🗺️ Aquarium ✕ Art átoaAQUARIUM ✕ ART átoa

In 2021, the "Kobe Port Museum," a complex cultural facility located in the Kobe Bay area, opened its urban aquarium. This is a new type of theater-style aquarium featuring 60 tanks housing 100 species and 3,000 individual creatures, along with approximately 50 pieces of stage art and digital artworks. Inside the museum, the tanks are themed and combined with various effects and art, creating a dreamy and unique space. This includes fine mist and laser lights cascading from the ceiling onto Japan's largest spherical tank, "PLANETS - Miraculous Planets." In the area inspired by a Japanese garden, "MIYABI - Between Harmony and Light," visitors can walk above a glass tank filled with koi swimming gracefully. Photography is allowed throughout the facility, enabling guests to capture stunning photos and videos that cannot be taken elsewhere (flash photography and "live streaming" of the creatures are prohibited). The open outdoor exhibition floor features feeding demonstrations for otters and penguins, as well as popular activities like feeding experiences with giant tortoises and giant fish. After visiting the aquarium, guests can enjoy food and desserts shaped like the aquarium's animals at "átoa café," or browse for original merchandise at the aquarium shop.

A new type of theater-style aquarium that combines an aquarium with art. There are 100 species and 3,000 creatures in 60 tanks, along with about 50 art pieces on display. Photography is allowed inside the facility. *Flash photography is prohibited for the creatures. Animal feeding experiences are held. (Turtle feeding experience: held daily, limited to the first 10 participants. Fish feeding experience: held daily, limited to the first 5 participants.) *There are age restrictions, and the entire experience is conducted in Japanese. A café and an aquarium shop are available.