鶯谷 入谷 Major festivals Kototoi Boulevard Locations introduced City of artisans, merchants, Explore Ueno’s culture of craftsmanship, Downtown Ueno route Please check the Internet for specific dates. Downtown in this guide trading, and entertainment Mid-May Shitaya Shrine and entertainment 東大前 Ueno Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Shitaya Shrine Grand Festival National Museum of Nature Science The earliest summer festival in Taito Ward takes place in map Hirokoji & Nakacho area 言問通り mid-May. As many as 7,000 people participate in the parade Downtown —Suzumoto Entertainment Hall around the neighborhood, while spectators can enjoy street (2-7-12 Ueno,浅草神 Taito社 Ward) The commoner district of downtown Ueno Wander from Ueno’s entertainment and food. National Museum of Western Art Shitaya & Okachimachi —Oedo Ueno Hirokojitei (1-20-10 Ueno, Taito Ward) market district to Tokyo’s artisan center http://shitayajinja.or.jp/ walking map — 言問橋 Ueno Ueno Park’s hill is home to many cultural institutions Rakugo浅草 寺Association (Kuromontei) Beginning at the foot of Ueno Hill and heading east, we can (1-9-5 Ueno, Taito Ward) established by government and religious organizations. In Ueno Sta. see how this area’s commerce has changed from Edo to the 本郷通り 区立 Asakusa Sta. —Nakacho Street (2 Ueno, Taito Ward) comparison, Ueno’s bustling downtown area was created by Ueno Park 隅田公園 present day. Nakacho traces its roots to an Edo-era geisha Shinobazu Boulevard the energy of ordinary people who gathered at the foot of the —Fukinuki Yokocho district, while across Ueno Hirokoji, the Ameyoko Market (2 Ueno, Taito Ward to 3 Yushima, Bunkyo Ward) hill. Today's Nakacho entertainment district next to Ueno 東京大 still retains the vitality of Ueno’s postwar black market. Kachikura area —Domyo (2-11-1 Ueno, Taito Ward) Shitaya & Okachimachi walking map Hirokoji and Shinobazu Pond emerged from a once-thriving Kitchenware Street Kitchenware The neighborhood stretching from here to Kuramae along Kappabashi —Jusan-ya Asakusa(2-12-21 Sta.Ueno, Taito Ward) geisha district. Along the tracks south of Ueno Station is the Shinobazu Pond Hirokoji & Nakacho area the Sumida River in the east is home to a rich culture of —3331 Arts Chiyoda (6-11-14 Sotokanda, Chiyoda Ward) sprawling Ameyoko market and ethnic communities that Butsudan-dori Ameyoko & Okachimachi area craftsmanship and new creative energy. Head north towards Ueno Sta. —Shinobazu Pond (3 Ueno Koen Ikenohata, Taito Ward) grew from a postwar black market. And stretching to towards Inaricho Sta. Kachikura area Asakusa to pass through old craftsmen areas, or south Asakusa Sta. the Sumida River in the east is a district that has been home Keisei Ueno Sta. NOHGA HOTEL UENO Boulevard Kiyosubashi 吾妻橋 towards Kuramae to find new shops run by young artisans. Shitaya Shrine to craftsmen since the Edo Period and now attracts young Tawaramachi Sta. Old Tokyo Walking Guide No.5 English Choose you own path between this area’s diverse cultural Jusan-ya Ameyoko Ameyoko & Okachimachi area artisans and designers. This guidebook introduces the history Center Building とうきょうスカイツリー heritage of artisanship, trading, and entertainment. Domyo Kimchi Yokocho of downtown Ueno’s artisan, trading, and entertainment End of May Southern Taito Ward Asakusa Boulevard —Marishiten (4-6-2 Ueno, Taito Ward) Nakacho Street culture. —AmeyokoAsakusa CenterSta. Building (4-7-8 Ueno, Taito Ward) Major stations near downtown Ueno Monomachi Suzumoto Boulevard Kokusai Entertainment Hall Marishiten —Kimchi Yokocho駒形橋 (Higashi Ueno, Taito Ward) —Ueno Station (JR Yamanote Line, Keihin Tohoku Line, Joban Kachikura's artisan culture is on display during this three- Yushima Sta. 本所吾妻橋 Cover image: “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: Shitaya Hirokoji,” —Tsubame-yu bathhouse (3-14-5 Ueno, Taito Ward) Line, Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, Hibiya Line) Utagawa Hiroshige, 1856. Edo-era Ueno and Okachimachi were always day event held since 2011. Visitors can learn about the Yushima Shrine Fukinuki Ueno-Okachimachi Sta. —As-Salaam Foundation (4-6-7 Taito, Taito Ward) —Ueno Okachimachi Station (Toei Oedo Line) 本郷三丁目 Ameyoko & Okachimachi area bustling with visitors to Kan’ei-ji Temple. creative work of craftsmen around the neighborhood. Yo ko c h o —Okachimachi Station (JR Yamanote Line, Keihin Tohoku Line) Oedo Ueno Ueno Hirokoji Sta. Okachimachi Sta. Kasuga Boulevard 隅田川 http://monomachi.com/ Hirokojitei Shin-Okachimachi Sta. —Asakusabashi Station (JR Sobu Line, Toei Asakusa Line) Kachikura area —Tawaramachi Station (Tokyo Metro Ginza Line) Naka-Okachimachi Sta. Kimoto Glass Beginning of June Torigoe Shrine 本郷三丁目 Rakugo Taito Designers — (Taito, Taito Ward) 三ツ目通り Association As-Salaam Village Satake Shopping Street Chuo Boulevard Chuo Foundation Torigoe Shrine Grand Festival Tsubame-yu Boulevard Showa —Butsudan-dori (Taito Ward) This festival has a history dating back 1,360 years, and the bathhouse —Okazu Yokocho (1 Torigoe, Taito Ward) 3331 Arts Chiyoda four-ton omikoshi portable shrine is the heaviest in Tokyo. Satake Shopping —Taito Designers Village (2-9-10 Kojima, Taito Ward) 厩橋 Tens of thousands come to watch it be carried through the Street —2k540 Aki-Oka Artisan (5-9 Ueno, Taito Ward) neighborhood. —Kimoto Glass (2-18-17 Kojima, Taito Ward) 春日通り Hirokoji & Nakacho area —SyuRo (1-16-5 Torigoe, Taito Ward) 2k540 Aki-Oka Gunji Miso & Kakimori Kuramae Sta. 