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 ...

Asakusa, an area of Tokyo with a long history, is still brimming with tradition. It's a popular tourist spot with Tokyo's oldest Buddhist temple, Sensoji, drawing over 30 million visitors a year.

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.

No visit to Tokyo is complete without a trip to Asakusa's iconic Sensoji temple in the capital’s ... At the age of 19, Josh visited Japan with his father for the first time.