U.S. News Insider Tip: Take a 20-minute walk northwest of Ueno Park to the more than 100,000-square-foot Yanaka Cemetery, the first public burial ground in Tokyo and an oasis of foliage and historical ...

City Hunter elevated Tsukasa Hojo as one of Japan’s most influential and stylistically distinctive manga artists. Now, 40 ...

Most people associate Ueno Park, the most-visited park in Tokyo, with a springtime canopy of cherry blossoms, or the zoo and its fabled pandas. But strolling down the picturesque alleys that ...

Japanese cuisine is well-known, of course, for sushi, rice, and ramen, but and equally delicious menu option is Japanese beef! It has a unique and delicate flavor that is popular all over the world.

A image shows a giant panda Shin Shin gives a birth the first of her twin pandas at Ueno Zoological Park in Tokyo A image shows a giant panda Shin Shin gives a birth the first of her twin pandas at ...

Visitors have less than a month to get their last glimpse of a popular giant panda at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoological Gardens before she returns to China. Five-year-old Xiang Xiang will be sent back to China ...

People hearing nature's call near Ueno Zoo in Tokyo can now seek inspiration from some of the institution's finest animals. Those who use the redesigned public restroom in Ueno Park and grace its ...

If you've been watching the Japanese news in early June, it can't have escaped your attention that Ueno Zoo was recently graced with the presence of a new, very cuddly black-and-white animal. Indeed, ...

TOKYO -- For the first time in 21 years, the "phantom station" between Ueno and Nippori stations on the Keisei Line in the capital's Taito Ward was opened to the media on June 19. Murals of penguins ...

Ueno Park, one of Tokyo's best-known landmarks, is Japan's first government-designated park, with its origins dating back to the Meiji Era. It was Dutch military Dr. Anthonius Franciscus Bauduin (1820 ...

The twin giant panda cubs, a female, left, and a male, are seen at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo's Taito Ward on Aug. 5, 2021. (Photo courtesy of Tokyo Zoological Park Society) TOKYO -- Ueno ...