Asahiyama Zoo (旭山動物園) 旭山動物園
In July–August 2004 it overtook Ueno Zoo in monthly visitors: first in Japan.
Asahikawa's municipal zoo, the northernmost in Japan, housed 633 animals of 101 species as of 1 April 2019. Its turnaround, from almost certain closure in 1996 to the visitor records of 2004–2006, has become a case study cited for the behavioural exhibition method, now imitated by other Japanese zoos.
Hokkaido
Asahiyama Zoo