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The Shinobazu Pond (Shinobazu no Ike?) is a pond within Ueno Park (a spacious public park located in the Ueno section of Taitō, Tokyo, Japan), and a historically prominent Shitamachi feature often appearing in history and works of art. The park occupies the site of the former Kan'ei-ji, a temple closely associated with the Tokugawa shoguns, who had built it to guard Edo Castle against the northeast, a direction believed to be unlucky by traditional geomancy. The temple was destroyed during the Boshin War. The pond, although modified many times and even once drained, is natural.
Around the pond, there is a stand of several cases, I can drink sake even in the daytime.
When you go around the pond, It will be a variety of sight enters the eye.
It may seem strange, the differences of culture and your country.
I have lived in Tokyo for many years, but a strange place is often in Ueno.
