Our visit to Tokyo could not be complete in anyway without a visit to Asakusa's Sensoji Temple...
A wall of sake barrels at the temple, which is so typical of a Japanese shrine...
Look at the crowds...
Sensoji temple is dedicated to the Bodhisattva Kannon (or Avalokiteśvara). According to legend, a statue of the Kannon was found in the Sumida River in 628 AD by two fishermen. The chief of their village, Hajino Nakamoto, recognized the sanctity of the statue and enshrined it by remodeling his own house into a small temple in Asakusa so that the villagers could worship Kannon...
The first temple was founded here in 645 AD, which makes it the oldest temple in Tokyo. During the early years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Sensoji was dedicated as a temple of the Tokugawa clan...
The shrine was really crowded...
...with little space to step in!
During the Second World War II, the temple was bombed and destroyed only to be rebuilt later and is considered as a symbol of rebirth and peace to the Japanese people...
A symbol of modern Tokyo as visible from Sensoji Temple...
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