Ueno 上野
Ueno Zoo opened in 1882: the oldest in Japan, on 14.3 hectares within the park.
The name goes back to the feudal lord Tōdō Takatora, who saw in the land a resemblance to his domain of Ueno, in present-day Iga (Mie). In 1625 the Kan'ei-ji temple was built here, the burial place of the Tokugawa shōguns, and a pilgrims' neighbourhood grew up around it. On 4 July 1868, during the Boshin War, the Battle of Ueno destroyed much of the Kan'ei-ji; on its ruins, in 1873, Japan's first public park was created. The zoo opened in 1882, growing out of a menagerie attached to the natural history museum. Ueno Station, opened in 1883 as the terminus of the Tōhoku line, became for a century Tokyo's gateway to the north of the country, and Ameyoko was born after the war as a black market between Ueno and Okachimachi stations.
Tokyo
Keisei-Ueno, Ueno
