Aquarium

Lake Biwa Museum

Q: Where is Lake Biwa Museum?

Japan. Lake Biwa Museum is an aquarium in Japan. Its coordinates are 35.074° N, 135.935° E. The nearest national park in our atlas is Nikko National Park, about 374 km away.

Q: What animals can you see at Lake Biwa Museum?

101 species. Citizen-science photos record 101 species at Lake Biwa Museum, including Little Grebe, Black-headed Gull, Japanese Fire Belly Newt, Daruma Pond Frog and Rhinogobies. Those with a page of their own in our atlas show the odds of seeing them in the wild.

Q: Where can you see the animals of Lake Biwa Museum in the wild?

Little Grebe: Arusha National Park. Some of the animals photographed at Lake Biwa Museum also live in the parks and cities we cover: Little Grebe (about 60% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Arusha National Park), Black-headed Gull (about 70% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Wadden Sea National Park) and Japanese Fire Belly Newt (about 40% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Nikko National Park).

Q: When did Lake Biwa Museum open?

Opened 1996. Lake Biwa Museum, an aquarium in Japan, opened in 1996, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 101 species are photographed there.

🇯🇵 Japan

🐠 Aquarium, Japan 101 spp. present

The Lake Biwa Museum (琵琶湖博物館, Biwako Hakubutsukan) is in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It was founded in 1996. The theme of the museum is "relationship between lakes and people" and introduces the nature and culture of Lake Biwa, the largest and oldest lake in Japan. Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)

35.074° N 135.935° E

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Essentials

Entrance

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Tourism

High

Species present

101

species

Opened

1996

Size

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Visit

Getting there

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What visitors say

🐠 Animals in captivity

Tachybaptus ruficollis

Daily sighting probability ~60% · Likely

in Arusha National Park+ 73 more parks

Chroicocephalus ridibundus

Daily sighting probability ~70% · Very likely

in Wadden Sea National Park+ 25 more parks

NT Endemic

Cynops pyrrhogaster

Daily sighting probability ~40% · Likely

in Nikko National ParkNearby records

Pelophylax porosus

Daily sighting probability ~10% · With luck

in TokyoNearby records

Rhinogobius

Daily sighting probability —

Not in our parks or cities

Cyprinus carpio

Daily sighting probability —

Not in our parks or cities

Acipenseridae

Daily sighting probability —

Not in our parks or cities

Pseudaspius hakonensis

Daily sighting probability —

Not in our parks or cities

Before you go

Where is Lake Biwa Museum?

Japan

Lake Biwa Museum is an aquarium in Japan. Its coordinates are 35.074° N, 135.935° E. The nearest national park in our atlas is Nikko National Park, about 374 km away.

What animals can you see at Lake Biwa Museum?

101 species

Citizen-science photos record 101 species at Lake Biwa Museum, including Little Grebe, Black-headed Gull, Japanese Fire Belly Newt, Daruma Pond Frog and Rhinogobies. 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 Lake Biwa Museum in the wild?

Little Grebe: Arusha National Park

Some of the animals photographed at Lake Biwa Museum also live in the parks and cities we cover: Little Grebe (about 60% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Arusha National Park), Black-headed Gull (about 70% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Wadden Sea National Park) and Japanese Fire Belly Newt (about 40% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Nikko National Park).