Ueno is the place where you can see the real Japan. Regular people and business living life the Japanese way on a daily basis. Plenty of touristy stuff but if you want a taste of what life in Japan is really like, this is the place.

Ueno on a Saturday is the best place to be. Loads of street market, loads of shops, loads of restaurant. Visit the park, don't visit the zoo!

Ueno is a big train station on the Yamanote line and directly connected to Narita airport. Ueno Zoo, Ueno Park, and the Tokyo National Museum are located next to the station. In the Ameyayokocho street side there are many small restaurants and bars. Asakusa and Tokyo station are just a few stops on the subway.

You can come here at night as well and enjoy many small pubs. There is a kind of "red district" there as well, where we entered accidentially, and I felt quite strange there as I was the only woman except the "working" ladies there. But if you avoid entering it, you can find nice pubs, and restaurants. We went t... More

Ameya Yokocho market which follows the train tracks leading to Ueno Station is one of the world's great street markets. It is a very large and crowded area with clothing shops, restaurants, pachinko parlors, and food markets. A lot of fun!!!

This was our first visit to a Japanese shopping district. Located on both sides of the elevated JR line, it was easy to find. Anything you thought you wanted to eat (or not) can be easily found. This is not a covered shopping area, so have an umbrella handy if it rains.

I really enjoy this zoo, you can spend half a day without even noticing, If you can visit it byt the Sakura season or in any festival season, it would be the best! Many foods tents, and the sakuras are beautiful !! It gets really crowded, so try to reach it by train. The car jam/traffic is scary Oo!!

Spend an afternoon in Ueno. Stroll through the park. Visit the beautiful temples and shrines, enjoy different views of the amazing pagoda. If you like the Zoo, there the panda bears are the undisputed stars. By the way, the cleanest great Zoo I've ever seen. How do they manage to have the polar bear water so clean? Afterwards, when the... More

I am often in Japan for business and despite Ueno not getting the fanfare of other main Tokyo cities such as Shinjuku and Shibuya, I think Ueno is the best place for seeing unpresumptuous Japan. There is a beautiful park which has bonsai prize shows, flowering lotuses and hanami picnics depending on the season, as well as year round buskers,... More