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IBARAKI PREFECTURAL OARAI AQUARIUM
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Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium

The aquarium is located by the seashore of Oarai. The aquarium is very famous for sharks.

Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium


The Sea Life of Ibaraki
Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium

The diver films the fish in the tank. You see it on the big screen just beside the tank. His mask has a little microphone and he explains about the fish from there.

Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium
There are about 20,000 local fish in about 80 different kinds in this tank.
Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium


Brown jellyfish, Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium
Brown jellyfish
oarfish, Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium
Oarfish (Specimen)


Sand tiger shark, Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium
Sand tiger shark
Sand tiger shark, Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium Scalloped hammerhead
Scalloped hammerhead

Special Report from Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium by Jack the Lizard. Understanding Shark



Bowmouth guitarfish is a kind of ray.
Bowmouth guitarfish, Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium Bowmouth guitarfish, Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium Bowmouth guitarfish, Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium


Japanese spider crab, Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium
Japanese spider crab
Paralomis hystrix, Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium
Paralomis hystrix (crab) and
metanephrops japonicas (srimp)
Blueberry roughy, Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium
Blueberry roughy, Izu Marbled rockfish, Rosy seabass


Coral, Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium
Corals (Acropora tenuis) are growing. Now they are still little eggs.
Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium
Coral is the great environment for fish and oceanic animals to live.


Spotted wobbegong, Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium
Spotted wobbegong (Orectolobus maculates)
Western wobbegon, Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium
Western wobbegon (Orectolobus hutchinsi)


"Hello! Is anybody in there?"
Take a careful look.
Reef stonefish, Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium
Reef stonefish. It looks exactly like the rocks around.


Ocean sunfish
Ocean sunfish, Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium
6 Ocean sunfish swim in the tank.

The tank is designed only for sunfish. Plastic sheet is set inside of the tank to guard the sunfish from injury by hitting themselves to the wall and glass.

Ocean sunfish, Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium


Tufted Puffin
Tufted Puffin, Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium
Tufted Puffin, Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium California sea lion, Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium
California sea lion
California sea lion, Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium




Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium


10 minutes ride on Kaiyu-go bus takes you to the aquarium from Oarai Station.

Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium