{"id":5093,"date":"2022-06-28T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T02:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/beat-the-heat-at-tokyos-aquariums\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T11:33:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:33:57","slug":"beat-the-heat-at-tokyos-aquariums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/beat-the-heat-at-tokyos-aquariums\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat the Heat at Tokyo&#8217;s Aquariums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the rainy season or \u201ctsuyu\u201d\u00a0 is nearly behind us, we can finally look forward to Summer. Perhaps, looking forward isn\u2019t the most accurate expression as Tokyo Summers tend to be hot, very humid, and uncomfortable. Spending any amount of time outside can leave you sweaty and tired. Potential heat exhaustion becomes a real issue. To work around this, you head into an air-conditioned supermarket, convenience store, or shopping center to beat the heat. These little breaks inside help, a short respite before you eventually go back outside. Welcome to Summer in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Not to say that things are all bad in summer, though. The skies are blue, there is plenty to do, and you can find ways to stay cool and have fun simultaneously. One great place that will cool you off is the aquarium, and Tokyo and its surrounding areas have plenty of options. There are at least 7 in Tokyo and a few more in the surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sunshine Aquarium<\/li>\n<li>Sumida Aquarium<\/li>\n<li>Tokyo Sealife Aquarium<\/li>\n<li>Epson Aqua Stadium<\/li>\n<li>Tokyo Tower Aquarium<\/li>\n<li>Inokashira Shizen Bunkaen\u00a0Aquarium<\/li>\n<li>Shin Enoshima Aquarium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today we will focus on one of the more well-known ones.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shinagawa Aquarium<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the Shinagawa Aquarium, you can experience an accurate \u201cwalk underwater\u201d while\u00a0 sea bream, stingrays, and turtles swim overhead and around in their famous \u201csea tunnel!\u201d\u00a0 Or you can visit the\u00a0 \u201cShark Hall,\u201d where sand tiger sharks, grey reef sharks, and other sharks from all over the world are displayed in an oval tank, putting you in the middle of a three-dimensional school of sharks! The sharks can be a bit too much for some people, but there are Dolphin and Sealion Shows, which includes all expected from such shows; jumping, \u201chumorous gestures,\u201d etc.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Shinagawa Aquarium<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><b>Tel:\u00a0<\/b> 03-3762-3431 (Taped information), 03-3762-3433 (Office)<br \/>\n<b>Website:<\/b> http:\/\/www.aquarium.gr.jp\/(Japanese)<br \/>\n<b>Address:<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/mBG5s\"> Shinagawa-kumin Park, 3-2-1, Katsushima, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo<\/a><br \/>\n<b>Admission:<\/b> Adult (16+): \u00a51,350 \/ Student (6 through 15): \u00a5600 \/ Child (4-5): \u00a5300<\/p>\n<p>There is plenty of information about the remaining aquariums, but the link below can get you started. Stay cool out there!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnto.go.jp\/eng\/arrange\/travel\/practical\/aquarium.html\">JNTO \u2013 Aquariums in Tokyo &amp; Vicinity<\/a> The official Japan Tourism page has directions and contact details, and I believe it offers the most complete listing of aquariums in Tokyo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Shinagawa_Aquarium_51.jpg\">Syced<\/a>, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the rainy season or \u201ctsuyu\u201d\u00a0 is nearly behind us, we can finally look forward to Summer. Perhaps, loo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,54,37],"tags":[50,107,46,84,47,45],"class_list":["post-5093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-friendly","category-japan","category-tokyo-2","tag-august-2","tag-family-fun","tag-july-2","tag-june","tag-tokyo-city-2","tag-tokyo-metropolis-2"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49984,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions\/49984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}