Luckily Asakasa is home of some of the best knife shops in Tokyo. I visited almost all of them but found nothing that caught my attention...maybe next time.
After shopping for steel, lets see how the knife and sword tradition evolved. The best place to learn about this topic is the Edo-Tokyo museum.
In the Edo-Tokyo museum, amongst other things, they have build a small version of edo (tokyo's old name):
New this time is that they expended the exhibition with modern history. Here is a prospect from the 60ties:
After shopping for steel, lets see how the knife and sword tradition evolved. The best place to learn about this topic is the Edo-Tokyo museum.
In the Edo-Tokyo museum, amongst other things, they have build a small version of edo (tokyo's old name):
Here you can see one of the first sushi bars:
...or these pagers from the 90ties:
After spending a half day indoors, lets head out to one of the shinto shrines...
