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Asakusa

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Asakusa Ichimon, Main Store

4.0

53 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Taito-ku Asakusa 3-12-6

This place, in an old wood house, is perfect to discover a refined and delicious Japanese food. Octopus and Wagyu beef were perfect.
Asakusa Ojima (Denbouin Street location)

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Taitou-ku Asakusa 2-3-2

A studio and store which makes and sells Edo kiriko cut glass located in Asakusa, Taito City, Tokyo. The store at 2 Chome Asakusa sells kiriko glasses and knickknacks, while the workshop at 4 Chome holds short classes where you can cut your own design and make your very own Edo kiriko piece.
Stella Asakusa

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Taitou-ku Nishiasakusa 2-14-13 Mansion Nishi Asakusa B1F

This DJ bar opened as a high quality entertainment space in June 2003. This bar is a Thai restaurant during the week where you can enjoy authentic green curry and pad-thai with music and a drink. On the weekend you can enjoy the space as an all-genre club with the main floor and bar lounge.
Asakusa Umezono Asakusa Main Store

4.0

138 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Taito-ku Asakusa 1-31-12

This long-established store has passed down its tradition as a specialty store for sweets such as awazenzai (steamed millet and rice cake with strained bean paste) since its establishment in 1854. The tea house started in a corner of Umezonoin Temple, and the name Umezono is derived from this. Umezono is distinctive for using glutinous millet instead of foxtail millet for the rice cakes in their awazenzai. The flavor combines the subtle bitterness of the millet and the sweetness of the sweetened bean paste for a classic Asakusa specialty that remains unchanged. Besides cafe menu items such as oshiruko (sweet red bean soup) and anmitsu (desert with agar-agar, fruit, sweet red bean paste, etc.), it also sells mame daifuku (bean rice cake) and kintsuba (sweet red bean paste wrapped in thin flour dough).

This dessert stop was recommended to us and near our ryokan so we stopped by. There is no English menu so we basically had to look outside at the replica food display and point. You had to pay first...
CUTLERY TSUBAYA

4.5

34 Reviews

Shopping

Tokyo Taito-ku Nishiasakusa 3-7-2

The 2 people on the floor might have been father and son, the former advising me. I wanted steak knives and he showed me their selection of around 8 with varying prices. There was a boxed set on...
Karin Coron Asakusa

3.5

4 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Taitou-ku Asakusa 2-2-4

This is a specialty store of Karinto (traditional deep-fried sweets) and bean confectionery in Asakusa, Taito City, Tokyo. The shop offers more than 30 kinds of Karinto and bean sweets, and in addition to the classic flavors such as “Kuro-mitsu (brown sugar syrup)” and “Shiro-mitsu (refined white sugar sprinkled)”, they also have unique flavors such as “spicy kinpira gobo (boiled burdock root)” and “edible tea”. Pretty packages with pictures of Japanese landmarks such as Kaminarimon and Mt. Fuji are popular. The store has a Japanese feel with white walls and wood, and a wide entrance making accessibility easy.

外国から旅行で来ていた友人にお土産に日本のお菓子を買いたいと言われたので行きました。甘いかりんとうから甘くないお豆等幅広くあり、良かったです。パッケージも日本的なものが多く、お店の人によると、ブックカバーになるとの事でとても喜んでいました。ただ、試食が少なかったので、もう少しあるとわかりやすくて買いやすいと思いました。
Funawa Cafe Asakusa

4.0

55 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Taitou-ku Kaminarimon 2-19-10

This sweets-cafe is run by Japanese confectioner Funawa. Their signature item is sweet potato yokan jelly, along with other delights, like sweet-bean paste balls, you can enjoy at your leisure. They have rare treats like Sweet Potato Pancakes, with sweet potato cream sandwiched between two pancakes, or sweet potato yokan soft-serve parfait. They have coffee, black tea, matcha, and hoijicha tea. The Sweet Potato Latte made with the same potatoes as their yokan is an only available at Funawa Cafe!

