Asakusa Underground Street
Completed in 1955, the Asakusa Underground Street is said to be the oldest surviving underground shopping street in Japan. It was opened by local Asakusa merchants as a shopping arcade connected directly to Asakusa Station on the Ginza subway line. The ceiling is low, and small eateries steeped in the atmosphere of the Showa era line its curving passage. Fluorescent light and well-worn tiled walls create a strange sense of time, and it is surprising to find such a dense other world just beneath the tourist district of Asakusa.
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Nearby liminal spaces
- Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station Passage (Model for an Anomaly in The Exit 8) (3.2 km)
- Gyoko Underground Gallery (4.3 km)
- Tokyo Station, Keiyo and Musashino Line Passage (4.7 km)
- Shiodome Sio-Site Underground Walkway (6.1 km)
- Shinyo Building 2F (Akasaka Backrooms) (6.8 km)
- Sunshine City Exhibition Hall A (7.2 km)
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