Word: asakusa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nervously buying tickets, gingerly stepping in, worriedly harkening to an unaccustomed roar, certain brave citizens of Tokyo patronized, last week, the first subway to be opened in the Far East. The new line, constructed after U. S. designs, stretches from the Tokyo railway terminus to the amusement park of Asakusa one mile and a half distant...
First Wayfarer: "There'll be no movies tonight?Asakusa Park (Nipponese Broadway) is running water a foot deep...