You can wander the streets south of Sensō-ji temple for hours, darting in and out of the gaudy tourist arcade called Nakamise-dōri, get delightfully lost, load up on souvenirs, and stop off for conveyor belt sushi or tempura (an Asakusa specialty) or an izakaya meal whenever you like. Asakusa is in the old part of Tokyo, the low city (shitamachi), and it’s full of faithfully reconstructed historical buildings—reconstructed because Asakusa was destroyed in both 1923 and 1945.
