Tokyo at Christmas.🎄
I’m leaving around the holidays. Suitcase 🧳 half-zipped. Last coffees. Last train rides where nobody looks up. I’ll miss the small rituals: the warm vending machine cans, the way Tokyo can make me feel anonymous and seen all at the same time.
This time of year hits different. Not sadness exactly—more like gratitude and bewilderment. Tokyo never begs me to stay. And I thought I wanted it to this time.
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In Asakusa’s Denbōin-dori they’ve hidden statues of all five thieves, but I only noticed two!
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The five-story pagoda at Sensō-ji stands beside the main hall as one of Asakusa’s key symbols. It is a Buddhist pagoda dedicated to Kannon, the bodhisattva of compassion, and represents the five elements in Buddhist cosmology (earth, water, fire, wind, sky).
The first pagoda here was built in 942 CE by the military commander Taira no Kinmasa. Over the centuries it was destroyed several times by fire and rebuilt, and in 1911 it was designated a national treasure. The old pagoda, together with the main hall, was burned down in the Tokyo air raids of 1945.
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An homage to Edo-period ukiyo-e:
stylish women of the “floating world,” symbolizing brief beauty – Old Tokyo.
Asakusa
t o k y o
Japan 🇯🇵
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