The tank's glass is 60 cm thick and weighs 135 tonnes: the tank holds 7,500 m³ of water.
In the ‘Kuroshio Sea’ tank, whale sharks and manta rays swim together behind an acrylic panel measuring 8.2 by 22.5 metres, 60 centimetres thick and weighing 135 tonnes. Visitors stand right in front of the glass at feeding time, when the sharks open their mouths to filter plankton. The complex has 77 tanks in all, inside the Ocean Expo Commemorative Park in Motobu.
An aquarium in Motobu, inside the Ocean Expo Commemorative Park.
ℹ️ Normally open 8:30–18:30 (last entry 17:30; hours vary with the season, check before setting out). Adult ticket 2,180 yen, high school 1,440, elementary/junior high 710, under 6 free. On 29/06/2019 it passed 50 million visitors since its opening in 2002. It stands inside the Ocean Exposition Memorial Park (海洋博公園), which is free to enter and also contains Emerald Beach, the Tropical Dream Center, the ocean culture museum and the reconstructed Okinawan village: if you want to see the whole park it takes half a day or the whole day, not the three hours of the aquarium, and there is a paid shuttle between one pavilion and the next. ⚠️ On Wednesdays the museum, gardens and village close, while the aquarium and beach stay open.
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The large ‘Kuroshio Sea’ tank is where Satoru Gojō and Suguru Getō go on their outing in the ‘Hidden Inventory’ arc (episode 27). In the same park, a few hundred metres away, the ‘water staircase’, from which you can see the outline of Ie Island, is another shot from the same episode.
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