Ueno Park
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Coordinates: 35°42′44″N 139°46′16″E / 35.71222°N 139.77111°E
Ueno Park (上野公園 Ueno Kōen) is a spacious public park located in the Ueno section of Taito, Tokyo, Japan. It occupies the site of the former Kan'ei-ji, a temple closely associated with the Tokugawa shoguns, who had built the temple to guard Edo Castle against the north-east, then considered an unlucky direction. The temple was destroyed during the Boshin War.
Ueno Park was established through an imperial land grant to the city of Tokyo by Emperor Taishō in 1924. The official name of the park is Ueno Onshi Kōen (上野恩賜公園), which can be translated as "Ueno Imperial Gift Park".
A very famous statue of Saigō Takamori walking his dog stands in this park.
Three museums (Tokyo National Museum, The National Science Museum and The National Museum of Western Art) a concert hall, a Tosho-gu shrine, the Shinobazu Pond with its Benzaiten shrine, the Gojo shrine (whch houses red-bibbed Inari fox statues in an atmospheric grotto), and the Ueno Zoo make this area a tourist and recreation area popular with both Japanese and foreigners.
Ueno Park and its surroundings figure prominently in Japanese fiction, including Gan (The Wild Goose) by Mori Ōgai.
Ueno Park is also home to many homeless people.
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