Even when we boarded at the first stop on a line, it was standing-room only. Kaminari-mon, or Thunder Gate, is the main entrance to Senso-ji temple in Tokyo. Susan Glaser, Cleveland.com ...

Enter via Kaminarimon (Thunder Gate), and the bustling pedestrian street Nakamise-dori, where snacks and trinkets tempt. 2-3-1 Asakusa, Taito-ku; tel. 81 3 3842 0181.

Kappabashi or “kitchen town”: Kappabashi Street, about a 15-minute walk west from the Kaminarimon (Thunder Gate) in Asakusa, features about seven blocks of shops selling kitchen wares, dishes ...

TOKYO — The deafening roar I heard near the 17-mile mark of the Tokyo Marathon as I passed by the Kaminari Thunder Gate could have been the wind deity that guards the gate at the nearby Sensoji ...