Tokyo’s seasons are colored with festivals. Sanja Festival （Sanja Matsuri) of Asakusa Shrine, along with Kanda Festival and Sanno Festival, is one of 3 major festivals.Sanja Festival is also seen as the start of Tokyo’s summer.
They held the festival from 14 to 16 of May this year.
People take out the mikoshi (portable shrines) from Asakusa Shrine (miyadashi), carry the mikoshi on their shoulders and walk around the towns outside the shrine, then take the mikoshi back again to the shrine (miyairi). Local people wear special costumes (called happi) for the festival. Special paper lanterns were prepared.
Thousands of tourists gathered to see the festival. People see the Shint gods and the Buddhism gods as asme gods (in different shape) in the middle age in Japan. With this concept, Asakusa Shrine and Sensoji Temple, which stands in the same garen, were managed together until the Edo era. They became separate in the Meiji era.
The Tokyo Sky Tree Tower is under construction in Oshiage, Sumida ward, near Asakusa. The tower will be 634 meters high when it is completed in early 2012. Tokyo Tower is only 333 meters.Visitors were taking pictures with the tower in their back.
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