Ueno park not being far from where I live, I take advantage of days the weather is good (which is quite rare recently) to have walk there. Here are some famous monuments of this park.

The picture above is that of the gate called “kuromon 黒門” (the black gate). It is said to have been themain gate to the manor of lord Ikeda, daimyo of Inaba province (East of Tottori). It is now located inside Tokyo National Museum, at the north of the park.

Not far from there is the Tokyo National Museum of Nature and Science. Beside it is a full size statue of a blue whale diving. The statue is 30 metres long.

More in the south of the park is the statue of Saigô Takamori 西郷隆盛 (1827-1877). He was a Japanese politician of late Edo-early Meiji period, originary from the Satsuma province which opposed the shogunate to restitute the Emperor at the head of the State.