
Asakusa Shrine
Also known as Asakusa-jinja
1649
building
Asakusa Shrine sits just east of the great Senso-ji temple and honors the two fishermen brothers who, by tradition, netted the golden Kannon image that founded the temple in the year 628, together with the local elder who first enshrined…
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