Best around Ueno Spot List

This candy and snacks shop sells approximately 5,000 items which are available all times. The store houses everything from national brands to a wide assortment of sweets, delicacies, candies, etc.

Founded in 1937, one of Japan's leading incense speciality stores. We stock more than 5000 types of incense from all over Japan.

This is the GLEN CLYDE Sock Specialty Store. All products are made in Japan, crafted with care and precision.

It is home to art and artifacts from across Asia, including the world's largest and finest Japanese collection.

Hanko Shop 21 specializes in traditional hanko, which is also popular as a travel souvenir.

A historical shrine with a solemn atmosphere built in Gongen-zukuri (style of Shinto architecture in which the main hall and worship hall share one roof). It is designated as National Important Cultural Property. Late April is the best period to see the Azaleas on the premises.

Traditional Japanese bathhouses(SENTO).

A 9-minute walk from JR Ueno Station, this Japanese style budget business inn near the station boasts easy access to Asakusa and Akihabara.

A hotel with the cozy feel of an overseas hostel where more than 90% of the guests are foreign travelers.

It is Japan's only national nature and science museum, which presents the history of nature and science; it is located in Tokyo. Its theater, in which a movie can be displayed in a panoramic 360 degrees, is worth seeing.

The building and garden represent the modern Japanese architecture in a semi-Western style.

Yushima-tenjin enshrines Amenotajikarao-no-mikoto, the god of better fortune and sports, and Michizane Sugawara, the god of learning and study. A number of famed scholars and writers visit this shrine.

This is Japan's only national art museum, where you can view various Western artworks, including the Matsukata collection, which mainly consists of French artworks.

Traditional Japanese bathhouses(SENTO).

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum is in Ueno Park. Special exhibitions of domestic and foreign famous paintings, variety of planned exhibitions, and exhibitions of works by the general public are held there.

Famous since the Edo period (1603–1868) for its god of business prosperity. Site of the largest Tori no Ichi open-air market in Japan.

A museum located in Ueno Park. Visitors can enjoy a variety of artworks including ones designated as Important Cultural Properties.

This museum displays the works of leading Japanese modern sculptor Fumio Asakura: the site is registered nationally as a Place of Scenic Beauty and the structure itself as a Tangible Cultural Property.

A museum inside the building of Tokyo University of the Arts, the best out of all the art universities in Japan. It stores approximately 29,000 items of mainly Japanese modern arts.

A museum were you can enjoy the modern works painted by the illustrators such as Takabatake Kasho who swept through the art publication world.