OLD TOKYO · SHITAMACHI

Taito

Taito is old Tokyo — shitamachi. Senso-ji's great red lantern and the snacks of Nakamise, Ueno Park's museums and cherry trees, the market energy under the tracks at Ameyoko, and Kappabashi's knife and cookware street. Then the hidden side: Kuramae's warehouse cafés and leather workshops on the Sumida, and Yanaka Ginza, where the Showa-era lanes (and the cats) survived the war and the earthquake.