Toba Aquarium
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Toba Aquarium (鳥羽水族館, Toba-suizokukan) is a public aquarium, which is located in Toba, Mie, Japan. The aquarium houses 12 zones which reproduce natural environments, housing some 25,000 individuals representing 1,200 species.
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Date opened | May 1955 |
Location | Toba, Mie, Japan |
Floor space | 24,981 m2 (268,890 sq ft)[1] |
No. of animals | 30,000[1] |
No. of species | 1,200[1] |
Total volume of tanks | 6,000,000 litres (1,585,000 US gal) [1] |
Annual visitors | 947,000 (2013) |
Memberships | JAZA[2] |
Website | www |
The guests are free to tour the aquarium's grounds in any manner they please, as there is no fixed route. The total length of the aisle is about 1.5 kilometers. In 2015, the total number of visitors exceeded 60 million.[3]
The aquarium is characterized by the fact that 80% of the visitors are adults, and is described as a "quality aquarium.[4]
The aquarium is accredited as a Registered Museum by the Museum Act from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.[5]