These covered shopping streets are everywhere. As are bicyclists.
In Tokyo, you don't have to look very hard to find a bus that looks like a dog.
Even their earth-moving equipment is cute, for crying out loud.
Not cute, but mega-awesome, is this statue, very close to the temple, dedicated to Meiji period kabuki actor, Ichikawa Danjuro. Asakusa was once an important entertainment district, with a lot of kabuki theaters and a red-light district (a detail that will be important further along wink nudge), and this guy was a legend, apparently. Sure looks like a badass, doesn't he?
"I see that your Schwartz is as big as mine" because "Spaceballs" jokes will never, ever get old.
But, seriously, that face: awesome.
The Senso-ji Temple gardens are quite pretty and serene, as one would assume they'd be. |
