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Tourists visit Senso-ji temple in Asakusa under heavy snow

TOKYO, Japan - A woman poses for a photo at the Kaminarimon (Thunder Gate) of the Senso-ji temple in Asakusa, Tokyo, under a record-breaking heavy fall of snow on Feb. 8, 2014, with other tourists passing by.

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Panda bus offers free rides to sightseers in Tokyo's Asakusa district

TOKYO, Japan - A bus in the shape of a giant panda runs under the gate of Imado Shrine in Tokyo's Asakusa district on April 9, 2010. The bus offers free rides on a circular route stopping at eight main tourist spots in the district including the Thunder Gate of Sensoji Temple, the old Hanayashiki amusement park and Imado Shrine, popular among young women who believe it can help them to tie the knot.

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Panda bus offers free rides to sightseers in Tokyo's Asakusa dist

TOKYO, Japan - A bus in the shape of a giant panda runs under the gate of Imado Shrine in Tokyo's Asakusa district on April 9, 2010. The bus offers free rides on a circular route stopping at eight main tourist spots in the district including the Thunder Gate of Sensoji Temple, the old Hanayashiki amusement park and Imado Shrine, popular among young women who believe it can help them to tie the knot. (Kyodo)

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Asakusa-dori Avenue

Like photograph #2276, this is a northern view from the entrance of Nakamise, the present location of Kaminarimon (Thunder Gate). The shopping area between Kaminarimon and Niomon is called Nakamise. Legend has it that the priests of Sensoji Temple asked the local people to keep the temple grounds clean and in return gave them permission to set up shops there. Buildings of brick construction were erected in 1885 in imitation of the Ginza Street. Probably taken around 1896.==Date:1904, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐99‐0]

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Thunder god of nitenmon gate at nikko daishuin temple

The Niten Gate of Daiyuin enshrining the tomb of the Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu has a Jikokuten and a Komokuten to the right and left in the front and deities of the wind and thunder at the back. The deity of thunder is painted red, and the deity of wind green.The two are guardians against disaster and misfortune. The expression of the thunder deity boiling with rage is impressive.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number8‐25‐0]