Asa Zoological Park

Hiroshima City Asa Zoological Park (広島市安佐動物公園, Hiroshima-shi Asa Dōbutsukōen^?) is a zoo inward Hiroshima, Japan.
About the Zoo

The Asa Zoological Park opened on September 1, 1971. The commons was founded past times Hiroshima City together with built inward the northern suburb of Asa afterwards its citizens expressed a rigid wishing to lead hold a local zoo. In 1986, administration of the zoo was transferred from the metropolis together with entrusted inward the Hiroshima City Zoo Association. Today, the zoo is habitation to to a greater extent than or less 160 species of province animals from Asia, Africa together with Europe. In total, 1,500 province animals are business office of its collection equally good equally some 5,000 fish.

It volition accept at to the lowest degree 4 hours to tour the zoo equally it is to a greater extent than or less a 4 km walk to run into the zoo's entire 25.6 hectares. Along the way, at that spot are enough of vending machines together with a cafeteria. They are all fortunately quite reasonably priced equally if you're going to run into it all together with hence y'all portion beingness captive at the zoo alongside the animals.

Into Africa

The zoo tour begins alongside a large congress of baboons at Baboon Mountain (匕匕山). There are a seat out of displays nearly them behind the mountain. After, the tour winds its means through Africa alongside zebras, giraffes, elephants, camels together with more.

Pichiku Park

Pichiku Park is the petting zoo together with cute animate beingness department of the zoo. It's a fairly criterion petting zoo alongside the barnyard animals, rabbits together with guinea pigs. The large jungle gym for asiatic siberian chipmunks is impressive simply the edifice showcasing the stages of life together with the ways babies are made is 1 of the best done parts of the zoo. I certain promise they lead hold something to do alongside all the chicks they hatch there.

Snakes together with Nocturnal Animal Building

The zoo has an interesting older edifice filled alongside a bunch of confused animals who are nether artificial low-cal to convince them that they should come upwards out when its actually daylight outside. It has some of the zoo's to a greater extent than interesting displays equally it allows y'all to run into upwards unopen bats together with champaign mice that y'all usually couldn't.

Other Sections

There are numerous other animals including lions, tigers together with bears inward the western department of the zoo. As well, at that spot are a seat out of aviaries. Its quite futile trying to listing all the animals hence I'll highlight a brace of interesting ones.
The eurasian river otter is the exclusively genuinely aquatic mammal at the zoo. These playful together with active otters are ever putting on a demonstrate inward their tank. Typically inward the wild, they are active exclusively at dusk together with dawn. They are the exclusively otter native to United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland together with are listed equally a vulnerable animal.

The (red) lesser panda is 1 of the few larger mammals that looks similar it enjoys beingness inward a cage. They go quite tame afterwards socializing alongside humans together with are slow to attention for. They are equally good quite pop at feeding fourth dimension because of their habit of standing on 2 legs to cheque out what goodies the zookeeper equally brought. They are a endangered species inward the wild (they laissez passer nativity to exclusively 1 to 4 cubs a year) simply since they breed good inward captivity, dissimilar existent pandas, zoo programs lead hold been successful at pairing them off.

Review

The Hiroshima City Asa Zoological Park is the exclusively large scale traditional zoo I've been to. From what I saw, the zoo does a fine chore caring for its guests inward the cages they have. My exclusively nagging trouble organization together with electrical load is that many of the cages are spartan together with do a hapless chore of showing the animals inward their native environment.
In the end, exclusively world back upwards through donations together with buying tickets tin dismiss permit a zoo to expand together with better the displays its animals alive in. After seeing the practiced go they're doing, if they gear upwards their website for online donations together with hence I would consider chipping inward a donation. Despite the difficulty of getting to zoo, it makes a fine twenty-four hours trip to go to the zoo from Hiroshima City.

Getting There

The Asahigaoka (あさひが丘) motorcoach draw run past times Hiroden travels betwixt JR Hiroshima Station together with the suburb N of the zoo. The motorcoach tin dismiss live on boarded at the station (60 minutes) or at a seat out of stops along the way. If y'all are downtown together with hence the fastest together with cheapest means to accomplish the Asa Zoological Park is via the Astram Line. Take the Astram Train to Kamiyasu Station (上安駅) together with board the Asahigaoka motorcoach at the motorcoach halt at the station named Dobutsu-Koen Asahigaoka.
By car, both the Hiroshima IC together with Itsukaichi IC off the Sanyo Expressway are nearly the same distance from the park. There are guide signs at both interchanges. Take road 54 from the metropolis (follows the Astram Line) together with plow N close Kamiyasu Station. The zoo is nearly xl minutes from the metropolis together with 20 minutes from the interchanges.
The zoo is closed on Thursdays. In the effect that Th is a national vacation or August sixth together with hence it is closed on the preceding day. Also, if Apr 4 or five is a vacation (Golden Week) together with hence Apr 2 is a holiday.

• Hours : 9:00 - 16:30 (No entry afterwards 16:00)
• Contact : Tel:082-838-1111 Fax:082-838-1711
• Holidays : Every calendar week on Th (Closed preceding twenty-four hours if a national vacation is on the Thursday)
• Entry : Adult 500 yen (Child 170 yen)
• Access : [Car] Take road 54 from the metropolis (follows the Astram Line) together with plow N close Kamiyasu Station. Follow the signs. Toll parking lot.[Bus] From JR Hiroshima Station: Take the Asahigaoka Bus to the park. The motorcoach crosses the Astram Line at Kamiyasu Station. threescore minutes.