Ueno Park Taito

Taito , Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Kanto, Japan

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    Shrines & City Lights

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    Sengakuji Shrine:


    Where the famous 47 Ronin are buried. What are the 47 Ronin? I'm not going to go into it here, but for those who are interested, here's a link summarising the story:


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty-seve n_Ronin


    The shrine also included a museum to one side where items of some of the …

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    Temples and parks

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    On Wednesday we took the train to Asakusa. It was an unnaturally hot day - about 35 degrees and 90% humidity or something and somehow sunny.

    We looked through the markets along Nakamise Shopping Street, where I bought a fan (which became practical).

    The Sensoji Temple and Asakusajinja Shrine were both grand and beautiful. The …

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    Super crazy, friendly, pricey Tokyo

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    I stayed in Tokyo for around a week, but only actually spent a few days in the city itself....instead opting to go on day trips for the other days.

    On first arriving in the place, I loved it. Everyone seemed incredibly friendly and polite, and I was impressed by the way things just seemed to work: everything from the modern trains to the …

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    Day 5 - April 10th

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    A more cultural day in Tokyo started with a trip down Nakamise-Dori and to Sensoji Temple. Having bustled our way through the busy subways in Tokyo we arrived at the even busier traditional shopping area of Asakusa, and more specifically Nakamise Dori. This is one of the oldest shopping areas of Japan and is a warren of small alleys and streets …

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    What's not to love about Tokyo!!

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    ... hotel staff almost seemed embarresed about it and avoided our questioning. After we got past the riots we wandered through the Ueno Park. We were met with lots of young families with little toddlers running around everywhere. We soon discovered a massive ...

  • 2

    The Tokyo Fish Markets!

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    ... area, no one was willing to even try to fix my blackberry (a key was stuck).  So much for that... I walked on to Ueno park to see the Tosho-gu shrine, Kanei-ji temple pagoda and zoo, and various other statues and museums in the packed ...

  • 3

    A Rainy Day

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    ... rain and head to the museum. The coffee tasted like percolated death and burnt hair, but it was pretty. The National Museum is in Ueno park, which we had visited the day before. So we didn't have any trouble finding our way there. And when we ...

  • 4

    A Walk Through the City

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    ... something new to inspect. I'll post the photos separately because there are a few dozen. From there we found our way to Ueno park. It's a huge grounds and is home to several museums, a fountain lined with park benches, dense sections of trees, a ...

  • 5

    A long way down

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    ... for the day. In the evening I scooted off to Shinjuku again to see a site I had planned on seeing before arriving in Japan, Tokyo's skyline at night. At the Tokyo Metropolitan building you can go up to the top floor of either tower where there are ...

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    Moving to Asakusa...

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    ... it was nice to see, and once again the sun was beating down - I`ve barely seen a cloud since I arrived! Inside the grounds of Ueno Park is a zoo which I might have given a miss, but for the pandas inside (and it was really cheap to enter anyway). I`m ...

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    Exploring Tokyo

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    ... morning, we woke up ready to explore the city. First stop was Ueno, which appears to be a cultural mecca for Tokyo. Ueno Park reminded me of the Washington D.C. Mall - there were several cultural museums, art museums, science and history museums spread ...

  • 8

    kav 11 tokyo

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    ... day, we decided to spend it by walking as much of the city as we could.  we started by walking from our hotel to ueno park - about 2 km away. tokyo has two main parks in it - ueno and yoyogi (we will get to it later). ueno is the more ancient, with ...

  • 9

    Temples and parks

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    ... 15-20 white people the whole trip. After Asakusa, we caught the train to Ueno and took a leisurely stroll through the park. Ueno Park is very big and contains several large buildings within it, museums etc.Approaching the Toshogu Shrine was like stepping ...

  • 10

    More Tokyo

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    ... few streets where the shops aren't ultra-modern and it actually feels more like other cities in Japan than like Tokyo, which is cool. After lunch I headed into Ueno Park, which felt like entering an oasis in the middle of the busy city. Sort of like ...