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The Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium (沖縄美ら海水族館, Okinawa Churaumi Suizokukan), formerly known as the Okinawa Ocean Expo Aquarium, is a public aquarium located within the Ocean Expo Park in Okinawa, Japan. The aquarium's Kuroshio sea tank was the largest aquarium tank in the world until it was surpassed by the Georgia Aquarium in 2005.
Aeon Mall Rycom Aquarium in Okinawa Don Quijote has installed large aquariums in more than 10 stores throughout Japan. This is a list of aquaria (public aquariums) in Japan. For zoos, see list of zoos in Japan. Also, For worlds, see List of aquaria.
The main tank of the aquarium facility that was opened at Expo was the largest indoor aquarium in the world at that time with a water volume of 1,100,000 litres (291,000 US gal). After that, we continued to use the Aquarium facility used in Expo'75 and opened it as the Okinawa Ocean Expo Aquarium .
Large aquariums exhibit a wide variety of species and animals in a large range of tanks. These are typically public aquariums and may also include oceanariums and dolphinariums, designed to showcase a diverse range of marine animals for the public. In operation Only aquariums with a total capacity of more than 10 million litres and/or a tank larger than 5 million litres are included in the ...
The Suma Aquarium was requested to be an aquarium suitable for the international port city of Kobe, and it was opened. [3] In 1958, the aquarium was designated as a facility equivalent to a museum the Museum Act from then Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and began active social education activities. At that time ...
The aquarium was named "Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan" by the general public and opened in 1990. [2] The number of visitors reached 1 million on the 40 days of the opening and 2 million on the 101 days, The final number of visitors during the year reached 5.6 million, surpassing the national record held at that time Tokyo Sea Life Park and being the ...
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Kamogawa Sea World was the first aquarium in Japan to start breeding killer whales. Since October 1970, Kamogawa Sea World has had two Amazon river dolphins named Poco (male) and Deco (female) on public display, and after their deaths, plastic specimens are made and displayed.