Ueno Park

Ueno Park, in Taito ward, is home to Tokyo's most famous cherry trees, art galleries, museums, temples, a zoo, street entertainers, the odd proselytizer, and more than the odd crow.The surrounding Ueno district is a shitamachi (working & merchant class town) in Taito ward, and is served by JR Ueno station, which is a shinkansen (bullet train) stop.Ueno Park has something memorable for everyone: casual tourist, culture vulture, nature lover, fitness fanatic, or shutter bug. In spring it is full of burgeoning blossom, and in fall a leafy landscape of red and gold.