On a busy afternoon in Tokyo's Asakusa district, a tour guide leads a small group to a sidewalk outside a branch of clothing chain Uniqlo, where he produces a tape recorder.
The Asakusa Samba Carnival, a late-summer Tokyo highlight, returns following a four-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with passionate Brazilian music and explosive percussion filling a street of downtown Asakusa full of spectators.