Ueno Zoo

Area

Ueno

Category

Parks / gardens Other

Ueno Zoo is located in the Taito Ward of Tokyo. This city-run zoo's history dates back to 1882, making it the oldest zoo in Japan.

Ueno Zoo is split into an east and west area, and houses 2,500 animals of 350 species within its grounds. Its giant pandas are especially popular, and Ueno Zoo is famous for being the first successful Japanese zoo to see the birth of a baby panda.

Ueno Zoo has a wide variety of other animals too for you to see, such as the okapi, pygmy hippopotamus, and western lowland gorilla.

(JUL 12.2018)

Basic Information

Address

9-83 Uenokoen, Taito-ku, Tokyo

Phone

03-3828-5171

Hours

9:30a.m. - 5:00p.m.
*May vary seasonally

Closed

Mondays (Tuesday if a national holiday lands on a Monday) 
Year-end holidays (December 29 to January 1)

Fee

General: ¥600
65 years old and up: ¥300
Junior high school students:  ¥200
Junior high school students living in or attending school in Tokyo: Free

*20% discount for groups of 20 or more

Guide

Tokyo Parks Navi: Ueno Zoo’s official app, the Tokyo Parks Navi, is a free app with thorough descriptions of each of the exhibits. Those with Androids can use the special “Tag” feature, where you use your phone and “tag” it to the designated part on the animal description board. After doing so, the app will automatically play an audio guidance of the animal. The language settings are available in English, Simplified Chinese and Korean.

Website

http://www.tokyo-zoo.net/zoo/ueno/

Access

FromShinjuku Station

【Shinjuku Sta.】JR Yamanote Line / for Ikebukuro
→ 【Ueno Sta.】 from the Ueno Park Exit → about a 5-minute walk

FromTokyo Station

【Tokyo Sta.】JR Yamanote Line / for Ikebukuro
→ 【Ueno Sta.】from the Ueno Park Exit → about a 5-minute walk

FromNarita Airport

【Narita Airport Sta.】Keisei Line / for Keisei Ueno
→ 【Keisei Ueno Sta.】from the Main Exit → about a 10-minute walk

FromHaneda Airport

【Haneda Airport Sta.】Tokyo Monorail / for Hamamatsucho
→ 【Hamamatsucho Sta.】JR Keihintohoku Line / for Tokyo
→ 【Ueno Sta.】from the Ueno Park Exit → about a 5-minute walk

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