Japan
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Taito

Ueno

If you want to get a feel for old , Ueno in the district is a good place to start. Entirely lacking in high-rise condos or whiz-bang shopping malls, by Tokyo standards it's distinctly downmarket, in contrast to places like , but that means that eating, shopping and drinking are all affordably priced.
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  • Type: Neighborhood with 3,710 residents
  • Description: town located in Taitō-ku, Tokyo
  • Also known as: “Uenochō”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tokyo National Museum and National Museum of Western Art.

Museum
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The or TNM is an art museum in Ueno Park in the ward of , . It is one of the four museums operated by the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, is considered the oldest national museum and the largest art museum in Japan.

Museum
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The is the premier public art gallery in specializing in art from the Western tradition. The museum is in the Ueno Park in , central . It received 1,162,345 visitors in 2016.

Museum
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The is in the northeast corner of Ueno Park in Tokyo. The museum has exhibitions on pre-Meiji science in Japan. It is the venue of the taxidermied bodies of the legendary dogs Hachikō and Taro and Jiro.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Akihabara and Bunkyo.

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, or Akiba in slang, is 's "Electric Town" on the eastern side of the central ward. The area houses thousands of shops selling every technological gadget you can imagine, from computers to gaming consoles and vacuums to DVDs, at reasonable prices.

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Bunkyō is in , north of the Imperial Palace. The name means roughly "Capital of Culture" and, indeed, it's best known as the home of the sprawling University of Tokyo and a series of aristocratic parks and villas.

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is a part of Tokyo's downtown district, best known for its many temples, particularly Sensō-ji, Tokyo's largest Buddhist temple.

Ueno

Latitude
35.71063° or 35° 42′ 38″ north
Longitude
139.77536° or 139° 46′ 31″ east
Population
3,710
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
Open location code
8Q7XPQ6G+74
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13090023076
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Geo­Names ID
1849417
Wiki­data ID
Q576781
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Ueno” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أوينو”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ueno”
  • Bashkir: “Уэно кварталы”
  • Catalan: “Ueno”
  • Chinese: “上野”
  • Czech: “Ueno”
  • Dutch: “Ueno”
  • Esperanto: “Ueno”
  • Finnish: “Ueno”
  • French: “Ueno”
  • German: “Ueno”
  • Hebrew: “אואנו”
  • Hungarian: “Ueno”
  • Indonesian: “Ueno”
  • Italian: “Ueno”
  • Japanese: “Ueno”
  • Japanese: “うえの”
  • Japanese: “上野”
  • Korean: “우에노”
  • Persian: “اوئنو”
  • Polish: “Ueno”
  • Portuguese: “Ueno”
  • Russian: “квартал Уэно”
  • Slovenian: “Ueno”
  • Spanish: “Ueno”
  • Swedish: “Ueno, Tokyo”
  • Swedish: “Ueno”
  • Thai: “อุเอะโนะ”
  • Thai: “อูเอโนะ”
  • Turkish: “Ueno”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Ueno”. Photo: z tanuki, CC BY 3.0.