Japan Travel Tokyo - Ameyoko Shopping Street - 阿美横町商店街 (アメ横)

 Japan Travel Tokyo - Ameyoko Shopping Street -  阿美横町商店街 (アメ横) (2016 0417)

Address: 4 Ueno, Taito-ku,Tokyo 110-0005

Open: 1000-1900 Hours

Getting There:

Route1: Short walk from JR Ueno Station Central Exit  for 1 minute walk or JR Okachimachi Station North Exit

Route2: Short walk from Tokyo Metro Ueno Station Exit 5B, Naka-okachimachi Station / Ueno-hirokoji Station Exit A2/A5/A7

 

Ameyoko (アメ横) is a busy market street along the Yamanote Line tracks between Okachimachi and Ueno Stations. The name "Ameyoko" is a short form for "Ameya Yokocho" (candy store alley), as candies were traditionally sold there. Alternatively, "Ame" also stands for "America", because a lot of American products used to be available there when the street was the site of a black market in the years following World War Two.

Marishiten Tokudaiji Temple 摩利支天徳大寺

Founded around the mid-17th century and is fittingly dedicated to Marici, a bodhisattva of light and sunshine that in the Edo period came to be worshiped by merchants as a bringer of wealth and prosperity. Open daily 9 am-6 pm.