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- Traditional but trendy downtown walk in Yanaka
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- Yanaka is a talked area about where old and new combine. While old fashioned shops line the streets, the number of trendy independent shops has increased. While enjoying the feel of a downtown area, visitors can also enjoy exploring unique shops.
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- A day plan—Tokyo’s downtown culture in Asakusa, Ueno and Jimbocho
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- The Asakusa, Ueno, and Jimbocho area creates new cultures while continuing to preserve the traditional Japanese downtown atmosphere. This plan introduces a route starting from Jimbocho, famous for its stores of old books, and goes around Ueno Park towards Asakusa. Enjoy the present downtown area from old-fashioned spots to the latest dining restaurants.
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- Tokyo National Museum
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- Tokyo Taitou-ku Uenokouen 13-9
- This is a national museum located within Ueno-onshi-koen Park that was established in 1872. Five buildings including the main building serve as exhibit halls, although it has several other facilities such as archives. With an enormous number of collections, it has accumulated over 116,000 items of Oriental art and ancient relics, mostly from Japan. A great number of National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties are also included inside. The museum also holds special exhibitions that run three to five times a year.
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- Ueno-onshi-koen Park
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- Tokyo Taitou-ku Uenokouen - Ikenohata 3
- This public park in Taito City is also called Ueno Park or Ueno Forest. In the Edo period this park was the premises of Toeizan Kaneiji Temple. The park has been selected as one of the 100 best places to see Japanese cherry blossoms, and in spring a large crowd turns out for hanami parties. Inside the park is the famous statue of Saigo Takamori, as well as cultural facilities such as the Tokyo National Museum, the National Museum of Nature and Science, the National Museum of Western Art, and the Ueno Zoo.
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- Shinobazu Pond
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- Tokyo Taitou-ku Uenokouen
- This is a natural pond located within Ueno-onshi-koen Park. The pond is divided up into three sections, the Lotus Pond that is covered by lotus plants, the Cormorant Pond which serves as a breeding ground for the birds, and the Boat Pond for small rowboats. Bentendo Temple on Benten Island, in the center of the pond is an octagonal structure dedicated to the goddess Benzaiten. The pond is about an eight minutes’ walk from Yushima Station. Known as a famous place for cherry blossoms, visitors can also enjoy various flowers blooming throughout the four seasons.
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- Ueno Toshogu
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- Tokyo Taitou-ku Uenokouen 9-88
- This was established in 1627 to enshrine Tokugawa Ieyasu, and it also enshrines Tokugawa Yoshimune and Tokugawa Yoshinobu. The shrine is located within Ueno-onshi-koen Park and after undergoing major renovations in 1651, it escaped calamities such as wars and earthquakes that followed, and is an important spot to see authentic architecture from the Edo period. The heavily gilded and splendid main building is also known as the shrine of gold. There is a peony garden on the premises and the shrine’s “peony festival” that takes place in spring is well-known.
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- Ueno Zoo
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- Tokyo Taitou-ku Uenokouen 9-83
- This urban zoo located in Taito City’s Ueno-onshi-koen Park is Japan’s oldest zoo, having opened in 1882. Inside are more than 500 types of animals, and it is most famous for giant panda in particular. The zoo is breeding and displaying the world’s three rarest animals that include the pygmy hippopotamus and okapi as well as the panda. From the 1990s the animal enclosures were refurbished to provide a space for patrons to see animals in more natural surroundings.
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- National Museum of Nature and Science
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- Tokyo Taitou-ku Uenokouen 7-20
- Established in 1877, this is Japan’s largest general science museum. The permanent exhibitions include the Global Gallery, which focuses on the history of life on earth and traces the progress of humankind as well as science and technology, the Japan Gallery, which details Japan’s nature and the history of the Japanese people, and Theater 360, which screens films that can be seen in all directions, 360 degrees around. Special exhibitions are held several times throughout the year, and it is a very popular spot with many people lining up to visit the museum even on holidays.
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- Taito City Edo Shitamachi Traditional Craft Museum
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- Tokyo Taitou-ku Uenokouen 2-1
- This museum located in Ueno-onshi-koen Park opened in 1980 as a place to teach future generations about old Tokyo and its shitamachi (working-class urban neighborhoods) as much of old Tokyo was lost due to massive destruction caused by the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the wartime fires of 1945, and the reconstruction following these disasters. The first floor exhibits are part of a recreated shitamachi from the Taisho period with remnants of the Edo scenery including a nagaya (long wooden house), small-time candy store and a rickshaw. The second floor exhibits present items such as implements of daily life and documents mainly pertaining to the Taito City.
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- Ameyoko Shopping Street (Ameyoko)
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- Tokyo Taitou-ku Ueno 6-10-7
- Located in Tokyo’s Taito City, this is an approximately 500 meter-long market street along the Yamanote Line tracks between Okachimachi and Ueno Stations. The street is lined with all types of shops including grocery stores, clothing stores and miscellaneous good stores, and is well-known for being crammed with people buying goods for the New Year’s holidays during the year-end season.
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- Kyu-Iwasaki-tei Gardens
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- Tokyo Taitou-ku Ikenohata 1-3-45
- This is a Tokyo Government-run park located in Taito City. Since the premises with its garden was the principal residence of the Iwasaki clan, who presided over the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, it has been designated as an Important Cultural Property of the country. There is a Japanese-style house based on the classical shoin style of architecture and a Western-style mansion featuring Jacobean motifs of 17th-century England. The impressive balance achieved in the juxtaposition of these two structures had a significant influence on Japanese architecture.
