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Long-standing zoo & botanical garden with a large array of animal & plant species, plus a gift shop.
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Avoid this place at all costs—it's truly abysmal. I have seen much zoos with much better enclosures in developing countries that are considered to be far behind Japan. Barring a handful, almost all of the enclosures fall far short of providing the proper landscape, stimulation, or space for the animals. Most resemble prison cells—small, concrete, and devoid of plants or enrichment. Some were downright filthy.
Disturbingly, many animals displayed clear signs of distress and extreme boredom, including an (underweight) monkey, a zebra, the sun bears, and the large felines like lions and tigers.
The irony of proudly showcasing the Andean condor's wingspan on a sign, only to confine it in an enclosure barely double that wingspan, is hard to ignore. The zebra's enclosure lacks even artificial grass and looked more like a small parking lot than an enclosure for a large herbivore hailing from the African savannah.
The zoo has ample space available. Incorporating a few plants into specific enclosures should be a no-brainer. A slight increase in the cheap entrance ticket price could easily fund many improvements. Some of the animals just don't belong in the zoo, especially not in these horrible enclosures. The current state of affairs is truly unacceptable. There is no way the people behind it have any care in the world for animal welfare, conservation of zoology.
Disturbingly, many animals displayed clear signs of distress and extreme boredom, including an (underweight) monkey, a zebra, the sun bears, and the large felines like lions and tigers.
The irony of proudly showcasing the Andean condor's wingspan on a sign, only to confine it in an enclosure barely double that wingspan, is hard to ignore. The zebra's enclosure lacks even artificial grass and looked more like a small parking lot than an enclosure for a large herbivore hailing from the African savannah.
The zoo has ample space available. Incorporating a few plants into specific enclosures should be a no-brainer. A slight increase in the cheap entrance ticket price could easily fund many improvements. Some of the animals just don't belong in the zoo, especially not in these horrible enclosures. The current state of affairs is truly unacceptable. There is no way the people behind it have any care in the world for animal welfare, conservation of zoology.
-Visited on a Sunday and it was not that crowded
-Easy access from Yakuin-odour station by bus or walking 15mins.
-Lift access available at the entrance and slopes around the park for those that have strollers and wheelchair
-It was easy to get tickets from the machine at the entrance
-It was a great experience with a variety of animals and pretty flowers.
-The park size is kinda big but there are benches across the park for visitors to rest. -One of the main foodcourt is outside the exit but there are small carts and cafe selling food and drinks around the park.
-The main souvenir shop is located right outside the exit.
-There’s mini park rides for kids.
-The birds section was closed due to bird flu.
-Easy access from Yakuin-odour station by bus or walking 15mins.
-Lift access available at the entrance and slopes around the park for those that have strollers and wheelchair
-It was easy to get tickets from the machine at the entrance
-It was a great experience with a variety of animals and pretty flowers.
-The park size is kinda big but there are benches across the park for visitors to rest. -One of the main foodcourt is outside the exit but there are small carts and cafe selling food and drinks around the park.
-The main souvenir shop is located right outside the exit.
-There’s mini park rides for kids.
-The birds section was closed due to bird flu.
They just have a bird, flamingo, giraffe and pinguin that’s a real animal rest of it they literally nothing. So many children coming here as group tour from school. They so cute, excited and lovely to foreigners ✨💕 they just have a toilet inside of the zoo the ticket also not that pricey. 600 yen.
If you are slightly familiar with animals in general and their origins and needs:don't spend money there.
That beeing said:let me elaborate a bit, why.
1)Passing several herbivores I first got the feeling :Uff. Do they even have enough space? Additionaly :the amount of children passing by them, screaming and shouting and so on (ok those are children - so they do what they do), the animals don't have even the slightest possibility to escape the noise. Taking into consideration, most of the are also flight animals... Count 1+1about the stress they are exposed day by day.
2)showing off, how big the wingspan of a condor is... 3.3m-Yes impressive. Putting that humongous bird in a cage maybe 10-12m wide,7-8m height and 15ish deep is questionable at least. The same applies to other bigger eagles, caged nearby.
3)the big cats. Lions and Amur Tigers.
Excuse me, but last time I've checked, there is no solid concrete pasted either in the savanna nor in the steppes and forests of Asian origins of the tiger. How in the gods freakin name did you come to the idea of putting concrete as an appropriate bedding for these animals? How? Explaine it please. The reason of "easier" cleaning is a lazy one. There you definitely should re-evaluate the thought behind a (proper) zoo.
And how do you expect these animals to be entertained and busy, if they hardly have anything to do. A tree for scratching the claws isn't close to what they actually need. Hearing them roar gave me goose bumps. Those screams were not mating/territorial ones. It was just pain and suffering I heard. The enclosures for lions and Tigers are way to small.
And please, don't come me with the reasoning:we couldn't provide a popper bedding because of "insert any reason here". The Orang-Utans have a huge variety of plants, trees and bushes at the bottom of their enclosure(which also seems to be very versatile and offers a lot to climb/do for the animals-so at least props to you there) . So it's not you aren't able to, but you don't want to,it seems.
That beeing said:let me elaborate a bit, why.
1)Passing several herbivores I first got the feeling :Uff. Do they even have enough space? Additionaly :the amount of children passing by them, screaming and shouting and so on (ok those are children - so they do what they do), the animals don't have even the slightest possibility to escape the noise. Taking into consideration, most of the are also flight animals... Count 1+1about the stress they are exposed day by day.
2)showing off, how big the wingspan of a condor is... 3.3m-Yes impressive. Putting that humongous bird in a cage maybe 10-12m wide,7-8m height and 15ish deep is questionable at least. The same applies to other bigger eagles, caged nearby.
3)the big cats. Lions and Amur Tigers.
Excuse me, but last time I've checked, there is no solid concrete pasted either in the savanna nor in the steppes and forests of Asian origins of the tiger. How in the gods freakin name did you come to the idea of putting concrete as an appropriate bedding for these animals? How? Explaine it please. The reason of "easier" cleaning is a lazy one. There you definitely should re-evaluate the thought behind a (proper) zoo.
And how do you expect these animals to be entertained and busy, if they hardly have anything to do. A tree for scratching the claws isn't close to what they actually need. Hearing them roar gave me goose bumps. Those screams were not mating/territorial ones. It was just pain and suffering I heard. The enclosures for lions and Tigers are way to small.
And please, don't come me with the reasoning:we couldn't provide a popper bedding because of "insert any reason here". The Orang-Utans have a huge variety of plants, trees and bushes at the bottom of their enclosure(which also seems to be very versatile and offers a lot to climb/do for the animals-so at least props to you there) . So it's not you aren't able to, but you don't want to,it seems.
