Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise is recommended for those would like to fully enjoy the appeals of the Japanese ocean waters. Here, you can have fun all day long as there are plenty of facilities such as restaurants and amusement facilities. Lively and adorable creatures of the sea welcome you at the “Aqua Museum”, which is located at the center of the aquarium.
Sixty thousand fish of thirty different species swim in the immense main tank to present the world of nature in the vast oceanic waters.
A huge school of 50,000 sardines swims to illuminations and music, appearing as if it were one living creature in the “Super Sardine Illusion”. Here you can see and experience a powerful spectacle of sardines that you normally cannot see unless you go underwater diving.
In addition to being able to catch fish such as sea bream and horse mackerel in the “UMI Farm”, which is themed on oceanic education at sea, visitors can also deep-fry and eat the fish that they catch at the “KARATTO Kitchen” within the farm. Japanese people regularly eat fish because Japanese people live in a nation that is surrounded by ocean water. This is a facility that teaches this cycle of life.
While being one of the largest aquariums in Japan, the appeal of Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise is that it lets you observe as well as touch many kinds of creatures of the sea. At the “FUREAI (interaction) Lagoon Sakana (Fish) Reef”, which replicates the shallow waters of the Tokyo bay, visitors can actually enter the water to see the creatures of Tokyo bay. You can also even feed the animals such as the dolphins and penguins that are bred here.