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Kyoto City Zoo
🇯🇵 Japan
🦒 Zoo or wildlife park, Japan 6 spp. present
Kyoto City Zoo (京都市動物園) is a zoo located in Sakyō ward, Kyoto and was established in 1903, making it the second oldest zoo in the country after Ueno Zoo in Tokyo. Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
35.013° N 135.786° E
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Essentials
Entrance
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Tourism
High
Species present
6
speciesOpened
1903
Size
Medium
Visit
Getting there
Who runs it
- Run by
- Kyoto City
What visitors say
🦒 Animals in captivity
Before you go
Where is Kyoto City Zoo?
Osaka, Japan
Kyoto City Zoo is a zoo or wildlife park in Osaka, Japan. Its coordinates are 35.013° N, 135.786° E. The nearest national park in our atlas is Nikko National Park, about 389 km away.
What animals can you see at Kyoto City Zoo?
6 species
Citizen-science photos record 6 species at Kyoto City Zoo, including Mandarin Duck, Jardine River turtle, Red Fox, Japanese Badger and Fennec Fox. 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 Kyoto City Zoo in the wild?
Mandarin Duck: Triglav National Park
Some of the animals photographed at Kyoto City Zoo also live in the parks and cities we cover: Mandarin Duck (about 30% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Triglav National Park), Red Fox (about 60% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Isle Royale National Park) and Japanese Badger (about 10% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Osaka).
When did Kyoto City Zoo open and how big is it?
Opened 1903, 4.0 ha
Kyoto City Zoo, a zoo or wildlife park in Osaka, Japan, opened in 1903 and covers about 4.0 ha, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 6 species are photographed there.
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Sources: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Wikidata (CC0) · iNaturalist observers · Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)