Asakusa Ryokan Toukaisou

... part of the street you need. Accommodation I stayed at the following hotels and hostels on my trip: Tokyo: Asakusa Hostel Toukaisou - ultra clean hostel next to Tawaramachi station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza line. Booked it using Hostel World and the ...

... umeboshi (Japanese salted plum), and shochu highball and lemon or grapefruit, I see a drink called Denku Buran, which is described as Asakusa's original liqueur, so what am I to do but order it. I am really impressing everyone now - my little mate across ...

... Tokyo subway system to Tawaramachi station which was some what disappointingly easy and was soon making my way a few streets to Toukaisou Ryokan where I was staying. The trouble here is that there are no street names in Japan apart form the major avenues ...

... cherry blossom above a small restaurant. They are very beautiful. On my second day, I spent most of the day wandering around Asakusa park which is a bustling place of stalls and attractions. Kaminarimon was on the list of photo's to take and i can now say ...

... really cosy, especially with the under floor heating keeping the place warm. About 5 minutes walk from the Ryokan is the area Asakusa, with its famous 7th century shrine Senso-Ji. You enter through the Kaminari-mon (thunder gate) and into a double row ...