Aquarium
Taiji Whale Museum
🇯🇵 Japan
JAZA
🐠 Aquarium, Japan 9 spp. present
33.602° N 135.946° E
🎟️ Visit
Essentials
Entrance
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Tourism
Low
Species present
9
speciesOpened
1969
Size
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Accreditations
- Japanese Association of Zoos and AquariumsNational association of zoos and aquariums in Japan
Visit
Getting there
What visitors say
🐠 Animals in captivity
LC
Striped Dolphin
Stenella coeruleoalba
LC
Rough-toothed Dolphin
Steno bredanensis
EN
North Pacific Right Whale
Eubalaena japonica
LC
Bowhead Whale
Balaena mysticetus
Before you go
Where is Taiji Whale Museum?
Japan
Taiji Whale Museum is an aquarium in Japan. Its coordinates are 33.602° N, 135.946° E. The nearest national park in our atlas is Nikko National Park, about 482 km away.
What animals can you see at Taiji Whale Museum?
9 species
Citizen-science photos record 9 species at Taiji Whale Museum, including Striped Dolphin, Pantropical Spotted Dolphin, Rough-toothed Dolphin, False Killer Whale and Bottlenose Dolphin. 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 Taiji Whale Museum in the wild?
Pantropical Spotted Dolphin: Coiba National Park
Some of the animals photographed at Taiji Whale Museum also live in the parks and cities we cover: Pantropical Spotted Dolphin (about 50% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Coiba National Park), False Killer Whale (about 10% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Raja Ampat) and Bottlenose Dolphin (about 40% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Bahía de Loreto National Park).
Is Taiji Whale Museum accredited?
JAZA
Open registers list Taiji Whale Museum with JAZA. These marks come from Wikidata, and they are shown here as a fact, not as an endorsement.
When did Taiji Whale Museum open?
Opened 1969
Taiji Whale Museum, an aquarium in Japan, opened in 1969, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 9 species are photographed there.
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Sources: Wikidata (CC0) · iNaturalist observers