Toyohashi City

Toyohashi Zoo & Botanical Park is a fun-packed day out for all the family, with animals, rides, beautiful spots, and flowers from all over the world. Also known as ‘Non Hoi Park’ (it means something like ‘hey, hey!’ in the local Higashi-Mikawa dialect) it is a zoo, botanical garden, amusement park, and a natural history museum contained within an abundant 40 hectare grounds and a place where people of all ages can learn and play. Animal Magic The concept of the zoo at Non Hoi Park is to engender a feeling of closeness with the animals in as near to their natural habitat as possible. There are some fourteen zones in which you can see around 900 hundred animals of 170 species. In the savannah zone, see zebras and giraffes roam wild, in the friendly farm meet and interact with sheep, miniature pigs, and rabbits amongst others, and in the polar zone, enjoy the penguins and spotted seals splashing about. Their tanks are displayed so that you can see the immense polar bears up close and personal as they dive into the icy water. If you think that the park has too much to see in one day, or you…