Ashino Park

Great Park, quiet & peaceful place. I was able to truly enjoy, relax, slow down & meditation. I have traveling to Japan 3-4 times a year, love Japan, because anything is build for human.

Pretty convenient park with a small zoo. There is a lake too where you can rent a boat. If you want to walk more there is a bridge with a beautiful view. I had so much fun around here 💕

Best place to take a photo with rail and train ongoing.

I cannot recommend going to this park at all, sadly. The park itself might be nice to take a walk around, however there is a small area that houses rabbits and also bears. We first saw the rabbits and I was positively surprised that they had a lot of space - we have bunnies at home ourselves and therefore know that most bunnies are not being kept in big enough enclosures (the MINIMUM for 2 rabbits is 4m²!). However whilst they also had small houses for shelter there was no enrichment for them whatsoever. It also appears that they were fed solely on oats, which is fine for them to eat, but not exactly nutritious and should only be fed in small amounts occasionally. Bunnies should have access to fresh greens 24/7 and not a single one of the enclosures (there were 5) had any greens at all. Makes me wonder if they get any greens at all, or if they already ate it all up (in which case they're being underfed on greens). Also one of the bunnies was very clearly sick with it's head tilted to the side heavily (could be a sign of E.C., a highly contagious disease amongst bunnies (though, to my knowledge, does not commonly spread to humans)) so I sincerely hope it's being examined by a vet regularly. Bunnies aside, they have 2 bears in what I can only call a pit. A concrete pit. They had no shelter and no enrichment at all, their claws were extremely long (consequence of lack of proper enrichment/enclosure design) and whilst they didn't appear malnourished, they seemed extremely bored and sad. They had NOTHING inside that enclosure that was also way too small for 2 bears! I felt so bad for them. These bears should either be relocated to a proper zoo or be given enrichment. For these poor bears even a plain tree trunk would probably be the excitement of their lives. In conclusion, if you care about animal rights, stay away from this park or at least avoid the animal corner. There are better places to spend your time in Aomori prefecture.

Wish I could give this 5 stars but the treatment of animals is very poor here. There is a very small concrete enclosure for 3 beautiful bears. It is so sad to see, there is nothing for them to do and nothing but concrete floor and concrete blocks. Hopefully others locally will speak out against this.