Ueno Sakuragi Atari (Complex)
At the back of main street on the way to Ueno Park from Yanaka Cemetery , the topical complex 「Ueno Sakuragi Atari」apears. It opened in March 2015.Regenerating the three buildings of the wooden house built in the early
Showa era.
Unique shops and workshops, such as community space tenants, it was reborn in the lively and nostalgic space.
Here is one of the three buildings "Atari 1", located in the
front side of the complex.
The first floor is beer hall, and the second floor has a little exhibition,
sale of clothing and miscellaneous goods that are unusual.
And this building is "Atari 2" which is at the right back side
of the complex.
bakery, contains a specialty store of olive and salt.
In the left hand "Atari3".
This building is open to the public scheduled for autumn of 2015, but not in the shop, it seems to the event space specific used the way.
Yanaka Beer Hall
(Craft beer)
Kayaba Bakery (Bakery)
Located on the first floor that "Atari2" of also recessed, since the front of the shop is a little square spatial, it's might be nice to eat the bread or something you bought.Oshi-Olive (Salt,Olive)
It specializes in carefully selected salt and olive. Counter sale of drinks and snacks also have been made, Appearance looks also like a restaurant, but when wraps around after entering in the building, a number of salt and olive on display, it does not get tired just looking.
Ueno Sakuragi Atari is, to say a small old house theme park, also new attention
spot.
Anyway, overall appearance is unbearable good!
"Atari2" next to that peeped from the second floor window of the "Atari1".
And here "Ueno Sakuragi Atari" after open current (June 2015) → p>
Old-fashioned appearance are kept as same as those days. I think this complex is very valuable in both sides of landscape preservation and community revitalization.
SCAI THE BATHHOUSE
A renovated historic bathhouse that lasted about 200 years, as the exhibition gallery of Contemporary Art, It is here was revived by blowing a new breath. Taste some appearance of bathhouse seems tiled roof. Once inside, this also refreshing natural light cramping from high public bath unique ceiling, has spread is bright and airy exhibition space.
O-gyo-chi (Taiwan dessert)
「愛玉子」,these chinese letters whitch means "love egg" are pronounced as "Ogyochii" In I read with, a decent in Taiwan popular, texture of the dessert such as agar.
Yanaka Bossa (Cafe)
The small stylish atmosphere drifting feeling antique in popularity, cafe was small. Decorate the shelf library is also about 300 books in the name of "Bossa Bunko" is in the store, volume modest bossa nova flowing BGM will sound to comfortable ear.
Kayaba Coffee (Cafe)
Trendy cafe that takes advantage of the good old Machiya architecture.
The name is Kayaba Coffee.
Shitamachi Museum Annex
Corner of the intersection of Kototoi Street, quaint Machiya building will attract a lot of looks conspicuously.
The one that was reconstructed the building of liquor store who ran the liquor store in the land of Yanaka from the Edo era, it is open to the public as the attached exhibition hall of currently non Shinobu Chihan of Ueno "Shitamachi Museum".
Within the building, it had been actually used trout and barrels, scales to such promotional posters and billboards exhibition.
Since admission is also free, it said to feel free to Tachiyoreru facility in the middle of walks.
Leonidas
(Belgian chocolate)
Pepe le moko (French cuisine)
Narrow path that exits in Tokyo University of the Arts from Yanaka district, is located in one corner of the called "RUE DES ARTS" Two-story French restaurant was cozy and the 1986 founding. On the second floor most of the audience, has become on the first floor wine shop.
Pale color of the interior is decorated in a good owner of the collection of painting hobby, to say even a "good old Paris", We drifted a unique retro atmosphere.
Japanese wine winemakers, Nakata Koji, who also appeared on the popular cartoon "Drops of God" is so'm graduates of this shop.
Original wine made for there it is this shop also such edges "Cuvee Madame ・ K".
He is with great gratitude to the owner that triggered the Do-botoke been fascinated by the wine, it is so was naming by taking the first letter "K" of Kimiko's is his wife.
Cafe des Arts (Cafe)
Located opposite of the above-mentioned Pepe le Moko, this also your French feeling cafe. Once (70-80's?) Friendly mom's to management that had been made the Manukan of LANVIN in Paris, it is a community salon shops.You have a "TAMAMA" to nameplate, but TamaMakoto Kazuo's husband, prominent motorsports journalist, known under the name of pseudonym "Bill Otomo". In such Otomo's organizers, will be held on the first Saturday of every month in the "F1 Free Talk" is maniac events shops.
Ueshima Coffee (Cafe)
Corner of the intersection near The Tokyo University of the Arts, quaint some appearance of brick has in perfect harmony with the surrounding green.
The Trace of Hakubutsukan-Doubutsuen Station
Something reminiscent of the Houses of Parliament, this building feels like retro western architecture. . .
In fact, It's former Keisei Electric Railway "Hakubutsukan-Doubutsuen Station" mark (ground exit).
Until the 1990s had been used, at the station which is located between the Nippori Tokyo Ueno, museums, museums and zoo, and so had been functioning as an access station to all cultural facilities of Ueno.
I was also using well until the time of elementary and junior high school students, dim the entire premises there is also a fact that the underground station, such as a person less time I remember even the felt even eerie now.
Become a now, in view also symbolic cultural value of this building, it is what all means want to be reopened.
If this station is, if it was the station of JR line rather than the Keisei Line, project similar recent Akihabara and Manseibashi, By blowing new life into this historic site specific cultural property, it will be considered to be spectacularly or not been able to regenerate.
Sogakudo (formerly Tokyo Music School) p>
odeum, the building was the property of the predecessor of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts of Music "Tokyo School of Music", was built in 1890 it is also a Western-style music hall of Japan's oldest wooden.