One of Japan’s most colourful festivals, the Sanja Matsuri is a rowdy mix of religious ritual and wild street party ...

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 ...

Even a ferocious dragon on the ceiling fell prey to the ravages of time, with a famed painting peeling off and hanging down over visitors at Sensoji temple in Tokyo on July 8. The picture of a ...

The historic shopping street known as Nakamise leads to Sensoji Temple, a popular tourist destination. The street is lined with 87 souvenir shops and restaurants. A project started in 2024 to ...

It's a popular tourist spot with Tokyo's oldest Buddhist temple, Sensoji, drawing over 30 million visitors a year. And just across the river is the TOKYO SKYTREE, recorded in the Guinness Book of ...

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18. The event, called “Kinryu-no-mai” (golden dragon dance), is normally held twice a year, in spring and fall, at the famed Sensoji temple and Nakamise shopping street. But it was canceled in ...