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Ueno district is the home of Ueno Park and 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.

Hotel Park Side Ueno

Ueno streets in the morning

Ueno streets in the morning

Ueno streets in the morning

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Ueno streets in the morning

Ueno streets in the morning

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The park was established in 1873 on lands formerly belonging to the temple of Kan'ei-ji

Situated in the south of Ueno Park, the Shinobazu pond is divided in three sections, Lotus Pond because of the plants that completely cover its surface, Boat Pond from the rental boats it hosts, and Cormorant Pond which lies within the limits of the Ueno Zoo and takes its name from the birds that inhabit it

Lotus Pond

The pond has a circumference of about 2 km and a surface of about 1,100,000m2. At its center lies Benten Island on which stands the Bentendō temple dedicated to goddess Benzaiten.

Bentendo temple dedicated to goddess Benzaiten, on an island in Shinobazu Pond

Ueno Park Police Box ©Tetsuro Kurokawa

Many Buddhist temples are in the area, including Kiyomizu Kannon-do temple which enshrines Kosodate Kannon, protector of childbearing and child-raising.

Kiyomizu Kannon-do temple at Ueno Park

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) (series of One Hundred Famous Views of Edo) Moon Pine Brooklyn Museum

Moon Pine of Ueno, circular pine tree structure which has been recently restored to its 200 year old history

Not many artists today can create that healthy circular formation today and efforts from an artist in Akabane, the Moon Pine was recreated in 2012

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) (series of One Hundred Famous Views of Edo)Kiyomizu-do Temple and Shinobazu Pond at Ueno

Kiyomizu Kannon-do temple at Ueno Park

Women hoping to become pregnant come here to ask for the goddess's mercy, and those whose wishes have been fulfilled return to pray for their child's good health and protection. Many leave behind dolls as symbols of their children

Purification fountain for a ceremonial purification rite

The Purification Fountain is used in Japan to clean the hands and mouth before entering a shrine

Dragon lore is traditionally associated with Buddhist temples. Myths about dragons living in ponds and lakes near temples are widespread

Kiyomizu Kannon-do temple at Ueno Park

Temple bell at Kiyomizu Kannon-do temple at Ueno Park

Kiyomizu Kannon-do temple at Ueno Park

Kiyomizu Kannon-do temple at Ueno Park

Concert Hall for Opera, Ballet and Classical Music in Ueno Park

National Museum of Western Art

National Museum of Western Art

The National Museum of Western Art, in Tokyo, is the only work by Le Corbusier in the Far East 

Kojiro Matsukata (1865-1950) was a Japanese industrialist who amassed a remarkable collection of Western art between 1916 and 1923, particularly paintings and sculptures of the French artist Auguste Rodin (in fact outside the museum one of several replicas of “The Thinker" is displayed. After the Second World War the collection was transferred to the French government. In 1956 Japan requested to France the return of these works, so the French government agreed on the condition that it was a French architect who developed the project of the building to house such works

The museum for the Matsukata collection was commissioned to the French Swiss architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris (known as Le Corbusier), and the project was completed by three Japanese apprentices of his studio in Paris: Kunio Maekawa, Junzo Sakakura, and Takamasa Yoshizaka

Later, in addition to the Matsukata collection, the museum acquired other works, from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries

The Thinker (French: Le Penseur) is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodinl. There are about 28 full size castings, in which the figure is about 186 centimetres high, though not all were made during Rodin's lifetime and under his supervision

Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) La Porte de l'enfer with Adam and Eve,

The museum has been included as one of the 100

most important public buildings in Japan. It is also in the

tentative list of World Heritage by UNESCO, at a request

made by the French government

Les Bourgeois de Calais is one of the most famous sculptures by Auguste Rodin, completed in 1889

The Golden Legend exhibition in Tokyo, was seen by the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture as a major success in the presentation of Bulgaria’s archaeological heritage abroad, after the recent exhibition in the Louvre Museum in Paris dedicated to Ancient Thrace, which was entitled “Thracian Kings’ Epic. Archaeological Discoveries in Bulgaria" (also translated as “The Saga of the Thracian Kings"; in French:L’Épopée des rois thraces Découvertes archéologiques en Bulgarie)

Archeological Museum Plovdiv Bulgaria,

The Valchitran Gold Treasure found by accident in Northern Bulgaria in 1925

The Valchitran Gold Treasure found by accident in Northern Bulgaria in 1925

Sofia, National Institute of Archaeology

This exhibition presents a reconstruction of the contents of tombs as they appeared when they were discovered, alongside the display of paintings recounting the legend of Jason and the Argonauts' pursuit of the then ancient Golden Fleece

With the support of The Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Japan, The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan, Embassy of Italy in Tokyo, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Tokyo, Embassy of Greece in Japan , Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in Tokyo

Athens, National Archaeological Museum

Athens, National Archaeological Museum

Athens, National Archaeological Museum

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Sound: Rimi Natsukawa - Nada sou sou 2016