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is about 2.4 km northwest of JR Hitachi Station. Only ten minutes’ or so
riding on the bus takes you to Kamine Park, that is one of
100 famous cherry blossom places in Japan. The zoo is in this park and
also is a children’s amusement park. Varieties of animals kept here are mammals (elephant, giraffe, lion), reptiles (python, iguana), birds (crane, peacock, eagle), and in all there are 70 species, 480 pieces. |
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| Open: (March～October) 9:00am～5:00 pm (entrance limit 4:15pm) (November ～February) 9:00am ～4:15 pm (entrance limit 3:30pm) Holidays: December 29～January 1 Admission fee: Adult (over 15) \500 (\450 for a member of a group over 30 adults or children) Child (4 to 14) \100 (\90 for a group member) ( If you are over 65, you are free of charge. Why don’t you visit with your grandchildren?) Parking: 40 at the gate, other parking lots in the park available |
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introduce some noteworthy topics. The visitors a year are about 270,000. On the third Sunday of every month, visitors can experience feeding elephants (11:00 am and 2:00 pm) and rhinoceros. Staffs are now training giraffes, too. In summer only in the limited period in the first half of August, the zoo is open from 6:00 to 9:00pm, to show the life of animals at night. You can see live reflection of monkeys of the “saru-yama” ( monkeys’ field) in this zoo from 9:00am to 5:00 pm in the home page; http://www.hitachi.ibaraki/jp/webcamera/kamine.htm A monkey with white hands was born 4 years ago and they call it “a god’s hands monkey”. And in this zoo, they are trying to breed black rhinoceros. It is an unprecedented trial and no other institutes in Japan have ever tried. The zoo will come to the 50th anniversary in 2007. A memorial event including improvement works of the park is going to be held. |
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