Travel: Kyoto Aquarium

The Kyoto Aquarium is an awesome place to spend a few hours. From the jellyfish wonders area – it’s wild, you should check it out – to the penguins, there’s a lot to see. Plus, it’s fun!

Okay, let’s check out some photos.

Kyoto Aquarium

First, the Kyoto Aquarium is open 365 days a year and costs about $23.00 Canadian. We spent about 2 hours here, but that was a leisurely visit. Blocking at least 90 minutes is a good plan. We walked from our hotel which was across the street from Kyoto Station, and it took us about 15 minutes. The aquarium is in the middle of a massive park, so worth the stroll.

Okay – can you find the fish? I’m not sure about you, but I kept thinking some of these fish were rocks!

I love the photo above – it somehow reminds me of waters in Ontario – seemingly boring, yet full of colour and life. Okay, now for some of the colour you might expect from an aquarium.

The jellyfish wonder is a neat place – you can see the techs doing science things and they have signs in English, which is helpful to understand what’s going on.

I think jellyfish are some of the most interesting creatures around – they’re so neat.

After we spent a bunch of time with the jellies, we also visited the penguins.

These guys had a lot of personality – marching, waddling, and eating. They were fun to watch, too.

The massive tanks are often impressive, yet for the first time we saw some of the eels being really active – some of them even looked like they were ready to fight.