芋ようかんで超有名なお土産屋の喫茶店です。和菓子のお店なのに、洋館風のお洒落な建物。テラス席もあり、テラス風？なのか、ガラス屋根の付いた、温室のような感じで、雨の日でも問題なく利用できるようになっています。芋ようかんをアレンジしたソフトクリームやパフェ、和スイーツなどいただけます。居心地もよく、浅草へ観光に来た際の休憩にはおススメです。
Namikiyabu Soba

4.5

151 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Taitou-ku Kaminarimon 2-11-9

Namikiyabu Soba is a traditional Japanese soba restaurant established in 1913 in Kaminari-mon 2-chome near Asakusa Station. This restaurant is the Asakusa location of the famous three Yabu-family soba restaurants. It really feels like a traditional Japanese home with the tatami mat floors and wooden tables that stand the tests of time. Try their special slightly sour soy sauce. People come to this store just for their limited winter menu with Kamonanban soba, which is so popular.

My brothers and I had a fantastic meal here during our time in Japan. The restaurant only seats about 20-30 people, so theres was a bit of a line when we got there. It moves fast though, so we...
Hogeisen

4.0

10 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Taito-ku Asakusa 2-4-3

浅草でビートたけし御用達の居酒屋さん。クジラ料理がメインのカウンターだけのお店。大きな鍋で煮込んでいる煮込みは思ったより味が薄かった。
Restaurant Omiya (Asakusa Main Store)

4.0

17 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Taito-ku Asakusa 2-1-3

This old-fashioned Western-style restaurant is just a one-minute walk from Asakusa Station on the Tobu Railway. They have counter seating and a modern atmosphere serving fare prepared by genuine chefs who have appeared time and again in magazines and on television. Their signature hamburger steak is only available in limited quantities. The savory flavor of the coarsely ground meat is a pleasure on the palate. The combination with the simmered demi-glace is also perfect, many people order it with red wine. Dishes like their Japanese black beef curry and steak on rice bowl with a house sauce reach the heights of flavor.

気になっていた洋食屋さん隣は床屋入店し２階へ先客で賑わっていたメニューを見ると価格が… かなりお高めほんのりビックリする安いのを探しチキンカレーをオーダーするカードが使えないとの事仕方無くハンバーグは我慢する周りのお客にフゥアグラ丼等自分にご褒美あげてる人もいた次回食べに来る時はお金を持ってこようと思ったカレーはスパイシーだったが美味しかった
Cafe Meursault

4.5

30 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Taitou-ku Kaminarimon 2-1-5 Nakamura Building

This cafe has a large riverside window that gives guests a sweeping view of the meandering Sumida River, a bridge, and the Tokyo Skytree. They also have open terrace seating. After dark, guests enjoy the Skytree lit-up in the nightscape. The menu mainly consists of Western food such as toast, pasta, and sandwiches. The basement cake shop sells handmade cakes that are available for takeout.

Avoid at all costs. Expensive, cheap food, badly prepared. The location does not begin to compensate. Nearly any other place in the area has to be better. I can’t write any more. Just...
CHAGOHAN TOKYO

Life / Living / Hospital

Tokyo Taitou-ku Nishiasakusa 2-17-131F

This traditional Japanese cuisine classroom and chef's kitchen located in Nishi-Asakusa has the concept of communicating and spreading the wonder of traditional Japanese food and tea culture in Japan and around the world. In the classes to experience traditional Japanese cuisine, you can learn from the basics, such as how to make okonomiyaki pancakes, sukiyaki, sushi, dashi soup stock and batter. There is also a class to learn green tea etiquette, and options to ride on rickshaws and wear kimono. In addition, it may be used as a rental kitchen for reunions and other gatherings.
Shim (Asakusa kimono and yukata rentals)

Life / Living / Hospital

Tokyo Taitou-ku Asakusa 1-7-5

A kimono and yukata rental and dressing shop located a five minute walk from Asakusa Station. All of the shop's rental kimonos are vintage items with fabulous patterns carefully selected by the staff. Whether you're having some fun with the girls, going on a date, or going on a little stroll through Asakusa, the staffs are ready to meet your needs and will dress you and style you so you look fashionable and attractive. Because you're renting and not buying, feel free to try bold colors and patterns, and you can come without needing to bring anything special on your part. Rentals can be returned by 8:00 p.m., giving you plenty of time to enjoy yourself. The shop's kimono plans include not only the kimono itself and obi belt but also accessories-you'll be all set! You can also borrow a haori or travelling coat for free in winter to keep warm.
Yoroiya

4.5

431 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Taitou-ku Asakusa 1-36-7

A ramen restaurant located near the Senso-ji Temple. In Asakusa, the birthplace of Japanese ramen, Yoroiya's owner creates good, old-fashioned ramen with a dedication to quality and flavor. The Japanese-style shoyu (soy sauce) ramen is made with a Japanese-style broth created from a chicken and pork base with konbu kelp, katsuobushi bonito flakes, and niboshi dried sardines and accented with a touch of yuzu. Also recommended are the zaru ramen, specially made flat noodles served in a dashi broth with the added depth of seafood and soy sauce; and the Japanese-style gyoza pot stickers, stuffed with chicken meat and made without garlic. Yoroiya also offers limited time dishes, ensuring there's always something new to enjoy here.

