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Kumamoto City Zoological and Botanical Gardens
🇯🇵 Japan
🦒 Zoo or wildlife park, Japan 5 spp. present
Kumamoto City Zoological and Botanical Gardens (Japanese: 熊本市動植物園) is a 24 acre (9.7 ha) zoo and botanical garden located in Higasi-ku of Kumamoto, Japan. It was opened in 1969 and houses 550 animals, representing 110 species, and 70,000 plants across 700 species. In 2024, the park received 590,000 visitors; it offers educational programs for elementary and junior secondary schools. Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
32.775° N 130.748° E
🎟️ Visit
Essentials
Entrance
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Tourism
Medium
Species present
5
speciesOpened
1929
Size
Large
Visit
Getting there
What visitors say
🦒 Animals in captivity
Japanese Raccoon Dog
Nyctereutes viverrinus
NT
Sclater's Crowned-Pigeon
Goura sclaterii
NT
Japanese pond turtle
Mauremys japonica
Before you go
Where is Kumamoto City Zoological and Botanical Gardens?
Japan
Kumamoto City Zoological and Botanical Gardens is a zoo or wildlife park in Japan. Its coordinates are 32.775° N, 130.748° E. The nearest national park in our atlas is Nikko National Park, about 915 km away.
What animals can you see at Kumamoto City Zoological and Botanical Gardens?
5 species
Citizen-science photos record 5 species at Kumamoto City Zoological and Botanical Gardens, including Red-crowned Crane, Common Peafowl, Japanese Raccoon Dog, Sclater's Crowned-Pigeon and Japanese pond turtle. 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 Kumamoto City Zoological and Botanical Gardens in the wild?
Red-crowned Crane: Fuzhou
Some of the animals photographed at Kumamoto City Zoological and Botanical Gardens also live in the parks and cities we cover: Red-crowned Crane (about 10% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Fuzhou) and Common Peafowl (about 90% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Udawalawe National Park).
When did Kumamoto City Zoological and Botanical Gardens open and how big is it?
Opened 1929, 23 ha
Kumamoto City Zoological and Botanical Gardens, a zoo or wildlife park in Japan, opened in 1929 and covers about 23 ha, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 5 species are photographed there.
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