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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 Metro politan Museum:
Open 9:30am–5pm daily.
Closed 1st & 3rd Mon. National
Museum of Nature and Science:
Uguisudani Open 9am– 5pm Tue–Sun.
Station Closed Dec 28–Jan 1. &
National Muse um of Western
Art: Open 9:30am–5:30pm Tue–
Sun (to 8pm Fri). &
Transport
 Ueno stn, Hibiya & Ginza lines.
£ Ueno & Uguisudani stns,
many lines.

National Museum of Nature
and Science
A steam engine and life-sized
blue whale model mark this
museum’s entrance. Inside are
exhibits on natural history,
science, and technology.

National Museum of Western Art
Rodin’s massive Gate of Hell stands
outside this building by Le Corbusier.
On display are various Impressionist
Ueno Station works, plus paintings by Rubens,
Pollock, and others.

Saigo Takamori Statue Kiyomizu Hall
The leader of the victorious Meiji Part of the original Kanei-ji
forces, Saigo subsequently Temple, this dates from
instigated the Satsuma rebel lion 1631 and is dedicated
against the emperor in 1877, to Senju (1,000-armed)
but killed himself when it failed. Kannon. Kosodate Kannon,
He was posthumously the bosatsu of conception,
pardoned, and this statue is also here, surrounded by
was erected in 1899. numerous offerings of dolls.

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