To let others know incase you share my characteristics - I am queer/trans, overweight, tattooed, use a walking stick with limited mobility, white british. I found the seats comfy and could access the...
Sumida River Walk

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Sumida-ku Mukojima 1
Yagenbori (Shin-nakamise Main Store)

Shopping

Tokyo Taito-ku Asakusa 1-28-3

A shop specializing in shichimi-togarashi (seven-spice chili pepper blend), a classic Tokyo favorite that's popularity has remain unchanged since the shop's founding in 1625. Along with Kyoto's Shichimiya Honpo and Nagano's Yawataya Isogoro, it's counted among the top three seven-spice chili pepper shops in Japan. Its spicy original blend featuring fragrant black sesame seeds and nicely scented sansho (Japanese pepper) is unique to the Kanto area. Customers can adjust the blend to their preferred flavor and spice level. It makes a great condiment for the dinner table or Asakusa souvenir, and people come from far and wide to buy it as a gift.
Edo Toys Nakamise Sukeroku

4.0

1 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Taito-ku Asakusa 2-3-1

"The only hobby shop in Japan specializing in small toys from the Edo period is located near the end of Nakamise Shopping Street. It sells miniature toys that originated during the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. The small toy animals with humorous expressions came about due to an Edo period ban on luxuries. During the period conspicuous consumption by wealthy merchants became illegal, including large and lavish toys. In response, artisans began making these tiny, elaborate items that made as small as possible or incorporated clever wordplay into their designs. These include little dogs with bamboo baskets referring to the Japanese character for ""laughter"" and red owls whose color is believed to have the power to protect people from evil."

雷門から仲見世通りをまっすぐ進み、伝法院通りも過ぎ、浅草寺の右側にある、日本唯一の江戸趣味小玩具店です。贅沢禁止令でサイズが制限されたことに端を発する小玩具ですが、外国人にとても人気があるようで、お店は大変にぎわっていました。ミニサイズ扇子などがとても可愛らしかったです。
Fujiya

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Taitou-ku Asakusa 2-2-15

This is a store in Asakusa that specializes in tenugui (a thin Japanese hand towel made of cotton) made with a traditional technique called “chusen-zome,” which consists of dyeing by pouring the color on the fabric and putting a special glue on areas not to be dyed. It is very popular in Asakusa for souvenirs, with its various tenugui dyed in the designs of lucky elements such as red sea bream, the Seven Deities and other designs of all seasons. Closed on Thursdays. Credit cards are not accepted.
Funawa Flagship Store

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Taitou-ku Asakusa 1-22-10

A well-established Japanese confectionery store and cafe featuring Japanese-style sweets in Asakusa. It is a famous store known for its “Imo Yokan” (Japanese sweet potato jellies). The first floor is a Japanese confectionery store and the second floor is a coffee shop where you can taste the popular sweet potato jellies and the adzuki bean-paste balls. The sweet potatoes are peeled by hand and the Japanese Sweet potato jellies are made by adding just sugar and salt—it has the true simple flavors of the potatoes themselves. The interior design of the store is of a nostalgic Japanese-style interior which is loved by people of various ages such as tourists, couples and local families.
Asakusa Kibi-dango Azuma

4.0

49 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Taitou-ku Asakusa 1-18-1

A kibi dango (sweet rice dumplings covered with kinako, ground soy beans) specialty shop, located in Nakamise Avenue in Asakusa, Taito City, Tokyo. The shop reproduces the dumplings from Nakamise of the Edo period, demonstrating how they are made in front of you. The sound of the voices of the sales staff wearing samue (monk’s work clothes) or kimono echoes throughout the shop, and it is always crowded with tourists both from Japan and abroad. The dumplings coated generously with kinako have an elegant sweet taste. Take out souvenir ‘kibi dango’ and ‘kibi sable’ are also popular.

Went to Asakusa just for this kibidango. In my memory, it’s still the same as it was four years ago when I first tried it. What I like about it is that it’s mini-sized, so it’s very easy-to-eat and...

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