Tokyo parks and zoos

Tuna under a cupola roof. A domed roof makes the main attraction – the aquarium - visible from afar. It surpasses all aquariums of Central Europe in size and presentation. Sea creatures of the oceans ar...

The main attraction of this oldest public zoo from all over Japan, which was inaugurated in 1882, are the funny panda bears. Otherwise the system works pretty dreary. Tue-Sun 9.30-16 clock, Admission ...

price level: budget , , address: Taito-ku, Tokyo

The powerful of the Edo period studied in this garden rest and relaxation. Its builder, Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, a powerful feudal lord and confidant of the shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, has 88 landscapes ...

"In Japan, everything is miniaturized" - often the true bias, but not at this zoo, with an area of 52 300 km ² is larger than most German zoos. Special attractions are the giraffes, the lions parks th...

Chinese and Japanese garden art and landscape motifs are interwoven here. No wonder: The Kōrakuen is a collaborative work of the third Tokugawa shogun Mitsukuni and the Chinese scholar Zhu Shunshui. 1...

In the Japanese part of the garden took place in 1989, the official Shinto funeral ceremony for the late Emperor Hirohito instead. After the Meiji restoration of 1868 was the garden, a delightful comb...

Against the backdrop of the skyscrapers of Shinjuku breathes this former parade ground of the imperial army at the weekend a touch of New York's Central Park atmosphere. In addition, the American occu...