Zoo
Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens
🇯🇵 Japan
🦒 Zoo or wildlife park, Japan 19 spp. present
The Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens (東山動植物園, Higashiyama Dōshokubutsuen) is a joint zoo and botanical garden located at Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan. It is open every day except Monday, and charges a modest admission fee. Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
35.158° N 136.978° E
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Essentials
Entrance
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Tourism
High
Species present
19
speciesOpened
1937
Size
Large
Visit
Getting there
What visitors say
🦒 Animals in captivity
LC
Blue Flyer
Osphranter rufus
LC
Leopard Gecko
Eublepharis macularius
Before you go
Where is Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens?
Nagoya, Japan
Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens is a zoo or wildlife park in Nagoya, Japan. Its coordinates are 35.158° N, 136.978° E. The nearest national park in our atlas is Nikko National Park, about 292 km away.
What animals can you see at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens?
19 species
Citizen-science photos record 19 species at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens, including California Sea Lion, Blue Flyer, American Flamingo, Turkey Vulture and Black Vulture. Those with a page of their own in our atlas show the odds of seeing them in the wild.
Where can you see the animals of Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in the wild?
California Sea Lion: Channel Islands National Park
Some of the animals photographed at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens also live in the parks and cities we cover: California Sea Lion (about 60% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Channel Islands National Park), American Flamingo (about 70% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve) and Turkey Vulture (about 90% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Los Haitises National Park).
When did Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens open and how big is it?
Opened 1937, 90 ha
Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens, a zoo or wildlife park in Nagoya, Japan, opened in 1937 and covers about 90 ha, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 19 species are photographed there.
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Sources: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Wikidata (CC0) · iNaturalist observers · Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)