What is "ueno"

is a district in Tokyo's Taitō Ward, best known as the home of Ueno Park. Ueno is also home to some of Tokyo's finest cultural sites, including the Tokyo National Museum, the National Museum of Western Art, and the National Museum of Nature and Science, as well as a major public concert hall. Many Buddhist temples are in the area, including the Bentendo temple dedicated to goddess Benzaiten, on an island in Shinobazu Pond. The Kan'ei-ji, a major temple of the Tokugawa shoguns, stood in this area, and its pagoda is now within the grounds of the Ueno Zoo. Nearby is the Ueno Tōshōgū, a Shinto shrine to Tokugawa Ieyasu. Near the Tokyo National Museum there is The International Library of Children's Literature. Just south of the station is the Ameya-yokochō, a street market district that evolved out of an open-air black market that sprung up after World War II. Just east is the Ueno motorcycle district, with English-speaking staff available in some stores.

Ueno is part of the historical Shitamachi (literally "low city") district of Tokyo, a working class area rather than where the aristocrats and rich merchants lived. Today the immediate area, due to its close proximity to a major transportation hub, retains high land value but just a short walk away to the east or north reveals some of the less glitzy architecture of Tokyo.

Ueno Station is the nearest train station and is operated by JR East.

Ueno Park and Ueno Station are also home to a large percentage of Tokyo's homeless population. Though nearly invisible in other parts of Tokyo, the homeless population in Ueno can be found sleeping or communing in large numbers around the "ike" (ponds) of this district.

Ueno is a neighborhood in Taito, Tokyo.

Ueno may also refer to:

Ueno (written: 上野 or 植野) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Chizuko Ueno (born 1948), Japanese sociologist
• Emiko Ueno (born 1957), retired Japanese female badminton player
• Hideaki Ueno (born 1981), Japanese football player
• Hidesaburō Ueno (1871–1925), Japanese agricultural scientist
• Hiroki Ueno (born 1986), Japanese professional baseball pitcher
• Hiroki Ueno (born 1986), Japanese professional ice hockey winger
• Juri Ueno (born 1986), Japanese actress
• Kagenori Ueno (1845–1888), Japanese Consul in Great Britain from 1874 to 1879
• Ken Ueno (born 1970), American composer
• Kenichiro Ueno (born 1965), Japanese politician
• Kōji Ueno (born 1960), Japanese composer and musician
• Kyuhei Ueno, Japanese mixed martial artist
• Masae Ueno (born 1979), Japanese female judoka
• Nobuhiro Ueno (born 1965), Japanese football coach and former player
• Rie Ueno (born 1976), Japanese long-distance runner
• Ryo Ueno (born 1984), Japanese actor
• Shingo Ueno (born 1973), Japanese ski jumper
• Tadami Ueno (born 1948), Japanese professional golfer
• Takahiro Ueno (born 1971), Japanese professional drifting driver and businessman
• Taro Ueno (born 1980), Japanese sailor
• Toshiya Ueno (1963–2013), Japanese film director, actor, screenwriter, and producer
• Ueno Hikoma (1838–1904)), pioneer Japanese photographer
• Yoichi Ueno (1883–1957), Japanese business theorist
• Yoko Ueno (born 1963), Japanese recording artist
• Yoshie Ueno (born 1983), Japanese female judoka
• Yoshiharu Ueno (born 1973), Japanese footballer
• Yuichiro Ueno (born 1985), Japanese long-distance runner
• Yukiko Ueno (born 1982), Japanese softball pitcher
• Yusaku Ueno (born 1973), former Japanese football player