Hiroshima City Asa Zoological Park

Hiroshima City Asa Zoological Park (広島市安佐動物公園) is a zoo in Hiroshima, Japan.

Overview
Asa Zoological Park opened in 1971 in Asakita-ku, Hiroshima as the 62nd zoo in Japan. The gross area of the zoo is 49.6 ha. There are about 170 varieties of animals including giraffes, lions, black rhinoceroses, lesser pandas, woylies, Japanese giant salamanders and macaws. This zoo is one of the only parks that holds African forest elephants outside their native range.

They recruit citizen volunteers to explain the animals in detail and with humor to visitors.

Hours

 * From 1 January to 29 December
 * From 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM

Holidays

 * Every Thursday

History

 * Opened as the 62nd zoo in Japan on September 1, 1971.
 * World's first success of the artificial insemination of frozen sperm from a dead Chimpanzee in 1998.
 * Opened the animal contact areas for kids in 2001.
 * Night Safari started in the summer of 2003 and has run every summer since.