Ueno's busy streets still keep that old downtown feel, with Ameyoko running all the way to Okachimachi
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Ameyoko, between Ueno Station and Okachimachi Station, has about 400 shops and sees about 100,000 people on a weekday. Ueno keeps the atmosphere of an old downtown neighborhood even though it's right in one of the busy areas along the Yamanote Line.
Most people here live in high-rises: about 56% of households live in apartment buildings of 11 stories or more, compared to about 33% for Taito City as a whole. Single-person households make up about 65%, higher than Taito City's 59%; only about 8% of households have a child under 18. In 2020, Ueno 1-chome through 7-chome together had only 3,911 residents, with 1,325 people living in Ueno 7-chome, where the station is located.
For everyday convenience, this neighborhood ranks 2nd out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and daily shopping ranks 2nd — the two highest-ranking categories for this neighborhood. Ueno 2-chome, 3-chome, and 4-chome all have supermarkets.
Ueno Station has multiple JR lines and the Shinkansen, plus the Ginza Line and Hibiya Line, so public transit ranks 2nd. Ueno 2-chome, within this neighborhood, is also home to Suzumoto Engeijo, one of Tokyo's permanent rakugo theaters.
This is a commercial district right by the station: only 67 people live here per hectare, compared to about 210 for Taito City as a whole. Yet the neighborhood has 37 hotels.
Even in 7-chome, there are 544 businesses with 6,897 employees — more than five times the resident population. Based on our street photos, greenery ranks 379th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the weakest category for this neighborhood.
"Okachimachi" comes from "okachi," the low-ranking foot soldiers who guarded Edo Castle; the town name was abolished in 1964, and it now survives only as the informal name for the area around the station. After the Great Meireki Fire, Ueno built a Hirokoji (a wide fire-break street); the Ueno Hirokoji of that time was near today's Ueno Station, while the street called Hirokoji today was known in the Edo period as Shitaya Hirokoji.
In 1857, Honmokutei, the predecessor of Suzumoto Engeijo, opened on Ueno Hirokoji, and only moved to what is now Ueno 2-chome after the Great Kanto Earthquake. Ueno Station opened in 1883, becoming the starting point of the Tohoku Main Line.
After the war, crowds packed the area and a black market sprang up around the station, which later grew into Ameyoko. In May 1946, police sent in 500 armed officers to crack down on it, and afterward, at the authorities' request, Kondo Market was set up, gradually restoring order.
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