Tourist Attractions Ueno Park - Tokyo

Ueno Park is a tourist attraction in Japan is very famous for its cherry flowers are very beautiful. If you want to enjoy the beauty of this flower, Ueno Park is a spacious garden, located in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Was formerly the site of a former Kan'ei-ji, a temple closely associated with the Tokugawa Shogunate, who built the temple to guard Edo Castle, then regarded as misfortune. Temple was then destroyed during the Boshin War.

Ueno Park was established through a grant of land empire by Emperor Taisho in 1924 the official name of the park is Ueno Onshi Koen, translated as "Ueno Imperial Gift Park". In Ueno park stands a statue of a very well known that Saigo Takamori with a dog. The story is legendary in the country of Japan, associated with the loyalty of a dog to his master. Until the dog (Hachiko) enshrined the statue in Shibuya

Here also there are 3 museums namely: Tokyo National Museum, National Science Museum and the National Museum of Western Art, a concert hall, a shrine Tosho-gu, Akihabara Pond with its Benzaiten shrine, sacred Gojo, and Ueno zoo, making the area into area recreation and tourism for the inhabitants of the most popular Japanese and foreigners.

Ueno Park is the most famous tourist sites and has become Japan's most desirable to do hanami, picnic while enjoying the flowering of cherry blossoms.