UENO Park

Ueno Park Ueno park is a large park known for the statue of Saigo Takamori standing at the park’s south entrance. He played an important role in Meiji Restoration and called the last Samurai. Covering 532,000 square meters, Ueno park is one of cherry blossom viewing site and includes Tokyo National Museum, National Museum of Western Art and Ueno zoo, the oldest zoo in Japan.The park grounds were originally part of Kan-eiji temple, one of the city’s largest temples of Tokugawa family during Edo period. At Meiji Restoration in 1868 the temple was destroyed in a battle between the Meiji government and loyalists of the overthrown Shogunate. Statue of Dr. […]