Kobe Animal Kingdom
神戸どうぶつ王国
An indoor zoo that combines flowers and animals, where you can get close to capybaras, sloths and pelicans and watch bird flight shows.
Kobe Animal Kingdom is on the artificial island of Port Island. A large greenhouse full of flowers, including hanging begonias, houses capybaras, sloths, lemurs, parrots and more, many of which you can approach and feed. The outdoor area has large pelicans, kangaroos and alpacas, and birds of prey and bird-flight shows are held daily. Mostly indoors, it suits families on rainy days and in summer. Adult admission is about 2,400 yen (check the official website for current prices). Closed on Thursdays; open on public holidays and during long holidays. From Sannomiya, take the Port Liner for about 15 minutes to the “Computational Science Center (Kobe Animal Kingdom / Fugaku-mae)” station.
Opening hours
10:00–17:00 (weekends and holidays until 17:30), closed Thursdays
Nearby sights
- Meriken Park & Kobe Harborland
- Kobe City Museum
- Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution
- Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
- Kobe Former Foreign Settlement
- Nankinmachi Chinatown
- Ikuta Shrine
- Kitano Ijinkan