Ka cika wannan magana: A kusan dukan ƙarni na ashirin, Asakusa ta kasance babban wurin nishaɗi a Tokyo. "Rokku" ko "Gundumar ta shida" sanannen sanannen yanki ne na wasan kwaikwayo, wanda ke nuna shahararrun silima kamar Denkikan. An nuna shekarun zinariya na Asakusa a cikin littafin Yasunari Kawabata "The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa" (1930; fassarar Turanci, 2005). Yankin ya lalace sosai sakamakon hare-haren bam na Amurka a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na II, musamman ma
10 ga Maris 1945 da aka yi wa Tokyo bam. An sake gina yankin bayan yaƙin, amma yanzu Shinjuku da sauran yankuna masu launi a cikin birni sun zarce shi, a matsayinsa na gundumar nishaɗi.