Final Day: Ueno Park

I visited Ueno Park (Ueno Koen) earlier to tour the Tokyo National Museum, but on this day I spent more time to check out the many other attractions within this park. This was Tokyo's first park, opened in 1873, but just five years earlier, it was the site for the Battle of Ueno, a bloody fight between the Meiji government and the warriors of the traditional Tokugawa shogun.

Inside the park are the many museums (Western Art, Science, Metropolitan Art, University Art, and Ueno Royal), Ueno Zoo, Shinobazu Pond, Toshugu Shrine, kids' amusement park, and many monuments and statues representing significant moments in the nation's history.

It was a short day with needing to leave time to catch trains to Tokyo station connecting to the Narita Aiport express train, then the flight home, but a nice low-key way to finish visiting Tokyo.