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Kanei-ji
Temple
VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
Map 3 C2–3, 4 D2. Ueno Zoo:
Open 9:30am–5pm Tue–Sun. &
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum:
Open 9am–5pm. Closed 1st & 3rd
Mon. National Museum of Nature
and Science: Open 9am–5pm Tue–
Uguisudani Sun. & National Museum of West-
Station ern Art: Open 9:30am–5:30pm Tue–
Thu, Sat & Sun (until 8pm Fri). &
Transport
 Ueno stn, Hibiya & Ginza lines.
£ Ueno & Uguisudani stns,
many lines.

Rinno-ji
Temple
Imperial
Cemetery

National Museum of Nature and
Science
A steam engine and life-sized model
of a blue whale mark this museum’s
entrance. Exhibits cover natural
history, science, and
technology.

Baseball
ground National Museum of
Tokyo Metropolitan Western Art
Festival Hall Rodin’s massive Gate of Hell
stands outside this building
by Le Corbusier. On display
Ueno Station are various Impressionist
works, plus paintings by
Japan Art Rubens, Pollock, and others.
Academy 0 meters 100
Ueno Royal 0 yards 100
Museum Saigo Takamori Statue
The leader of the
victorious Meiji
forces, Saigo
subsequently
instigated the
Satsuma rebel lion
against the
emperor in 1877,
but killed himself
Kiyomizu Hall when it failed. He
Part of the original Kanei-ji was posthumously
temple, this dates from pardoned, and
1631 and is dedicated to this statue was
Senju (1,000-armed) erected in 1899.
Ueno Kannon. Kosodate Kannon,
Station the bosatsu of conception,
is also here, surrounded by
numerous offerings of dolls.

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