An extraordinary space in the city filled with blue sky, green and water
The popular spot “Sunshine Aquarium” is an aquarium in “Sunshine City” of Tokyo Ikebukuro. In the summer of 2017, the outdoor area “Marine Garden” has been renewed drastically, making it a more popular spot. It has been transformed into a healing space that makes you imagine a tropical resort, forgetting to be in the city center. There is an extraordinary space in the city filled with blue sky, green, and water that can sympathize with the way of life of various lives.
The Sunshine Aquarium is extremely popular at exhibitions that take full advantage of the city center’s location. It is a typical urban aquarium that tackles coral conservation activities and others. It is a good point to be in “Sunshine City,” a complex facility, and enjoy “shopping and aquarium.”
New sense sensation performance that you can enjoy in close range as well as regular display. Various events are abundant, including the underwater performance of a huge aquarium, “Sunshine Lagoon,” boasting an overwhelming amount of water to forget that you are in a city center building. It will be impressed by the figure that fish and diver swim happily and go around lively and moving in the way it is.
The sunshine aquarium is not so wide, but it takes about 1 hour to 1 hour and a half because there are the first floor and the second floor and even the outdoor exhibition. Also, because it is heavily crowded on Saturdays and Sundays, it is recommended that you expect about 2 hours if you are going to enjoy shopping and so on while watching slowly.
Charms and Highlights of the Sunshine Aquarium
The figure as if flying in the urban sky
The concept of the Sunshine Aquarium is “the oasis of the sky.” There is non-daily life space among water and the green.
The outdoor area has Japan’s first exhibition, “Sunshine Aqua Ring.” The sea lions swim in the doughnut type water tank overhead comfortably. It seems that the figure is flying in the urban sky.
Many tanks, including “the Jellyfish Tunnel,” such as the “the Sunshine Lagoon,” an indoor area.
Besides, Asian small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinerea) and various creatures, including penguins, ocean sunfish, and pelican, such as southern tamandua, can be seen from a short distance.
Reopened in 2011
The Sunshine Aquarium was opened in 1978. It is the city type aquarium which was closed one year after 2010 and reopened in 2011.
The oasis of the sky
It is known as the first aquarium made on the roof of the building in Japan as the concept “the oasis of the sky.”
The fish of world’s various seas
In the first-floor flooding tank “sunshine lagoon” and “Fuwarium” of the tunnel type water tank, you can observe the fish of the world’s various seas from the sea near the shore to the open sea. In “trip of the waterside” of the second floor, the waterside creature such as a frog and the clownfish living in the world shore or river is observable.
And a penguin, sea lion show, etc., can be seen in the outdoor marine garden “trip of the sky.”
Popular also as romantic dating spot
Anyone can enjoy the figure of the creature of a great variety of water from a child to an adult. As a leisure spot for families, it is also popular as a romantic dating spot. Also, I am popular as “the urban oasis,” which can take a breather relievedly.
Information(Access, Price/Charge, Tel, Address, Official site, etc.)
| Name: | Sunshine Aquarium |
| Address: | Higashiikebukuro 3-1 Toshima-ku, Tokyo 170-0013 Japan |
| Access: | Tokyo Metro Yurakucho-sen Line “Higashi-Ikebukuro-eki Station” (3 minutes walk) |
| Tel: | (+81) 3-3989-3466 |
| Price: | 2,200 yen (Ages 16+) 1,200 yen (Ages 7 to 15) 700 yen (Ages 4 to 6) Please refer the official web page. |
| Official site: | https://www.sunshinecity-global.com/ |
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