Take a walk around Ueno Zoo / Ueno Onshi Park / bar hopping in Ameyoko

Between Ueno Park area, with its cultural facilities, and Ameyoko area, packed with a variety of retails shop and restaurant, Ueno has two totally different faces.

Ueno Zoological Gardens is only place in japan where you can see the okapi, the giant panda, and the pygmy hippopotamus, which are three of the rarest animals in the world.

People who want to enjoy a lively atmosphere, go to Ameyoko.
You will love shopping as shopkeepers shout out energetically. Since they have everything, including food and all kind of miscellaneous goods, it is the perfect place to look for souvenirs. In addition, you can also find an area nearby where there are many popular taverns. It is also fun to do some “ladder-drinking”(pub crawl), by walking around to many different shops and drinking.

JR Ueno station Shinobazu Exit.
This is most nearest exit to Ueno Shinobazu pond.
JR Ueno station Shinobazu Exit

area:
Taito-Ku, Tokyo

Genre:
Walking

LEVEL:
Beginner
Traveling time (not including breaks):
1.5 hours
Distance:
About 2km
Access:
Utunomiya/Takasaki Line,Keihin touhoku Line,Yamanote Line,Jouban Line
Tokyo Metro Ginza Line,Hibiya line
「上野駅 JR Ueno Station」

Shinobazu Pond in Ueno Onshi Park.
This pond is natural pond in the Ueno Park.
This pond is famous for lotus flowers and blooms from the middle of July to the middle of August.
Shinobazu Pond in Ueno Onshi Park

Shinobazu Pond Benten.
The Shinobazu Pond Benten was built during the Kanei period in the early Edo period.
Shinobazu Pond Benten

Shimizu Kannondou
Shimizu Kanondo is a temple resembling Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto.
Shimizu Kannondou

Ueno Toushouguu
In 4 years of Kenji (1627), Tokugawa Shogun Ieyasu of criticism told that he wanted me to make a place where my soul would last so long and built.
Ueno Toushouguu

Ueno Toushouguu Main Holl
Ueno Toushouguu Main Holl

Ueno Zoo
9: 30 ~ 17: 00 (admission and admission tickets are sold until 16:00)

Brown Bear
Brown Bear

pygmy hippopotamus
Hippo

Gorilla
Gorilla

Ameyoko is a shopping district that has about 400 shops around 500 meters below the elevated Yamanote line from Ueno station.
Ameyayokochou
Many of foods from the shops located in the Ameyoko are delicious and cheap.
Every shop is unique and suitable for bar hopping.
Let’s taste the popular IZAKAYA by going around various shops!

Ameyoko fruit bar
Cut fruit is sold 100yen per piace. Pineapple is most popular.
Ameyoko fruit bar

Ameyoko have many standing bars for you want a quick drink.

Izakaya”Daitouryou”
From the foundation in 1951, the popular tavern in Ameyoko “Daitouryou”.
Boiled horse’s stew is a popular,shop crowded every day.Izakaya"Daitouryou"

grilled assorted chicken 450 yen
grilled assorted chicken 450 yen

“Nikuno Ooyama”
Directly managed meat wholesaler founded in 1932. There is space for standing drinking and sitting in the common-people store, and You can savor specialty cattle at affordable price.
Nikuno Ooyama

“Yamituki Mentee” 120yen.
Minced meat of good quality can be tasted because it is a meat wholesale.
Addictive Mentee 120yen