Featured this month on FnM Aquarium Blog is Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, the World’s Largest Aquarium in Japan.
The main gigantic acrylic window tank, measuring 8.2 meters by 22.5 meters with a thickness of 60 centimeters, also known as the ”Kuroshio Tank”, holds 7,500-cubic meters (1,981,290 gallons) of sea water. Gigantic whale sharks and manta rays are amongst other many species of fish in the tank. The aquarium is also the first to have a successful birth of a manta pup in captivity.
If you have a chance to visit Okinawa, an island surrounded by fascinating seas, this is a must see tourist destination which is located at 424 Ishikawa, Motobu-cho, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa Japan 905-0206.
Which country will have the next world’s largest aquarium in the future?
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6:59 am on October 2nd, 2009
I have been to this aquarium! I lived out there for two months in 2007. It’s a beautiful island and that aquarium is fantastic. There’s a cafe where you can eat and those huge whale sharks swim by your table. I am a marine biology student and it was an incredible experience. I’m actually specializing in fish biology so I have a better chance of studying these creatures.
Thanks for sharing this with people, and I recommend the experience too!
10:18 am on October 5th, 2009
I used to be heavily into bonsai, and now with my Aquarist hobbies I now have another reason to see Okinawa.
almost 2 million gallons. wow.
2:52 pm on October 22nd, 2009
Want to see this aquarium
12:30 am on November 23rd, 2009
I found this quite amazing. Technology nowadays creating an envornment like this also has to be good for the preservatiuon of certain species of fish.
I really like you blog!