Spots in Asakusa Area

  • Riverside Cafe Cielo y Rio Kuramae
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tokyo Taitou-ku Kuramae 2-15-5MIRROR1F
    A café located along the Sumida River whose name means “Sky and River.” The airy interior includes an open terrace and can accommodate large advance registration parties of up to 180 people. Cielo y Rio provides a wide selection of hot, comforting, and familiar cuisine, including the chef’s signature charcuterie dishes. The first floor houses the café’s spacious kitchen, breezy customer seating, and loft. From the third floor, reachable by elevator, the café offers a sweeping view of the Sumida River directly below as well as Tokyo Skytree towering overhead.
  • Kamawanu (Asakusa Branch)
    Shopping
    Tokyo Taitou-ku Asakusa 1-29-6
    A hand dyed tenugui hand towel shop located a five minute walk from Tobu Railway Asakusa Station. The shop's tenugui are made with bleached cotton dyed by the hands of artisans according to a technique dating back to the Meiji period. Despite being made of the same material and being of limited size, the diverse patterns tenugui come in give them a highly seasonal aspect. Popular with international tourists, they also make great souvenirs for people living outside Japan. The shop also sells renowned select handmade accessories and tenugui dyed in patterns sold only at this specific shop. Finally, the shop accepts orders for existing tenugui with a customer's name added or even completely original designs.
  • Mirror
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Tokyo Taitou-ku Kuramae 2-15-5
    A commercial complex located along the Sumida River in 2 Chome Kuramae, Taito City, Tokyo. Tenants include a cafe and restaurant with a private, karaoke-equipped room able to seat up to 40 people; an art gallery also available for use as a film studio; a table tennis salon bar; a party space; and a rooftop bar.
  • Tamahime Inari-jinja Shrine
    Travel / Tourism
    Tokyo Taitou-ku Kiyokawa 2-13-20
    A Shinto shrine standing along Tamahimeinari-dori Street in 2 Chome Kiyokawa, Taito City. Dedicated to the god Uka no Mitama no Mikoto, records state it was founded in the year 760. The Kutsu no Megumi Matsuri Ichi event is a large-scale shoe market held on the shrine's grounds by local shoe makers. Other shoe-related events held at the shrine include memorial services for old, worn out shoes; a shoe-shaped portable shrine parade; and the presentation of the Japan Shoes Best Dresser Award.
  • Ressources (Asakusa Shop)
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    3.5
    7 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tokyo Taitou-ku Asakusa 3-31-7
    The Asakusa location of Higashi-Azabu Western confectionary shop Ressources. The shop's name means source and transmission in French. The Japanese-styled shop is housed inside of a renovated old private home with a traditional tiled roof. The shop's antique-styled showcases are filled with plain and simple-designed Western confections like cookies, apple pies, and choux creme. The shops tarts, made with seasonal fruits, are particularly popular. The shop also has an eat-in space where you can enjoy your just-purchased treat with a cup of tea.

    浅草寺裏手にある小さな洋菓子店。銀座松屋などにも入ってます。かわいい缶入りのお菓子は、予約がないとろくに買えず、袋はいちいち有料、それもなんだか迷惑そうに言われます。包装や会計もやたら遅く、なんだかモヤモヤします。ひとつひとつがすごくイヤな感じというわけではないですが、総体的には感じのいい店とは言えないです。

  • Sakamori Shippo Kogeiten
    Travel / Tourism
    Tokyo Taitou-ku Motoasakusa 1-2-1
    An accessory shop and traditional shippo-yaki cloisonne ware artisan studio. The shop's showcases contain around 100 cloisonne ware bracelets, pendants, tie pins, and other items at any given time. One time cloisonne ware classes are conducted in the studio area, and reservations are accepted starting from groups of four. Classes take between 30 minutes and two hours. Sakamori Shippo Kogeiten also holds more serious classes four times a month for those with a deeper interest in the craft.
  • Takenokodo
    Shopping
    Tokyo Taitou-ku Matsugaya 3-17-13
    A curio and antique shop located an 11 minute walk from Tawaramachi Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line. The stately shop, built with reused wood, stands along the Kappabashi Kitchenware Town near Tokyo's downtown Asakusa area. The owner has over 20 years of experience buying and selling antiques, and here you'll find curios, antique art, paintings, calligraphic works, wall scrolls, Chinese art, tea implements, precious stones and metals, and more. A wide selection of curios and antiques are displayed on the shop's sales floor for shoppers to peruse. Particularly stunning is the shop's abundant array of iron kettles from the late Edo, Meiji, and Taisho periods. The shop also has a tea room visitors can view.
  • Cafe W.E
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    4.0
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tokyo Taitou-ku Hanakawado 1-1-30
    This beer terrace is in Sumida Park on the banks of the Sumida River. Guests take in the river and Tokyo Sky Tree from the open terrace seating. The simply designed building is mainly made of recycled, environmentally friendly materials. The cafe features a gallery wall for guests to interact with each other, and the menu includes hot sandwiches and other light fare. In the evening they offer draft beer, glass wine, and highballs.

