Blog Post: Ueno Park.

Ueno park is a large public park in central Tokyo. Ueno park is originally part of Kaneiji temple. And Kaneiji temple used to be one of the largest Temple. Kaneiji was destruction during the civil war in 1868  in a battle between the victorious forces and loyalists of the overthrown. After the battle, they make the temple ground to the first Western style parks, and they opened the park to the public in 1873. In Ueno park there is many temples, two of them is, Kaneiji temple and Kiyomizu kannon temple. the Kiyomizu kannon
was built in 1631. In Ueno park there is the Ueno zoo, and it was opened in 1882, and Ueno zoo is the oldest zoo in Japan. The oldest animal in Ueno zoo is the giant panda bears. The zoo temporarily had no pandas after the death of Ling Ling in 2008, but they received baby pandas in 2011. Ueno park has five museums, Tokyo national museum, and its the oldest and largest museum in Japan, and this museum is made up of five buildings, each one is like separate museum, and this museum have the improtant cultural items from the country. National science museum, and this museum is about science and history, and it has collection of mounted animals. Tokyo metropolitan art museum, this museum reopened in April 2012, and it has all types of art some of it is paid and some is free. national museum of western art, and this museum display western art. and Shitamachi museum, Shitamachi is a name of artisan, and this museum have the old part of Tokyo, and this museum shows what life was like in Tokyo from the late Meiji to the early Showa. Ueno park is a park with a lot of temples, museums, and one zoo. And the best time to go there is in the spring, because all the trees is covered with cherry blossoms (Sakura).