Tourists gather before Kaminarimon, while in the back lanes neighbours shoulder their own town's mikoshi in May
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Asakusa 1-chome and 2-chome are Nakamise and the Senso-ji precincts, one of Tokyo's representative tourist spots, right here. Residents are scattered across Asakusa 3-chome to 7-chome north of the temple (commonly known as Kannon-ura), Nishi-Asakusa, and Hanakawado and Imado along the Sumida River.
Every May at the Sanja Festival, roughly 100 neighborhood mikoshi from the 44 ujiko towns of Asakusa Shrine first gather behind the main hall of Senso-ji. Each one is purified, then returns to its own neighborhood association.
For daily shopping, this neighborhood ranks 33rd out of 395 Tokyo neighborhoods, the strongest ranking in this neighborhood; overall convenience of living ranks 58th.
For trains, you need to be clear about Asakusa Station first: the Ginza Line, Toei Asakusa Line, and Tobu Line stations are on the Asakusa 1-chome and Hanakawado 1-chome side. The Tsukuba Express Asakusa Station is under Kokusai-dori on the other side of Senso-ji, and isn't considered a transfer station with the other lines.
The western boundary of Nishi-Asakusa is Kappabashi Dogu Street, about 800 meters long with over 170 shops selling pots and pans, tableware, and food models, which ordinary people can buy too.
This neighborhood is centerd on Senso-ji, one of Tokyo's representative tourist spots, and in 2020 it was also home to over 40,000 residents, about 207 people per hectare. On days like the Hagoita-ichi battledore fair and the Hozuki-ichi ground cherry fair, crowds are especially large; the three days of the Sanja Festival draw about 1.8 million people.
During festivals, the large lantern at Kaminarimon is folded away so the mikoshi can pass through. From our street photos, greenery ranks 320th, the weakest ranking in this neighborhood.
Nakamise's predecessor was a row of small shops along the approach in 1685: nearby residents took charge of cleaning the temple grounds in exchange for the right to set up stalls here. In 1873, the temple grounds were designated as a park, and from 1917, Asakusa Opera was performed there, a place for ordinary people to watch shows.
The air raid of March 1945 burned down the main hall and the five-story pagoda, and all of Asakusa Shrine's mikoshi were also burned. In 1950 and 1953, the ujiko dedicated the three mikoshi that stand today.
The main hall was rebuilt in 1958. After Kaminarimon burned down in 1865, only temporary gates were occasionally set up, until 1960 when Matsushita Konosuke donated funds to build the permanent gate.
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