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:This article is about the district of Taito, Tokyo. For other uses, see Ueno.
Ueno (上野) is a district in Tokyo's Taito Ward, best known as the home of Ueno Station and 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 Science, as well as a major public concert hall. Many Buddhist temples are in the area, including the Benzaiten temple 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 Toshogu, a Shinto shrine to Tokugawa IeyasuTokugawa Ieyasu (also (archaic) Iyeyasu Tokugawa Ieyasu January 31 1543 June 1 1616) was the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, and is commonly known as one of the "three great unifiers" of feudal Japan (the other two are Oda Nobunaga and Toyotom.
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