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Rabbityama Says: The Toba Aquarium is famous for being one of Japan's best aquariums, and it lives up to its reputation! The aquarium is divided into sections that each represent a different type of aquatic life. The aquarium features a wide variety of fish, shellfish, and jellyfish. Along...
Mikomoto pearl culture at Toba
SLLiew Says: Toba is the world's birthplace of artificial peal when Koichi Mikomoto could duplicate the mass production of pearls in oysters in 1893. Until then, the pearl was a random act of nature - an abnormal growth of lucre in a wild growing oyster in the ocean. Joined an amazing...
SLLiew Says: I have been to aquariums around the world like Monterrey and in Boston and was surprised to find this excellent aquarium at Toba.Many large and well maintained tanks. Worth the visit especially if you have come all the way to Toba. Japanese tourists exclaiming "sugoi" at...
Rabbityama Says: From Osaka, you can easily get to Toba with only one transfer. From Osaka Station, go to Tsuruhashi. From Tsuruhashi you can then go directly to Toba Station using the Kintetsu Line.The cost from Osaka is approximately 3620 yen, but prices are always subject to change, so...
123Sophie Says: The ferry takes about 1 hour and it`s a convenient to use when you are approaching Ise Peninsula from Tokyo by car. Price is about the same as a highway fee. Website is in Japanese only.
Toba Aquarium - deadly neighborhood
SLLiew Says: What a surprising combination of putting loads of moray eels and scorpion fishes in a tank.Cannot imagine which is worse - a nasty bite from the eel or a venomous sting from the poisonous spines of the scorpion fish.You probably heard of the infamous expensive and...
Toba Aquarium - Dugong Encounter
SLLiew Says: This was my first encounter with a dugong. Apparently sailors has mistaken dugongs as mermaids. Having seen one swim so closely, it is possible to imagine so if one is drunk on high seas and being away from women for a long period of time.Anyway, dugong are still known to be...
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The ferry takes about 1 hour and it`s a convenient to use when you are approaching Ise Peninsula from Tokyo by car. Price is about the same as a highway fee....
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Toba is where mass cultivation of artificial pearls started by Kokichi Mikimoto in the late 19th century. I find the pace here so much slower than Tokyo and can smell the ocean and hear the...
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The Toba Aquarium is one of the best aquariums in Japan. Indeed, it is even better than Osaka's famous Kaiyukan, in my opinion, although it also costs 400 yen more. One of the main attractions here......
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I went to Osatsu about 20 years ago when I was working in Nagoya. I went there with my co-workers and enjoyed sea bathing. I found out much later that Osatsu is a lot more than just a nice swimmig...
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