Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ga mafi yawan karni na ashirin, Asakusa ya kasance babban yanki na 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 harin bam na 10 ga Maris, 1945 na Tokyo.
Ka yi haƙuri. 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.