It’s held back by an acrylic glass that’s 603 mm (2 feet) thick which previously held the Guinness Book of Records (currently 2nd in the world). You might be wondering what’s holding the 2 million gallons of seawater back in The Kuroshio Sea tank. It was difficult to take pictures in this section since it was really dark. The last part of the aquarium is about the deep sea world featuring 70 species that live below 650 feet (200 meters). There’s also a model of ancient shark’s jaw on display where the children are standing in below. Halfway down the slope, there is a Shark Research Lab with specimens of shark and ray’s parts and information about both.
View of The Kuroshio Sea from Cafe “Ocean Blue”. The path is designed as a zigzag sloped walkway so everyone has opportunities to get great views of the tank as they head down to the lower floor (without obstructing others’ view). The design for visitors to view the tank is quite ingenious. The Kuroshio Sea 黒潮の海įinally, you walk down the ramp and see the main feature, The Kuroshio Sea tank, featuring sharks, rays, whale sharks, and 70 other species. We encourage you to catch a movie during your visit as the ending is pretty cool.
Japanese lobster tank.īetween the Coral Reef Gallery and The Kuroshio Sea, there’s Churaumi Theater which plays movies once an hour about the ocean life near Okinawa.
To start off, once you go through the entrance, there’s a touch pool where visitors are allowed to touch various starfish and sea animals.Īfter the touch pool, the next exhibit is The Coral Sea and the Sea of Tropical Fish where 70 kinds of real corals are grown in the tank along with the tropical fish.įollowing the tropical fish area, there’s a gallery of smaller displays featuring freshwater fish from Okinawa and other ocean creatures that lives around coral reefs. Visitors enter the aquarium on the 4th floor and make their way down to the first floor while viewing the exhibits. The aquarium building consists of 4 levels and it’s fairly easy to self-guide as the path only goes one way from the entrance.
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