each town’s story

- [Tsukiji Outer Market](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/tsukiji-outer-market/index.md): A market district of about 460 shops.
- [Sumida River Line water bus](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/sumida-river-line-water-bus/index.md): A water bus run by Tokyo Kanko Kisen, linking Asakusa and Hinode Pier.
- [Kachidoki Bridge](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/kachidoki-bridge/index.md): Opened in 1940, it is a steel tied-arch bridge whose center is a Chicago-type double-leaf bascule span; it kept opening and closing after the war, up to a trial run in 1970.
- [Asakusa Station, Tokyo Metro Ginza Line](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/asakusa-station-tokyo-metro-ginza-line/index.md): The Ginza Line opened between Asakusa and Ueno in 1927 as the first subway in the East, and was completed all the way to Shibuya in 1939.
- [Denki Bran](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/denki-bran/index.md): A drink created in 1893 by the founder of Kamiya Bar, blending brandy with gin, wine, curaçao and herbs in secret proportions.
- [Asakusa Hanayashiki](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/asakusa-hanayashiki-asakusa-2/index.md): Japan's oldest amusement park, opened in 1853 near the end of the Edo period.
- [Kaminarimon and Nakamise at Senso-ji](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/kaminarimon-and-nakamise-at-senso-ji/index.md): Kaminarimon is the main gate of Senso-ji; its formal name, Furaijin-mon, comes from the statues of the wind god and the thunder god enshrined on either side.
- [Asakusa Rokku and the Toyokan theater](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/asakusa-rokku-and-the-toyokan-theater/index.md): The area west of Senso-ji, covering Asakusa 1- and 2-chome, also called Koen Rokku.
- [Asakusa Chikagai underground arcade](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/asakusa-chikagai-underground-arcade/index.md): Opened in 1955, the oldest underground shopping street still in existence in Japan.
- [Noodles from Asakusa Kaikaro](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/noodles-from-asakusa-kaikaro/index.md): A noodle maker founded in 1950, in the Inaricho area of Taito Ward.
- [Asakusa Hanayashiki](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/asakusa-hanayashiki-asakusa-1/index.md): Opened in 1853, at the end of the Edo period, as a garden of peonies and chrysanthemums, it still operates as Japan's oldest amusement park.
- [Kannon-ura](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/kannon-ura/index.md): A quiet neighborhood behind Senso-ji, north across Kototoi Street.
- [Mamekan](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/mamekan/index.md): A sweet of plump simmered red peas and agar topped with kuromitsu syrup.
- [Asahi Dry Zero, a non-alcoholic beer](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/asahi-dry-zero-a-non-alcoholic/index.md): What I drank at Sansada was Dry Zero, a non-alcoholic beer-taste drink from Asahi Breweries.

## Places we stopped along the way

- [Asakusa Soratsuki](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/asakusa-soratsuki/index.md): A shop for strawberry Japanese sweets on a back street off Nakamise-dori, near Senso-ji.
- [Komagata Dozeu (main restaurant)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/komagata-dozeu/index.md): A loach restaurant founded in 1801.
- [Tsukiji Shoro (main shop)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/tsukiji-shoro/index.md): It began in 1924, when a shop branching off from Shoro Sushi in Nihonbashi opened in Tsukiji.
- [Kamiya Bar](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/kamiya-bar/index.md): Founded in 1880 and known as Japan's first bar, it began as a kakuuchi, a liquor shop where you drank at the counter.
- [Asahi, a Chinese restaurant](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/asahi-a-chinese-restaurant/index.md): A machi-chuka on Yanagi-dori behind Asakusa Kannon, now in its fourth generation.
- [Mizuguchi, an eatery](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/mizuguchi-an-eatery/index.md): An eatery founded in 1950, known for iri-buta, pork and onions stir-fried in a curry-flavored sauce.
- [Kibundo Sohonten](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/kibundo-sohonten/index.md): Kibundo Sohonten is a long-established ningyo-yaki shop in Asakusa, founded in 1890; its paper bags read Kibun ningyo-yaki.
- [Royal Coffee (main shop)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/royal-coffee/index.md): A classic kissaten founded in 1962.
- [Asakusa Yakisoba Fuku-chan](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/asakusa-yakisoba-fuku-chan/index.md): A shop at the entrance to the Asakusa underground arcade, open since 1964.
- [Umemura (Japanese sweets)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/umemura/index.md): A sweets shop in Kannon-ura, in business since 1968.
- [Kaminarimon Sansada](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/kaminarimon-sansada/index.md): A tempura restaurant founded in 1837.