The Senso-ji Temple is dedicated to Asakusa Kannon, the Buddhist god of mercy and happiness. According to legend, two fishermen struck gold and found a statue of the god while fishing on the ...

Take in the sights and sounds of Tokyo’s oldest temple, Sensō-ji, in Asakusa, a sprawling complex built in the 600s to house a statue of Kannon ... and an insight into Japan’s rich Buddhist ...

Setsuryo Tanaka, chief priest of Kannon Temple on Tsushima Island in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Nagasaki, speaks at the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage in Daejeon ...

A special scaled down “mikoshi” portable shrine for children featured for the first time in the 700-year history of the bustling Sanja Matsuri festival in Tokyo’s downtown Asakusa district.

The Senso-ji Temple is dedicated to Asakusa Kannon, the Buddhist god of mercy ... The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken.

For the first time since the pandemic began, spectators could rejoice at the sight of a large, sparkling-gold dragon as it danced throughout the major sightseeing streets in Asakusa in the capital ...