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Introduction & ★Main creatures |
Aqua Gate
Water volume: 140 tons
Water temperature: 21 degrees C
Tunnel length: 11 meters
Area: 63 square meters |
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Tour of KAIYUKAN begins by walking through this tunnel-shaped tank (11 meters long), Aqua Gate.
Colorful schools of fish playing around this tunnel come from tropical and subtropical seas. Enjoy the fantastic blue world.
★Cownose ray, Damselfish, |
Japan Forest
Water volume: 60 tons
Temperature is the same as that of the outdoors
Water temperature: 15 - 23 degrees C
Area: 430 square meters |
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Forest rains gather in rivers and flow to the sea. Enjoy the green forests, river fish and shore living things which inhabit Japan's inland areas.
★ Giant salamander, Char, Red spotted masou trout, Asian small clawed otter,
★Zelkova serrata, Acer palmatum var. matsumurae, Strawberry geranium |
Aleutian Islands
Water volume: 250 tons
Temperature: 13 degrees C
Water temperature: 10 degrees C
Area: 50 square meters |
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This tank re-creates the harsh, rocky environment of Aleutian Islands, where the water temperature ranges from 2 to 10 degrees C. Playful sea otters are popular among children.
★Sea otter |
Monterey Bay
Water volume: 1,050 tons
Temperature is the same as that of the outdoors
Water temperature: 18 degrees C
Area: 250 square meters |
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A variety of marine mammals live along the California coastline. This display offers a rare chance to see underwater behaviors of sealions and harbor seals.
★Harbor seal, California sealion
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Gulf of Panama
Water volume: 500 tons
Temperature: 26 degrees C
Water temperature: 22 degrees C
Area: 50 square meters |
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This display replicates a tropical rainforest in a dry season with ringtailed coati and tropical reef fish.
★Pocupine fish |
Ecuador Rain Forest
Water volume: 250 tons
Temperature: 26 - 30 degrees C
Water temperature: 26 degrees C
Area: 150 square meters |
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Deep in the heart of Amazon, you'll find the world's greatest diversity of plant and animal life.
★Pirarucu, Common squirrel monkey, Iguana iguana |
Antarctica
Water volume: 350 tons
Temperature: 0 - 3 degrees C
Water temperature: 10 degrees C
Area: 50 square meters |
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Penguins live in frozen rocks and ice. Visitors can see them gracefully swimming under the water, as if they fly through the air.
★King penguin, Gentoo penguin, |
Tasman Sea
Water volume: 1,350 tons
Temperature: 10 - 26 degrees C
Water temperature: 18 - 23 degrees C
Area: 260 square meters |
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Water temperature around New Zealand varies. Visitors to this tank can see dolphins swimming in the warm water.
★Pacific whitesided dolphin
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Great Barrier Reef
Water volume: 450 tons
Water temperature: 26 degrees C
Area: 60 square meters |
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This tank faithfully imitates the world's largest coral reef extending 2,000 kilometers along the eastern coast of Australia.
★Butterflyfish, Damselfish, Chiloscyllium punctatum, |
Pacific Ocean
Water volume: 5,400 tons
Water temperature: 23 - 24 degrees C
Area: 620 square meters
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This is the largest tank in this aquarium with 9 meters deep, and 5,400 tons of water. You will never forget the whale shark swimming in this tank.
★Whale shark, Bluefin tuna, Spotted eagle ray |
Seto Inland Sea
Water volume: 150 tons
Water temperature: 17 degrees C
Area: 40 square meters |
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Not a large ocean though, this sea has many faces, and is a home for wide variety of living things. Many kinds of species live in this local area.
★Sea bream, Olive flounder, Common octopus |
Coast of Chile
Water volume: 250 tons
Water temperature: 18 degrees C
Area: 40 square meters |
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Cold currents, flowed from Antarctica, abound in nutrients and produce a lot of plankton on the coast of Chile. Sardines live in groups to eat the plankton.
★Sardine, Japanese anchovy |
Cook Strait
Water volume: 350 tons
Water temperature: 18 degrees C
Area: 40 square meters |
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Seaturtles and fish from Cook Strait separating the northern and southern islands of New Zealand are exhibited.
★Loggerhead seaturtle, Green seaturtle, Pink maomao, Blue maomao |
Japan Deep
Water volume: 80 tons
Water: 11degrees C
Area: 40 square meters |
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No sunlight reaches the quiet, dark, and deep sea. The largest crab living on the trench slope of 200-400 meters below the sea level are exhibited.
★Giant spider crab, Snipe fish |
Floating Jelly Fish
Water volume: 11 tons in total in 12 tanks
Area: 289 square meters
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In the floor of Floating Jelly Fish, twelve species representing about six hundred specimens centering jelly fishes living in the coast of Japan are exhibited. Visitors are able to see fantastic appearances of jelly fishes floating in twelve tanks.
★Brown jellyfish, Moon jelly, Tima Formosa, Pacific Sea Nettle, etc. |
