Asagusa Kannon Temple

It is the spiritual center of the city , not that holy anyway as it is a place of worship for asking commercial success ad good times ! Still we did all the rituals , washing our hands and fuming our heads! Writting down our prayers and hanging them . The temple as erected in 628 after 2 brothers fished out of the river Sumidagawa a golden image of Kannon . The brothers after this miracle became monks and founded the monastery There is some shops street inside , shops lying within the temple precinct along the stone paved approach hawk and you find everything there from the kitschiest souvenirs to genuine gems of Edo crafmanship . Old fans, traditional oiled-paper umbrellas, miniature old dolls, wooden combs, hair ornments all hand made , straw sandals, you name it ! We saw a man dressed as a geisha in a rickshaw , an actor going to the theatre maybe. He gently let me take a picture .