    Riverside cafe with light meals. Seats are available indoor and outside. Teriyaki chicken sandwich (oven sand) was yummy.

  • Tokutarou
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tokyo Taitou-ku Asakusa 3-36-2
    The Tokutarou store is located just a ten-minute walk from Tsukuba Express, Asakusa Station. This is a historic Japanese confectionery store, located in Asakusa, which opened in 1903. The extremely famous Kintsuba, which is a mildly sweet bean paste confection, is made only from adzuki beans from Tokachi, Hokkaido, and is delicately wrapped in thin dough. The adzuki red-bean savory rice, sekihan, is also similarly popular. One can also enjoy kanoko, mamedaifuku, Dorayaki that well feature the adzuki flavor, as well as a variety of other Japanese confections, such as chestnut crumbs or manju, and nerikiri. The three items including the Kintsuba and Dorayaki can be shipped directly from the store to anywhere in Japan. The Kintsuba can be ordered online as well.
  • Asakusa Cafe La Grande Calice
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    4.0
    35 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tokyo Taitou-ku Asakusa 2-4-2
    This cafe on Asakusa's Rokku-dori Street has a striking appearance, with a red tent and glass. With a comfortable space like a cafe in Paris, you can go there from seven in the morning. It has an offering covering from morning to teatime, with a morning menu including croque monsieur and salads, a lunch menu with hayashi (Japanese-style beef stew) rice and galettes, and dessert menu with matcha ice cream and pancakes topped with chunky red bean paste. It also has a wine menu and a wide variety of barrel hard ciders which can be enjoyed together with snacks such as assorted cheese, olives and pickles.

    What a disappointment ! Had high expectation, but the only good thing here is the wine, which they do not produce. The French Garrett they serve was the worst I ever had. It came with a huge salad...

  • cafe michikusa
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    5.0
    7 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tokyo Taitou-ku Asakusa 4-6-5 Iwaoka Building 1F
    Cafe michikusa is in the middle of the residential district north of Sensoji temple. With its concept of Easy fun and connections, it offers patrons a place to have a low-key time in the city. People can talk with friends, sit and read alone, or throw themselves into work. This shop welcomes them all with carefully brewed coffee and tea, handmade desserts, and lunch. There's a park in front of the shop and space for strollers so it's perfect for families, too.

    Love their pancakes and coffee. Saw the food ordered by the other customers, looks good and yummy. The cafe is small with nice ambiance.

  • Chiffon Cake Shop Otaco
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    4.5
    15 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tokyo Taitou-ku Asakusa 3-5-1
    A rice-flour chiffon cake specialist. They use ingredients like domestic rice flour, cane sugar, and domestic canola oil to always offer safe sweets. Their cake is marked by its chewy, moist rice-flour texture. They have an array of flavors including plain, cocoa, mocha earl grey, matcha milk, walnut-raisin and more. They offer it in easy-to-eat pieces, or whole cakes for gifting.

    This is such a cute bakery and perfect for gluten-free travellers as all the chiffon cakes are made with rice flour. All the flavours I tried were delicious, but my favourites were green tea and...

  • Funawa Cafe Asakusa
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    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。

  • SyuRo
    Shopping
    Tokyo Taitou-ku Torigoe 1-16-5
    A select shop selling original items by SyuRo, a design company which plans and directs the creation of goods for everyday living. The shop sells a selection of original SyuRo products for everyday life which reverberate with all five senses. One of the great things is that all of the shop's wears are simple in design and will be able to be used for years and years. SyuRo's simple metal rectangular boxes, for example, are created carefully one at a time by artisans in Japan and were awarded a Good Design Award in 2017. Perfect for storing cutlery, stationary, letters, and more, they will be able to be used until they're considered antiques.
  • Sokichi
    Travel / Tourism
    Tokyo Taitou-ku Kaminarimon 2-1-14
    Glass makers in Asakusa. Offering a wide variety of original collections and high-quality glass items perfect for bars and restaurants. Collaborations with cut glass painters and artists and provides a trade in service for antique, designer and rate glass items. The workshop on the traditional craft of Edo Kiriko cut glass is highly recommended for tourists and foreigners. All classes are thoroughly taught so even a beginner can create a beautiful piece of cut glass in just one and a half hours.
  • Nishiyama Sweets
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    4.0
    11 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tokyo Taitou-ku Kaminarimon 2-19-10
    Nishiyama Sweets is a Japanese dessert store by Exit 2 of Asakusa Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line. A traditional store established 165 years ago with Asakusa-style classic Japanese hospitality and carefully crafted desserts with traditional Japanese flavors. Purchase manju cakes, perfect for gifts, or ice-cream from the store front. Or enter the Japanese cafe for a relaxing atmosphere and enjoy their traditional flavors. Nishiyama Sweets is famous for their delicious Fuku-Fuku Manju made with only wheat, sugar and red beans. Their Special Nishiyama Anmitsu, piled with dango balls, fruit and ice cream, as well as their homemade ice cream, are both incredibly popular with foreign tourists.

