Keisei Ueno Station
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is a train station
located in Taitō, Tokyo
Japan. It is the terminus of the Keisei Main Line and is in brief walking distance from JR Ueno Station
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The station is underground beneath Ueno Park
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A map of the station is available on the Keisei website.
Train station
A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...
located in Taitō, Tokyo
Taito, Tokyo
is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. In English, it calls itself Taito City.As of April 1, 2011, the ward has an estimated population of 168,909, with 94,908 households, and a population density of 16,745.86 persons per km². The total area is 10.08 km².-History:The ward was founded...
Japan. It is the terminus of the Keisei Main Line and is in brief walking distance from JR Ueno Station
Ueno Station
is a major railway station inTokyo's Taitō ward. It is the station used to reach the Ueno district and Ueno Park -- which contains Tokyo National Museum, The National Museum of Western Art, Ueno Zoo, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and other famous cultural facilities...
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History
- 10 October 1933 Opened as "Ueno Kōen Station"
- 1 May 1953 Changed name to "Keisei Ueno Station"
Layout
Ueno Park
is a spacious public park located in the Ueno section of Taitō, 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...
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A map of the station is available on the Keisei website.