Ikeda Zoo

My daughter loves capybaras, so, we decided to stop by, since we were near by. And we were very disappointed by the zoo. The zoo is very old, cages are very small and dirty. Poor white tiger is sitting under the little roller coaster and the mechanism of it is very loud and noisy, I could not stand there for even 2 minutes and the tiger is sitting there all the time. I think the zoo is surviving due to the lack of money, they try to attract people by different events like celebration the birthday of capybara. But they have too many problems and need renovations.

📄 Description of the area: ————————— 🐅 - Ikeda Zoo: There is a bus route which runs in the general vicinity of Ikeda Zoo, it is a 12 minute walk from the bus stop to the zoo, assuming you know which way to walk. A more reasonable method for visitors to access the zoo is to catch a taxi at the JR Okayama train station. The ride takes about 8 minutes, and my taxi fare from Okayama Station to the zoo was 1060 yen. (For some reason, the return trip taxi fare was only 980 yen). 💵 - Price: * Adult - (1080 yen). * Junior high school student - (800 yen). * Junior school student - (600 yen). * Kids - (300 yen). 🕒 - Hours: [9:30 - 17:00]. ————————— 🌳 🐻 🌳 Thanks For Watching 🙂!

For a small zoo, it has a lot of animals and a fun little ride. But the animals are kept in tiny cages and looked really sad, so I'm concerned for their welfare.

It's very obvious this place is privately run and on a very limited budget. They have an ok selection of animals although most of the enclosures border on plain inhumane. This place needs to be modernized in a bad way.

Ikeda Zoo made me a bit uncomfortable. We saw à White Tiger, a Lion and a bear in very very tiny enclosure (15m2~) !! How can they be happy physically and mentally in these conditions ? There are a lot of other animals who have a lot of space, so it relieved us a bit. The zoo is big ! I'm sure you can relocated these big animals who need to run, jump and feel a bit more free ! But, I certainly felt that the employees care for all these animal ! I'm sure they love them but, again, the size of some enclosure shocked me... Maybe the Zoo need more money and visitors to provides the animals a better environnement.