    東京メトロ銀座線の浅草駅2番出口の目の前に有る、江戸時代から続く現在の店主で六代目の老舗の甘味処です。厳選した素材を用いて伝統の磨かれた技で造られる磨かれた味わいの餡や、それ自体が無味無臭で誤魔化しの効かない寒天を用いた美味しい処取りの 特製 西山あんみつ はインスタ映えする派手さは無いが素材を活かした深い味わいを感じます。

  • Teresawa Cake and Bread
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    4.5
    2 Reviews
    Shopping
    Tokyo Taitou-ku Asakusa 6-18-16
    An old bakery established in Asakusa in 1950. A classic Japanese store surrounded by buildings with an unchanging style. Their popular sandwiches are freshy made every morning, along with their breads, dessert breads and cakes which regular customers always have their eyes on. Try their Fresh Cream Cornet, their most popular item which has appeared in media. This exquisite soft bread is full of sweet cream and is always available in store.

    言問橋西の交差点から徒歩3分。小さいながらも個性的で尚且つ美味しいパン屋さんです。名物は甘みを抑えた優しい味の生クリームロールパン!とても美味しいので是非一度は食べてみてほしいパンです。が、個人的なお勧めはイカゲソパンです!揚げたイカゲソが挟んでサンドイッチですが、イカゲソの塩味とパンの甘みが絶妙でとても個性的で美味しいです。これは一押しです。その他にも美味しいパンが揃っています。店主も親切丁寧...

  • Tamaya Asakusa
    Style / Fashion
    Tokyo Taitou-ku Asakusa 1-28-2
    A natural stone accessory store in Asakusa. Find a wide selection of natural stones and accessories. This Asakusa-style store is a wide-open space that feels like a European antiques store, decorated in magnificent gems. See their original accessories made from a deep-ocean blue toned gem. The deep-blue is not only perfect for any season but has healing qualities too. When you don't know what to choose from among the wide variety of gems, the staff can help you find stones that match your birthday, constellation, or zodiac sign.
  • Andesu MATOBA
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    4.0
    26 Reviews
    Shopping
    Tokyo Taitou-ku Asakusa 3-3-2
    Andesu MATOBA is a showroom bakery that makes and sells over 20 different varieties of anpan (bread rolls filled with sweat red-beans). It is a well-established bakery that was first founded in 1924. There are lots of unique rolls on their koshian bean paste menu and their melon bread made with uguisu-an (green red-beans). Andesu MATOBA has been popular for many years, even appearing multiple times on television. This bakery on the corner of Asakusa Kanondo-ura Intersection is perfect for getting bread as you sightsee around the area.

    今回は 店舗入口の黒板(添付 写真参照)を見て 《小倉あんぱん(小倉あん)170円税込》《瀬戸内レモンあんぱん(レモンピール入り白餡)180円税込》《メロンあんぱん(うぐいす餡)170円税込》を購入しました。(白餡)は あまり好きな餡ではなかったのですが 《瀬戸内レモンあんぱん》では レモンピールが入っているだけで 香りが爽やかで 夏に楽しみ《あんぱん》として ピッタリです。 こちらは 季節...

  • Hand Baked Senbei Rice Crackers, Ichibanya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tokyo Taitou-ku Asakusa 1-31-1
    Ichibanya is a rice cracker store that sells hand-baked rice crackers and Kaminari-okoshi (thunder sweet rice cracker) on Nakamise-dori Street in Asakusa. Easily get a rice cracker from this traditional store established in 1881 to eat as you walk around Asakusa. Ichibanya carefully selects the soy sauce for their famous soy sauce crackers, giving them a mild flavor that everyone, from child to elderly, can enjoy. There is a wide variety of other specialty flavors including black pepper and yuzu citrus pepper.

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