Feel Shitamachi-style in Ueno
When it comes to Ueno, we think of National Museums, the spacious park, Ameyoko Market and so on. However it’s also fun to look for the vertiges of ‘Old Tokyo’,or Shitamachi as it’s called in Japanese.
What is Shitamachi? If you would like to know, I would recommend visiting ‘The Shitamachi Museum’ first; it is the worth the 300 yen entrance fee. There are a huge number of such small museums in Tokyo!
After arriving at Ueno Station, get a sightseeing map from the “Station Concierge”. Then, don’t forget to greet ‘Saigo-san’, a statue in the Ueno Park of one of the most famous samurai in Japan. After that, head towards Shinobazu-no-ike (Shinobazu pond), and you find the museum on the left.
In the museum, you can see scenes from everyday life from the mid-17 to the mid-20 centuries, in which Japanese culture has changed remarkably due to Western influence. They provide a window on Shitamachi lifestyle and amusements at that time. It is interesting to experience toys and Japanese house at first hand.
As you go out of the museum, find the Asakusa Street leading to Asakusa district. You’ll see a lot of modern buildings there, but once you go into the back streets, you’ll come across Shinto shrines, temples, and traditional Japanese houses where people actually live or run a sweets shop or a flower shop today in the ‘Shitamachi style’.
This might be a fun way to get Asakusa from Ueno on foot!
What is Shitamachi? If you would like to know, I would recommend visiting ‘The Shitamachi Museum’ first; it is the worth the 300 yen entrance fee. There are a huge number of such small museums in Tokyo!
After arriving at Ueno Station, get a sightseeing map from the “Station Concierge”. Then, don’t forget to greet ‘Saigo-san’, a statue in the Ueno Park of one of the most famous samurai in Japan. After that, head towards Shinobazu-no-ike (Shinobazu pond), and you find the museum on the left.
In the museum, you can see scenes from everyday life from the mid-17 to the mid-20 centuries, in which Japanese culture has changed remarkably due to Western influence. They provide a window on Shitamachi lifestyle and amusements at that time. It is interesting to experience toys and Japanese house at first hand.
As you go out of the museum, find the Asakusa Street leading to Asakusa district. You’ll see a lot of modern buildings there, but once you go into the back streets, you’ll come across Shinto shrines, temples, and traditional Japanese houses where people actually live or run a sweets shop or a flower shop today in the ‘Shitamachi style’.
This might be a fun way to get Asakusa from Ueno on foot!
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February 15, 2008 Comment by katchaman
Wonderful!!
February 15, 2008 Comment by sachie_kobayashi
Ueno is so wide, and has deffirent attraction; active shopping arcade, artistic park, rustic townscape...and so on.
I want to find unknown Ueno!
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