Nagasaki Bio Park

photo by STA3816 · CC BY-SA 4.0

photo by STA3816 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Few cages: in 1994 Japan's first hand-reared hippopotamus grew up here.

Opened in 1980 in the evergreen broadleaf woods of Saikai, it has almost no cages: capybaras, llamas and wallabies come up close and let visitors feed them, and there are no large carnivores. In 1994 the first hippopotamus in Japan to be successfully raised by artificial feeding was born here. The park also has a tropical greenhouse (Flower Dome) and an insect museum.

A 300,000-square-metre nature park run by Biopark Co., Ltd., designed on the principle of harmony between people and nature: very few cages or fences allow close observation of, and direct interaction with, most of the animals.

ℹ️ Open all year, 10:00–17:00 (last entry 16:00); the PAW (interaction) area 10:30–17:00. Tickets: adults ¥2,100, junior high/high school students ¥1,500, children ¥1,100; extra interaction ¥700/hour from age 3. Reachable by bus from Nagasaki towards Ōkushi, Biopark bus stop; about 20 minutes by car from the Saikai Bridge.

Sources: ja.wikipedia.org · nagasaki-tabinet.com

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