清澄通り July-August Around Ueno Station, Shinobazu Pond & Ueno Hirokoji Artisan Tsukemono —Gunji Miso & Tsukemono Suehirocho Sta. Kuramaebashi Boulevard SyuRo (1-14-2 Torigoe, Taito Ward) Ueno Summer Festival Parade Torigoe Shrine —Kakimori (1-6-2 Misuji, Taito Ward) This festival is more than three decades old and features Okazu Yokocho Kanda Shrine numerous events in the area. The parade along Ueno Chuo Kuramae Bridge Boulevard is the highlight. お茶の水橋 御茶ノ水 http://www.ueno.or.jp/parade/ “Old Tokyo” Walking Guide蔵前橋通 #5: City りof Artisans, Merchants, and 聖橋 Entertainment: Downtown Ueno Around December 29-31 Ameyoko Publisher and contact: the Tokyo Cultural Heritage Alliance End of Year Shopping 御茶ノ水 [Address]横網町公園 2-1 Kanda Nishikicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo 101-0054 Akihabara Sta. The end of the year is the busiest season at the Ameyoko [Phone] 03-5224-5450 [FAX] 03-5244-5452 [E-mail] [email protected] [Web] http://tohbun.jp market, when as many as half a million customers per day Akihabara Sta. Text: Sam Holden, Mengfei Pan, Yukiko Osaka, Shotaro Nakado,Yoshio come to buy food for New Years meals. ©2018 ZENRIN CO., LTD. 0 300ｍ 「この地図の作成に当たっては、国土地理院長の承認を得て、 Asakusabashi Sta. Asakusabashi Sta. 150 Yanagi Photos: Kenichiro Koizumi Design: Studio Pot 本郷通り 同院発行の基盤地図情報を使用した。（承認番号 平28情使、第734-143号）」 Published October 25,両国 2018/4,000 units/2-sided 4-color/Matte coat 90 kg 神保町 岩本町 小川町 靖国通り 両国 三ツ目通り 淡路町 両国橋 京葉道路 馬喰町 神田 Sponsors Matsuzakaya Department Store is known as Hirokoji, or Airport, but also many Asian and other foreign migrants In the Edo Period, Okachimachi’s proximity to numerous Ueno’s main street: “broadway,” and was created as a firebreak after a major fire who live in the area. Ueno’s ethnic diversity can be smelled temples and shrines and the geisha district near Shinobazu destroyed the city in 1657. Hirokoji formed part of a major in the food market in the basement of the Ameyoko Center Pond created demand for metal workers and craftsmen who *Company name changed on July 1 Explore Ueno’s past Hirokoji 1 road that served as the route linking Edo Castle to Kan’ei- Building, where shops sell ingredients from across Asia, manufactured items such as Shinto and Buddhist amulets, ▶︎Shitaya thrives as the entrance to Kan’ei-ji Temple ji, and became lined with restaurants and stores selling food and seen and heard in the ethnic restaurants, mosque, and hairpins, combs, sword sheaths, and parasols. Google Japan G.K. and present culture The area at the foot of Ueno Hill, once known as Shitaya, and other goods. Until the end of the 19th century, the small streets around Okachimachi. Eastern Ueno is also home to The area from Torigoe to Kuramae was home to feudal first flourished thanks to its location in front of Kan’ei- Shinobu River flowed across Hirokoji near the intersection one of the city’s oldest Korean towns, known as “Kimchi estates and the shogun’s rice warehouses until the late 19th of craftsmanship, ji Temple. Kan’ei-ji was founded atop Ueno Hill by the of Shinobazu Boulevard, where the three “Mihashi” bridges Yokocho,” established by ethnic Koreans who were forced century, but by the early 20th century leather craftsmen powerful Buddhist monk Tenkai in 1625 to safeguard the led to the entrance to Kan’ei-ji. Hirokoji is pictured in many to move from Ameyoko in 1948. and textile artisans began moving in from the Muromachi trading, and Tokugawa Shogun’s city and ensure the peace of common Edo period prints as a bustling district filled with temple area of Nihombashi. In the mid-20th century Torigoe people. Tenkai turned the temple grounds into a beautiful visitors, merchants, and shoppers. and Kuramae increasingly became home to craftsmen and entertainment space for Edo residents to relax, planting cherry blossoms on Part of the “Edo-zu Byobu,” 17th century, in the collection of the National The outdoor stalls that appeared around Ueno Station after the defeat wholesale companies, but some of these businesses began Museum of Japanese History. Tea houses along the shore of Shinobazu were the origin of today’s Ameyoko market. the hill, and designing the area around Shinobazu Pond to Pond were a popular meeting spot for Edo lovers. Center of artisan and to close after the 1990s, leaving behind empty buildings. In resemble famous landmarks in and around Kyoto. Kan’ei- design culture 2004, the Taito Designers Village opened to support fashion The downtown areas south and east of Ueno Park ji became one of Edo’s most famous spots, and the town The former geisha 5 and design entrepreneurs, many of whom opened stores in TOKYO DOME CORPORATION are home to commoner culture from many eras.