Touching tank popular with children
The “new sensory area” is an area where visitors can feel and touch the living environment of living creatures and get a sense of what they have never known before. The New Experience Area is a very fantastic beginning, where visitors proceed from the permanent exhibition floor, looking up at the drift ice on the ceiling.
・Arctic Zone.
The first thing to appear is a large ceiling dome-shaped tank!
Visitors can observe seals in the sea and look up at the cute belly of a ringed seal. The sight of seals swimming above your head is truly a new sensation. Around the domed overhead tank, there are also displays of clione and the mysterious fish of the Arctic Circle that do not freeze even in sub-zero temperatures.
When you go up the stairs, you will be greeted by the ringed seal that was swimming earlier, peeking out from the surface of the sea.
・Falkland Islands Zone
Beyond this area, the Iwatobi penguins are on display. The acrylic panels of the partitions in the new sensory area are chest-high, so even short children can observe the penguins more closely. It is a thrilling new experience to feel the coldness where the rockhopper penguins live, and to be so close that you can almost hear them move and even breathe. There are several meal times held in Kaiyukan, but the meal time in the new sensory area is worth seeing because it is easy to see and the creatures are easily conveyed to you.
・Maldivian Islands Zone
The Maldivian Islands Zone is home to one of the largest “touch tanks” in Japan, where visitors can touch sharks and stingrays. The sharks are rough to the touch and the rays are slippery, and you can hear children’s excited voices coming from all over the place. Both sharks and rays are gentle and easy to touch.
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