Ueno (上野 Ueno?) es un distrito del barrio Taitō en Tokio, Japón, mayormente conocido por ser la sede de la Estación Ueno y el Parque Ueno. Ueno es también sede de varios de los centros culturales más importantes de Tokio, incluyendo el Museo Nacional de Tokio, el Museo de Arte Occidental, el Museo Nacional de Ciencia de Japón, así como su sala de conciertos pública más importante. Existen también en Ueno varios templos budistas de importancia, incluyendo el templo Bentendo, dedicado a la diosa Benzaiten, en una isla en la Charca Shinobazu. El área era lugar del Kan'ei-ji, un templo de gran importancia para el Shogunato Tokugawa, cuya pagoda ahora se encuentra dentro de lo que hoy es el Zoológico de Ueno. Cerca se encuentra la capilla Toshogu, una capilla Shinto a Tokugawa Ieyasu. Justo al sur de la estación se encuentra Ameyayokocho, un mercado que surgió a partir de la proliferación de los mercados negros al aire libre tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Al este se encuentra un distrito especialmente para motocicletas.

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Ueno (上野) is a district in Tokyo's Taitō Ward, best known as the home of Ueno Park. Ueno is also home to some of Tokyo's finest cultural sites, including the Tokyo National Museum, the National Museum of Western Art, and the National Museum of Nature and Science, as well as a major public concert hall. Many Buddhist temples are in the area, including the Bentendo temple dedicated to goddess Benzaiten, on an island in Shinobazu Pond. The Kan'ei-ji, a major temple of the Tokugawa shoguns, stood in this area, and its pagoda is now within the grounds of the Ueno Zoo. Nearby is the Ueno Tōshōgū, a Shinto shrine to Tokugawa Ieyasu. Near the Tokyo National Museum there is The International Library of Children's Literature. Just south of the station is the Ameya-yokochō, a street market district that evolved out of an open-air black market that sprung up after World War II. Just east is the Ueno motorcycle district, with English-speaking staff available in some stores. Ueno is part of the historical Shitamachi (literally "low city") district of Tokyo, a working class area rather than where the aristocrats and rich merchants lived. Today the immediate area, due to its close proximity to a major transportation hub, retains high land value but just a short walk away to the east or north reveals some of the less glitzy architecture of Tokyo. Ueno Station is the nearest train station and is operated by JR East. Ueno Park and Ueno Station are also home to a large percentage of Tokyo's homeless population. Though nearly invisible in other parts of Tokyo, the homeless population in Ueno can be found sleeping or communing in large numbers around the "ike" (ponds) of this district.

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