#028: Senso-ji (category: tourist spot)
Most Japanese kanji (refer to #017) characters can be pronounced in several ways. As for the kanji characters representing "Asakusa", you can read it "senso" as well as "asakusa". Since the word "ji" is used for a name of Buddhist temple in Japanese, "Senso-ji" can be paraphrased as "the temple in Asakusa".
As you probably know, Asakusa is a world-famous tourist spot gathering a great number of people every day from all around the world and Senso-ji, the oldest temple in Tokyo, is the landmark of this area. Kaminari-mon (refer to #027) is the entrance of this Senso-ji temple.
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#027: Kaminari-mon << >> #029: Tokyo Skytree
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