About Senso-ji
Tradition says that in 628 two fishermen brothers pulled a statue of Kannon out of their net in the river now called the Sumida, and the temple grew from that story. You enter through the Kaminarimon, under a red lantern almost four meters tall, and continue along the roughly 250 meters of Nakamise, a street with about 70 shops selling sweets, fans and souvenirs.
The main hall and the five-story pagoda were destroyed in the bombing of March 10, 1945 and rebuilt in the following decades. In front of the hall, incense smoke rises nonstop, and many people wave it toward themselves with their hands, asking for good health. Inside the halls, photos are usually prohibited; in the courtyards, they are generally allowed.
