After winning a prestigious U.S. book award for the translated version of her "Tokyo Ueno Station," female novelist Yu Miri gave a shout-out to her adopted "hometown" in Fukushima Prefecture.

An experiment is under way at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo to create a safer environment for the hearing impaired by converting announcements and even the sound of an approaching train into printed ...

Typhoon Ampil is set to brush past eastern Japan on Friday as a “very strong” storm — on par with a Category 2 hurricane — ...

TOKYO, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Japan's national and Tokyo governments are seeking a 700 billion yen ($4.7 billion) valuation for Tokyo Metro as they prepare to list the subway operator as early as ...

Japan's national and Tokyo governments are seeking a 700 billion yen valuation for Tokyo Metro as they prepare to list the subway operator as early as the end of October, three sources said, in what ...

Photo: Youka Nagase The only Poké Lids you’ll find in central Tokyo are at Ueno Park. There’s one ... like this one outside Sakuragicho Station. You’ll see the yellow electric mouse ...

Thousands in north Japan were ordered to evacuate due to the risk of flooding and mudslides from a typhoon approaching.

Rei Naito (b. 1961) has spent her distinguished artistic career creating works that ask, ‘Is our existence on the earth a ...

Ueno Park is one of Tokyo's many enormous green spaces and has 133 acres of ... It's located right near the Shinjuku Station's east exit, so it's very easy to reach this hotspot from pretty much ...

Tokyo, the world's largest metropolis with ... Take the Ginza subway line a few stops to the Ueno train station, home to ...